The sensitivity of pollen as an indicator of elevation inneotropical lowlandandAndean forestswasmeasured usingmodern pollen samples collected frommoss-polsters along a transect between 340 mand 3530 m elevation and from surface sediments in lowland swamps (240 m) of Madre de Dios, Peru. A blind study, using samples collected from the same transect in the following year, provided a test of repro...