Influences of sea level changes and volcanic eruptions on Holocene vegetation in Tonga

Accepted/In Press date: 18 April 2023

e-pub ahead of print date: 22 May 2023

Published date: July 2023

Additional Information: Funding Information: This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council PhD studentship [grant number NE/L002531/1] and NERC urgency grant NE/N006674/1. Radiocarbon dates from the Ngofe Marsh study were funded via the rangefinder grant (allocation number 2198.1019) and were processed at the SUERC facility (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre). Many thanks to Dr Katherine Holt from Massey University, New Zealand, for making John Flenley's 1999 report “Final report on the stratigraphy and palynology of swamps on the islands of Ha’afeva and Foa, Ha’apai, Tonga” available. We would like to acknowledge the late Arthur Whistler for his work on the botany and ethnobotany of Tonga and Samoa, much of this work would not have been possible without his contributions to the field. Permission to undertake research on Ngofe Marsh in 2017 was given by the Office of the Prime Minister of Tonga. Funding Information: This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council PhD studentship [grant number NE/L002531/1] and NERC urgency grant NE/N006674/1. Radiocarbon dates from the Ngofe Marsh study were funded via the rangefinder grant (allocation number 2198.1019) and were processed at the SUERC facility (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre). Many thanks to Dr Katherine Holt from Massey University, New Zealand, for making John Flenley's 1999 report “Final report on the stratigraphy and palynology of swamps on the islands of Ha’afeva and Foa, Ha’apai, Tonga” available. We would like to acknowledge the late Arthur Whistler for his work on the botany and ethnobotany of Tonga and Samoa, much of this work would not have been possible without his contributions to the field. Permission to undertake research on Ngofe Marsh in 2017 was given by the Office of the Prime Minister of Tonga. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors. Biotropica published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.

Keywords: Polynesia, Tonga, anthropogenic impacts, human impacts, paleoecology, pollen analysis, sea level, tephra

Local EPrints ID: 477608

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/477608

DOI: doi:10.1111/btp.13231

ISSN: 1744-7429

PURE UUID: ce1e358c-67e2-4ca3-989e-61f737fa6f01

ORCID for Nichola Ann Strandberg: orcid.org/0000-0003-1268-2080

ORCID for Mary Edwards: orcid.org/0000-0002-3490-6682

ORCID for Peter Langdon: orcid.org/0000-0003-2724-2643

Date deposited: 09 Jun 2023 16:49

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