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Bibliografia sobre extructura de Maderas Argentinas (Bibliography of the Wood Anatomy of Argentine species). F.A. Roig Jufient, 48 pp., illus., 1996. Boletin de Extension Cientifica IADIZA No.2. ISSN 0328-4689. Available from the author, Laboratorio de Dendrocronologia, IANIGLA-CRICYT, A. Ruiz Real, Parque Gral. San Martin, C. C. 330 (5500) Mendoza, Argentina. Price: US$ 10.00 (paperback).

1997; Brill; Volume: 18; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1163/22941932-90001465

0928-1541

Editors IAWA Journal,

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

As a rule reviews are confined to books and articles for general use, and it is no current use to review papers.An exception to this rule is to be made here for the simple reason that this is an important paper on fossil woods from Southeast Asia, that might easily escape attention from the wood anatomical community.The paper contains the description of 25 species of dicotyledonous woods, 10 of them new species.The descriptions are accompanied by topographic sketches and microphotos on 9 plates.The comparisons extend to all known fossil woods from adjacent and more distant regions and contain valuable critical remarks concerning the usability of earlier described fossil wood species.These descriptions were very often incomplete due to former gaps in the knowledge of the anatomy of recent woods, often in combination with inadequate fossilisation of the material.The second part is shorter, but intriguing: all investigated wood samples are allochtonous and this type of fossils is notorious for the impossibility of making valid conclusions concerning their original distribution or ecology.Nevertheless, by careful comparison of geological, paleoclimatological and vegetation data, the author succeeds in defining grosso modo the area of distribution, climate, elevation of the source vegetation and taphonomic history of the material.All in all this is a remarkable paper in which the wood anatomical and the geological-paleoecological part are treated with equal care, leading to a valuable increase of our knowledge of the vegetational past of this hitherto poorly investigated area.