Dissertation Research: Fossil Leguminosae from the Eocene ofSoutheastern North America

研究生Herendall提出了一个系统的/ 美国东南部始新世豆科植物地理学研究。 荚和瓣叶形态将构成研究的基础。 植物标本室的材料和新的收藏品的描述将 接着是试图将器官与物种联系起来， 将化石与现代分类群进行比较。 始新世代表， 美国西部也将进行比较。 始新世是一个重要的时期， 豆类，并增加我们对该集团的了解， 这一次将影响这个和其他的进化研究 相关群体。 这项研究产生的新数据也将 提高我们重建气候和环境的能力 始新世时期

Graduate student Herendeen proposes a systematic/ biogeographic study of the Eocene legumes of the southeast U.S. Pod and leaflet morphology will form the basis of the study. Description of herbarium material and new collections will be followed by attempts to associate organs to species, and then compare fossil to modern taxa. Eocene representatives from Western U.S. will also be compared. The Eocene is an important time period for the radiation of the legumes, and increasing our understanding of the group at this time would impact on evolutionary studies of this and other related groups. The new data resulting from this study will also increase our ability to reconstruct the climate and environments of the Eocene.