Vegetation Response to the Hydro-Climatic Changes during the Late Quaternary
A special issue of Quaternary (ISSN 2571-550X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 24 September 2024 | Viewed by 489
Special Issue Editors
Interests: understanding the hydro-climate changes and corresponding vegetation dynamics during the Holocene, based mainly on pollen records, from the central Indian Core Monsoon Zone (CMZ), and also from the Himalaya, India; understanding the climate-culture relationships; non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs, especially the coprophilous fungal spores) study for understanding the dietary habit of the grazing animals during the Holocene, as well as the human impact on the vegetation around the landscape of the respective study areas in central India and also in the Himalaya, India; studies on the pollen morphology of modern plants of tropical deciduous forests (both moist and dry types), based on observations from the LM, CLSM, and FESEM, with respect to their taxonomy and systematics, evolution and phylogeny, as well as and preservation; melissopalynology for understanding the plant pollen (regional vegetation types and environmental conditions too) and nectar source, purity (of honey)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Vegetation is one of the main climatic reservoirs of the Earth; the other four climatic reservoirs being the atmosphere, ocean, land surfaces and cryosphere. The global distribution and composition of vegetation is largely controlled by the climate (precipitation, temperature), soil characteristics and altitude; however, human and natural impacts are also present. Simultaneously, climate change is most evidently reflected in vegetation because the vegetation of any area is an integral and basic composition of the ecosystem, which is sensitive to and governed by the climatic changes. The influence of climate on vegetation is so great that each climatic zone has its own characteristic vegetation type. Therefore, plants are among the best indicators of environmental and climatic changes, both temporally and spatially. Pollen gains and spores are produced by plants, and the widespread transport and mixing of pollen grains by wind or water generally form pollen assemblages, which represent characteristics of the vegetation, climatic conditions or sedimentary environment at a specific time or area.
Understanding climate change and monsoonal variability is a defining issue of our time, and various geological, biological, historical and archaeological proxies provide evidence for ways in which the Earth’s climate has changed (in the past) and may do so in the future. Among the biological proxies, palynology has proved to be one of the most potent tools for the reconstruction of vegetation-based past climatic changes. Therefore, it is crucial to study the response of vegetation (dynamics) to climate change and monsoonal variability during the late Quaternary.
This Special Issue aims to investigate the responses of vegetation to climate change and monsoonal variability with respect to the global climate change scenario during the Holocene across the globe. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The response to the vegetation dynamics to climate change and monsoonal variability during the late Quaternary.
- Extreme climatic conditions and vegetation response.
- Hydroclimatic changes and teleconnections during the late Quaternary.
- The forcing factors of vegetation and climate change during the late Quaternary.
Best regards,
Dr. Mohammad Firoze Quamar
Dr. Upasana S Banerji
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydro-climate and vegetation dynamics
- pleistocene-holocene
- global climatic events
