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QUATERNARY PALYNOLOGICAL TIME SERIES AND SPATIAL PATTERNS

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  • Department of Earth Sciences, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275

Received date: 1997-05-28

  Online published: 1998-06-01

Abstract

    Quaternary palynological time series and spatial patterns of different scale hierarchies are discussed in this paper. Some related methods and principal results are also introduced. The palynological studies today in the world, including those of million year duration down to those of less than hundred years, may represent various characteristics of environmental change. Applications of transfer functions and other statistic methods to reconstruct the paleoclimate flucturations is being a trend of pollen sequence analysis.
    The restoration of the Quaternary spatial distribution of vegetation of different scales is so call Quaternary pollen spatial pattern. This pattern reflect the spatial response of vegetation or pollen types to the Quaternary  climate changes. The quantitative climate calibration from pollen record can also help to establish the spatial paleoclimate characters. Additionally, pollen data is recently a diagnostic tool to validate climate and biome models of global scale.

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Zheng Zhuo . QUATERNARY PALYNOLOGICAL TIME SERIES AND SPATIAL PATTERNS[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 1998 , 13(3) : 300 -305 . DOI: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.1998.03.0300

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