Pollen dataset from Santa Catarina, south Brazil
Description
Pollen references such as atlas and identification keys are remarkably rare from the Atlantic coasts of south Brazil. This dataset describes modern and microfossil pollen from a 100 cm sediment core retrieved from an estuarine mangrove swamp adjacent to the upstream of Palmital River's main channel, near São Francisco do Sul Bay, south Brazil. An illustrated and descriptive atlas of pollen was compiled from published and unpublished data to facilitate the identification of fossil pollen in sediments. We include light micrographs and descriptions of a total of 60 pollen taxa, including 3 mangrove taxa, 27 coastal woodland (restinga) taxa, and 15 rainforest taxa, and 15 herbaceous taxa. This dataset is associated with a published research article by Rodrigues et al. (2022) - Rodrigues, E., Cohen, M.C.L., Pessenda, L.C.R., França, M.C., Magalhães, E. and Yao, Q., 2022. Poleward mangrove expansion in South America coincides with MCA and CWP: A diatom, pollen, and organic geochemistry study. Quaternary Science Reviews, 288, p.107598.