International A Level Biology / Environment and climate change

Evidence for climate change: pollen in peat bogs and dendrochronology revision notes

Edexcel International A Level Biology (YBI11), chapter 16: Environment and climate change, specification point 5.16. Part of the full course.

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Pollen preserved in peat and tree rings provide evidence about past climates, from before reliable thermometer records. They differ in how precisely they can be dated and what they reveal about growing conditions.

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