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) …

Long-term hydroclimate variability in the sub-tropical North Atlantic and anthropogenic impacts on lake ecosystems: A case study from Flores Island, the Azores

N Richter, JM Russell, L Amaral-Zettler… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Human land use and climate change threaten ecosystems and natural resources,
particularly on remote islands such as the Azores Archipelago in the North Atlantic. Since …

Legacies of historical human activities in Arctic woody plant dynamics

S Normand, TT Høye, BC Forbes… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Recent changes in arctic vegetation might not be driven by climate change alone. Legacies
of human activities have received little attention as a contributing factor. We examine the …

A multiproxy approach to long-term herbivore grazing dynamics in peatlands based on pollen, coprophilous fungi and faecal biomarkers

AL Davies, L Harrault, K Milek, EL McClymont… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Herbivory plays a significant role in regulating many contemporary terrestrial plant
ecosystems, but remains an imperfectly understood component of past ecosystem dynamics …

[HTML][HTML] Holocene history of the 79 N ice shelf reconstructed from epishelf lake and uplifted glaciomarine sediments

JA Smith, L Callard, MJ Bentley, SSR Jamieson… - The …, 2023 - tc.copernicus.org
Abstract Nioghalvfjerdsbrae, or 79∘ N Glacier, is the largest marine-terminating glacier
draining the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS). In recent years, its∼ 70 km long …

Fecal biomarker imprints as indicators of past human land uses: Source distinction and preservation potential in archaeological and natural archives

R Zocatelli, M Lavrieux, T Guillemot, L Chassiot… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents the potential of 5β-stanols and bile acids to act as fecal source
biomarkers in order to identify and characterize past agropastoral activities in archaeological …

Late Holocene human population change revealed by fecal stanol records and its response to environmental evolution at Xiada Co on the western Tibetan Plateau

X Li, S Liu, K Ji, X Hou, K Yuan, J Hou, J Niu… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
An in-depth understanding of the relationship between anthropogenic activity and climate
change under extreme climate conditions could provide a scientific basis and historical …

Comparison of Sporormiella dung fungal spores and oribatid mites as indicators of large herbivore presence: evidence from the Cuzco region of Peru

AJ Chepstow-Lusty, MR Frogley, AS Baker - Journal of Archaeological …, 2019 - Elsevier
The ability of sedimentary proxies (especially dung fungal spores) to reflect the past
presence and density of large herbivores on a landscape has been receiving increasing …

Detecting human impacts: non-pollen palynomorphs as proxies for human impact on the environment

E Gauthier, I Jouffroy-Bapicot - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are widely used to detect human activities, in addition to
the anthropogenic indicators used in palynology. This paper first tries to determine the best …

Stratigraphic and sedimentological aspects of the worldwide distribution of Apectodinium in Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum deposits

CN Denison - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) is characterized by pronounced
global warming and associated environmental changes. In the more-or-less two decades …