Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from the last interglacial using phytolith analysis, southeastern North Island, New Zealand

Carter, John A.; Lian, Olav B.

doi:10.1002/1099-1417(200010)15:7<733::aid-jqs532>3.0.co;2-j

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“…Lewis 1981;Piperno 1988;Carter 1998;Kealhofer and Penny 1998;Parr 2003;Taffs et al 2006) andpollen (e.g. von Post 1916;Godwin 1940;Wein et al 1987;Gignac et al 1991;Jasinski et al 1998) are the traditionally used microfossils in peatland palaeoecological studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

Prebble³

2010

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terra australis 32Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2009. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. Among saltbush greyer than seaweed we boardwalk the yeasting waves of the old golden-perch pond. List of volumes in Terra AustralisRabbit dung dots a lake bottom dry since their coming -only once, last century, after seven inches of rain a farmer had to rescue his sheep by boat.The roo bounces down-slope, a brown branch crackling.The professor's eye, noting the local runoff and what the westerlies do, observes seas that rush in and out of a continent's middle, salt lakes spreading and emptying, hills pimpling up and down with cartoon-like speed, or gullying themselves into extinction, rainforests and deserts zipping back and forth like Tom and Jerry. A human mouse plague swiftly swarms, perhaps soon gone.Impermanent planet. Impermanent surface. All under air and water. The lunette is a wave, a dumper of sand, a collapsing tower in the mad rabbit years when its top blew off and old bones winked through, with a vault's worth of fine stone cores.Once so simply mislaid in sand, now so obligingly sluiced out to the un-subincised world that smiles at stone knives. terra australis 32Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes v You might as well offer your table knife to a carpenter.Cane grass and the Dreamtime's stone fight the eroding rivulets together. In today's rare downpour each lost core, or blunted scraper crowns some tiny eroding hillock, plops its anchor in the dissolving silts.The bettong whose skin took off the stone tool's edge has vanished -sacrifice to future fertility.Through the softening soil Homo sapiens's skeleton bumps up like a carp's back.Waits for the wind to shave it off in pieces.A D-section and a ti...

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Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

Prebble³

2010

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“…Consequently, phytolith assemblages from tropical forests are easily distinguished from those produced by savannas (Alexandre et al, 1997;Barboni et al, 1999;Runge, 1999;Runge and Fimbel, 1999). Phytolith assemblages are well preserved in modern soils (e.g., Piperno and Becker, 1996;Alexandre et al, 1999;Kerns, 2001;Kerns et al, 2001;Bremond et al, 2004;Bremond et al, in press), fossil humic horizons (e.g., Fredlund and Tieszen, 1997;Delhon et al, 2003), loess (e.g., Fredlund and Tieszen, 1994;Piperno and Becker, 1996;Carter, 2000) and sediments (e.g., Alexandre et al, 1997;Fredlund and Tieszen, 1997;Barboni et al, 1999;Baker et al, 2000;Carter and Lian, 2000;Wallis, 2001;Carter, 2002;. The phytolith index D/P ratio (phytoliths characteristic of tropical ligneous dicotyledons over the sum of phytoliths characteristic of Poaceae) was proposed by Alexandre et al (1997) as a proxy of tree cover density, and has been calculated by several authors for tropical and non-tropical phytolith assemblages.…”

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A phytolith index as a proxy of tree cover density in tropical areas: calibration with Leaf Area Index along a forest?savanna transect in southeastern Cameroon

Brémond¹,

Alexandre²,

Hély³

et al. 2005

Global and Planetary Change

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“…The second site, Sunday Creek (Dickson, 1972;Moar and Suggate, 1996), near Greymouth, indicates that the transition from late MIS 5 to early MIS 4 is a period of rapid change from a Nothofagus fusca type forest to grassland. This is similar to examples of the MIS 5a/MIS 4 transition from elsewhere in the country such as the Canterbury region of central South Island (Moar and Gage, 1973) and southern Wellington (Mildenhall, 1994(Mildenhall, , 1995, Wairarapa (Harper, 1989;McGlone, 1989;Carter andLian, 2000), central Tongariro (McGlone andTopping, 1983) and eastern Hawkes Bay (Okuda et al, 2002) regions of the North Island. In all these cases, environments dominated by Nothofagus fusca type forests underwent a transition to either grassland or grass/ shrubland.…”

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An MIS 5a to MIS 4 (or early MIS 3) environmental and climatic reconstruction from the northwest South Island, New Zealand, using beetle fossils

Burge

Shulmeister

2007

J Quaternary Science

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A fossil beetle study is presented from the northwest coast, South Island, New Zealand. The samples were recovered from overbank deposits on a marine terrace situated 4 km east of Westport, New Zealand (418 45' S, 1718 36' E). The age of the site is constrained to between 74 and 40 ka but discrepancies between luminescence and radiocarbon age results prevent more precise age control.The older of two samples indicates a closed canopy Nothofagus (southern beech) forest with deep litter and dead wood on the forest floor. The younger sample yields a similar Nothofagus forest environment with subalpine affinities and nearby tussock grassland. For the older sample, mean summer and winter minimum temperatures were similar to modern values. Mean summer temperature was ca. 3.08C cooler than modern during the younger phase while mean minimum winter temperature was ca. 5.08C cooler than present indicating both cooling and increased seasonality. Both samples suggest a 30-40% decrease in mean annual precipitation from modern values.Persistence of closed canopy Nothofagus forest during the period of 74-40 ka contrasts with regional pollen studies which imply widespread shrub-land at these times. This implies that this site may have served as a glacial refugium for Nothofagus forest.

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Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction from the last interglacial using phytolith analysis, southeastern North Island, New Zealand

Cited by 37 publications

References 36 publications

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

A phytolith index as a proxy of tree cover density in tropical areas: calibration with Leaf Area Index along a forest?savanna transect in southeastern Cameroon

An MIS 5a to MIS 4 (or early MIS 3) environmental and climatic reconstruction from the northwest South Island, New Zealand, using beetle fossils

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