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Showing papers in "Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology in 2010"


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TL;DR: In addition to the influence of Lateglacial and Early Holocene climatic changes, other factors are critical in the course of vegetation development and observe strong regional differences as discussed by the authors.

332 citations


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TL;DR: Pollen analysis of Miocene and Pliocene sediments from the Iberian Peninsula shows a progressive reduction in plant diversity through time caused by the disappearance of thermophilous and high-water requirement plants as mentioned in this paper.

220 citations


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TL;DR: A palaeobotanical analysis of the Pleistocene floras and vegetation in the Iberian Peninsula shows the existence of patched landscapes with Pinus woodlands, deciduous and mixed forests, parklands (savannah-like), shrublands, steppes and grasslands as discussed by the authors.

200 citations


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TL;DR: A review of how the Spanish forests were influenced by human activities and their changes is provided in this paper, where the most fertile lands were converted into cultivation and more productive cultivars were introduced.

141 citations


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TL;DR: The co-occurrence of moisture-loving ferns andEarly angiosperm pollen may support the hypothesis that early angiosperms evolved and diversified in moist and shady disturbed habitats near the palaeoequator.

127 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the evolution of Iberia's vegetation during the Cenozoic (with the exclusion of the Quaternary) was studied, with the aim of providing a first approach to provide a first look at Iberian vegetation evolution.

117 citations


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TL;DR: Palynological and sedimentological data from a core extracted from Lake Eteza shed new light on the Holocene vegetation and climate history in KwaZulu-Natal and can be linked to regional and global climate change.

107 citations


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TL;DR: A dinocyst zonation for the Neogene succession in the eastern part of the North Sea Basin (Denmark) is presented in this article, which gives a detailed subdivision of the Oligocene-Miocene transition, of the Lower Miocene, and of the Upper Miocene and Pliocene successions.

99 citations


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TL;DR: A general review of the Carboniferous floral records in the Iberian Peninsula in the context of the geological history and distribution of the different basins is presented in this paper.

95 citations


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TL;DR: Palaeoecology, phylogeography and species distribution modelling have a great potential to inform each other because of their complementary perspectives and results and are fundamental for further progress in understanding of past Iberian environments and the organisms they harboured.

92 citations


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TL;DR: The role of pinewoods as native forests in the Iberian Mountains, and their long-term dynamics during the last interglacial, has been intensely debated among geobotanists as discussed by the authors.

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TL;DR: In this paper, micro-FTIR (Fourier transform infrared) spectroscopy analysis has been carried out on isolated specimens from the Upper Silurian of Gotland, and the geobiochemical results have been compared to spectra of trilete spores, chitinozoans and leiospheres from the same sample.

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TL;DR: The discovery of a series of mesofossil floras containing well-preserved angiosperm reproductive structures has provided a new basis for understanding the systematic relationships and biology of angiosperms at several stratigraphic levels through the Cretaceous.

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TL;DR: A review of the current knowledge regarding these processes during the Quaternary is provided in this paper, with a focus on the extinction process of Arctotertiary taxa in the Iberian Peninsula.

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TL;DR: The chronostratigraphical ages of the 20 dinoflagellate cyst zones and one dinophagellates assemblage for the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) to the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition of the North West Shelf of Australia are comprehensively reviewed in this paper.

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TL;DR: The occurrence of the fruit wing of Dipterocarpus, together with palynological evidence, indicates unequivocally that a tropical climate and tropical rain forest occurred in Zhangpu during the middle Miocene, warmer and more humid than at the present day.

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TL;DR: The results show that all pollen taxa are affected by oxidation and the thickness of the exine and a specific morphology appear to be the deciding factors controlling the ability to withstand oxidation.

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TL;DR: In this article, a multivariate analysis based on eleven measured characters from 76 complete fossil seeds was performed to identify three morphotaxa, viz. Vitis grayensis, Vitis lanatoides, and Vitis latisulcata.

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TL;DR: A cladistic analysis shows that fossil species of Cephalotaxus may be divided into three phylogenetic groups and the group containing C. ningmingensis is basal in the genus.

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TL;DR: An assemblage of well-preserved, cuticle-bearing plant compressions collected from a single bed in the Upper Triassic of Timber Peak, East Antarctica is described, demonstrating that a combination of macromorphological and cuticular features enables a suitable discrimination of Dicroidium species.

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TL;DR: Different maturation stages of these flowers are preserved, with recognition of a development series that parallels that of extant relatives, with interesting biogeographic implications for the development and history of neotropical floras during the mid-Cenozoic.

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TL;DR: The most complete angiospermous palynological assemblage for the middle-earliest late Albian of north-eastern Spain is reported from the Middle Member of the Escucha Formation at the San Just site as discussed by the authors.

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TL;DR: Pollen analysis and oxygen isotope measurements on a sediment core recovered from Lake Tzib, revealed the vegetation and climate history of central Quintana Roo, southeast Mexico for the last ∼−7900-cal-yr as discussed by the authors.

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TL;DR: This paper applied several numerical approaches to a lake-sediment based pollen data-set from the eastern and central Tibetan Plateau (112 samples) to assess the indicator value of Tibetan pollen taxa for modern vegetation types and for modern climate.

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TL;DR: In this article, a high-resolution study of dinoflagellate cysts from three outcrop sections in the Umbria-Marche Basin of Central Italy was carried out, and three sections investigated (Contessa Barbetti Road, Monte Cagnero and Pieve d'Accinelli) have magnetostratigraphic age control.

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TL;DR: The successive vegetations inhabiting the Iberian Peninsula from the Triassic/Jurassic boundary to the Cretaceous/Tertiary Boundary is reviewed based on published palynological and macrofloral data, and the vegetational changes set in a palaeogeographical and climate context.

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TL;DR: The second occurrence of F. teixeirae was reported from a single specimen from the Valanginian of the Vale de Lobos Formation exposed at the beach cliff near Sesimbra, Portugal.

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TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between forest dynamics and fire frequency pollen percentages and charcoal amounts from a 120 cm long peat core and from samples of modern pollen rain were collected along a transect.

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TL;DR: In this paper, two loess-palaeosol sequences of Xindian and Beizhuangcun were selected at different topographic units in the Weihe River valley to reconstruct the vegetation history for the Holocene period using high-resolution pollen analysis.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of detailed pollen preservation analyses completed for four in-filled basins from Holderness, lowland eastern England, and employ what they believe to be a novel methodology to assess patterns of pollen deterioration, both within and between sites.