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Palaeoecological proxies - FORSENS project (NERC grant NE/J018562/1)

This dataset is the output of a NERC fellowship aimed to understand the long-term dynamics of tropical vegetation through palaeoecological analysis. For doing this, two sedimentary archives (Laguna Pindo and Laguna Baños) from Ecuador were radiocarbon dated and analysed for pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs, charcoal, chironomids, stable isotopes and XRF of tephra deposits. Each proxy was analysed at different resolution. Laguna Pindo is a mid-elevation lake (1250 m asl) that spans the last 50,000 years. Laguna Baños is an Andean lake located at 3800 m asl and contains sediments representative of the last 6500 years. Both water bodies are very shallow. The data is presented mainly in excel spreadsheets as raw data (except for radiocarbon dating data, which are the PDF files provided by NRCF and are available in the NGDC), without any math treatment or conversion (unless specified). NERC fellowship is NE/J 018562/1.

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English (en)
Dataset Reference Date ()
2021-04-15
Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607737

 

University of Liverpool

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Encarni Montoya


Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Roxby building

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Liverpool

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L69 7ZT

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University of Liverpool

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Encarni Montoya


Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Roxby building

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Liverpool

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L69 7ZT

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British Geological Survey

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Charcoal

  • Stable isotopes

  • Palaeoecology

  • Volcanic ejecta

  • Quaternary

  • Pollen analysis

  • X ray fluorescence spectroscopy

  • Lacustrine sediments

  • Insecta

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  • NERC_DDC

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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

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Dataset Reference Date ()
2009

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2009

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1979

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2012-10-12
End date
2015-10-09
 

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Dataset Reference Date ()
2011
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Dataset Reference Date ()
2010-12-08
Explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

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Sedimentary sequences were collected using a Livingstone corer. Lab treatment for all the proxies were performed following standard protocols (for detailed information, please consult the papers published). Biological proxies analysis was undertook using light microscope (pollen and chironomids identification, charcoal counts) and low power stereoscope (chironomids picking)

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Metadata Language
English (en)
Resource type
dataset
Metadata Date
2023-03-21
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

 

British Geological Survey


Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth

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NOTTINGHAM

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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

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NG12 5GG

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United Kingdom

+44 115 936 3100
 
 

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