Evaluation of the potential of surface pollen spectra from caves in SW China for vegetation reconstruction

A comprehensive procedure for pollen extraction from bat guano deposits in organic and detrital matrices

“…1 Locations of caves around the world where guano deposits have been studied. Red circle: our study site in Carajás, Brazil; Yellow circles: 1- Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA [5 , 6] ; 2- Eagle Creek Cave, Arizona, USA [7 , 8] ; 3- Tumbling Creek Cave, Missouri, USA [4] ; 4- Round Spring Cavern, Missouri, USA [9] ; 5- Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA [10] ; 6- Spring Cave, Alabama, USA [11] ; 7- Fern Cave, Alabama, USA [3] ; 8- Jackson Bay Cave Complex, Jamaica [12 , 13] ; 9- Schwallenburgh Cave, Jamaica [14] ; 10- Home Away from Home Cave, Jamaica [14] , [15] , [16] ; 11- Blanchard Cave, Eastern Caribbean [17] ; 12,13- Southeastern Spain [18 , 19] ; 14- Grotte XVI, France [20] ; 15- Măgurici Cave, Romania [21] , [22] , [23] ; 16- Ziditǎ Cave, Romania [24 , 25] ; 17- Gaura cu Muscǎ Cave, Romania [26 , 27] ; 18- Gura Ponicovei Cave, Romania [28] ; 19- Topolnița Cave, Romania [29] ; 20- Arnhem Cave, Namibia [30] ; 21- China [31] ; 22- Siju cave, India [32] ; 23- Eraaning Cave, India [33] ; 24- Batu Cave, Malaysia [34] ; 25- Niah Cave, Borneo [34] ; 26- Gangub Cave, Philippines [33] ; 27- Makangit Cave, Philippines [34 , 35] ; 28- Tabon Cave, Philippines [36] ; 29- Gomantong Cave, Indonesia [37] ; 30- Bau Cave, Indonesia [36] ; 31- New Zealand [38] ; 32- New Zealand [39] . …”

A preliminary study of natural environmental change and its impact on early Late Paleolithic people in the northeast central Korean Peninsula during Marine Istope Stage 3 (40–30k cal a bp)

“…However, the modes of sediment transportation and deposition in the cave are different. Hence, pollen analysis is rarely applied to cave sediments because of the complex range of processes influencing the origin, transport and taphonomy of pollen grains in caves (Carrión et al, 2009;Yang et al, 2021). Pollen is known to be input and deposited in limestone caves in four major ways (Coles et al, 1989).…”