Sentence examples for using the fossil pollen from inspiring English sources

Molecular phylogenetic dating of the ages of the major grass clades, using the fossil pollen to set a minimum age for the diversification of the crown group of grasses, suggests that the BEP and PACCAD clades had themselves diversified by approx. 35 40 mya (but with wide confidence intervals) (Bremer, 2002).

A comparison of the percentage pollen values between traps P3 and P6 and the surface samples of two previously analysed cores shows the usefulness of the pollen trap results in interpreting the vegetation represented by the fossil pollen assemblages: pollen deposition monitored at different elevations is a good key for tracing past altitudinal changes in the treeline from the fossil record.

S.C.B. and J.W.W. provided the fossil pollen databases.

The scientists compared the fossil pollen with pollen of modern-day plants and reconstructed an evolutionary tree for orchids.

(d) Annual precipitation reconstructed by a calibration function applied to the fossil pollen assemblages.

Despite this recent major anthropogenic forcing, the fossil pollen sequence also records natural climate variability.

The fossil pollen record derived from these sediments reveals that forest surrounded this site throughout the Holocene.

But the discovery of the fossil pollen halted this theory and the corn now consumed is believed to be a direct descendant of the prehistoric wild corn.

The fossil pollen record shows that Sonneratia and Bruguiera have existed on Hainan since the Pleistocene [ 37].

The fossil pollen records show that such oscillations in patterns of plant distribution were repeated many times during the Pleistocene Ice Ages [ 56].

The second method uses the fossil record.