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DOI10.1080/00288250809509764
Macrofossil evidence for pre-settlement vegetation of Central Otago’s basin floors and gorges
Wood, Jamie R.1; Walker, Susan2
通讯作者Wood, Jamie R.
来源期刊NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY
ISSN0028-825X
EISSN1175-8643
出版年2008
卷号46期号:2页码:239-255
英文摘要

Composition of pre-settlement vegetation communities in the semi-arid Central Otago lowlands has been one of New Zealand’s long-standing ecological puzzles. Uncertainty is due largely to a paucity of fossil data. Here, we provide new evidence for pre-settlement vegetation in the region based on analyses of plant macrofossils from 15 late Pleistocene and Holocene lowland sites. The assemblages represent two habitat types: wooded or partially wooded intermontane basin-floor wetlands, and low forest and/or shrubland habitats in the Kawarau and Clutha River gorges. In both habitat types, plant communities appear to have been predominantly woody, with significant components of herbaceous dicotyledons but few grasses. Both habitats seem to have undergone major post-settlement vegetation transformation. Several presently common taxa were rare or absent before human settlement, but others (including threatened spring annuals), now rare or extinct in the region, were formerly more common.


英文关键词drylands Central Otago macrofossils Holocene Pleistocene pre-settlement vegetation change
类型Article
语种英语
国家New Zealand
收录类别SCI-E
WOS记录号WOS:000258173500007
WOS关键词SPRING ANNUAL HERBS ; CAL KYR BP ; NEW-ZEALAND ; SOUTH-ISLAND ; HOLOCENE VEGETATION ; WOODY VEGETATION ; UNCOMMON PLANTS ; ECOSYSTEMS ; HISTORY ; PLEISTOCENE
WOS类目Plant Sciences
WOS研究方向Plant Sciences
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/158671
作者单位1.Univ Otago, Dept Geol, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand;
2.Landcare Res, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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Wood, Jamie R.,Walker, Susan. Macrofossil evidence for pre-settlement vegetation of Central Otago’s basin floors and gorges[J],2008,46(2):239-255.
APA Wood, Jamie R.,&Walker, Susan.(2008).Macrofossil evidence for pre-settlement vegetation of Central Otago’s basin floors and gorges.NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY,46(2),239-255.
MLA Wood, Jamie R.,et al."Macrofossil evidence for pre-settlement vegetation of Central Otago’s basin floors and gorges".NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY 46.2(2008):239-255.
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