Does pollen-assemblage richness reflect floristic richness? A review of recent developments and future challenges

HJB Birks, VA Felde, AE Bjune, JA Grytnes… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2016 - Elsevier
Current interest and debate on pollen-assemblage richness as a proxy for past plant
richness have prompted us to review recent developments in assessing whether modern …

Trait‐based approaches as ecological time machines: Developing tools for reconstructing long‐term variation in ecosystems

KA Brown, MJ Bunting, F Carvalho… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Research over the past decade has shown that quantifying spatial variation in ecosystem
properties is an effective approach to investigating the effects of environmental change on …

Plants, pollinators and their interactions under global ecological change: The role of pollen DNA metabarcoding

KL Bell, KJ Turo, A Lowe, K Nota, A Keller… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic activities are triggering global changes in the environment, causing entire
communities of plants, pollinators and their interactions to restructure, and ultimately leading …

Improving the taxonomy of fossil pollen using convolutional neural networks and superresolution microscopy

IC Romero, S Kong, CC Fowlkes… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Taxonomic resolution is a major challenge in palynology, largely limiting the ecological and
evolutionary interpretations possible with deep-time fossil pollen data. We present an …

Comparative performance of airyscan and structured illumination superresolution microscopy in the study of the surface texture and 3D shape of pollen

M Sivaguru, MA Urban, G Fried… - Microscopy research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The visualization of taxonomically diagnostic features of individual pollen grains can be a
challenge for many ecologically and phylogenetically important pollen types. The resolution …

The Global Pollen Project: a new tool for pollen identification and the dissemination of physical reference collections

AC Martin, WJ Harvey - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The study of fossil and modern pollen assemblages provides essential information about
vegetation dynamics in space and time. A major methodological component of these studies …

Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 1: How well can we identify past plant diversity in the fossil record?

C Cleal, HS Pardoe, CM Berry… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
Palaeobotany and palynology are the main direct sources of evidence for studying
vegetation diversity dynamics through geological time. However, plant fossil diversity is …

The evolutionary history of the Central Asian steppe-desert taxon Nitraria (Nitrariaceae) as revealed by integration of fossil pollen morphology and molecular data

A Woutersen, PE Jardine, D Silvestro… - Botanical journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The transition from a greenhouse to an icehouse world at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition
(EOT) coincided with a large decrease of pollen from the steppe-adapted genus Nitraria …

The ghost of past climate acting on present‐day plant diversity: Lessons from a climate‐based delimitation of the tropical alpine ecosystem

M Kandziora, JM Gorospe, L Salomon… - … of Systematics and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat stability is important for maintaining biodiversity by preventing species extinction, but
this stability is being challenged by climate change. The tropical alpine ecosystem is …

[PDF][PDF] Vilken ny kunskap ger aDNA-analyser om vegetationsutvecklingen i Nordeuropa under och efter Weichsel-istiden?

B Cordes - 2023 - lup.lub.lu.se
Under de senaste 30 åren har en ny metod för att få information om tidigare ekosystem
utvecklats, nämligen att analysera gammalt (“ancient”) DNA (aDNA). Denna forskningsgren …