Taxonomy of the Neogene macrobotanical records of Eurasia
 

Coordination: Boglárka Erdei, Torsten Utescher


Forthcoming meeting

A joint meeting with the NECLIME working "Taxonomy of macrobotanical records of Eurasia" is planned for Sofia (Bulgaria) in September, 2012. First scientific focus include the Eastern Paratethys, Black Sea area and the Turkish lacustrine basins.
Further details are going to be discussed on the annual NECLIME meeting in Bucharest (Romania) this September.

Past workshops and meetings

1st workshop 2011

The first workshop  took place at the Natural History Museum in Budapest (Hungary) on the 24th of May, 2011 organised by Boglárka Erdei and Torsten Utescher.  
Four main topics were discussed
  • Current status of the NLR as well as their age limit for fossils
  • Taxon-comlexes in the Cenozoic
  • NECLIME database
  • Plant functional type classification.
Please read a detailed describtion in the report.

Pre-meeting 2010

A 1st pre-meeting was held on March 17th, 2010, in Frankfurt/M to discuss the frame and potential objectives of this NECLIME working group. The main topics can be downloaded in the program and summary.
program and summary of the discussion

Work is in progress to achieve the aim to improve basic data used for palaeoclimatic and vegetation reconstruction. Especially the connection to the Nearest Living Relatives is of great interest and importance.
To provide a basis for future discussions the online files of Palaeoflora have been updated (www.palaeoflora.de).
A summerized file is available for download.
  • taxa highlighted in green represent new data entries or taxa with updated botanical affinity, respectively.
  • for all other records, a NLR concept is available in more recent literature resources that is more specific than the interpretation given in the database, or differs from actual entries. In these cases, a modification of database entries will be considered after discussion.