Showing papers in "Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology in 2007"

TL;DR: The glossary of pollen and spore terminology was first presented to the international palynological community as the final outcome of the Working Group onPalynological Terminology at the 8th International Palynological Congress in Aix-en-Provence in 1992 and became widely accepted as reference guide for palynologists to assist in the preparation of accurate and consistent descriptions of their material.

TL;DR: In this article, a 688-cm-long sediment core from Hurleg Lake, a freshwater lake located in the Qaidam Basin on the NE Tibetan Plateau, just beyond the northern limit of the East Asian summer monsoon influence was aided by surface pollen analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed and continuous palynological record from two well-dated successions in the Portuguese Algarve and Lusitanian Basins document the diversification of early angiosperm pollen during the Late Barremian to Middle Albian time interval.

TL;DR: In the Prince Charles Mountains, the conformable Permian-Triassic (P-T) succession is characterised by an abrupt transition from coal-bearing to coal-lacking strata, which coincides with the demise of the permian Glossopteris-dominated flora as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A new biostatistical approach is proposed to advance the discrimination of the two types of grasses, placing a minimum of wild grasses into the Cerealia type group while retaining the maximum of cereals in this same group.

TL;DR: In this article, the vegetation response to climatic oscillations from the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the early Holocene was investigated. And the authors found that coniferous and broad-leaved trees were present prior to 14,700 cal. yr BP in Romania and thus it appears that this region may have been a refugial area for some tree species.

TL;DR: High-resolution palynofloral signatures through the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary succession show several features in common with the Permian-Triassic transition but there are also important differences as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Pollen and diatom assemblages of the sediment record from Laguna Potrok Aike provide new data about the vegetation and climate history since 16,100 cal BP of the drylands in the Patagonian Steppe, some 80 km east of the Andes on the southernmost Argentinean mainland as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: A summary of the progress made with the African Pollen Database (APD) inventory of plant diversity from pollen data extracted from 276 fossil sites and more than 1500 modern samples, with a focus on tropical tree pollen types.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a dedicated monitoring program conducted over 2 years and at a catchment scale in South West England, using Landsat Thematic Data.

TL;DR: Pollen preserved in hyrax faecal accumulations (hyraceum) in the Pakhuis Pass Shelter, Western Cape, presents a proxy record of local vegetation community structure for the last 23,000 years as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In order to recognize fossil evergreen and deciduous oak pollen, distinguishing criteria from the literature are compiled on the living oaks and applied to a Miocene pollen assemblage from Zhejiang Province, eastern China.

TL;DR: In this article, a set of 24 moss samples were collected and their pollen content analyzed, and detailed vegetation analyses were carried out within a 10.5-m radius around the samples.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the composition of the Cretaceous (Albian-Aptian) high latitude Northern Hemisphere conifer forests using wood from Spitsbergen and Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the Middle Pennsylvanian peat-forming plant assemblages at 14 localities in basins of central and western Bohemia and from the Intra-Sudetic Basin (NE Bohemia) were characterised based on collections of plants preserved in five successive tuff beds.

TL;DR: In this paper, the results of a modern pollen survey of plant communities in western Tasmania, Australia are described, showing that despite the over-representation of rainforest trees in the regional pollen rain, vegetation type and some communities can be distinguished using pollen analysis.

TL;DR: S. pasac and Quercinium centenoae Estrada-Ruiz, Martinez-Cabrera et Cevallos-Ferriz represent the earliest record of fagaceous plants in Mexico, while the presence of Javelinoxylon weberi extends the geographic distribution of the genus in North America.

TL;DR: A new aquatic filamentous-colonial fossil cyanobacterium from the Early Devonian Rhynie chert that grows on sediment and submerged plant parts and occurs in structured colonies, in which the individual filaments are aligned more or less parallel into flat, irregular stands, or united radially into hemispherical aggregates.

TL;DR: Charcoalified wood from the lower part of the Late Permian Um Irna Formation of Jordan is described in this article, which represents the first evidence of palaeo-wildfire during the late permian in northern Gondwana.

TL;DR: In this article, a number of fungal microfossils were identified which can be used to consistently provide a qualitative reconstruction of past conditions on the surface of the bog, and accurately indicate shifts between relatively dry and wet local conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, two macrofloras, 15 and 13.5 Ma old, are described from the oldest exposed plant bearing sediments on Iceland, which suggest a humid warm temperate climate (mostly Cfa climate sensu Koppen) with a number of exotic elements ( Glyptostrobus, Sequoia, Magnolia, Cercidiphyllum ).

TL;DR: A revision of the genus Pterophyllum in the famous Late Triassic flora of Lunz, Lower Austria, based on macromorphology, biometry, and epidermal anatomy suggests that certain Bennettitales locally became significant elements of the vegetation relatively early in their evolutionary history.

TL;DR: The Cal Guardiola site, discovered during the construction of an office building in the centre of Terrassa (Province of Barcelona, NE Spain), is home to one of the richest deposits of lower-middle Pleistocene flora in the Iberian Peninsula as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A palynological study of the dinosaur-bearing Wealden facies at a depth of 322m in the natural pit with Iguanodons of Bernissart (Belgium) is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the plant fossils occur in thin bedded units up to two meters thick, consisting of coarse siltstone to very fine sandstone with clay partings, and they are primarily tabular, thin, and bears rare ripple marks and trough cross beds.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated approach to the reconstruction of vegetation history and human land use during the Holocene on Garua Island, Papua New Guinea analysed sediments and plant microfossils (phytoliths and starch granules) together with archaeological data.

TL;DR: A detailed description of the morphology and anatomy of the leaves of Thalassotaenia, which includes the oldest anatomically preserved material of seagrass leaves and might also represent an extinct clade ofSeagrasses.

TL;DR: Pollen monitoring at the north-western fringe of the European boreal forest by means of modified Tauber traps, was carried out during the years 1996-2004 along a coast-inland gradient, including two altitudinal transects inland.

TL;DR: Using a literature survey and new palynological data from LM and SEM studies, the pollen of a number of “rogue genera” was described and compared with that of potential related taxa in Compositae, finding new sets of characters which could be compared to the robust hypothesis of relationships shown in the recent DNA-based supertree.

TL;DR: In this article, a palynological study of the Middle Eocene maar lake at Messel (near Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany) has been carried out.