A modern pollen data set for the forest–meadow–steppe ecotone from the Tibetan Plateau and its potential use in past vegetation reconstruction

• Published in: Boreas Vol. 51; no. 4; pp. 847 - 858
• Main Authors: Wang, Nannan, Liu, Lina, Zhang, Yanrong, Cao, Xianyong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Aarhus John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.10.2022
• Subjects: Brassicaceae; Climate and vegetation; Coniferous forests; Cyperaceae; Diversity indices; Environmental effects; Fossil pollen; Fossils; Habitat selection; Meadows; Mean temperatures; Plateaus; Pollen; Reconstruction; Redundancy; Steppes; Stratigraphy; Taxa; Topsoil; Vegetation; Vegetation type; Tibetan Plateau

The relationship between modern pollen and vegetation provides the basis for the interpretation of stratigraphic pollen assemblages and the quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation. We selected 168 topsoil samples from four different vegetation types on the south‐eastern Tibetan Plateau to exp...