Pollen analysis is a valuable tool in helping to reconstruct past climatic conditions. Such studies can be informative on local as well as regional scales, as findings with fossil spruce pollen in Maine show.
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Moore, P. Climate records spruced up. Nature 417, 133–135 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417133a
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