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| Pollen Record from Coastal Swamp of Batulicin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia |
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| Fig. 2 Pollen diagram | ||||||||||||||||
| Fig. 1 Location of the study site | ||||||||||||||||
| A pollen analysis of coastal peat swamp represented 9.1 kyrs BP from Batulicin, South Kalimantan shows that mangrove forest has been established since early Holocene with the main element Rhizophora.However the vegetation mainly mangrove forest has changed several times responding to Holocene environmental changes. The highest value of Rhizophora ca. 8.2 kyr BP indicates early Holocene sea-level drop and implies sea-level at ca. 9 m.Subsequently mangrove forest severely disrupted at 6.4 kyr BP due to rapid sea-level rise prior the Holocene maximum.However it quickly reverted and getting flourished following lower rate sea level rise or subsequent sea level drop from ca. 6.0 kyr BP and persisted to ca. 1.0 kyr BP. From 6.0 kyr BP the environmental setting around the site may have gradually shifted landward from the mangrove forest to peat swamp forest due to higher precipitation and intensive progradation. Human influence is recognized from ca. 1.6 kyr BP. | ||||||||||||||||
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