Paul A. Colinvaux

"This manual and atlas consists, in large part, of illustrations of the principal pollen types that have been found and identified in the sediments of Amazonian lakes. In addition, the volume includes brief reviews of significant pollen work in the Amazon to date, and sections on pollen methods, statistics, paleoecology and lake coring. Pollen analysis of lake sediments is the most widely used procedure for reconstructing paleoclimates by climate modelers and ecologists; therefore, this book should prove a powerful tool for historical climate studies."--Jacket.

"In this memoir of a life in science, ecologist Paul Colinvaux takes his readers from the Alaskan tundra to steamy Amazon jungles, from the Galapagos Islands (before tourists had arrived) to the high Andes and the Darien Gap in Panama. He recounts an adventurous tale of exploration in the days before GPS and satellite mapping, and a tale no less exhilarating of his battle to disprove a hypothesis endorsed by most of the scientific community." --Book jacket.