c078bf0c-f486-47ed-e054-002128a47908 English dataset British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-04-08 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607737 WGS 84 (EPSG::4326) Palaeoecological proxies - FORSENS project (NERC grant NE/J018562/1) 2021-04-15 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607737 This dataset is the output of a NERC fellowship aimed to understand the long-term dynamics of tropical vegetation through palaeoecological analysis. For doing this, two sedimentary archives (Laguna Pindo and Laguna Baños) from Ecuador were radiocarbon dated and analysed for pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs, charcoal, chironomids, stable isotopes and XRF of tephra deposits. Each proxy was analysed at different resolution. Laguna Pindo is a mid-elevation lake (1250 m asl) that spans the last 50,000 years. Laguna Baños is an Andean lake located at 3800 m asl and contains sediments representative of the last 6500 years. Both water bodies are very shallow. The data is presented mainly in excel spreadsheets as raw data (except for radiocarbon dating data, which are the PDF files provided by NRCF and are available in the NGDC), without any math treatment or conversion (unless specified). NERC fellowship is NE/J 018562/1. Encarni Montoya University of Liverpool Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Roxby building Liverpool L69 7ZT not available originator Encarni Montoya University of Liverpool Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Roxby building Liverpool L69 7ZT not available principalInvestigator Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available pointOfContact notApplicable https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/c078bf0c-f486-47ed-e054-002128a47908.png Geology GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Charcoal Stable isotopes Palaeoecology Pollen analysis Quaternary Volcanic ejecta Lacustrine sediments X ray fluorescence spectroscopy Insecta BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 revision NGDC Deposited Data dataCentre NERC_DDC otherRestrictions licenceOGL Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" otherRestrictions The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. 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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]" textTable English geoscientificInformation ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision EC ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision ECU British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation ECUADOR [id=863000] -78.1500 -78.0800 -1.4500 -0.3200 2012-10-12 2015-10-09 Microsoft Excel witheld Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item164605 WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Data download https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1263-2016 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Published Paper download https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-017-0001-0 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Published Paper download https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.00196 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Published Paper download https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item73130 WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Data download dataset dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 publication See the referenced specification false Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false Sedimentary sequences were collected using a Livingstone corer. Lab treatment for all the proxies were performed following standard protocols (for detailed information, please consult the papers published). Biological proxies analysis was undertook using light microscope (pollen and chironomids identification, charcoal counts) and low power stereoscope (chironomids picking)