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Late Pleistocene and Holocene Vegetation, Climate Dynamics, and Amazonian Taxa in the Atlantic Forest, Linhares, SE Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

Antonio Alvaro Buso Junior ,
Luiz Carlos Ruiz Pessenda ,
Paulo Eduardo de Oliveira ,
Paulo César Fonseca Giannini ,
Marcelo Cancela Lisboa Cohen ,
Cecília Volkmer-Ribeiro ,
Sonia Maria Barros de Oliveira ,
Dilce De Fátima Rossetti ,
Flávio Lima Lorente  and
Marcos Antonio Borotti Filho
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Antonio Alvaro Buso Junior*
Affiliation:
Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP), Brazil
Luiz Carlos Ruiz Pessenda
Affiliation:
Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP), Brazil
Paulo Eduardo de Oliveira
Affiliation:
São Francisco University, Brazil
Paulo César Fonseca Giannini
Affiliation:
Instituto de Geociências da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Marcelo Cancela Lisboa Cohen
Affiliation:
Federal University of Pará, Brazil
Cecília Volkmer-Ribeiro
Affiliation:
Fundação Zoobotânica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Sonia Maria Barros de Oliveira
Affiliation:
Instituto de Geociências da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Dilce De Fátima Rossetti
Affiliation:
National Institute of Space Research, Brazil
Flávio Lima Lorente
Affiliation:
Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP), Brazil
Marcos Antonio Borotti Filho
Affiliation:
Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP), Brazil
Jolimar Antonio Schiavo
Affiliation:
Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
José Albertino Bendassolli
Affiliation:
Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA/USP), Brazil
Marlon Carlos França
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geologia e Geoquímica, Instituto de Geociências, Univ. Federal do Pará (UFPA), Brazil
José Tasso Felix Guimarães
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Geologia e Geoquímica, Instituto de Geociências, Univ. Federal do Pará (UFPA), Brazil
Geovane Souza Siqueira
Affiliation:
Vale Nature Reserve; Brazil
*
2Corresponding author. Email: alvaro.buso.jr@gmail.com.
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Abstract

Analysis of biological proxies in lake sediment and geochemical analysis of soil profiles reveal natural vegetation dynamics, with climate inferences, since the late Pleistocene in a fragment of the pristine lowland Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil. Carbon isotopes from soil organic matter and 14C ages from the humin fraction indicate the dominance of C3 plants since ∼17,000 cal BP. Palynological analysis of a sediment core indicates the presence of Atlantic Forest vegetation since 7700 cal BP. Changes in the relative abundance of tree ferns and palms suggest the predominance of a humid period from ∼7000–4000 cal BP and establishment of the modern seasonal climate at ∼4000 cal BP. Data indicate maintenance of the regional forest coverage since the late Pleistocene, corroborating previous suggestions that this region was a forest refuge during less humid periods of the late Pleistocene and Holocene. Some plant taxa with currently divided distributions between Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest colonized the region since at least 7500 cal BP, indicating an earlier connection between Amazonia and Atlantic Forest.

Type
Paleoclimatology and Paleohydrology
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 55 , Issue 3: Proceedings of the 21st International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 2 of 2) , 2013 , pp. 1747 - 1762
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Copyright © 2013 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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