Rowe, Cassandra, Brand, Michael, Hutley, Lindsay B., Zwart, Costijn, Wurster, Christopher, Levchenko, Vladimir, and Bird, Michael (2019) Understanding Australian tropical savanna: environmental history from a pollen perspective. Northern Territory Naturalist, 29. pp. 2-11.

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Abstract

Understanding the long-term functioning of Australia's tropical savanna is central to the management and conservation of these ecosystems. An environmental history of the Darwin region's mesic savanna is presented from Girraween Lagoon, where pollen and charcoal analysis of a 5 metre sediment core provides a record spanning the previous 12,700 years. Results show the gradual development of permanent water at the site, surrounded by a dynamic landscape where changing climates and local people's use of fire shaped the vegetation from savanna to open-forest.

Item ID:	59106
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	0155-4093
Keywords:	Eucalypt; Poaceae; pollen; fire; Northern Territory; monsoon; Holocene
Funders:	Ausralian Research Council (ARC)
Projects and Grants:	ARC FL140100044, ARC CE170100015, ARC DP130100334
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2020 22:28
FoR Codes:	31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3103 Ecology > 310306 Palaeoecology @ 70% 37 EARTH SCIENCES > 3702 Climate change science > 370201 Climate change processes @ 15% 37 EARTH SCIENCES > 3709 Physical geography and environmental geoscience > 370905 Quaternary environments @ 15%
SEO Codes:	96 ENVIRONMENT > 9603 Climate and Climate Change > 960307 Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Australia (excl. Social Impacts) @ 25% 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9608 Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity > 960805 Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales @ 50% 97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970121 Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology @ 25%
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