%0 Book Section %B Mastodon Paleobiology, Taphonomy, and Paleoenvironment in the Late Pleistocene of New York State: studies on the Hyde Park, Chemung, and North Java Sites %D 2008 %T Contemporary and Prior Environments of the Hyde Park, New York, Mastodon, on the Basis of Associated Plant Macrofossils %A N. G. Miller %E Allmon, W. D. %E Nester, P. L. %K biology paleontology %B Mastodon Paleobiology, Taphonomy, and Paleoenvironment in the Late Pleistocene of New York State: studies on the Hyde Park, Chemung, and North Java Sites %S Palaeontographica Americana %I Paleontological Research Institute %C Ithaca, New York %P 151-181 %G eng %0 Magazine Article %D 2006 %T More on Mastodons and Their Extinction %A N. G. Miller %K biology paleontology %B Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum %V 2 %P 4-5 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Bul. Buffalo Soc. of Natural Sciences %D 2003 %T Extending the Paleobotanical Record at the Hiscock Site, New York: Correlations Among Stratigraphic Pollen Assemblages from Nearby Lake and Wetland Basins %A N. G. Miller %A Futyma, R. P. %K biology paleontology %B Bul. Buffalo Soc. of Natural Sciences %V 37 %P 43-62 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Haussknechtia Beih. %D 1999 %T Pleurocladula albescens in the Late-Pleistocene of Vermont, U.S.A., and on the Rarity of Hepaticae in Glacial Sediments %A N. G. Miller %K biology paleontology %B Haussknechtia Beih. %V 9 %P 251-257 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory %D 1997 %T Fossil Mosses in Holocene Alluvium: A Case study from New York State and Prospects %A N. G. Miller %K biology paleontology %B Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory %V 81 %P 171-180 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory %D 1993 %T New Late-Pleistocene Moss Assemblages from New England, U.S.A., and Their Bearing on the Migrational History of the North American Moss Flora %A N. G. Miller %K biology paleontology %B Journal of the Hattori Botanical Laboratory %V 75 %P 235-248 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Proceedings of the 15th Annual Natural Areas Conference %D 1990 %T The management of rare plants: Suggestions derived from paleoecological studies of late-Pleistocene floras %A N. G. Miller %E R. S. Mitchell %E C. J. Sheviak %E Leopold, D. J. %K biology paleontology %B Proceedings of the 15th Annual Natural Areas Conference %S New York State Museum Bulletin %I The University of the State of New York %C Albany, New York %P 159-162 %G eng %0 Book Section %B Biological Techniques in Paleoecological Interpretation %D 1990 %T Plant macrofossils %A N. G. Miller %E Morgan, A. V. %K biology paleontology %B Biological Techniques in Paleoecological Interpretation %I Quaternary Sciences Institute. University of Waterloo %C Ontario, %P 30-72 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Journal of Bryology %D 1989 %T Late-Pleistocene Anthelia (Hepaticae), an arctic-alpine, snow-bed indicator at a low elevation site in Massachusetts, U.S.A. %A N. G. Miller %K biology paleontology %X

A fossil of Anthelia from late-Pleistocene sediments at Tom Swamp, Massachusetts, consisted of a portion of a plant bearing the characteristic three rows of isomorphic, deeply bifid leaves. The fossil Anthelia indicates the existence of areas of late-lying snow in an essentially treeless, late-Pleistocene landscape. Associated bryophyte (mainly moss) and tracheophyte fossils establish the presence of additional hygric and mesic habitat types.

The occurrence of Anthelia and other leafy liverwort fossils in the basal inorganic sediments at Tom Swamp is unusual. Features of these fossils suggest that the translucent quality of some of the fragments and their small size (1 mm or smaller), which relates to fragmentation during transport, diagenesis and extraction (the breakage resulting from a weak middle lamella between the cells), may be reasons for the rarity of Pleistocene and Holocene fossils of liverworts.

