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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Advances in Quaternary entomology
  name:
    name part: Elias, Scott A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
  abstract: Advances in Quaternary Entomology addresses the science of fossil insects by demonstrating their immense contribution to our knowledge of the paleoenvironmental and climatological record of the past 2.6 million years. In this comprehensive survey of the field, Scott A. Elias recounts development of scholarship, reviews the fossil insect record from Quaternary deposits throughout the world, and points to rewarding areas for future research. The study of Quaternary entomology is becoming an important tool in understanding past environmental changes. Most insects are quite specific as to habitat requirements, and those in non-island environments have undergone almost no evolutionary change in the Quaternary period. We therefore can use their modern ecological requirements as a basis for interpreting what past environments must have been like. Features: * describes and identifies principal characteristics of fossil insect groups of the Quaternary period * Ties Quaternary insect studies to the larger field of paleoecology * offers global coverage of the subject with specific regional examples * illustrates specific methods and procedures for conducting research in Quaternary Entomology * offers unique insight into overlying trends and broader implications of Quaternary climate change based on insect life of the period.
  table of contents: The history of Quaternary insect studies -- Methods --Important fossil insect groups and their identification -- The value of insects in paleoecology -- Paleoclimatic studies using insects -- Insect zoogeography in the Quaternary -- The use of insect fossils in archeology -- European studies -- Siberian studies -- Eastern Beringian studies -- Other studies in the New World -- Japanese studies -- Studies in Australia and New Zealand -- Beetle chitin isotope studies -- Ancient DNA studies -- Conclusions and prospectus.
  note: by S.A. Elias.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-271) and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Insects, Fossil
  subject:
    topic: Paleoentomology
    temporal: Quaternary
  classification: QE831 .E45 2010eb
  classification: 565.7
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)458729039
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Developments in Quaternary science ; 12
  identifier: 9780444534248
  identifier: 0444534245
  identifier: 159643:159822 Elsevier Science & Technology
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 100623
    record change date: 20260609193543.0
    record identifier: in00002601620
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng