Pollen record of precipitation changes during the Younger Dryas and Early Holocene in the North China Plain

Zhang, Wensheng; Fan, Baoshuo; Li, Yuecong; Xu, Qinghai; Li, Bing; Ding, Guoqiang; Zhang, Junfan

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2019.10.017

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“…As one of the major proxies for the study of climatic environmental change, pollen plays an irreplaceable role in vegetation and climate reconstruction for the Quaternary Period (2.58 Ma-present) (Zhang et al, 2019(Zhang et al, , 2022Li et al, 2020;Chen et al, 2021a;Zhao et al, 2021). Because different plant species produce pollen that varies substantially in production, dispersal ability, deposition rate, and preservation conditions, indicators such as the percentage and concentration of surface pollen are not necessarily equivalent to the distribution and amount of vegetation at a certain time (Ge et al, 2017;Chen et al, 2021b;Zhang et al, 2021).…”

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Modern pollen assemblages and their relationships with vegetation and climate on the northern slopes of the Tianshan Mountains, Xinjiang, China

Zhang

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The reconstruction of paleovegetation and paleoclimate requires an understanding of the relationships between surface pollen assemblages and modern vegetation and climate. Here, we analyzed the characteristics of surface pollen assemblages across different vegetation zones in the Tianshan Mountains. Using surface pollen analysis and vegetation sample surveys at 75 sites on the northern slopes of the Tianshan Mountains, we determined the correlation between the percentage of dominant pollen types and the corresponding vegetation cover. Redundancy analysis was used to investigate the relationships between surface pollen assemblages and environmental factors. Our results show that the Tianshan Mountains contain several distinct ecological regions, which can be divided into five main vegetation zones from low to high altitudes: mountain desert zone (

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