Authors
Maria-Antonia Serge, Florence Mazier, Ralph Fyfe, M-J Gaillard, Thierry Klein, Agnès Lagnoux, Didier Galop, Esther Githumbi, Marcel Mindrescu, Anne Birgitte Nielsen, A-K Trondman, Anneli Poska, Shinya Sugita, Jessie Woodbridge, Daniel Abel-Schaad, Christine Åkesson, T Alenius, Brigitta Ammann, Simone Thirstrup Andersen, R Scott Anderson, Maja Andrič, Lauras Balakauskas, Lena Barnekow, Vlada Batalova, Jonas Bergman, H John B Birks, Leif Björkman, Anne Elisabeth Bjune, Olga Borisova, Nils Broothaerts, José Carrion, Chris Caseldine, Jörg Christiansen, Qiaoyu Cui, Andrés Currás, Sambor Czerwiński, Romain David, Adrian L Davies, Ruth De Jong, Frederico Di Rita, Benjamin Dietre, Walter Dörfler, Elise Doyen, Kevin J Edwards, Ana Ejarque, Elisabeth Endtmann, David Etienne, Elodie Faure, Ingo Feeser, Angelica Feurdean, Elske Fischer, William Fletcher, Fátima Franco-Múgica, Erik Daniel Fredh, Cynthia Froyd, Sandra Garcés-Pastor, Iria García-Moreiras, Emilie Gauthier, Graciela Gil-Romera, Penélope González-Sampériz, Michael J Grant, Roxana Grindean, Jean-Nicolas Haas, Gina Hannon, A-J Heather, Maija Heikkilä, Kari Hjelle, Susanne Jahns, N Jasiunas, Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno, Isabelle Jouffroy-Bapicot, Meilutė Kabailienė, IM Kamerling, M Kangur, Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek, A Kasianova, Piotr Kołaczek, Per Lagerås, Malgorzata Latalowa, Jutta Lechterbeck, C Leroyer, Michelle Leydet, Matts Lindbladh, O Lisitsyna, J-A López-Sáez, John Lowe, R Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, E Lukanina, Lina Macijauskaitė, Donatella Magri, D Marguerie, L Marquer, A Martinez-Cortizas, I Mehl, JM Mesa-Fernández, Tim Mighall, A Miola, Y Miras, Cesar Morales-Molino, A Mrotzek, C Muñoz Sobrino, Bent Odgaard, I Ozola, Sebastián Pérez-Díaz, RP Pérez-Obiol, C Poggi, P Ramil Rego, MJ Ramos-Román, P Rasmussen, Maurice Reille, Manfred Rösch, Pascale Ruffaldi, M Sanchez Goni, Nijolė Savukynienė, T Schröder, M Schult, Ulf Segerström, Heikki Seppä, G Servera Vives, Lyudmila Shumilovskikh, HW Smettan, Migle Stancikaite, AC Stevenson, Norbert Stivrins, Ioan Tantau, Martin Theuerkauf, Spassimir Tonkov, WO van der Knaap, JFN van Leeuwen, E Vecmane, Gert Verstraeten, Siim Veski, Ricarda Voigt, Henrik Von Stedingk, MP Waller, Julian Wiethold, Katherine Jane Willis, Steffen Wolters, Valentina P Zernitskaya
Publication date
2023/4/29
Journal
Land
Volume
12
Issue
5
Pages
986
Publisher
MDPI
Description
Reliable quantitative vegetation reconstructions for Europe during the Holocene are crucial to improving our understanding of landscape dynamics, making it possible to assess the past effects of environmental variables and land-use change on ecosystems and biodiversity, and mitigating their effects in the future. We present here the most spatially extensive and temporally continuous pollen-based reconstructions of plant cover in Europe (at a spatial resolution of 1° × 1°) over the Holocene (last 11.7 ka BP) using the ‘Regional Estimates of VEgetation Abundance from Large Sites’ (REVEALS) model. This study has three main aims. First, to present the most accurate and reliable generation of REVEALS reconstructions across Europe so far. This has been achieved by including a larger number of pollen records compared to former analyses, in particular from the Mediterranean area. Second, to discuss methodological issues in the quantification of past land cover by using alternative datasets of relative pollen productivities (RPPs), one of the key input parameters of REVEALS, to test model sensitivity. Finally, to validate our reconstructions with the global forest change dataset. The results suggest that the RPPs.st1 (31 taxa) dataset is best suited to producing regional vegetation cover estimates for Europe. These reconstructions offer a long-term perspective providing unique possibilities to explore spatial-temporal changes in past land cover and biodiversity.
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