Recent Palynology in Caxiuana, Pará, Brazil - Open Access Library Journal

OALibJ > Vol.3 No.5, May 2016

Recent Palynology in Caxiuana, Pará, Brazil ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1102684 1,025 Downloads 2,042 Views

Author(s)

Ortrud Monika Barth^1*, Léa Maria Medeiros Carreira²

Affiliation(s)

¹Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
²Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Departamento de Botanica, Belém, Brazil.

ABSTRACT

A survey on palynological studies realized in the National Forest of Caxiuana, state of Pará, Brazil, is given. These studies comprise two main issues. Firstly, the morphology of actual pollen grains and spores was described and illustrated. Secondly, pollen grain and spore deposition in a savannah-like area and in “terra-preta-de-índio” (Indian black soil) of the National Forest of Caxiuana were analyzed. Joining this knowledge, local, regional and environmental changes and oscillation could be related to recent vegetational fluctuations and to human/Indian activities realized in the region of Caxiuana.

KEYWORDS

Pollen Morphology, Actuopalynology, Quaternary, Amazon

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Barth, O. and Carreira, L. (2016) Recent Palynology in Caxiuana, Pará, Brazil. Open Access Library Journal, 3, 1-7. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1102684.

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