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THAT the present provides the key to the past is a geological commonplace, and considerable attention has been paid accordingly to the interpretation of pollen diagrams in the light of pollen analyses of recent or surface samples1,2. Formerly such investigations centred mainly on the composition of a fossil pollen spectrum as a reflex of its contemporary tree flora. To-day interest, more particularly in western Europe and especially in Britain, has widened to include not merely the composition of forests in prehistoric and early historic time but also the extent and character of the vegetation which, as the result of human activity or of other causes, has more and more replaced forest. A consideration of the composition of to-day's pollen rain in relation to present land use has therefore become desirable.
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HYDE, H. Atmospheric Pollen in Relation to Land Use. Nature 183, 1694–1695 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831694a0
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