Distribution and ecology of parent taxa of pollen lodged within the Latin American Pollen Database

摘要: The cornerstone of palaeoecological research, concerned with vegetation dynamics over the recent geological past, is a good understanding present-day ecology and distribution taxa. This particularly necessary in areas high floral diversity such as Latin America. Vegetation reconstructions, based on numerous pollen records, now exist respect to all major associations from With this ever-increasing number sedimentary records becoming available, there need collate information provide concerning taxa concerned. existing American Pollen Database (LAPD) meets first these needs. Information parent responsible for producing pollen, presently lodged within LAPD, focus paper. ‘dictionary’ describes identified records. These descriptions are wide range literature extensive discussions members community working different parts America investigating types.