Do dung fungal spores make a good proxy for past distribution of large herbivores?

AG Baker, SA Bhagwat, KJ Willis - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
The importance of herbivory as a long-term driver of ecosystem change is a topic that has
been hotly debated over the past few years. An understanding of the interaction between …

Climatic and megaherbivory controls on late-glacial vegetation dynamics: a new, high-resolution, multi-proxy record from Silver Lake, Ohio

JL Gill, JW Williams, ST Jackson, JP Donnelly… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
Novel plant assemblages are a long-recognized feature of late-glacial North America, but
identifying their causes has been hampered by inaccurate radiocarbon chronologies and …

[图书][B] Reconstructing quaternary environments

JJ Lowe, M Walker - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

HJB Birks - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Tools for Non-Pollen Palynomorphs (NPPs) analysis: A list of Quaternary NPP types and reference literature in English language (1972–2011)

A Miola - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2012 - Elsevier
A systematic study of Non-Pollen Palynomorphs (NPPs) from Quaternary sediments was
begun in 1968 in the Hugo de Vries-Laboratory (Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem …

Climate change facilitated the early colonization of the Azores Archipelago during medieval times

PM Raposeiro, A Hernández… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Humans have made such dramatic and permanent changes to Earth's landscapes that much
of it is now substantially and irreversibly altered from its preanthropogenic state. Remote …

Diversity and ecology of tropical African fungal spores from a 25,000-year palaeoenvironmental record in southeastern Kenya

B van Geel, V Gelorini, A Lyaruu, A Aptroot… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2011 - Elsevier
Fossil fungal spores and other non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are powerful
environmental proxies in European palaeoecological and archaeological contexts …

Modern non-pollen palynomorphs from East African lake sediments

V Gelorini, A Verbeken, B van Geel, C Cocquyt… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper presents an illustrated guide to the identification of non-pollen palynomorphs
(NPPs) preserved in lake-sediment archives from equatorial East Africa. Modern NPPs were …

Non-pollen palynomorphs

LS Shumilovskikh, B van Geel - Handbook for the analysis of micro …, 2020 - Springer
Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPP) in pollen slides form a large, inhomogeneous group of
remains of organisms that represents a memory of former, often strictly local environmental …

On the use of spores of coprophilous fungi preserved in sediments to indicate past herbivore presence

CM Lee, B van Geel, WD Gosling - Quaternary, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fungal spores that grew on the faeces of herbivores in the past can be extracted from
sediments and used to identify the presence of herbivores in former ecosystems. This …