A 10 year pollen trapping record from rainforest in northeastern Queensland, Australia

Kershaw, A. Peter; Strickland, Kasha

doi:10.1016/0034-6667(90)90143-7

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“…This could be important for those plants that have infrequent flowering periods, a feature characteristic of tropical rainforest (e.g. Kershaw and Strickland, 1990). Disturbance taxa are an exception to this pattern, with the total of secondary trees in modern samples equalling or exceeding totals in fossil records.…”

Section: Comparison Of Modern and Fossil Pollen Spectramentioning

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Environmental change and peatland forest dynamics in the Lake Sentarum area, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Anshari

Kershaw

Kaars

et al. 2004

J Quaternary Science

103

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Four short pollen and charcoal records from sites within and around Lake Pemerak on the margins of the Danau (Lake) Sentarum National Park in inland West Kalimantan, supported by modern surface samples from the Reserve, provide a partial picture of lowland equatorial vegetation and environments over at least the last 40 000 years. They demonstrate general stability in the distribution of wetland and ombrotrophic (or raised) peatlands through the recorded period with dominance throughout of peatland and swamp forest. However, there was marked variation in sediment accumulation rates and in the floristic composition of the vegetation. The period prior to the last glacial maximum appears to have been the time of most active peatland growth and contrasts with the perception, from previous studies on largely coastal and subcoastal peatlands in Indonesia, that the Holocene was the time of major tropical peat accumulation. A general increase in charcoal, just prior to about 30 000 years ago, suggests that burning became more frequent, and is attributed to initial human impact rather than climate change. The subsequent latest Pleistocene period, embracing the Last Glacial Maximum, is marked by a peak in montane-submontane rainforest taxa, strongly indicating a substantial lowering of temperature. It appears that much of the Holocene is not recorded but recommencement of peat accumulation is evident within the last few thousand years. At the time of fieldwork access to the central part of the Lake Sentarum system was inhibited by strong El Niñ o drought conditions, but this area has the potential to provide a longer and more continuous history of environmental change for the region.

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Section: Comparison Of Modern and Fossil Pollen Spectramentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental change and peatland forest dynamics in the Lake Sentarum area, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Anshari

Kershaw

Kaars

et al. 2004

J Quaternary Science

103

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“…However, the increasing interest in ecological reconstruction of tropical environments over the past two decades has led to more observations on modern pollen deposition. A number of studies have focused on tropical regions of Africa (Vincens et al 1997El Ghazali & Moore 1998;Elenga et al 2000), Australia (Kershaw & Strickland 1990;Kershaw & Bulman 1994;Crowley et al 1994) and the mainland neotropics (Islebe & Hooghiemstra 1995;Rodgers & Horn 1996;Bush & Rivera 1998;Bush 2000;Bush et al 2001;Marchant et al 2001;Weng et al 2004). A detailed assessment of soil samples and reference traps was performed to provide a comprehensive overview of the similarities and differences of diverse sampling media for modern pollen rain composition and its proportional distribution in the Andean mountain vegetation of South Ecuador (Jantz et al 2013).…”

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Modern pollen and its ecological relationships with the tropical deciduous forests of central Uttar Pradesh, India

Tripathi¹,

Arya

Basumatary³

et al. 2015

Palynology

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“…No one pollen type dominates; numerous taxa were found to contribute to the pollen signature and, although widely separated, the two rainforest transect studies show similar pollen spectra. On Mua and Badu, rainforest pollen behaviour resembles analyses from mainland humid tropical locations (Kershaw and Strickland 1990;Kershaw and Bulman 1994;Walker and Sun 2000). Linking trends include pollen diversity, but also a penetration of nonrainforest tree pollen to a point exceeding rainforest pollen itself.…”

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Modern surface pollen from the Torres Strait islands: Exploring north Australian vegetation heterogeneity

Rowe¹

2012

Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes

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A 10 year pollen trapping record from rainforest in northeastern Queensland, Australia

Cited by 47 publications

References 5 publications

Environmental change and peatland forest dynamics in the Lake Sentarum area, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Environmental change and peatland forest dynamics in the Lake Sentarum area, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Modern pollen and its ecological relationships with the tropical deciduous forests of central Uttar Pradesh, India

Modern surface pollen from the Torres Strait islands: Exploring north Australian vegetation heterogeneity

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