Over the past several decades the field of Quaternary ecology has
undergone a fundamental change in perspective. Paleoecologists, who
were formerly con cerned with biostratigraphic questions, have
increasingly begun to develop and test explicitly ecological
hypotheses. Literature emphasizing the con tributions of
paleoecology to contemporary issues in ecology is growing, but many
of the key papers are published in journals not traditionally read
by ecologists. The tendency toward increased specialization within
ecology, along with the proliferation of new journals as
publication outlets, increasingly makes it difficult to communicate
effectively across sUbdisciplines within ecology. With this book,
we hope to bridge the communication gap between Quaternary
ecologists and other ecologists. In this book we do not attempt to
cover the subject of Quaternary ecology in a traditional textbook
presentation. Two comprehensive books, one contemporary text (Birks
and Birks, 1980) and a handbook of techniques (Berglund, 1986)
appropriate to various specialties within this field are available
to the reader who is interested in the details of methods used in
reconstructing past communities and ecosystems."
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