Atlas of pollen and spores and their parent taxa of Mt Kilimanjaro and tropical East Africa
Atlas of pollen and spores and their parent taxa of Mt Kilimanjaro and tropical East Africa
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DOI：
10.1016/j.quaint.2016.07.038
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发表时间：
2016-12
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
L. Schüler;A. Hemp
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作者：
L. Schüler;A. Hemp
对花粉化石的准确和一致的鉴定对于对过去的植被和气候变化作出强有力的推断是必不可少的。鉴定最好通过直接检查标准物质来实现。大多数重要的参考资料收藏位于欧洲或北美的研究机构，这限制了试图在欠发达国家推进孢粉学的研究人员的访问。由于数字成像和快速互联网接入的发展，现在有可能从花粉和孢子参考收集中产生高质量的图像，并使它们在全球范围内可用。在这个花粉和孢子图集中，我们通过展示来自乞力马扎罗山地区和热带东非不同植被类型的240种花粉类型（202属79科）和30种孢子类型（25属17科）的图像，为这一不断增长的工作做出了贡献。本文综述了乞力马扎罗山地区和热带东非地区末次冰期和全新世沉积档案中常见的花粉和孢子类型的范围。除了花粉密钥外，还提供了有关授粉、生境和生境的详细信息，这些信息都支持花粉记录的解释和环境重建。该图集将为孢粉学调查提供有用的指导，旨在详细和全面地重建热带东非过去的植被、环境和气候变化。
The accurate and consistent identification of fossil pollen is essential to allow robust inferences to be drawn with regard to past vegetation and climate change. Identifications are best achieved through the direct inspection of reference material. Most substantial reference collections are located at research institutions in Europe or North America, which restricts access for researchers trying to advance palynology in less developed countries. Due to the development of digital imaging and fast internet access it is now possible to produce high quality images from pollen and spore reference collections and make them globally available. In this pollen and spore atlas we contribute to this growing body of work by presenting images of 240 pollen types (in 202 genera and ∼79 families) and 30 spore types (in 25 genera and ∼17 families) from a wide range of different vegetation types originating from the Kilimanjaro area and tropical East Africa. We provide an overview on the range of pollen and spore types commonly found in Last Glacial and Holocene sedimentary archives in studies from the Kilimanjaro area and tropical East Africa. Besides a pollen key, detailed information is given on pollination, habitus and habitat which all support the interpretation and environmental reconstructions from pollen records. The atlas will serve as useful guide for palynological investigations, aiming at detailed and comprehensive reconstruction of past vegetation, environmental and climate change in tropical East Africa.