The largest amber-preserved flower revisited

EM Sadowski, CC Hofmann - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Amber exquisitely preserves the delicate organs of fossil flowers for millions of years.
However, flower inclusions can be rare and usually do not exceed 10 mm in size. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomic analyses of Sapindales support new family relationships, rapid Mid-Cretaceous Hothouse diversification, and heterogeneous histories of gene …

EM Joyce, MS Appelhans, S Buerki, M Cheek… - Frontiers in plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Sapindales is an angiosperm order of high economic and ecological value comprising nine
families, c. 479 genera, and c. 6570 species. However, family and subfamily relationships in …

Prediction scenarios of past, present, and future environmental suitability for the Mediterranean species Arbutus unedo L.

AM Almeida, MJ Martins, ML Campagnolo… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Climate change is a challenge for forests in the coming decades, with a major impact on
species adaptation and distribution. The Mediterranean Basin is one of the most vulnerable …

Pollen from the K–Pg boundary of the La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina

F De Benedetti, MC Zamaloa, MA Gandolfo… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The La Colonia Formation, outcropping in northern Chubut Province (Patagonia,
Argentina), is a Maastrichtian–Danian sequence deposited during a marine transgression of …

Multitemporal Land Use and Cover Analysis Coupled with Climatic Change Scenarios to Protect the Endangered Taxon Asphodelus bento-rainhae subsp. bento …

AM Almeida, F Delgado, N Roque, MM Ribeiro… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Climate change and land use and land cover (LULC) change are impacting the species'
geographic distribution, causing range shifts and reducing suitable habitats. Asphodelus …

[HTML][HTML] The last meal of an Eocene pollen-feeding fly

S Wedmann, T Hörnschemeyer, MS Engel, R Zetter… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
One of the most important trophic interactions today is that between insects and their floral
hosts. This biotic association is believed to have been critical to the radiation of flowering …

[HTML][HTML] SEM pollen analysis of Miocene deposits of Entrischenbrunn (Bavaria, Germany) reveal considerable amounts of pollen of subhumid and sclerophyllous …

CC Hofmann, M Sachse - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2023 - Elsevier
The 1 m thick intercalated marly sediments of Entrischenbrunn represent a floodplain pond
within a braided fluvial system of late Langhian age. The organic rich upper part of the marls …

Big data help to define climate change challenges for the typical Mediterranean species Cistus ladanifer L.

AM Almeida, MM Ribeiro, MR Ferreira… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Climate change's huge impact on Mediterranean species' habitat suitability and spatial and
temporal distribution in the coming decades is expected. The present work aimed to …

[HTML][HTML] Paleovegetation and paleoclimate inferences of the early late Sarmatian palynoflora from the Gleisdorf Fm. at Gratkorn, Styria, Austria

C Geier, JM Bouchal, S Ulrich, M Gross, R Zetter… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gleisdorf Formation (Fm.) deposits in the clay pit at Gratkorn, Styria, Austria, are
dated to 12.2–12 Ma, and are of late Middle Miocene age (late Serravallian or Sarmatian) …

Comparing the acetolysed and hydrated methods for the pollen analysis of honey

K Koelzer, A Ribarits, M Weber - Grana, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Melissopalynology is an integral part of honey analysis and indicates the honey's botanical
and geographical origin. Two preparation methods for light microscopy are commonly and …