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 …

An overview of the taxonomic groups of non-pollen palynomorphs

L Shumilovskikh, JMK O'Keefe, F Marret - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are 'extra'microfossils often found in palynology slides.
These include remains of organisms within the size range of pollen grains (c. 10–250 µm) …

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) …

[HTML][HTML] Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part III: North America and Greenland

Ł Kaczmarek, Ł Michalczyk, SJ McInnes - Zootaxa, 2016 - mapress.com
This paper is the third monograph of the series that describes the global records of limno-
terrestrial water bears (Tardigrada). Here, we provide a comprehensive list of non-marine …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Pollen and non-pollen palynomorph indicators of vegetation and highland grazing activities obtained from modern surface and dung datasets in the eastern Pyrenees

A Ejarque, Y Miras, S Riera - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper presents the study of modern pollen and non-pollen palynomorph assemblages
carried out along an altitudinal gradient from 1242 to 2541m asl in the south-eastern …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial distribution of modern pollen and fungal spores and their ecological indication in Qinghai Lake on northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China

H Gou, H Wei, R Duan, T Chen, Q Fan, Y Du, X Cao - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP)–also called the “third pole”–is an ideal area to
study the long-term relationship between people and the environment due to its sensitivity to …

Columbus' footprint in Hispaniola: A paleoenvironmental record of indigenous and colonial impacts on the landscape of the central Cibao Valley, northern Dominican …

A Castilla-Beltrán, H Hooghiemstra, MLP Hoogland… - Anthropocene, 2018 - Elsevier
The 1100-year sedimentary record of Laguna Biajaca reveals human-driven landscape
changes in the central Cibao Valley, Dominican Republic, Hispaniola. This sediment-filled …