Late Quaternary grassland (Campos), gallery forest, fire and
climate dynamics, studied by pollen, charcoal and multivariate
analysis of the Sa˜o Francisco de Assis core in western Rio Grande
do Sul (southern Brazil)
Hermann Behlinga,*, Valerio DePatta...
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Late Quaternary grassland (Campos), gallery forest, fire and
climate dynamics, studied by pollen, charcoal and multivariate
analysis of the Sa˜o Francisco de Assis core in western Rio Grande
do Sul (southern Brazil)
Hermann Behlinga,*, Valerio DePatta Pillarb
, Soraia Girardi Bauermannc
a
Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, B.
O.
Box 330440, 28334 Bremen, Germany
b
Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 91540-000 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
c
Laborato´rio de Palinologia, Universidade Luterana do Brazil (ULBRA), Rua Miguel Tostes 101, 90.
420-280 Canoas, RS, Brazil
Received 22 July 2003; accepted 15 October 2004
Abstract
We present a detailed pollen and charcoal record of a 368-cm-long sediment core from the lowland Campos (grassland)
region near the city of Sa˜o Francisco de Assis in the western Rio Grande do Sul State in southern Brazil.
Based on four AMS
radiocarbon dates, the record represents the last about 22,000 cal yr BP.
The region was
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