A fossil pollen dataset of China

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A fossil pollen dataset of China

ZHOU Bo-Rui¹, LIAO Meng-Na¹^,², LI Kai¹^,², XU De-Yu¹, CHEN Hai-Yan¹, NI Jian¹^,²^,^*(), CAO Xian-Yong³, KONG Zhao-Chen⁴, XU Qing-Hai⁵, ZHANG Yun⁴, Ulrike HERZSCHUH⁶, CAI Yong-Li⁷, CHEN Bi-Shan⁸, CHEN Jing-An⁹, CHEN Ling-Kang¹⁰, CHENG Bo¹¹, GAO Yang¹², $\boxed{\hbox{HUANG Ci-Xuan}}$ ¹³, HUANG Xiao-Zhong¹⁴, LI Sheng-Feng¹⁵, LI Wen-Yi¹³, LIU Kam-Biu¹⁶, LIU Guang-Xiu¹⁷, LIU Ping-Mei¹⁸, LIU Xing-Qi¹⁹, MA Chun-Mei¹⁵, SONG Chang-Qing²⁰, SUN Xiang-Jun²¹, TANG Ling-Yu²², WANG Man-Hua²³, WANG Yong-Bo¹⁹, $\boxed{\hbox{XIA Yu-Mei}}$ ²⁴, XU Jia-Sheng²⁵, YAN Shun²⁶, YANG Xiang-Dong²⁷, YAO Yi-Feng²⁸, YE Chuan-Yong²⁹, ZHANG Zhi-Yong³⁰, ZHAO Zeng-You³¹, ZHENG Zhuo³², ZHU Cheng¹⁵

¹College of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang 321004, China
²Jinhua Mountain Observation and Research Station for Subtropical Forest Ecosystems, Jinhua, Zhejiang 321004, China
³State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System Science, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
⁴State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
⁵College of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050027, China
⁶Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam 14473, Germany
⁷School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
⁸School of Geographical Sciences, Lingnan Normal University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong 524048, China
⁹State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550081, China
¹⁰College of Sciences, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming, Guangdong 525000, China
¹¹College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
¹²School of Karst Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, China
¹³Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
¹⁴College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
¹⁵School of Geography and Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
¹⁶Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
¹⁷Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
¹⁸Department of Geosciences, Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, China
¹⁹College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
²⁰State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
²¹School of Ocean and Earth Science, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China
²²Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
²³School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai, Shandong 264025, China
²⁴Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, China
²⁵The First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resource, Qingdao, Shandong 266061, China
²⁶Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ürümqi 830011, China
²⁷Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
²⁸State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
²⁹Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China
³⁰Lushan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiujiang, Jiangxi 332900, China
³¹School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
³²School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

Received:2022-07-26 Accepted:2022-10-31 Online:2023-10-20 Published:2023-11-23
Contact: * (nijian@zjnu.edu.cn)
Supported by:
Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA19050103);Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA2009000003);Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB31030104);National Natural Science Foundation of China(41971121)

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Abstract

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Fossil pollen and spore records provide highly creditable proxy data to investigate the past environmental changes such as palaeovegetation and palaeoclimate. Pollen database promotes past environmental studies from local to regional and global scales and from qualitative to quantitative reconstructions. This is of great significance on exploring the interactions among past vegetation, climates and anthropogenic disturbances at large spatial scale and long temporal scale, to better understand the evolution of the earth system. In this paper, a fossil pollen dataset of China is compiled, by synthesizing 372 original or digitized fossil pollen records including 790 pollen taxa in China’s land and ocean during the late-Quaternary (since 50 ka BP). The dataset includes site names, latitude, longitude and altitude, pollen data source, sample type, sediment length or span, sample number of each site, dating method and dating number, age span and reference, as well as the fossil pollen percentage of each sampling site. The pollen data, mostly published from late 1980s to present, are concentrated in vegetation regions of temperate and subtropical forests, temperate grasslands, temperate deserts and alpine vegetation on the Qingzang Plateau. Sample sites are distributed at different altitudes from deep sea to high Qingzang Plateau, but the majority of the sites are located between 0-2 000 m. The dataset comprises of 178 raw pollen records (47.8%) and 194 digitized pollen records (52.2%). Pollen samples are mainly from lake sediment (151 sites), alluvial/fluvial sediment (99 sites), and peat (67 sites), accounting for 85.2% of the total sampling sites. Radiocarbon is the main dating method that accounts for 93.8% of total samples, and most of the sites have 2-10 radiocarbon dating data. Each site has an average number of pollen taxa of 19, with the most sites having 4-30 pollen taxa. The temporal and spatial distribution of representative pollen taxa (Pinus, Quercus, Artemisia and Poaceae) reveals increasing trends both in their distributional range and pollen concentration from the last glacial maximum to Holocene, but such trends have various regional patterns in different parts of China. This fossil pollen dataset is a fruitful work of collection of pollen records in most territory of China that conducted by palynologists from China and overseas during the last half century. It consolidates the valuable and fundamental data that can be potentially utilized to explore the evolution of past environments and their driving mechanism of climate change and human disturbance.

