Abstract
Fossil pollen potentially represents a record of biodiversity at a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Vegetation diversity comprises species richness and evenness, and both aspects may be reflected in the fossil pollen record. Biases are, however, prominent because of small sample sizes, differential pollen production and dispersal, landscape pollen production, and lack of taxonomic precision. A number of recent empirical and modeling studies have underlined the complexity of the pollen diversity signal and more work is needed.
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