Silent Valley: A correlation between pollen spectra and vegetation

Abstract

The paper embodies the results of pollen analysis of modern samples in order to work out modern vegetation and pollen relationship. The study has revealed that the pollen/spores assemblage of the modern samples is almost uniform and coheres with the modern vegetation to the tune of 60 per cent. However, the aboreal pollen taxa are either absent or lowly present. The paucity of arboreals is often accounted due to entomophilous mode of pollination in most of the plants. Nevertheless, the predominance of saprophytic fungi present in the samples may have destroyed the pollen/spores.