Dung fungi as a proxy for megaherbivores: opportunities and limitations for archaeological applications

AG Perrotti, E Van Asperen - Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2019 - Springer
The use of spores of coprophilous fungi from sedimentary sequences as proxy evidence for
large herbivore abundance has garnered pronounced attention and scrutiny over the past …

A global Bayesian temperature calibration for lacustrine brGDGTs

P Martínez-Sosa, JE Tierney, IC Stefanescu… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite widespread use of branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) for
paleo-temperature reconstruction, no global calibration for their application in lakes has …

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) …

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 …

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 …

[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 …

Pollen analysis of middle to late Holocene records shows little evidence for grazing disturbance to alpine grassland on the Tibetan Plateau until modern times

N Wang, Y Zhang, L Liu, W Li, X Yu, J Sun… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding human impact on the vegetation of the Tibetan Plateau through the
Holocene is important for developing strategies for sustainable ecosystem management in …

Mid-Holocene vegetation history and Neolithic land-use in the Lake Banyoles area (Girona, Spain)

J Revelles, S Cho, E Iriarte, F Burjachs… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on high-resolution analysis of pollen and sedimentology and botanical
macro-remains analysis in a core from Lake Banyoles (Girona, Spain). The core sequence …

Erosion or plant succession—How to interpret the presence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota) spores in pollen profiles collected from mires

P Kołaczek, S Zubek, J Błaszkowski, P Mleczko… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2013 - Elsevier
The spores of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), microorganisms which occur
belowground, are recognized as important indicators of erosion in palaeoecological …