Taxonomy of the Neogene macrobotanical records of Eurasia
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Coordination: Boglárka Erdei, Torsten Utescher
Reports of this working group available for download
Forthcoming meeting
3th workshop will be held within the"Joint meeting of the NECLIME working groups "Taxonomy of the macrobotanical records of Eurasia" and the "Taxonomy of Neogene Palynomorphs", Brno, Czech Republic, November, 16th-17th, 2017"
After a successful workshop in Sofia, 2012, the two NECLIME working groups on the "Taxonomy of the Neogene macrobotanical records of Eurasia" and the "Taxonomy of Neogene palynomorphs" will hold their 2nd joint workshop at the Institute of Geological Sciences at the Masaryk University Brno (Czech Republic) on November, 16th-17th.
The organizing committee of Nela Doláková, Dimiter Ivanov, Boglárka Erdei, Torsten Utescher, Marianna Kováčová and Šárka Hladilová have proposed many preliminary topics, but additional ones can be proposed
More details on the venue, registration or travel information are available within the first circular.
Registration deadline is the 15th of September, 2017!
Please send the registration form attached to the 1st circular to Nela Doláková.
The organizing committee of Nela Doláková, Dimiter Ivanov, Boglárka Erdei, Torsten Utescher, Marianna Kováčová and Šárka Hladilová have proposed many preliminary topics, but additional ones can be proposed
- The application of TLM/SEM on fossil spore/pollen flora as a specific focus
- Improvement of the identification and taxonomy of palynomorph taxa with respect to vegetation reconstruction and climatic evaluation - new achievements and advances
- Reference palynological, carpological and leaves collections – news and updates,
online resources for identification - Taxonomic diversity throughout the Neogene (Cenozoic)
- The Central European pollen and macro-remain recordsa – taxonomy and palaeoecology
- Plant Functional Type (PFT) approach in Cenozoic vegetation reconstruction, its
advantages and flaws. - The Palaeoclimate database of NECLIME – recent advances of the working group on
digital plant distribution
More details on the venue, registration or travel information are available within the first circular.
Registration deadline is the 15th of September, 2017!
Please send the registration form attached to the 1st circular to Nela Doláková.
Past workshops and meetings
Joint workshop of the working groups on the "Taxonomy of the Cenozoic macrobotanical record of Eurasia" and "On the taxonomy of Neogene palynomorphs"
This joint workshop took place on the 1st to the 4th
of October 2012 in Sofia (Bulgaria), following the
NECLIME Conference in Europe.
The discussion was build up mainly by the following topics
The discussion was build up mainly by the following topics
- Atlas of Pollen and Spores of the Polish Neogene, Vol. 4 (presented by E. Worobiec)
- Non-pollen palynomorphs
- Integration of diverse plant records - the prospects of joint studies (presented by A. Bertini and E. Martinetto)
- Reference Collections – online resources for identification
- Taxon complexes in the Cenozoic plant record
- Plant Functional Types and biome modelling within NECLIME - recent advances (presented by L. François)
1st Workshop 2011
The first workshop took place at the Natural History Museum in Budapest (Hungary) on the 24th
of May, 2011 organised by Boglárka Erdei and Torsten Utescher.
Four main topics were discussed
Four main topics were discussed
- Current status of the NLR as well as their age limit for fossils
- Taxon-comlexes in the Cenozoic
- NECLIME database
- Plant functional type classification.
Please read a detailed describtion in the report.
Pre-meeting 2010
A 1st pre-meeting
was held on March 17th, 2010,
in Frankfurt/M to discuss the frame and potential objectives of this
NECLIME working group. The main topics can be downloaded in the program
and summary.
program and summary of the discussion
Work is in progress to achieve the aim to improve basic data used for palaeoclimatic and vegetation reconstruction. Especially the connection to the Nearest Living Relatives is of great interest and importance.
To provide a basis for future discussions the online files of Palaeoflora have been updated (www.palaeoflora.de).
A summerized file is available for download.
program and summary of the discussion
Work is in progress to achieve the aim to improve basic data used for palaeoclimatic and vegetation reconstruction. Especially the connection to the Nearest Living Relatives is of great interest and importance.
To provide a basis for future discussions the online files of Palaeoflora have been updated (www.palaeoflora.de).
A summerized file is available for download.
- taxa highlighted in green represent new data entries or taxa with updated botanical affinity, respectively.
- for all other records, a NLR concept is available in more recent literature resources that is more specific than the interpretation given in the database, or differs from actual entries. In these cases, a modification of database entries will be considered after discussion.
Useful links
- Cuticle
database
- Cleared leaf collection
Online picture database of the Palaeontology collection and Modern Cleared Leaves by University of California, Museum of Paleontology
- CLAMP
Climate Leaf Analysis Multivariante Program
Fossil/recent reference collections
Leaves
| Institute | Contact person | remarks |
| Senckenberg Natural Historical Collection Dresden (Germany) | Lutz Kunzmann lutz.kunzmann"at"senckenberg.de |
more than 100,000 specimens (leaves, cuticles, herbarium) |
| Natural History Museum Budapest (Hungary) | Boglárka Erdei erdei"at"bot.nhmus.hu |
more than 37,000 specimens |
| Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria) | Andreas Kroh andreas.kroh"at"nhm-wien.ac.at |
main collection on Neogene leaves (1,100 drawers) including many cuticle samples |
| Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Cracow (Poland) | Grzegorz Worobiec g.worobiec"at"botany.pl |
more than 2,500 fossil species, including more than 300 cuticle slides from modern/fossil species |
Fruits and seeds (focus on recent reference collections)
| Institute | Contact person | remarks |
| Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Yerevan, Armenia | Ivan Gabrielyan ivangabrielyan"at"yahoo.com | approximately 1,000 recent species |
| Università degli Studi di Torino, Modern Carpological Collection, Torino, Italy | Edoardo Martinetto edoardo.martinetto"at"unito.it |
more than 800 species |
| Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Sofia (Bulgaria) | Vladimir Bozukov bzk"at"bio.bas.bg |
more than 3,000 species |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming Institue of Botany (KUN), Kunming, China | Yong-Jiang Huang huangyongjiang"at"mail.kib.ac.cn |
more than 600 fossil specimens and several thousand extant species |
| Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia,Laboratorio di Palinologia e Paleobotanica, Modena, Italy | Giovanna Bosi giovanna.bosi"at"unimore.it |
about 900 taxa |
| Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia Carpoteca Storica Orto Botanico di Modena, Modena, Italy | Daniele Dallai daniele.dallai"at"unimore.it | more than 1,000 samples |
| Natural History Museum, University of Florence, Florecen, Italy | Chiara Nepi chiara.nepi"at"unifi.it |
~ 13.000 species (valuation) |
| Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Cracow (Poland) | Elźbieta Worobiec e.worobiec"at"botany.pl |
about 12,000 species |
Get more information about each of the carpological reference collection in this Table.
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