It is with sadness we report that Prof. Zlatko Kvacek, a longtime member of our advisory board, died 25 October, 2020. We will miss his friendship, mentorship, and dedication to the advancement of paleobotany around the world. He is well known for his wider-ranging research on Cenozoic floras and paleoecological analyses. Those who knew him have precious memories many friendly interactions centered around a shared love of studying fossil plants. He was a great facilitator of international research in paleobotany, known for his promotion of collaboration between scientists on both sides of the iron curtain well before the Berlin wall came down. He played a major role in organizing and hosting international palaeobotanical and palynological conventions in Prague.
At Acta Palaeobotanica, we are proud to have published, in 2007, a Festschrift volume on the occasion of his 70th birthday, with biographical sketches, a bibliography of his research to that time (now incomplete because of his continued research activity through 2020), and honorary research articles contributed by some of his many colleagues: https://botany.pl/ibwyd/acta_paleo/act-p47.htm
We will miss him.Steven R. Manchester
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Pollen morphology of some species of the genus Quercus L. (Fagaceae) in the Southern Caucasus and adjacent areas
Woody charcoal with traces of pre-charring decay from the Late Oligocene (Chattian) of Norken (Westerwald, Rhineland-Palatinate, W Germany)
The Karpatian (late early Miocene) flora of the Mecsek area
Melissopalynological and physicochemical analysis of honey samples from Prayagraj District, Uttar Pradesh
Evidence for fungal proliferation following the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass-extinction event, based on chemostratigraphy in the Raton and Powder River basins, western North America
New investigations of Upper Devonian wood from the north of the European part of Russia
The quick death of a lake: human impact on Lake Tresssee (N Germany) during the last 6000 years – an approach using pollen, Cladocera and sedimentology
Fossil seeds from the La Cantera Formation, Early Cretaceous, San Luis Province, Argentina
New data on the winged fruits of Carpolithus prangosoides Berry from the Eocene of western Tennessee and Kentucky
A new species of leafy calamite stem from the Pennsylvanian (Bolsovian) of the South Wales Coalfield
