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Advances in Geosciences 地球科学前沿, 2012, 2, 16-23 /10.12677/ag.2012.21002 Published Online March 2012 (/journal/ag) Timberline Transition and Climatic Variation Recorded by Phytolith Assemblages from the Northern Slope of Changbai * Mountains over the Last 1.4 ka Mei’e Guo, Fan Wu, Yingying Huang, Liukui Wang, Dongmei Jie# College of Urban and Environment Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun Email: {guome449, # jiedongmei}@ Received: Dec. 19th, 2011; revised: Jan. 6th, 2012; accepted: Jan. 28th, 2012 Abstract: As a new substitutive index of environment, by reason that phytoliths can well reflect local vegetation condi- tion, it can be used to rebuild paleovegetation and paleoclimate. In this paper, phytoliths was used to the study of alpine timberline. Phytoliths were analyzed from the peat profile whose depth is 35 cm, located in the highest elevation, in Chichi Lake in northern slope of Changbai Mountains. Paleoenvironment was reconstructed and the change of timber- line location was inferred by comparing phytolith assemblages in different layers of the peat profile. Conclusions were shown as follows: 1) There are more phytoliths produced in herbaceous plants than in woody plants, because herbs are dominant in peatland and they can produce rich phytoliths; 2) Climate fluctuated from warm to mild, followed by the cold weather, after which the climate can be described as cool; 3) There were appearence of three different vegetations around Chichi Lake since 1400 a B.P.. firstly, bright coniferous forest grew in this area, followed by the transition zone of coniferous forest and erman’s birch forest, and finally replaced by the Betula ermanii fores