The Pali-Aike National Park is a park located in the Magallanes Region of Patagonia in Chile . Pali-Aike is a Tehuelche name that means Desolate Place . Created in 1970, it covers an area of 5,030 hectares (12,429 acres) and includes part of the Pali-Aike Volcanic Field . The park draws its name from a prominent volcanic cone known as the Pali Aike Crater .
11-485: It includes native flora and fauna , with some species being exclusive to the region, not being found anywhere else in the world. The park has many rocky formations covered in 1000-year-old lava. Human crania from early prehistoric occupation have been recovered from a cave at the Pali Aike Crater. This archaeological site goes back to the Paleo-Indian period . The stone tools from
22-482: A community) and flora (the taxonomic composition of a community) was first made by Jules Thurmann (1849). Prior to this, the two terms were used interchangeably. Plants are grouped into floras based on region ( floristic regions ), period, special environment, or climate. Regions can be distinct habitats like mountain vs. flatland. Floras can mean plant life of a historic era as in fossil flora . Lastly, floras may be subdivided by special environments: The flora of
33-406: A particular area or time period can be documented in a publication also known as a " flora " (often capitalized as "Flora" to distinguish the two meanings when they might be confused). Floras may require specialist botanical knowledge to use with any effectiveness. Traditionally they are books , but some are now published on CD-ROM or websites . Simon Paulli 's Flora Danica of 1648 is probably
44-595: Is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring ( indigenous ) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna , and for fungi , it is funga . Sometimes bacteria and fungi are also referred to as flora as in the terms gut flora or skin flora . The word "flora" comes from the Latin name of Flora , the goddess of plants , flowers , and fertility in Roman mythology . The technical term "flora"
55-403: Is then derived from a metonymy of this goddess at the end of the sixteenth century. It was first used in poetry to denote the natural vegetation of an area, but soon also assumed the meaning of a work cataloguing such vegetation. Moreover, "Flora" was used to refer to the flowers of an artificial garden in the seventeenth century. The distinction between vegetation (the general appearance of
66-524: The mylodon ( Mylodon listai ), the American horse ( Parahipparion saldasi ), guanaco , fox, puma, birds, rodents, and also gathered ostrich eggs. They used little or no marine products, despite being relatively close to the sea. In 1998, the Pali Aike and Fell's Caves were jointly proposed to UNESCO as World Heritage Sites . Flora Flora ( pl. : floras or florae )
77-707: The Far East published in Europe. Boym underlined the medicinal properties of the Chinese plants. The book also included pleas for support of the Catholic Chinese emperor and each page contained a chronogram pointing to the date of 1655, the date of coronation of Emperor Leopold I as the King of Hungary, as Boym wanted to gain support of that monarch for his mission. This article about a book on botany or plants
88-521: The cave are dated to around 11,000 years BP, and are among the oldest in South America. Pali Aike cave has strong similarities to Fell's cave , located in the vicinity outside the reserve. Three cremated human skeletons have been discovered here. The site was discovered and studied in the 1930s by Junius Bird. It represents a temporary encampment of early hunters. Pleistocene fauna remains have also been discovered. These early peoples used
99-592: The first book titled "Flora" to refer to the plant world of a certain region. It mainly describes medicinal plants growing in Denmark. The Flora Sinensis by the Polish Jesuit Michał Boym is another early example of a book titled "Flora". However, despite its title it covered not only plants but also some animals of the region, that is China and India. A published flora often contains diagnostic keys. Often these are dichotomous keys , which require
110-497: The type of darts known as 'fluted fishtail points'. Different kinds of other tools have also been found at the cave, among them cylindrical stones which seem to have had a ceremonial use. The stratigraphy of these sites goes back 8,600 to 11,000 years ago. Petroglyphs and rock carvings have also been found in the area. Weathered volcanic rocks from the Pali-Aike volcanic field were used as red pigments . These peoples hunted
121-550: The user to examine a plant repeatedly, and decide which one of two alternatives given best applies to the plant. Flora Sinensis Flora Sinensis is one of the first European natural history books about China, published in Vienna in 1656 . Its author, Michael Boym , was a Jesuit missionary from Poland (then the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ). The book was the first description of an ecosystem of
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