NECLIME working group on fossil wood
Coordination: Jakub Sakala, Olesya V. Bondarenko, Stanila Iamandei
The NECLIME working group on fossil wood was formed to discuss questions on taxonomy in the fossil record and on different paleoclimate reconstruction techniques based on fossil wood. Therefore this group discusses the application of light and scanning electron microscopy on fossil woods and the correct identification of modern living relatives. Physiognomic analyses of wood anatomy provide a basis for different methods of paleoclimate reconstructions on which the group reflects in constructive discussions to establish guidelines among the NECLIME members and beyond.
Forthcoming meeting
Information on forthcoming events will be announced at Workshops
Past workshops and reports
1. workshop, Brno (Czech Republic), 2013 - Report
Useful links
Inside
Wood
This is a database of modern and fossil wood with currently 9,797 descriptions
and 50,074 images.
IAWA
International Association of Wood Anatomists
Wood Anatomy of Central European
Species
Identify your species with online with high resolution cross- and length sections
from trunks and twigs. By Schoch et al. (2004)
Online Photo Atlas
on Plant Anatomy
Homepage managed James D. Mauseth and colleagues of the Plant Anatomy Laboratory
showing micrographs of plant cells and tissues with explanatory texts.
Online Photo Atlas on Plant
Anatomy
Photographic Atlas of Plant Anatomy by John D Curtis, Nels R. Lersten and Michael
D. Nowak
Xylem
characterization of Conifers
Characterization of the xylem of 352 conifers by Esteban et al. (2004)
Fossil wood of Central Europe
Database Triassic to Pleistocene woods, managed by Alfred Selmeier
Database of
Japanese Wood Species
Wood database of the Forestry and Forest Product Research Institute