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Paleo Environmental
Reconstructing past natural environments, including vegetation, climate and human impacts.
The following abstracts relate to the use of microfossil (and other botanical) research in the paleo-environmental application:
- Using pollen in turbidites for vegetation reconstructions
- Palynological, tephra, and 14C records from southern Kaitoke, Great Barrier (Aotea) Island, New Zealand, since c. 30,000 cal. yr BP
- The cestode Stringopotaenia psittacea (Fuhrmann, 1904) (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) from a critically endangered New Zealand bird: New evidence from ancient coprolites
- Hornwort (Anthocerotopsida) spores in Late Quaternary wetland sediments and dryland soils, Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
- Historical analyses of coastal marine sediments reveal land-based impacts on the benthos
- Historic and contemporary anthropogenic effects on granulometry and species composition detected from sediment cores and death assemblages, Nelson Bays, Aotearoa-New Zealand
- Recovering plant microfossils from archaeological and other paleoenvironmental deposits: A practical guide developed from Pacific Region experience
- Environmental history of an early Spanish settlement in the Parian District of Cebu City
- Reciting the layers: Evidence for past tsunamis at Mataora - Wairau Lagoon, Aotearoa - New Zealand
- A plant microfossil record of late Quaternary environments and human activity from Rano Aroi and surroundings, Easter Island
- Disturbance relicts in a rapidly changing world: The Rapa Nui (Easter Island) factor
- Pollen core assemblages as indicators of Polynesian and European impact on the vegetation cover of Auckland Isthmus catchment, New Zealand
- Pollen, phytoliths, arthropods and high-resolution 14C sampling from Rano Kau, Easter Island: Evidence for late Quaternary environments, ant (Formicidae) distributions and human activity
- L'evolution botanique de l'Ile de Paques
- Fossil plant remains at Rano Raraku, Easter Island’s statue quarry: Evidence for past elevated lake level and ancient Polynesian agriculture
- Microfossils of Polynesian cultigens in lake sediment cores from Rano Kau, Easter Island
- New pollen, sedimentary, and radiocarbon records from the Marquesas Islands, East Polynesia: Implications for archaeological and palaeoclimate studies
- The Mk II sampler: A device to collect sediment cores for analysis of uncontaminated DNA
- Palaeotsunamis in the Pacific
- Stratigraphic and plant microfossil investigation at Cook’s Cove, North Island, New Zealand: reinterpretation of Holocene deposits and evidence of Polynesian introduced crops
- Predecessors to New Zealand’s largest historic trans-South Pacific tsunami of 1868AD
- Multi-proxy records of regionally-sourced tsunamis, New Zealand
- Geomorphology and accommodation space as limiting factors on tsunami deposition: Chatham Island, southwest Pacific Ocean
- Localised human impacts on the Harataonga coastal landscape, Great Barrier Island, northern New Zealand
- Discontinuous late Pleistocene-Holocene pollen records from Auckland Domain, northern New Zealand
- Preservation of a Late Glacial terrestrial and Holocene estuarine record on the margins of Kaipara Harbour, Northland, New Zealand
- Plant microfossil analysis of coprolites of the critically endangered kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) parrot from New Zealand
- Field survey, sedimentology and plant microfossil analysis of sediment cores from possible cultivation sites at Tolaga Bay, eastern North Island, New Zealand
- Foraminiferal record of ecological impact of deforestation and oyster farms, Mahurangi Harbour, New Zealand
- A Late Quaternary record of natural change and human impact from Rangihoua Bay, Bay of Islands, northern New Zealand
- A discontinuous Late Cenozoic vegetation record from a maar in Auckland, New Zealand
- A Holocene record of gradual, catastrophic and human-influenced sedimentation from a backbarrier wetland, northern New Zealand
- Mangrove-habitat in the southern Firth of Thames: Sedimentation processes and coastal-hazards mitigation
