MORPHYLL: A database of fossil leaves and their morphological traits
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/773" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/773</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26879/773" target="_blank" >10.26879/773</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
MORPHYLL: A database of fossil leaves and their morphological traits
Original language description
Morphometric characters of fossil leaves such as size and shape are important and widely used sources for reconstructing palaeoenvironments. Various tools, including CLAMP or Leaf Margin Analysis, utilize leaf traits as input parameters for estimating palaeoclimate, mostly based on correlations between traits and climate parameters of extant plants. During the last few years, the scope of information extracted from the morphology of fossil leaves has been further expanded by including leaf economics, which describe correlations between functional leaf traits and ecological strategies. The amount and quality of available data are essential for a successful palaeoecological analysis utilizing leaf traits. Here, the database MORPHYLL is described. This database is devised to offer a web-based resource for fossil leaf trait data. For this purpose, fossil leaves from various collections were digitized and morphometric traits extracted from leaf outlines. Besides metadata such as accession number, repository, fossil site or taxonomic information (for identified specimens), MORPHYLL offers queries for several morphometric parameters and derived ecophysiological traits (e.g., leaf mass per area). Currently, the database contains data from about 6000 fossil leaves from sites in Central Europe, spanning almost the entire Paleogene and part of the early Neogene. The application potential of the database is demonstrated by conducting some exemplary analyses of leaf traits for the Paleocene, Eocene and Oligocene, with the results indicating changes of mean leaf traits through time. For example, the results show leaf mass per area to peak during the Eocene, which is in accordance with general climate development during the Paleogene.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10506 - Paleontology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Palaeontologia Electronica
ISSN
1094-8074
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
21
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
1-17
UT code for WoS article
000431058700006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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