Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
The possibility to identify plants based on the taxonomic information coming from their pollen grains offers many applications within various biological disciplines. In the past and depending on the application or research in question, pollen origin was analyzed by microscopy, usually preceded by chemical treatment methods. This procedure for ident...
Published in Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America
In the context of global decline in old-growth forest, historical ecology is a valuable tool to derive insights into vegetation legacies and dynamics and develop new conservation and restoration strategies. In this cross-disciplinary study, we integrate palynology (Lago del Pesce record), history, dendrochronology, and historical and contemporary l...
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
The olive tree (Olea europaea L. subsp. europaea var. europaea) is one of the most important crops across the Mediterranean, particularly the southern Levant. Its regional economic importance dates at least to the Early Bronze Age (~3600 BCE) and its cultivation contributed significantly to the culture and heritage of ancient civilizations in the r...
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
The Middle–Late Triassic climates have attracted the attention of paleontological and geological scientists for the Carnian pluvial event in the early Late Triassic. The event is well-documented in the pelagic and epi-continental marine deposits of the Tethys, Gondwana, and Laurasia. However, inland terrestrial deposits are less frequently depicted...
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
The abundance of coprophilous (dung-inhabiting) fungal spores (CFS) in sedimentary records is an increasingly popular proxy for past megaherbivore abundance that is used to study megaherbivore-vegetation interactions, timing of megaherbivore population declines and extinctions, and the introduction of domesticated herbivores. This method often reli...
Published in IOP SciNotes
The structure of pollen has evolved depending on its local environment, competition, and ecology. As pollen grains are generally of size 10–100 microns with nanometre-scale substructure, scanning electron microscopy is an important microscopy technique for imaging and analysis. Here, we use style transfer deep learning to allow exploration of laten...
This chapter provides a short review of the major disciplines and approach that the authors propose to cover for the studies of historical ecology of forests. It mentions works that have already been carried out with such approaches in France. The chapter also presents a methodological framework that could unravel the “secrets” of European forests ...
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Fossil fungi from periods warmer than modern climates provide unique insights into the future impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Here we report the fossil fungal assemblage from the late Middle Miocene Kenslow Member of central England, associated with climatic conditions warmer than the present-day. The identification of 110 morphotypes, whi...
Published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
We reviewed the available climate records for the past 2 millennia based on the analyzed sediment and speleothem archives from different regions of South Asia. Speleothem records from the core-monsoon regions of the Indian sub-continent have revealed the Little Ice Age (LIA) as a climatically dry phase, whereas the same from the western and central...
