Reconstruction of vegetation and climate in high resolution at Holoceno on Marajo island, with biologic and isotopic indicators uses.

• Grant number: 08/07338-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Effective date (Start): March 01, 2009
• Effective date (End): February 28, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Geology
• Principal Investigator: Luiz Carlos Ruiz Pessenda
• Grantee: Mariah Izar Francisquini Correia
• Host Institution: Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research is inserted in the project "Reconstruction of the vegetation and climate since the middle Holocene in Brazil", approved by FAPESP (07/03615-5). Researches involving pollen analyses in the Quaternary, are based on relationship between the preserved pollen in samples of sediment with the original vegetation, allowing the paleovegetation reconstruction and paleoclimate inferences. This project intend to study the dynamic of the expansion and regression of the forest, savanna and mangrove ecotone, in high resolution along the Holocene, using interdisciplinary analyses involving bioindicators, C and N isotopes (´13C,14C, ´15N) and charcoal micro particles determination. Eventual anthropogenic effects at the study sites will also be searched, using the same indicators.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

CORREIA, Mariah Izar Francisquini. Reconstruction of vegetation and climate in high resolution at Holocene on Marajo Island, with biologic and isotopic indicators uses. 2011. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA/STB) Piracicaba.