Towards quantitative palynology

Using pollen accumulation rates and models of pollen dispersal

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ID12200528
AutoresThomas Giesecke (0000-0002-5132-1061, University of Göttingen, autor de correspondencia), Willem O Van Der Knaap (0000-0002-0179-7440, University of Bern), Felix Bittmann (0000-0003-0802-5854, Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research)
Año2010
Volumen19
Número4
Páginas243-245
Fecha de publicación2010-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVegetation History and Archaeobotany (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0939-6314 • E-ISSN: 1617-6278
EditorialSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s00334-010-0262-2
OpenAlexW2093458868
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas18

The name Sheila Hicks is for many palaeoecologists connected with pollen trapping and absolute pollen deposition, and it is therefore an enormous pleasure to dedicate this special issue of Vegetation History and Archaeobotany to Sheila Hicks on the occasion of her retirement from Oulu University. Over the years Sheila’s enthusiasm for pollen trapping has inspired many graduate students as well as junior and senior colleagues and friends. Sheila started trapping pollen in Finland in 1969 (Hicks 1974), at a time when much of the early pioneering work on the modes of pollen dispersal and deposition was carried out. She experimented with pollen traps in the field (Hicks and Hyvarinen 1986) and established monitoring stations in different vegetation zones of Finland, where through perseverance she has collected continuous time series, which stand as an invaluable resource for generations to come. During the late 1970s and 1980s, the early hope to use absolute pollen deposition as a means of quantitative reconstruction of vegetation change declined due to the many problems of sedimentary environments (Davis 2000). Despite this declining interest in the subject, Sheila continued her work and convinced many students and colleagues of the value of absolute pollen deposition in pollen traps and sediment cores, which led to a renewed interest in absolute pollen deposition in recent years (Barnekow et al. 2008; Gerasimidis et al. 2008; Giesecke and Fontana 2008; Sjogren et al. 2008; Kuoppamaa et al. 2009; Huusko and Hicks 2009). With the support of colleagues, Sheila created the Pollen Monitoring Programme (PMP) as an INQUA working group with the aim to standardize pollen monitoring and accumulate a large body of data that could be used to interpret fossil pollen assemblages (Hicks 2001). Three contributions in this special volume are based on the large dataset that is being collected within the programme and thus testify to the T. Giesecke (&) Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, University of Gottingen, Untere Karspule 2, 37073 Gottingen, Germany e-mail: [email protected]

Biology · Deposition (geology · Geography · Palynology · Physical geography · Pollen · Sediment · Vegetation (pathology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Lichen and fungal ecology · Tree-ring climate responses · Ecology · Geology · Paleontology