Adele C. M. Julier, Phillip E. Jardine, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Angela L. Coe, Akwasi Duah-Gyamfi, Wesley T. Fraser, Barry H. Lomax, Yadvinder Malhi, Sam Moore, Kennedy Owusu-Afriyie, William D. Gosling
- Transitions between forest and savannah vegetation types in fossil pollen records are often poorly understood due to over-production by taxa such as Poaceae and a lack of modern pollen-vegetation studies. Here, modern pollen assemblages from within a forest-savannah transition in West Africa are presented and compared, their characteristic taxa discussed, and implications for the fossil record considered. Fifteen artificial pollen traps were deployed for 1 year, to collect pollen rain from three vegetation plots within the forest-savannah transition in Ghana. High percentages of Poaceae and Melastomataceae/Combretaceae were recorded in all three plots. Erythrophleum suaveolens characterised the forest plot, Manilkara obovata the transition plot and Terminalia the savannah plot. The results indicate that Poaceae pollen influx rates provide the best representation of the forest-savannah gradient, and that a Poaceae abundance of >40% should be considered as indicative of savannah-type vegetation in the fossil record.
MetadatenAuthor details: | Adele C. M. JulierORCiD, Phillip E. JardineORCiD, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Angela L. Coe, Akwasi Duah-Gyamfi, Wesley T. FraserORCiD, Barry H. LomaxORCiD, Yadvinder MalhiORCiD, Sam MooreORCiD, Kennedy Owusu-Afriyie, William D. GoslingORCiD |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2017.1356392 |
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ISSN: | 0191-6122 |
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ISSN: | 1558-9188 |
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Title of parent work (English): | Palynology |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group |
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Place of publishing: | Philadelphia |
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Publication type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
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Date of first publication: | 2017/08/10 |
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Publication year: | 2017 |
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Release date: | 2022/03/10 |
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Tag: | Bosumtwi; Ghana; Poaceae; palaeoecology; pollen; savannah; transitions |
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Volume: | 42 |
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Issue: | 3 |
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Number of pages: | 15 |
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First page: | 324 |
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Last Page: | 338 |
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Funding institution: | Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC)NERC Natural Environment Research Council [NE/K005294/1]; Leverhulme Trust-Royal Society of UK [A130026]; UK Natural Environment Research CouncilNERC Natural Environment Research Council [NE/1014705/1]; European Research Council (GEM-TRAIT) [ERC-2012-ADG_20120216]; Jackson Foundation |
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Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Geowissenschaften |
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DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 55 Geowissenschaften, Geologie / 550 Geowissenschaften |
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