中国更新世环境巨变的孢粉植物群记录

通过对已有３８个剖面的孢粉时间序列分析,探讨了１．６ＭａＢＰ－０．８ＭａＢＰ的植被与环境巨变,划分出两个孢粉带及两个孢粉气候事件,提出该时段是更新世环境最恶劣的时期该时期植被稀疏,北方一般以森林草原和草原为主,西北地区出现荒漠或荒漠草原,南方以森林及灌丛草原为主,表明当时气候冷干,降温幅度可达１５－１７℃,降水量减少３００－５００ｍｍ。     

安徽升金湖自然保护区湿地草本种子植物区系研究

对安徽升金湖湿地自然保护区的湿地草本植物区系进行了初步分析,研究表明,该区共有湿地草本种子植物59科173属275种,以禾本科（Gramineae）、菊科（Compositae）、莎草科（Cyperaceae）等为优势科,而以菱科（Trapaeeae）、三白草科（Saururaceae）、茨藻科（Najadaceae）等为该植物区系的表征科;以蓼属（Polygonum）、苔草属（Carex）、蒿属（Artemisia）等为优势属,但属的组成较为分散,寡种属和单种属占总属数的97．69％,表明该区植物成分较为复杂,物种多样性指数较高。从分布区类型看,科以热带成分占明显优势（30．52％）;属泛热带分布属最多（21．39％）,北温带分布成分次之（13．87％）,总体上温带成分（38．73％）略多于热带性成分（34．10％）。表明该植物区系地理成分复杂,过渡性明显,分布区类型多样,具有热带、亚热带与暖温带的多重性质,但以亚热带性质为主。     

A Holocene record of Neotropical savanna dynamics from El Salvador

The historical ecology of the Ahuachapan savanna is reconstructed from a 4.83-m sediment core from Laguna Llano del Espino, Ahuachapan, western El Salvador. Stable carbon isotopes (¹³C), pollen, and charred grass cuticles indicate Holocene grassland dominance from at least ca. 3300 cal yr B.P. to the present. The role of people in the creation and maintenance of Central American savannas is considered in light of the paleoecological record. The data suggest that pre-Columbian inhabitants of western El Salvador suppressed shrub and tree encroachment via frequent burning from ca. 2500 to 500 cal yr. B.P. A substantial increase in woody taxa (Mimosoideae, Urticales) and a decrease in biomass burning are evident in the pollen and charcoal records beginning around the time of the first European contact (ca 500 cal yr B.P.). Evidence for frequent burning and grassland dominance before the arrival of the Europeans, followed by shrub and tree encroachment amid a near absence of fire after contact, suggests that the openness of the Ahuachapan savanna was maintained by the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Rio Paz Valley throughout the late Holocene.     

Late Cretaceous Kholokhovchan Flora of Northeastern Asia: Composition,age and fossil plant descriptions

The Kholokhovchan Flora comes from tuffaceous – terrigenous deposits of the Vetvinskaya Member (Chalbugchan Group) in the Penzhina and Oklan rivers interfluve, Northeastern Russia. The depositional environment of the plant-bearing deposits is interpreted to have been a freshwater lake. The Kholokhovchan Flora hosts 42 fossil plant species belonging to Marchantiopsida, Polypodiopsida, Ginkgoales, Leptostrobales, Bennettitales, Pinales and Magnoliopsida. It is characterised by diverse angiosperms, less diverse conifers and ferns, by the presence of relatively ancient Sphenobaiera, Phoenicopsis and Pterophyllum together with advanced Late Cretaceous Taxodium, Glyptostrobus and angiosperms, among which platanoids are quite diverse. The Kholokhovchan Flora is most similar to Penzhina and Kaivayam floras of the Anadyr-Koryak Subregion and Arman Flora of the Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanogenic belt (Northeastern Russia) and should be dated as Turonian–Coniacian. The Kholokhovchan Flora, that populated volcanic plateaus and intermontane valleys, are characterised by a mixture of ancient “Mesophytic” plants with typical Late Cretaceous “Cenophytic” taxa. This peculiar composition probably reflects a gradual penetration of new angiosperm-dominated plant assemblages into older floras: during the Late Cretaceous, “Cenophytic” assemblages migrated along river valleys and other disturbed habitats into the interior of Asia, eventually occupying volcanogenic uplands, and in places replacing the “Mesophytic” fern-gymnospermous communities that existed there. Two new angiosperm species, as well as four the most characteristic conifers of the Kholokhovchan Flora, are described: Cupressaceae gen. et sp. indet. cf. Widdringtonites sp., Taxodium cf. olrikii, Taxodium sp., Glyptostrobus sp., Ettingshausenia vetviensis sp. nov. and Parvileguminophyllum penzhinense sp. nov.     

Hooked: Habits of the Chinese Permian gigantopterid Gigantonoclea

Based upon anatomical evidence, Permian aged gigantopterid fossils are in general reconstructed as climbing or scrambling plants. Gigantonoclea, a genus of adpressed gigantopterid foliage from the Permian of northern China, has been reported to co-occur with hook-like organs that were interpreted as indicating a scrambling/climbing habit. We reinvestigated these hook-like structures and re-evaluated the nature of the co-occurrences in context with the flora preserved in each plant-bearing fossil ‘bed’ in the North China sedimentary succession. New findings show that the species Gigantonoclea hallei probably climbed using specially adapted clusters of compound grappling hook-like shoots borne on the stems. This structural arrangement comprising shoots of hooks is new to the scrambling/climbing concept in gigantopterids. However, a key figured specimen previously reported as showing intermediate hook-tipped leaf morphology on a sole pinnule tip is discounted as such and is reinterpreted as a ‘normal’ pinnule partially hidden under sediment that results in an unusual appearance to this pinnule tip. Adaptations for climbing or scrambling based upon ‘hooked leaves’ observed in Gigantonoclea lagrelii are no longer supported and are reinterpreted as incompletely expanded leaves where the vernation process was interrupted. These data weaken prior interpretations of G. lagrelii as a climber/scrambler and raise doubts about the ubiquity of hooks amongst the gigantopterids as structures enabling them to climb or scramble their way through the Permian world.     