%B Journal of Bryology %V 15 %P 583-588 %G eng %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/jbr.1989.15.3.583 %R 10.1179/jbr.1989.15.3.583 %0 Journal Article %J Rhodora %D 1989 %T Pleistocene and Holocene floras of New England as a framework for interpreting aspects of plant rarity %A N. G. Miller %K biology paleontology %X
The times of arrival from southern sources and the rates and directions of migration are now known for many species of forest trees in New England. This information has made possible the reconstruction of generalized vegetation types for the period 14,000 to 9000 yr. B.P., as has been done recently by R. Davis and G. Jacobson for Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The regional pattern, which has been based mainly on studies of fossil pollen from wind-pollinated trees, includes a diverse and biogeographically interesting flora of bryophytes, herbs, and shrubs that only recently is becoming defined through studies of plant macrofossils. The most thoroughly investigated sites, Tom Swamp (Massachusetts), Columbia Bridge (Vermont), and Upper South Branch Pond (Maine) have produced late-glacial floras with numerous calcicoles, some of which are rare or lacking in the present New England flora. Fossils of arctic-alpine species are also present at these sites, which are all at low elevations. A prominent calcicole element exists in the late-glacial fossil record regardless of whether the extant flora near a site contains such plants. This pattern is evident for both seed plants and bryophytes. For areas with acidic soils, the loss of calcicoles is correlated with the late-Pleistocene arrival of spruce (as documented by increases in macrofossils) at 12,800 yr. B.P. in southern New England, and some 2300 radiocarbon years later in north-central Maine. Leaching, humus or litter accumulation, and other aspects of soil genesis may have been responsible for the loss, but what caused the pattern is poorly understood. As viewed on a continental scale and over thousands of years, the elimination of calcicoles has left fragmented ranges and rare occurrences in eastern North America of boreal or northern plants that otherwise are today widespread to the west.
%B Rhodora %V 91 %P 49-69 %G eng %U http://www.jstor.org/stable/23312461 %0 Journal Article %J American Journal of Botany %D 1989 %T Structurally preserved leaves of Harrimanella hypnoides (Ericaceae): Paleoecology of a new North American late-Pleistocene fossil %A N. G. Miller %K biology paleontology %X
Plant macrofossils from the basal inorganic sediments at Tom Swamp, north central Massachusetts, contained leaves, seeds, and fruits of arctic-alpine species, nearly all of which occur at present near the summits of Mt. Washington and Mt. Katahdin (New England) and in other alpine and arctic areas northward in eastern North America. Included were the needle-leaves of the dwarf shrub, Harrimanella hypnoides (L.) Coville, which matched comparative modern leaf samples in all anatomical details. The macrofossil assemblage was deposited before 12,830 ± 120 radiocarbon years ago and prior to the expansion of spruce populations in the region. Fossils of H. hypnoides suggest that snow beds were a regular feature of the summer landscape of southern New England during late glacial time. Calculations using the average lapse rate indicate that the mean annual paleotemperature in the Tom Swamp area may have been depressed 8-9 C below present means.
%B American Journal of Botany %V 76 %P 1089-1095 %G eng %U http://www.jstor.org/stable/2444531 %0 Journal Article %J Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences %D 1988 %T The late Quaternary Hiscock Site, Genesee County, New York: paleoecological studies based on pollen and plant macrofossils %A N. G. Miller %K biology paleontology %B Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences %V 33 %P 83-93 + foldout %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Bryologist %D 1988 %T Review of: C. Oostendorp, The Bryophytes of the Palaeozoic and the Mesozoic %A N. G. Miller %K biology paleontology %B Bryologist %V 91 %P 69 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Quaternary Research %D 1987 %T Paleohydrological implications of Holocene peatland development in northern Michigan %A N. G. Miller %A Futyma, R. P. %K biology paleontology %X
Sediment, pollen, and plant macrofossil stratigraphies from two small oligotrophic Chamaedaphne-Sphagnum peatlands provide data about local hydrologic changes in northern Michigan during the Holocene. Gleason Bog started about 8000 yr B.P. as a shallow pond that supported rich fen vegetation. After it was partly filled with peat and sand (about 4000 yr B.P.), the vegetation changed to oligotrophic bog. At Gates Bog paludification starting about 3800 yr B.P. caused peat accumulation over sand without an initial pond phase. The onset of peat accumulation at both sites is attributed to a rise in the water table resulting from the onset of cool and moist late Holocene climates. The water table of Gleason Bog is linked to the water level of adjacent Douglas Lake, which may have undergone a simultaneous rise. The results emphasize the individuality of hydrological conditions and hydroseral development in northern Michigan peatlands.
%B Quaternary Research %V 27 %P 297-311 %G eng %U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0033589487900858 %R 10.1016/0033-5894(87)90085-8 %0 Journal Article %J Mem. New York Bot. Garden %D 1987 %T Phytogeography and paleoecology of a late Pleistocene moss assemblage from northern Vermont %A N. G. Miller %K biology paleontology %B Mem. New York Bot. Garden %V 45 %P 242-258 %G eng %0 Book Section %B New Manual of Bryology, Volume 2 %D 1984 %T Tertiary and Quaternary fossils %A N. G. Miller %E Schuster, R. M. %K biology paleontology %B New Manual of Bryology, Volume 2 %I Hattori Botanical Laboratory %P 1194-1237 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J Brittonia %D 1983 %T The Identity of the Pleistocene Mosses Drepanocladus minnesotensis and Neocalliergon integrifolium (Amblystegiaceae) %A N. G. Miller %K biology paleontology %X

The type specimens of Drepanocladus minnesotensis Williams and Neocalliergon integrifolium Williams are shown to be D. aduncus var.kneiffii (B.S.G.) Monk. and Scorpidium scorpioides (Hedw.) Limpr., respectively. These fossils, which were originally obtained from late glacial sediments in Minneapolis, Minnesota, together with other mosses identified from the deposit, indicate that deposition probably took place in a shallow depression filled with calcareous water. Pleistocene mosses from near Bronson, Minnesota, originally namedD. minnesotensis are reidentified as D. aduncus (Hedw.) Warnst. and Calliergon giganteum (Schimp.) Kindb.

%B Brittonia %V 35 %P 87-92 %G eng %U http://link.springer.com/article/10.2307/2806057 %R 10.2307/2806057 %0 Book %B New York State Museum Bulletin %D 1973 %T Late-glacial and Postglacial Vegetation Change in Southwestern New York State %A N. G. Miller %K biology paleontology %B New York State Museum Bulletin %I The University of the State of New York %C Albany, New York %G eng %U http://purl.nysed.gov/nysl/883477