Towards mapping the late Quaternary vegetation change of Europe

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ID12201118
AutoresThomas Giesecke (0000-0002-5132-1061, University of Göttingen, autor correspondente), Basil Davis (0000-0002-7148-1863, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Scott Brewer (0000-0002-6810-1911, Sustainable Europe Research Institute), Walter Finsinger (0000-0002-8297-0574, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier), Steffen Wolters (0000-0003-3727-1982, University of Göttingen), Martijn Blaauw (0000-0002-5680-1515, Queen's University Belfast), Jacques‐louis De Beaulieu (Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie Marine et Continentale), Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Heather Binney (0000-0002-9847-6183, University of Göttingen), Ralph Fyfe (0000-0002-5676-008X, University of Göttingen), Marie‐José Gaillard (0000-0002-2025-410X), Marie-José Gaillard (University of Göttingen), Graciela Gil-Romera (0000-0001-5726-2536, University of Göttingen), Willem O Van Der Knaap (0000-0002-0179-7440, University of Göttingen), Nicolas Kühl (0000-0001-9605-8204, University of Göttingen), Norbert Kühl (0000-0003-4531-249X), Jacqueline F N Van Leeuwen (Plant (United States)), Michelle Leydet (0000-0003-1123-3427, Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie Marine et Continentale), André F Lotter (0000-0002-2954-8809, University of Göttingen), Elena Ortu (University of Göttingen), Malte Semmler (0000-0002-8796-1423, University of Göttingen), Richard Bradshaw (0000-0002-7331-2246, University of Göttingen), Richard H W Bradshaw
Ano2013
Volume23
Fascículo1
Páginas75-86
Data de publicação2013-02-28
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoVegetation History and Archaeobotany (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0939-6314 • E-ISSN: 1617-6278
EditoraSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s00334-012-0390-y
OpenAlexW2095092516
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas38
Referências citadas46

The number of well-dated pollen diagrams in Europe has increased considerably over the last 30 years and many of them have been submitted to the European Pollen Database (EPD). This allows for the construction of increasingly precise maps of Holocene vegetation change across the continent. Chronological information in the EPD has been expressed in uncalibrated radiocarbon years, and most chronologies to date are based on this time scale. Here we present new chronologies for most of the datasets stored in the EPD based on calibrated radiocarbon years. Age information associated with pollen diagrams is often derived from the pollen stratigraphy itself or from other sedimentological information. We reviewed these chronological tie points and assigned uncertainties to them. The steps taken to generate the new chronologies are described and the rationale for a new classification system for age uncertainties is introduced. The resulting chronologies are fit for most continental-scale questions. They may not provide the best age model for particular sites, but may be viewed as general purpose chronologies. Taxonomic particularities of the data stored in the EPD are explained. An example is given of how the database can be queried to select samples with appropriate age control as well as the suitable taxonomic level to answer a specific research question

Cartography · Geography · Holocene · Physical geography · Pollen · Quaternary · Radiocarbon dating · Scale (ratio · Vegetation (pathology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Isotope Analysis in Ecology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology · Geology · Paleontology · Stratigraphy