ResPine: A long-term actuotaphonomical survey of organism trapping in plant resins

Preservation of organisms (micro- and macro-organisms) in plant resins is documented since several centuries (for details see Perrichot, 2005; Girard, 2010). Such studies greatly improved our knowledge about evolutionary history of diverse groups of plants, arthropods and microorganisms and provided many important data about the ecology and structure of past forests. However current researches face a major problem: the lack of long-term survey...