NPP-ID: Non-Pollen Palynomorph Image Database as a research and educational platform

LS Shumilovskikh, ES Shumilovskikh, F Schlütz… - Vegetation History and …, 2022 - Springer
Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) form a large group of biological objects found in
palynological slides besides pollen grains. This includes various remains of algae and fungi …

Indicative value and training set of freshwater organic-walled algal palynomorphs (non-pollen palynomorphs)

N Stivrins, L Trasune, N Jasiunas, L Kalnina… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Only a few studies have related modern non-pollen palynomorphs to environmental
variables, limiting the development of non-pollen palynomorphs training sets. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] First record of fungal diversity in the tropical and warm-temperate Middle Miocene Climate Optimum forests of Eurasia

IC Romero, NB Nuñez Otaño, ME Gibson… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The middle Miocene Climate Optimum (MMCO) was the warmest interval of the last 23
million years and is one of the best analogs for proposed future climate change scenarios …

Paleobotany of the uppermost Cretaceous Chorrillo Formation, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina: insights in a freshwater floral community

EI Vera, VSP Loinaze, D Moyano-Paz, MD Coronel… - Cretaceous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Few latest Cretaceous fossil floras are known for South America, and in particular for the
Austral-Magallanes Basin. Recent studies carried out in the Chorrillo Formation …

Marine dinocysts, acritarchs and less well-known NPP: tintinnids, ostracod and foraminiferal linings, copepod and worm remains

PJ Mudie, F Marret, PR Gurdebeke, JD Hartman… - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Nine non-pollen palynomorph (NPP) groups occur in Quaternary marine and brackish-water
sediments; these groups represent various planktonic or micro-to macrobenthic organisms …

Anthropogenic impact on a seacoast landscape during the last 1300 years in central Latvia, Northeastern Europe

N Stivrins, I Doniņa, M Auns, A Blaus, M Liiv… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Human‐induced activities around Lake Lilaste in the central Latvian sandy coastal area
have been reconstructed over a 1300‐year period. We use a combination of well …

[HTML][HTML] Rain forest fragmentation and environmental dynamics on Nosy Be Island (NW Madagascar) at 1300 cal BP is attributable to intensified human impact

AL Reinhardt, T Kasper, M Lochner… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Madagascar houses one of the Earth's biologically richest, but also one of most endangered,
terrestrial ecoregions. Although it is obvious that humans substantially altered the natural …

[HTML][HTML] Fires, vegetation, and human—the history of critical transitions during the last 1000 years in northeastern Mongolia

M Słowiński, M Obremska, D Avirmed… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fires are natural phenomena that impact human behaviors, vegetation, and landscape
functions. However, the long-term history of fire, especially in the permafrost marginal zone …

A Maastrichtian insect assemblage from Patagonia sheds light on arthropod diversity previous to the K/Pg event

EI Vera, MD Monferran, J Massaferro… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Insect faunas from the latest Cretaceous are poorly known worldwide. Particularly, in the
Southern Hemisphere, there is a gap regarding insect assemblages in the Campanian …

Nomenclature: how do we designate NPP taxa?

JMK O'Keefe, NBN Otaño, MV Bianchinotti - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Identification and naming of fossil and subfossil organisms are not easy tasks. We are in the
midst of a paradigm shift in how NPP taxa are named, driven in large part by (1) molecular …