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Fredrick T. Addicott (1983): Abscission. Google books, limited preview.
Answers.com: Abscission.
Plant Sciences, BookRags: Deciduous Plants.
Robyn J. Burnham (1992): The reflection of deciduous forest communities in leaf litter; implications for autochthonous litter assemblages from the fossil record. Abstract, Paleobiology, 18: 30-49. See also here.
Robyn J. Burnham (1993): Reconstructing Richness in the Plant Fossil Record. Abstract, Palaios, 8: 376-384.
G.E. Burrows et al. (2007): An Anatomical Assessment of Branch Abscission and Branch-base Hydraulic Architecture in the Endangered Wollemia nobilis. PDF file, Annals of Botany, 99: 609-623. See also here (abstract).
Christopher J. Cleal et al. (2009): A Revision of the Pennsylvanian-Aged Eremopteris-Bearing Seed Plant. Int. J. Plant Sci., 170: 666.698. Helically arranged compound leaves that show evidence they were actively abscissed from the plant.
John Dawson, Forest Vines to Snow Tussocks: The Story of New Zealand Plants (Part of New Zealand Texts Collection): How do plants become fossils?
William (Bill) A. DiMichele (1998): Love´s labour lost? Or the tragic story of a young paleontologist who chooses fossil plants ... PDF file, Palaios 13. Scroll down to PDF page 3: "The problems of the parts".
Robert A. Gastaldo, Colby College: Plants as keys to past climatic conditions.
C.T. Gee and R.A. Gastaldo (2005): Sticks and Mud, Fruits and Nuts, Leaves and Climate: Plant Taphonomy Comes of Age. PDF file, Palaios, 20: 415-418. "Necrology involves the death of a plant or the loss of a plant part, either by traumatic causes (wind, storm, animal damage) or by pre-programmed physiological changes on the part of the plant (abscission, dehiscence)".
! David R. Greenwood, Environmental Science Program, Brandon University: The Taphonomy of Plant Macrofossils. Ch. 7, pp. 141-169, In, Donovan, S.K. (Ed.) The Processes of Fossilization. Belhaven Press, London, 303 pp.
Jody L. Haynes, The Cycad Society: Illustrated Glossary of Cycad Terms. Go to: abscission, abscission layer.
Roger Highfield: Why leaves fall off trees is discovered. Telegraph, UK, September 22, 2008.
K.-P. Kelber & J.H.A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert (1998): Equisetites arenaceus from the Upper Triassic of Germany with evidence for reproductive strategies. Abstract, Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol., 100: 1-26. Actively abscissed strobili and branches with adventitious roots.
Hans Kerp, Forschungsstelle für Paläobotanik, Münster:
A History of Palaeozoic Forests. Go to:
Part 2:
The Carboniferous coal swamp forests.
See fig. 2, leaf scars on a a Lepidophloios stem.
V.A. Krassilov (2009): Diversity of Mesozoic Gnetophytes and the First Angiosperms. PDF file, Paleontological Journal, 43: 1272-1280. Order Heerales showing abscission scars.
Keith H. Meldahl (2007): Autochthonous leaf assemblages as records of deciduous forest communities: an actualistic study. Abstract, Lethaia, 28: 383-394.
Shirley A. Owens et al. (1998): DEGRADATION OF THE UPPER PULVINUS IN MODERN AND FOSSIL LEAVES OF CERCIS (FABACEAE). PDF file, American Journal of Botany, 85: 273-284.
Michael S. Reid: Ethylene and Abscission. PDF file.
B.A. Thomas et al. (2010): Leafy branches of Bothrodendron punctatum from the Westphalian D (Asturian) of Nova Scotia, Canada. PDF file, Atlantic Geology, 46: 1-6. Branch shedding and abscission scars.
! B.A. Thomas and C.J. Cleal (1999): Abscission in the fossil record.- p. 183-203. In: Kurmann, M.H. and Hemsley, A.R. (eds.): The evolution of plant architecture. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Sorry, no online abstract currently available.
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Abscission.
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Marcescence.
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