{"title":"Making a Long Continental Pollen Record, a Fabulous and Bizarre Enterprise: A 50-year Retrospective","authors":"H. Hooghiemstra","doi":"10.1080/01916122.2023.2191257","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Long continental pollen records (LCPRs) form a remarkable aspect of palynological research. They are rare, mostly collected in multiple coring sessions, due to time constraints they often do not reach the sample resolution anticipated, train the international audience to accept regularly improved age models, and show exciting histories of how ecosystems responded to Quaternary ice-age cycles. LCPRs also offer marine, and icecore studies a framework to explore how marine, ice and land ecosystems are responding to climate change in a mutual interaction. The decennia needed to complete such record is bizarre resulting in pollen records do not match in time with fast results from proxies with automatized procedures. Unfortunately, the development of long pollen records is in practice restricted to palynologists with a long research horizon. New applications of LCPRs have been explored in mountain areas. Sample-resolution steps through the last million years show how the surface of north Andean high mountain vegetation (p aramo) dramatically and repeatedly changed in surface, hinting at evolutionary processes.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2023.2191257","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Long continental pollen records (LCPRs) form a remarkable aspect of palynological research. They are rare, mostly collected in multiple coring sessions, due to time constraints they often do not reach the sample resolution anticipated, train the international audience to accept regularly improved age models, and show exciting histories of how ecosystems responded to Quaternary ice-age cycles. LCPRs also offer marine, and icecore studies a framework to explore how marine, ice and land ecosystems are responding to climate change in a mutual interaction. The decennia needed to complete such record is bizarre resulting in pollen records do not match in time with fast results from proxies with automatized procedures. Unfortunately, the development of long pollen records is in practice restricted to palynologists with a long research horizon. New applications of LCPRs have been explored in mountain areas. Sample-resolution steps through the last million years show how the surface of north Andean high mountain vegetation (p aramo) dramatically and repeatedly changed in surface, hinting at evolutionary processes.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.