MARINGEOLOGI OG GLACIOLOGI
POLLEN RESEARCH, OVERVIEW

	Research team Richard Bradshaw - rhwb@geus.dk Anne Birgitte Nielsen abn@geus.dk J. Peter Rasmussen - per@geus.dk
Light microscope photograph of a pine pollen ( Pinus sylvestris

SEM photographs of an elm pollen Ulmus

Introduction

Pollen analysis (palynology) is widely used in environmental reconstruction, enabling inferences to be made concerning vegetation, climate, soils and human impacts upon landscape. Pollen grains are preserved in various geological deposits (e.g. lakes, bogs and acid soils). They can be retrieved, identified and interpreted through various techniques in the field, in the laboratory and in the later stages also by statistical techniques. The results of a pollen analytical investigation are presented in a pollen diagram which form the basis for the palaeoecological interpretations.

Pollen diagram giving a biased impression of the flora.
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• European Pollen Database Arles, France
• European Pollen Monitoring Programme
• Glossary of Pollen and Spore Terminology: Literature Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology LPP ), Utrecht, Nederland
• Key to pollen classes
• Northwest European Pollen Flora (Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology ( LPP
• Pollen Monitoring Programme (an INQUA working group within the Holocene Commission)

• Peter Rasmussen and Kjeld Christensen, 1999: The mid-Holocene Ulmus decline: a new way to evaluate the pathogen hypothesis

Edited by:

J. Peter Rasmussen - per@geus.dk
Niels E. Poulsen, GEUS
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