Modern pollen and its ecological relationships with the tropical deciduous forests of central Uttar Pradesh, India

Pollen deposition pattern in Kathali wetland and its adjoining areas of Garo Hills, Meghalaya, northeast India

“…Similar inferences have been drawn from the studies conducted on modern pollen rain-vegetation relationship in other regions of the tropical belts of the country with deciduous forest having similar and/or varied vegetation composition (Dixit & Bera, 2011;Quamar & Bera, 2014;Tripathi et al, 2015).…”

Palynological response deduced through spatially distinct surface samples to reconstruct palaeoecology and palaeoclimate of the Barak Valley, Assam (Indo-Burma region), northeast India

“…Understanding the interaction between pollen rain and a region's existing vegetation is crucial to the effectiveness of this strategy. Because pollen deposits in every area represent that location's vegetation structure and preservation condition, the study of the modern pollen rain can be helpful in reliably establishing the pollen/ vegetation relationship (Tripathi et al, 2016). This will help in better understanding the same relationship in fossil samples because it is impracticable to directly reconstruct past vegetation/climate correlations.…”

Surface pollen quantification and floristic survey at Shaheed Chandra Shekhar Azad (SCSA) Bird Sanctuary, Central Ganga Plain, India: a pilot study for the palaeoecological implications

“…These extremely fertile alluvial soils range from sandy to clayey loam. The soils in the southern part of the state are generally mixed red and black or red to yellow in colour; however, it is alluvium in and around the study area (Tripathi et al, 2016).…”

“…Although studies on qualitative pollen-vegetation relationship within different vegetation types have also been carried out in India (Bonnefille et al, 1999;Anupama et al, 2000;Bera, 2000;Dixit & Bera, 2011Basumatary et al, 2013;Ranhotra & Bhattacharyya, 2013;Quamar & Bera, 2014;Basumatary et al, 2014Basumatary et al, , 2017Basumatary et al, , 2018Tripathi et al, 2016;Pandey & Holt, 2017;Bajpai & Kar, 2018;Pandey & Minckley, 2019;Srivastava et al, 2019;Quamar & Kar, 2020), but quantitative relationship studies are scanty (Barboni & Bonnefille, 2001;Navya et al, 2017). Further, there are several palynological works on sedimentary soil sequences in northern India (Gupta, 1978;Chauhan et al, 2004;Saxena et al, 2006;Chauhan & Chatterjee, 2008;Chauhan et al, 2009;Ranhotra & Bhattacharyya, 2010;Farooqui & Sekhar, 2011;Trivedi et al, , 2013, but studies on qualitative surface pollen samples are scanty (Sharma et al, 2006;Tripathi et al, 2016). Dixit and Bera (2012) suggested that comparing multiple points of pollen data, along with variations among taxa and sites would help us to understand the vegetation structure more vividly.…”