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.
Audience
Primary Audience:
Researchers and professionals in quaternary geology, glaciology and quaternary entomology,
Secondary Audience:
Researchers in paleontology, ecology, environmental archaeology.
Contents Forword
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The History of Quaternary Insect Studies
Chapter 2. Methods
Chapter 3. Important fossil insect
groups and their identification
Chapter 4. The Value of Insects in Paleoecology
Chapter 5. Paleoclimatic Studies Using Insects
Chapter
6. Insect Zoogeography in the Quaternary
Chapter 7. The Use of Insect Fossils in Archeology
Chapter 8. European Studies
Chapter 9. Siberian
Studies
Chapter 10. Eastern Beringian Studies
Chapter 11. Other Studies in the New World
Chapter 12. Japanese Studies
Chapter 13. Studies
in Australia and New Zealand
Chapter 14. Beetle Chitin Isotope Studies
Chapter 15. Ancient DNA Studies
Chapter 16. Conclusions and
Prospectus
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
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