Ecologist Paul Colinvaux's past several years in the Amazon yield this manual written both in English and Portuguese containing illustrations of the principal pollen types that have been found and identified in the sediments of Amazonian lakes.

Ecologist Paul Colinvaux's past several years in the Amazon yield this important manual written both in English and Portuguese. Consisting, in large part, of illustrations of the principal pollen types that have been found and identified in the sediments of Amazonian lakes, Amazon Pollen Manual and Atlas will prove a powerful tool for ecologists and climate modelers. The manual also contains brief reviews of pioneering pollen work in the Amazon to date, as well as sections on pollen methods, pollen statistics, paleoecology, and lake coring methods.

PART I - POLLEN MANUALPreface/Prefacio1. Neotropical Pollen Analysis 2. Review of Amazon Paleoecology: The 1997 NWO/Huygens Lecture 3. A Guide to Piston Coring of Lake
Sediments 4. Laboratory Protocols 5. Pollen Morphology 6. Appendix of Sources 7.Analise Palinologica Neotropical 8. Revisao da Paleoecologica da Amazonia: A Aula de NWO/Huygens 9.
Guia para Amostragem, com Pistao, de Sedimentos Lacustres 10. Metodologia Palinologica: Protocolo e Materiais 11.Morfologia de Polen e EsporosPART II - POLLEN ATLASIntroduction/Introducao1. Pollen Descriptions 2. Key to Families and Genera
by Pollen and Spore Groups 3. Key to Major Pollen and Spore
Groups 4. PLATES 5. Bibliography 6. Glossary 7. Index to Botanical Families 8. Index to Plant Names