The geobiology and ecology of Metasequoia
By: edited by Ben A. LePage, Christopher J. Williams and Hong Yang.
Contributors: LePage, Ben A.; Williams, Christopher J. 1970-; Yang, Hong.
Series: Topics in geobiology ;; v. 22
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Norwell, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: Metasequoia -- Evolution; Metasequoia -- Ecology
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.
Includes contributions from the 1st International Metasequoia Symposium, held at the China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, August 2002.
Table of contents: title: The evolution and biogeographic history of Metasequoia / Ben A. LePage, Hong Yang and Midori Matsumoto; title: Paleoecology and history of Metasequoia in Japan, with reference to its extinction and survival in East Asia / Arata Momohara; title: A high-resolution palynological analysis, Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian High Arctic / Suzanna L. Richter and Ben A. LePage; title: Metasequoia in the Oligocene Bridge Creek flora of western North America : ecological implications and the history of research / Herbert W. Meyer; title: Gunther's travels : the odyssey of Metasequoia seeds from the 1920s? / Judy Barrett Litoff; title: Cuticle analysis of living and fossil Metasequoia / Qin Leng; title: Ultrastructural preservation in middle Eocene Metasequoia leaf tissues from the Buchanan Lake Formation / Karimah Schoenhut; title: Biomolecules from living and fossil Metasequoia : biological and geological applications / Hong Yang; title: Ecological characteristics of Metasequoia glyptostroboides / Christopher J. Williams; title: Physiological ecology of Metasequoia glyptostroboides Hu et Cheng / David R. Vann; title: Competitive advantages of Metasequoia in warm high latitudes / Richard Jagels and Maria A. Equiza; title: Selecting and propagating new cultivars of Metasequoia / John Kuser; title: Cultivars of Metasequoia glyptostroboides / Christophe Nugue; title: A conservation plan for Metasequoia in China / Gaytha A. Langlois.