Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera: Lisboa, Portugal
Pollen-based vegetation percentages from IODP Site 353-U1446, Bay of Bengal
Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
The dataset includes percentages of all identified pollen and spore morphotypes, as well as the main ecological groups: tropical forest, wet evergreen forest, tropical deciduous forest and xerophyte plants. Samples of 1–5 g of dry sediment were processed using the standard protocol for marine samples, which includes coarse sieving (150 μm mesh), consecutive treatments with cold HCl and cold HF and micro-sieving (5 μm mesh). Residues were mounted unstained in a mobile media (glycerol) to allow polar and equatorial observations of pollen grains. Counting was performed using a Nikon light microscope at ×500 and ×1000 (oil immersion) magnification.
Complex interplay of forcings drives Indian vegetation and summer monsoon variability during MIS 11
Indian monsoon and vegetation dynamics: lessons from two contrasting glacial-interglacial cycles of the Middle Pleistocene (INDRA)
Understanding the abrupt hidroclimatic variations in the middle latitdudes of North Atlantic (Hydroshifts)
Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation
Light microscope, Nikon, [×500 and ×1000 (oil immersion) magnification]
Bay of Bengal; Indian Summer Monsoon; Interglacial; MIS 11; pollen analysis
This dataset was additionaly funded by the French research program LEFE (INSU-CNRS) through Project MICMAc.