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Towards A Review of Tertiary Palaeobotany in the Boreal Realm

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This introduction reviews the background and objectives of the November 1993 London NATO Advanced Research Workshop. It was to highlight fossil plant and other data from Cenozoic sediments in the Arctic to help understand global climate change. Within different traditions, groups of fossil plant taxa have been recognised to reveal patterns of plant migration and evolution. More international planning to use our data is urged to a broader scientific audience and challenges are offered about concepts that assume that some groups of plants were static. We are finding new ways of making interpretations of climate change from accountable data.

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  1. Palaeobiology Research Unit, University of East London, Romford Road, London, E15 4LZ, UK

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Boulter, M.C. (1994). Towards A Review of Tertiary Palaeobotany in the Boreal Realm. In: Boulter, M.C., Fisher, H.C. (eds) Cenozoic Plants and Climates of the Arctic. NATO ASI Series, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79378-3_1

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