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A simple and effective methodology for sampling modern pollen rain in tropical environments

William D. Gosling

Department of Geography, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK wdg2{at}le.ac.uk

Francis E. Mayle

Department of Geography, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK

Timothy J. Killeen

Centre for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International, 2501 M Street, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20037, USA; Museo de Historia Natural ‘Noel Kempff Mercado’, Avenida Irala 565, Casilla 2489, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Marcelo Siles

Lupita Sanchez

Museo de Historia Natural ‘Noel Kempff Mercado’, Avenida Irala 565, Casilla 2489, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Steve Boreham

Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK

To gain a better insight into the nature of palaeovegetation change in tropical ecosystems, more information needs to be gleaned from the limited number of fossil pollen records that exist. To achieve this, a detailed understanding of modern tropical ecosystems and the pollen they produce is required. To facilitate this, a practicable and effective mechanism for sampling modern pollen rain from the tropics is required. This paper presents a modified field methodology based upon three years of trapping experience in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia, and improved laboratory preparation methodologies. We demonstrate here a simple and very effective way to sample modern pollen rain in tropical environments using a funnel trap mounted on a stake containing cotton fibre as the trapping medium.

Key Words: Pollen analysis • pollen rain • pollen trap • tropics • modern analogue • Bolivia

The Holocene, Vol. 13, No. 4, 613-618 (2003)
DOI: 10.1191/0959683603hl649rr
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