Jantz, N. (2010): <b>A Holocene environmental record reflecting vegetation, climate, and fire variability at the Páramo of Quimsacocha in the south Ecuadorian Andes </b> Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, <i>master thesis</i>
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Title:
A Holocene environmental record reflecting vegetation, climate, and fire variability at the Páramo of Quimsacocha in the south Ecuadorian Andes
FOR816dw ID:
1165
Publication Date:
2010-12-15
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Nele Jantz
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nele.jantz <at> biologie.uni-goettingen.de
Untere Karspüle 2
A.v.H.-Inst. für Pflanzenwiss.
Abt. Palynologie u. Klimadynamik
37073 Göttingen
Germany
Abstract:
We reconstructed the palaeoenvironmental conditions of the last ca. 8000 years in the Tres Lagunas region of the Quimsacocha volcanic basin (ca. 3800 m a.s.l.) in the southwestern Ecuadorian Andes by means of a pollen and charcoal record. <br/>
Sediment deposits and pollen taxa reflect warm and possibly drier conditions in the early to mid-Holocene. The late Holocene undergoes several warm and cold-phases of which the most prominent one was the Little Ice-Age which is characterised by a marked increase of taxa that correspond to cold and moist conditions. As charcoal can be recorded since the early to mid-Holocene and Polylepis underwent several phases of degradation and re-establishment in the region, the presence of human influence might be dated back to this time.
