Mid- and Late-Holocene palynofloral and environmental change of Korean central region

Holocene Vegetation Responses to East Asian Monsoonal Changes in South Korea

“…In the middle to late 20th century, Korean pollen investigations were carried out in peat or organic-rich soil from coastal wetlands or lagoons (e.g., ., Jo, 1979;Oh, 1971;Park, 1990;Tsukada, 1977;Yi et al, 1996;Yoon, 1997). Subsequently, a number of palynological studies were performed due to increased peat layer recovery from excavations of inland wetland and archaeological sites (e.g., Chung & Lee, 2006;Kim et al, 2001;Seo & Yi, 2001;Yi et al, 2006Yi et al, , 2008a. Attempts were made to reconstruct the natural vegetation history in response to climate change from the peat and wetland samples and to intrepret human-induced changes based on agecontrolled pollen profiles, (agriculture and land-use in forests).…”

Vegetation changes in western central region of Korean Peninsula during the last glacial (ca. 21.1–26.1 cal kyr BP)

“…Palynology is useful to examine the impact of rapid climate changes on terrestrial ecosystems, because vegetation dynamics response to a climate change is pronounced within a decadal time scale (Tinner and Lotter, 2001). Recently a number of postglacial (Holocene) palynological studies from wetlands of the western and central of the Korean Peninsula have been performed (e.g., Yoon, 1997;Yoon and Kim, 2001;Yi et al, 2004Yi et al, , 2005Yi et al, , 2008Jang et al, 2006). However, few palynological studies on the last glacial (late Pleistocene) period have been reported so far only in western lowlands of Korea (Chang et al, 1996;Chung and Lee, 2006;Yi et al, 2007).…”

Mid-Holocene Vegetation and Environments on the Northeastern Coast of the Korean Peninsula

“…The deciduous Quercus fo rests prevailed over a wide range of the east coast of the Ko rean peninsula during this Figure 3 The percentages of fossil Quercus pollen types in midHolocene sediments time (Yasuda et al 1980, Jo 1987, Fujiki & Yasuda 2004, Yi et al 2008. A high concentration of Q. dentata type (Fig.…”

“…Alnusdominated deciduous fo rests covered extensive lowlands of the west coast of the Ko rean peninsula (Yasuda et al 1980, Jo 1987, Fujiki & Yasuda 2004, Yi et al 2008.…”

“…The Holocene vegetation history of the Korean Penin su la based on pollen analysis was previously described by Jo (1979Jo ( , 1980Jo ( , 1987, Yasuda et al (1980), Chang & Kim (1982), Yoon & Jo (1996), Choi (1998), Lee & Yim (2002), Yi et al (2004Yi et al ( , 2008, Fujiki & Yasuda (2004), Chung (2006), Jun et al (2010), andChung et al (2010). How ever, most investigations have been conducted in the sou thern part of peninsula, whereas our researches focused on the northeastern coast of the Korean Peninsula (Ev stigneeva & Naryshkina 2012).…”