- Biological and geochemical record of anthropogenic impacts in recent sediments from Lake Pupuke, Auckland City, New Zealand
- Modern pollen-vegetation relationships along transects on the Whangapoua Estuary, Great Barrier Island, northern New Zealand
- Application of palynology to describe vegetation succession in estuarine wetlands on Great Barrier Island, northern New Zealand
- Effect and timing of increased freshwater runoff into sheltered harbor environments around Auckland City, New Zealand
- Late Quaternary environments, vegetation and agriculture in northern New Zealand
- Sequential impacts of Polynesian and European settlement on vegetation and environmental processes recorded in sediments at Whangapoua Estuary, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand
- Holocene vegetation, environment and tephra recorded from Lake Pupuke, Auckland
- Paleao-environment and human impact in modifying vegetation at Mt St John, Auckland Isthmus, New Zealand
- Foraminiferal record of sewage outfall impacts on the inner Manukau Harbour, Auckland, New Zealand
- Long-term dynamics of the long-lived conifer Libocedrus bidwillii after a volcanic eruption 2000 years ago
- The vegetation sequence at Whangapuoa Estuary, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand
- Foraminiferal record of human impact on intertidal estuarine environments in New Zealand's largest city
- Plant remains in coprolites: diet of a sub-alpine moa (Dinornithiformes) from southern New Zealand
- Stratigraphic palynology in porous soils in humid climates: an example from Pouerua, northern New Zealand
- An assessment of linear discriminant function analysis as a method of interpreting fossil pollen assemblages
- A palynological study of Polynesian and European impacts on vegetation in Coromandel, New Zealand, showing the variability between four records from a single swamp
- A palaeo-environmental record of natural and human change from the Auckland Isthmus, New Zealand, during the Late Holocene
- Spatial variation in pollen and charcoal records in relation to the 665 yr B.P. Kaharoa tephra at Harataonga Bay, Great Barrier Island, northern New Zealand: preliminary results
- A 6000 year palaeoenvironmental record from Harataonga, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand
- Environmental change during the Last Glacial Maximum (c. 25,000-c. 16,500 years B.P.) at Mt Richmond, Auckland Isthmus, New Zealand
- High spatial resolution of pollen and charcoal in relation to the c. 600 yr B.P. Kaharoa Tephra: implications for Polynesian settlement of Great Barrier Island, northern New Zealand
- A Holocene pollen and sediment record of Whangape Harbour, Far Northern New Zealand
- A reconstruction of the history of a Holocene sand dune on Great Barrier Island, northern New Zealand, using pollen and phytolith analyses
- Evidence for tree-line fluctuation from Late Glacial-Holocene pollen diagrams from the subalpine zone of Mt Hauhungatahi, Tongariro National Park, New Zealand
- A Late Quaternary palynological and sedimentological record from two coastal swamps at southern Kaitoke, Great Barrier Island
- Palynology, sedimentology and environmental significance of Holocene swamps at northern Kaitoke, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand
- Geomorphic and sedimentary evidence of human impact on the New Zealand coastal landscape
- The palynology and sedimentology of a coastal swamp at Awana, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, from ca 7000 yr B.P. to present
- Environmental degradation of an estuary and management options: Whangape Harbour, West Coast, Northern New Zealand
- Siltation in Whangape Harbour and its consequences for local iwi
- Fine resolution palynology of Erua Swamp, central North Island, New Zealand, since the Taupo Tephra eruption of c. 1718 BP
- Fine resolution palynology of Gibson’s Swamp, central North Island, New Zealand, since c. 13,000 BP
- The effects of the Taupo Tephra eruption of c. 1718 BP on the vegetation of Mt Hauhungatahi, central North Island, New Zealand
- Structure and composition of the subalpine forest on Mt Hauhungatahi, North Island, New Zealand
- Modern pollen spectra and vegetation of Mt Hauhungatahi, central North Island, New Zealand
