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dc.contributor.authorCutler, Nick A.
dc.contributor.authorSheers, Olivia M.
dc.contributor.authorStreeter, Richard T.
dc.contributor.authorDugmore, Andrew J.
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-15T12:30:14Z
dc.date.available2016-11-15T12:30:14Z
dc.date.issued2016-11-15
dc.identifier247542249
dc.identifier6c452cd7-594a-444c-af1d-41c521daa440
dc.identifier84995376400
dc.identifier000387754700001
dc.identifier.citationCutler , N A , Sheers , O M , Streeter , R T & Dugmore , A J 2016 , ' Impact of small-scale vegetation structure on tephra layer preservation ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 6 , 37260 . https://doi.org/10.1038/srep37260en
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-2261-4540/work/64697924
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/9822
dc.descriptionThe research was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation to AJD (award number 1249313).en
dc.description.abstractThe factors that influence tephra layer taphonomy are poorly understood, but vegetation cover is likely to play a role in the preservation of terrestrial tephra deposits. The impact of vegetation on tephra layer preservation is important because: 1) the morphology of tephra layers could record key characteristics of past land surfaces and 2) vegetation-driven variability in tephra thickness could affect attempts to infer eruption and dispersion parameters. We investigated small- (metre-) scale interactions between vegetation and a thin (<10 cm), recent tephra layer. We conducted surveys of vegetation structure and tephra thickness at two locations which received a similar tephra deposit, but had contrasting vegetation cover (moss vs shrub). The tephra layer was thicker and less variable under shrub cover. Vegetation structure and layer thickness were correlated on the moss site but not under shrub cover, where the canopy reduced the influence of understory vegetation on layer morphology. Our results show that vegetation structure can influence tephra layer thickness on both small and medium (site) scales. These findings suggest that some tephra layers may carry a signal of past vegetation cover. They also have implications for the sampling effort required to reliably estimate the parameters of initial deposits.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofScientific Reportsen
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.titleImpact of small-scale vegetation structure on tephra layer preservationen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Bell-Edwards Geographic Data Instituteen
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/srep37260
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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