Paleobotany: the biology and evolution of fossil plants Edith L. Taylor, Michael Krings, Thomas N. Taylor
Publisher: Academic Press

Palaeobotany is a diverse field in its own right, with a rich history and many gripping stories of how life evolved on earth, and among many other things it gives us crucial insight into the climate patterns of the past and their development. Paleobotany: the biology and evolution of fossil plants, 2nd ed., by Thomas N. Roberts Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas, where he also is curator of paleobotany at the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center. One recent fall, Labandeira and Kirk Johnson, curator of paleontology at the Denver Museum of Natural History, headed out to Republic, joined by Wesley Wehr, affiliate curator of paleobotany at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture in Seattle. It was also where many modern plant lineages that attract predatory insects made their earliest appearances, placing the Republic flora among the oldest in which modern plant-insect associations can be traced in the fossil record. Originally, Cindy was going to attend a biannual workshop of the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystem Program. Taylor, Michael Krings: “Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants”. Botany is the area of biology concerned with the scientific study of all forms of plant life. Botany thus covers a huge range of plant species, from agricultural crops to delicate flowers to microscopic algae, Paleobotany involves the scientific recovery and study of plant fossil remains. (2) ADAMONIS, S., CONCHEYRO, A. Sir Crane, with a background in paleobotany (the study of plant fossils) has researched for years the history of some of the oldest Ginkgos. The study of plants in the fossil record, in order to understand both the evolution of plant life and the ecology of ancient eras, is known as paleobotany. (2009), Paleobotany: the biology and evolution of fossil plants (Google books, limited view): Scroll to page 621, portrait of Bruno Petriella. Dmoz: Science: Biology: History: People: Charles Darwin (a link list). Paleobotanists use these fossils to help build a picture of prehistoric environments, the feeding resources of extinct animals and the evolutionary pasts of modern plants.