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Opal phytoliths in Southeast Asian flora / Lisa Kealhofer and Dolores R. Piperno.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Kealhofer, Lisa, author.
- Piperno, Dolores R., author.
- Series:
- Smithsonian contributions to botany ; no. 88.
- Smithsonian contributions to botany ; number 88
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Angiosperms--Cytotaxonomy--Thailand.
- Angiosperms.
- Angiosperms--Cytotaxonomy--Southeast Asia.
- Plants--Assimilation--Thailand.
- Plants.
- Plants--Assimilation--Southeast Asia.
- Phytoliths--Thailand--Analysis.
- Phytoliths.
- Phytoliths--Southeast Asia--Analysis.
- Angiosperms--Cytotaxonomy.
- Southeast Asia.
- Thailand.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iii, 39 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- One of the major uses of phytolith analysis is the reconstruction of regional environmental histories. As a relatively new subset of paleoecology, reference collections and studies of phytolith distributions and morphology are still relatively few. This article summarizes a study of phytolith form and distribution across a broad spectrum of 77 families of both monocotyledons and dicotyledons. A total of 800 samples from different plant parts of 377 species were analyzed, with diagnostic phytoliths occurring in nine monocotyledon and 26 dicotyledon families. These diagnostic types are described and illustrated herein. Poaceae phytoliths were not included in this review because they warrant more detailed and systematic description. The wide distribution of diagnostic phytoliths across all basic habitats described for Thailand, demonstrated herein, indicates that phytolith analysis has great potential for paleoecological reconstruction.
- Notes:
- "Issued Nov. 10, 1998 Smithsonian Institution"--Stamped on title page.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 38-39).
- Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2016.
- Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (SI, viewed November 1, 2018).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kealhofer, Lisa. Opal phytoliths in Southeast Asian flora.
- OCLC:
- 956628756
- Access Restriction:
- Use copy Restrictions unspecified
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