An assessment is presented of the nature of the plant macrofossil content and general nature of the deposit concerned for a total of 91 samples from ten sites, selected from 292 samples excavated from thirteen sites in Aberdeen in the period from the late 1970s to early 1990s. Some samples consisted of no more than 'spot finds' of wood or charcoal, others of sediment with a variable content of ...

During the last decade Quaternary pollen analysis has developed towards improved pollen-taxonomical precision, automated pollen identification and more rigorous definition of pollen assemblage zones. There have been significant efforts to model the spatial representation of pollen records in lake sediments which is important for more precise interpretation of the pollen records in terms of past...

Motivation Rapid climate change is altering plant communities around the globe fundamentally. Despite progress in understanding how plants respond to these shifts, accumulating evidence suggests that disturbance could not only modify expected responses but, some cases, have larger impacts on compositional shifts than change. Climate-driven disturbances are becoming increasingly common many biom...