Review of palaeoclimate records from Northeast India based on pollen proxy data of Late Pleistocene-Holocene

This paper deals with the review of pollen based palaeoclimatic records available from the South-west monsoon dominated northeast part of India. Here, a complete overview of available Late Pleistocene-Holocene records of the past vegetation vis-a-vis climate is structured based on a latitudinal subdivision of the region. The broad spectrum of the past climate in terms of humid/dry, warm/cold inferred by variations of some key pollen or group of pollen taxa is depicted diagrammatically, thereby providing a glimpse of spatio-temporal vegetation vis-a-vis climatic changes. Here, we attempt to create a standard diagrammatic scale with more reliability than using relative terminology to infer past climate records, based on pollen data from sub-surface sediments. (C)2013 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.