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Recent Successional Processes Investigated by Pollen Analysis of Closed-Canopy Forest Sites

• HF-ID: HF1987-06
• Category: Research Files
• Creator: Bradshaw, R.H.W., Miller, N.G.
• Date: 1987-1989
• Location: Prospect Hill Tract (Harvard Forest), PH II, Tom Swamp Tract (Harvard Forest), TS VI
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Maps/Correspondence/Manuscripts (2 copies)/Reprint. 1 File Folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches / 7.5 inches x 10 1/4 inches (reprint).

• Keywords: disturbance, paleoecology, succession
• Abstract:
  • A fossil of Anthelia from late-Pleistocene sediments at Tom Swamp, Massachusetts, consisted of a portion of a plant bearing the characteristic three rows of isomorphic, deeply bifid leaves. The fossil Anthelia indicates the existence of areas of late-lying snow in an essentially treeless, late-Pleistocene landscape. Associated bryophyte (mainly moss) and tracheophyte fossils establish the presence of additional hygric and mesic habitat types.

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