Key words: pollen database, fossil pollen, late-Quaternary, palaeovegetation, palaeoclimate

ZHOU Bo-Rui, LIAO Meng-Na, LI Kai, XU De-Yu, CHEN Hai-Yan, NI Jian, CAO Xian-Yong, KONG Zhao-Chen, XU Qing-Hai, ZHANG Yun, Ulrike HERZSCHUH, CAI Yong-Li, CHEN Bi-Shan, CHEN Jing-An, CHEN Ling-Kang, CHENG Bo, GAO Yang, $\boxed{\hbox{HUANG Ci-Xuan}}$ , HUANG Xiao-Zhong, LI Sheng-Feng, LI Wen-Yi, LIU Kam-Biu, LIU Guang-Xiu, LIU Ping-Mei, LIU Xing-Qi, MA Chun-Mei, SONG Chang-Qing, SUN Xiang-Jun, TANG Ling-Yu, WANG Man-Hua, WANG Yong-Bo, $\boxed{\hbox{XIA Yu-Mei}}$ , XU Jia-Sheng, YAN Shun, YANG Xiang-Dong, YAO Yi-Feng, YE Chuan-Yong, ZHANG Zhi-Yong, ZHAO Zeng-You, ZHENG Zhuo, ZHU Cheng. A fossil pollen dataset of China[J]. Chin J Plant Ecol, 2023, 47(10): 1453-1463.

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Table 1 Revision of scientific name of some pollen taxa

原始类群名 Original taxa name	统一后类群名 Unified taxa name
番桫椤属 Cyathea	桫椤属 Alsophila
伞形科 Umbelliferae	伞形科 Apiaceae
棕榈科 Palmae	棕榈科 Arecaceae
菊科 Compositae	菊科 Asteraceae
舌状花亚科 Cichorioideae	菊科 Asteraceae
管状花亚科 Tubuliflorae	菊科 Asteraceae
十字花科 Cruciferae	十字花科 Brassicaceae
白花菜科 Capparidaceae	山柑科 Capparaceae
藤黄科 Guttiferae	藤黄科 Clusiaceae
蝶形花亚科 Leguminosae	豆科 Fabaceae
蝶形花科 Papilionaceae	豆科 Fabaceae
苏木科 Caesalpiniaceae	豆科 Fabaceae
含羞草科 Mimosaceae	豆科 Fabaceae
小二仙草科 Haloragaceae	小二仙草科 Haloragidaceae
驼绒藜属 Ceratoides	驼绒藜属 Krascheninnikovia
唇形科 Labiatae	唇形科 Lamiaceae
柳叶菜科 Oenotheraceae	柳叶菜科 Onagraceae
禾本科 Gramineae	禾本科 Poaceae

Fig. 1 Sampling sites of late-Quaternary fossil pollen in China. A, Sample site distribution, the background is the vegetation regionalization of China (Editorial Committee of Vegetation Map of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2007). I, cold-temperate coniferous forests; II, temperate mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests; III, warm-temperate broad-leaved deciduous forests; IV, subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests; V, tropical monsoon rainforests and rainforests; VI, temperate grasslands; VII, temperate deserts; VIII, alpine vegetation on the Qingzang Plateau. B, Data sources. C, Sample types. 1, alluvial/fluvial; 2, archaeological site; 3, ice; 4, lake; 5, loess/palaeosol; 6, marine; 7, peat. D, Number of radiocarbon dating. E, Number of pollen taxa in a sampling site. F, Age span of sampling sites.

Fig. 2 Altitude (A) and published years (B) of late-Quaternary fossil pollen sites in China.

Fig. 3 Temporal-spatial distributions of pollen percentage of representative pollen taxa Pinus.

Fig. 4 Temporal-spatial distributions of pollen percentage of representative pollen taxa Artemisia.

Fig. 5 Temporal-spatial distributions of pollen percentage of representative pollen taxa Poaceae.

Fig. 6 Temporal-spatial distributions of pollen percentage of representative pollen taxa Quercus type. I, evergreen Quercus type; II, deciduous Quercus type; III, undefined Quercus type.

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