The European Pollen Database

Past efforts and current activities

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12200869
AutoresRalph Fyfe (0000-0002-5676-008X, University of Plymouth, autor de correspondencia), Jacques‐louis De Beaulieu (European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation), Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Heather Binney (0000-0002-9847-6183, University of Southampton), Richard Bradshaw (0000-0002-7331-2246, University of Liverpool), Richard H W Bradshaw, Scott Brewer (0000-0002-6810-1911, University of Wyoming), Anne Le Flao (Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées), Walter Finsinger (0000-0002-8297-0574, Utrecht University), Marie‐José Gaillard (0000-0002-2025-410X), Marie-José Gaillard (Cargotec (Poland)), Thomas Giesecke (0000-0002-5132-1061, University of Liverpool), Graciela Gil-Romera (0000-0001-5726-2536, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies), Eric C Grimm (0000-0002-6977-3859, Illinois State Museum), Brian Huntley (0000-0002-3926-2257, Durham University), Nicolas Kühl (0000-0001-9605-8204, Charles University), Petr Kuneš, Norbert Kühl (0000-0003-4531-249X, University of Bonn), Michelle Leydet (0000-0003-1123-3427, European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation), André F Lotter (0000-0002-2954-8809, Utrecht University), Pavel E Tarasov (0000-0002-7219-5009, Freie Universität Berlin), Spassimir Tonkov (0000-0002-0750-4872, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski")
Año2009
Volumen18
Número5
Páginas417-424
Fecha de publicación2009-03-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVegetation History and Archaeobotany (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0939-6314 • E-ISSN: 1617-6278
EditorialSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s00334-009-0215-9
OpenAlexW2025145183
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas31
Referencias citadas29

Pollen stratigraphies are the most spatially extensive data available for the reconstruction of past land-cover change. Detailed knowledge of past land-cover is becoming increasingly important to evaluate the present trends in, and drivers of, vegetation composition. The European Pollen Database (EPD) was established in the late 1980s and developed in the early 1990s to provide a structure for archiving, exchanging, and analysing Quaternary pollen data from Europe. It provides a forum for scientists to meet and engage in collaborative investigations or data analysis. In May 2007 several EPD support groups were developed to assist in the task of maintaining and updating the database. The mapping and data accuracy work group (MADCAP) aims to produce an atlas of past plant distributions as detected by pollen analyses in Europe, in order to meet the growing need for this data from palaeoecologists and the wider scientific community. Due to data handling problems in the past, a significant number of EPD datasets have errors. The initial task of the work group, therefore, was a systematic review of pollen sequences, in order to identify and correct errors. The EPD currently (January 2009) archives 1,032 pollen sequences, of which 668 have age-depth models that allow chronological comparison. Many errors have been identified and corrected, or flagged for users, most notably errors in the pollen count data. The application of spatial analyses to pollen data is related to the number of data points that are available for analysis. We therefore take this opportunity to encourage the submission of pollen analytical results to the EPD or other relevant pollen databases. Only in this way will the scientific community be able to gain a better understanding of past vegetation dynamics

Data mining · Data science · Land cover · Land use · Pollen · Task (project management · Computer Science · Engineering · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Species Distribution and Climate Change · Tree-ring climate responses · Ecology