We will review pollen analysis, vegetation zonation and tree species characteristics from the
Spear paper.
Specifically, we will review Figures:
We will also review Pollen Traits.
You should be familiar with the Younger Dryas. Here are some pages:
We will also go over the Paleoecological Questions handout from the Barnard Labs.
Other subjects that you are responsible for:
3 - vegetation zonation
5 - Mirror Lake pollen digram
6 - Other site diagrams
7 - summary influx digram
- basic ideas of all the papers from Problem Thursdays
- chapters 9 & 10 from your textbook
- salt marshes
- mangroves
- tidal freshwater marshes
- bogs, fens
- Field Trips & Associated Vegetation:
Staten Island
- carbon cycle
sweetgum [Liquidambar
styraciflua];
sweetbay [Magnolia
virginiana];
Green Pond -
review your handout
swamp poplar [Populus
spp.]; pin oak [Quercus
palustris]
- valuation
- palynology & macrofossils - from your handout and notes
- basics of tree-ring analysis - from my lecture
site selection
crossdating
here are some general principles
that may help you.
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