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... SENSITIVITY OF POLLEN DATA TO VEGETATION PATTERNS Pollen data are sensitive to a wide spectrum of spatial and temporal variations in the vegetation (Figure 13.11. These can vary from local succession (Janssen, 1967; Bradshaw, 1988; Edwards, 1986)
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... POLLEN RECORDS OF LATE QUATERNARY VEGETATION CHANGE FIGURE 13.2 Zoom-lens view of the vegetation from local to global showing the different levels of subdivision of the vegetation at each mapping scale (from Kutzbach and Webb, 1991~. 100 m \ 15km/ , PralrI.
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