A modern pollen data set for the forest–meadow–steppe ecotone from the Tibetan Plateau and its potential use in past vegetation reconstruction

IF 2.4 3区 地球科学 Q2 GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL
Boreas Pub Date : 2022-04-25 DOI:10.1111/bor.12589
Nannan Wang, Lina Liu, Yanrong Zhang, Xianyong Cao
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Abstract

The relationship between modern pollen and vegetation provides the basis for the interpretation of stratigraphic pollen assemblages and the quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation. We selected 168 topsoil samples from four different vegetation types on the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau to explore the relationships between pollen assemblages, vegetation and climate. The results reveal that pollen assemblages discriminate the vegetation types well; the subalpine coniferous and evergreen broad-leaved forest is characterized by a high proportion of arboreal taxa (e.g. Pinus, Picea, Betula); the alpine shrub and meadow and alpine steppe vegetation types are dominated by Cyperaceae, followed by Artemisia and Brassicaceae; and the alpine steppe-shrub is characterized by a high percentage of Artemisia, with Cyperaceae, Asteraceae and Brassicaceae as common taxa. Redundancy analysis shows that mean temperature of the coldest month (Mtco) is the main climatic factor that influences pollen distribution. Pollen diversity indices (including richness and evenness) gradually decrease from SE to NW. The random forest classification has good performance in distinguishing vegetation types. Our study supplies a comparatively detailed description of the relationship between the pollen assemblage and vegetation in the forest–meadow–steppe ecotone on the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau. In addition, the random forest model has potential application for reconstructing the past vegetation type of the fossil pollen spectra on the south-eastern Tibetan Plateau.

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青藏高原森林-草甸-草原交错带现代花粉数据集及其在植被重建中的潜在应用
现代花粉与植被的关系为地层花粉组合的解释和过去植被的定量重建提供了依据。本文选取青藏高原东南部4种不同植被类型的168个表层土壤样品,探讨了花粉组合与植被和气候的关系。结果表明,花粉组合能很好地区分植被类型;亚高山针叶林和常绿阔叶林以高比例的乔木类群(如松、云杉、桦木)为特征;高寒灌丛、草甸和高寒草原植被类型以莎草科为主,其次为蒿科和芸苔科;高寒草原灌丛以蒿属植物比例较高为特征,常见类群为莎草科、菊科和芸苔科。冗余分析表明,最冷月平均温度(Mtco)是影响花粉分布的主要气候因子。花粉多样性指数(包括丰富度和均匀度)从东南向西北逐渐降低。随机森林分类在区分植被类型方面具有良好的性能。本研究较为详细地描述了青藏高原东南部森林-草甸-草原交错带花粉组合与植被的关系。此外,随机森林模型在青藏高原东南部化石花粉谱的过去植被类型重建中具有潜在的应用价值。
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Boreas
Boreas 地学-地球科学综合
CiteScore
5.90
自引率
4.50%
发文量
36
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Boreas has been published since 1972. Articles of wide international interest from all branches of Quaternary research are published. Biological as well as non-biological aspects of the Quaternary environment, in both glaciated and non-glaciated areas, are dealt with: Climate, shore displacement, glacial features, landforms, sediments, organisms and their habitat, and stratigraphical and chronological relationships. Anticipated international interest, at least within a continent or a considerable part of it, is a main criterion for the acceptance of papers. Besides articles, short items like discussion contributions and book reviews are published.
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