Early Jurassic Flora and Stratigraphy from Shansonggang of Southern Jilin,China

1IntroductionThe Shansonggang Basin, one of the Mesozoic coal-bearing basins in northeastern China, is located in southern Jilin Province, China and covering about 30 km2(Fig.1). The basin is lying in the northwest-ern margin of the Longgang anticline, just opposite to the Yihe Basin which lies in the southeastern margin of the anticline. During 1940s~1970 s, a lot of work on the survey of coal geology was made in the basin, but there has been a little knowledge about the plant fossils…     

中国南方龙潭植物群的生态及乐平煤之沉积环境

作者经对海南岛红树林生态环境及红树林泥炭沉积环境的考察，综合研究了前人已有植物化石的解剖特征和红树林植物解剖特征后，认为龙潭植物群是以真政和种子蕨、楔叶纲、科达纲为主，生长在潮间带和潮上带，具有热带雨林和季雨林特征的一类特殊的类红树林植物群。指出二叠纪龙潭植物群中含有多种与现代红树林植物解剖特征类似的植物化石，其古生态环境应类似于海南岛现代红树林植物群的生态环境。依据二叠纪龙潭煤系中乐平煤的地球化学特征及煤层中所含的海相动物化石，佐证了乐平煤为泥炭坪红树林沼泽沉积环境，其煤层具有较高的生烃潜力。     

The history of Erica erigena R. Ross,an Irish plant with a disjunct European distribution

Scanning electron microscopy combined with pollen, spore, rhizopod and fungal analyses of two peat profiles at Claggan Mountain, Co. Mayo, sheds new light on the Holocene history of Erica erigena in western Ireland. This heather is referred to the Mediterranean-Atlantic group in the Irish flora, and is remarkable for its disjunct distribution in Europe, where it occurs in Ireland, Bordeaux in France, and in Spain and Portugal. Scanning electron microscopy has proved a powerful tool, allowing the unambiguous identification of ericoid pollens to species level and it is used to identify the first occurrence of Erica erigena pollen in the peat profiles. Radiocarbon dating of the profiles shows that Erica erigena is a relatively recent arrival at Claggan Mountain, appearing for the first time in the historic period at 1431 AD. The details of vegetational changes associated with the expansion of E. erigena have been explored by conventional pollen, spore, rhizopod and fungal analyses. Drying of the peat surface and replacement of bog vegetation by ericaceous heathland during a period of marked agricultural activity in the region was associated with its spread. The relatively recent arrival of E. erigena at Claggan Mountain, suggests that introduction might explain its presence here, and its disjunct distribution in Europe. Documented trade and pilgrimage routes between Ireland and those areas in Europe where the heather occurs may have allowed its recent introduction into Ireland. Further pollen analysis work, using SEM techniques, will be required if an earlier occurrence for the heather in Ireland is to be proved. The combination of techniques described here may prove useful in the study of the history of other plants with pollen that is difficult to identify using conventional light microscopy.     

内蒙古乌达地区早二叠世植物群和古生态研究

研究的植物化石采自内蒙古乌达地区早二叠世地层,共计11属20种,分属于石松纲、楔叶纲、瓢叶目、真蕨纲、种子蕨纲和苏铁纲。研究结果表明,植物群含有许多华夏植物群分子和地方性分子,为典型的华夏植物群。根据植物群分子的总体组成,植物群的时代为早二叠世,相当于阿瑟尔期(Asselian)、萨克马尔期(Sakmarian)、亚丁斯克期(Artinskian)和空谷期(Kungurian)。在研究植物群的基础上,对植物群的古生态进行了研究,建立了早二叠世Lepidodendron posthumii Paratingia datongensis植物群落。这一植物群落在二叠纪主要分布在沼泽和低地环境,以大量出现的蕨类和种子蕨分子为特征。植物群落为原地保存,借助于化石资料,植物的生活型得以重建,包括乔木、树蕨、灌木和草本。植物群落指示早二叠世本区为温暖潮湿的气候条件。     

毛乌素沙地低湿地维管植物区系特征

运用植物学及植物地理学方法,结合野外实地调查,对毛乌素沙地低湿地植物区系组成、地理成分、生活型及水分生态类群特征进行了分析研究。结果表明,低湿地共有维管植物59科182属323种,其中被子植物占总数的99.07%。单种科、寡种科和单种属、寡种属是低湿地植物区系的主体,是植物区系复杂性及物种多样性的主要来源,寡种属优势明显。中型科属和较大科属虽不占主体,但却往往是构成植物群落的建群种或为植物区系的代表成分,对植物区系的构成及植被的分布格局都有很大的影响。植物区系地理成分多样,温带分布型是低湿地植物区系地理成分的主要组成部分,低湿地植物具有典型的温带特征。低湿地草本植物占数量优势,草本植物以多年生为主,多年生草本植物对低湿地环境影响作用较为明显。低湿地植物地理成分及分布特征也说明气候、环境条件,植物种的生态幅度及其对环境的适应能力对植物地理分布具有决定性影响。