TY - SER ID - sanchezgoi2017tapa T1 - The ACER pollen and charcoal database AU - Sanchez Goñi, Maria Fernanda AU - Desprat, Stéphanie AU - Daniau, Anne-Laure AU - Bassinot, Franck C AU - Polanco-Martínez, Josué M AU - Harrison, Sandy P AU - Allen, Judy R M AU - Anderson, R Scott AU - Behling, Hermann AU - Bonnefille, Raymonde AU - Burjachs, Francesc AU - Carrión, José S AU - Cheddadi, Rachid AU - Clark, James S AU - Combourieu-Nebout, Nathalie AU - Courtney-Mustaphi, Colin J AU - DeBusk, Georg H AU - Dupont, Lydie M AU - Finch, Jemma M AU - Fletcher, William J AU - Giardini, Marco AU - González, Catalina AU - Gosling, William D AU - Grigg, Laurie D AU - Grimm, Eric C AU - Hayashi, Ryoma AU - Helmens, Karin F AU - Heusser, Linda E AU - Hill, Trevor R AU - Hope, Geoffrey AU - Huntley, Brian AU - Igarashi, Yaeko AU - Irino, Tomohisa AU - Jacobs, Bonnie Fine AU - Jiménez-Moreno, Gonzalo AU - Kawai, Sayuri AU - Kershaw, A Peter AU - Kumon, Fujio AU - Lawson, Ian T AU - Ledru, Marie-Pierre AU - Lézine, Anne-Marie AU - Liew, Ping-Mei AU - Magri, Donatella AU - Marchant, Robert AU - Margari, Vasiliki AU - Mayle, Francis E AU - McKenzie, G Merna AU - Moss, Patrick T AU - Müller, Stefanie AU - Müller, Ulrich C AU - Naughton, Filipa AU - Newnham, Rewi M AU - Oba, Tadamichi AU - Pérez-Obiol, Ramon P AU - Pini, Roberta AU - Ravazzi, Cesare AU - Roucoux, Katherine H AU - Rucina, Stephen M AU - Scott, Louis AU - Takahara, Hikaru AU - Tzedakis, Polychronis C AU - Urrego, Dunia H AU - van Geel, Bas AU - Valencia, Bryan G AU - Vandergoes, Marcus J AU - Vincens, Annie AU - Whitlock, Cathy L AU - Willard, Debra A AU - Yamamoto, Masanobu PY - 2017/01/16/ T2 - Supplement to: Sanchez Goñi, MF et al. (2017): The ACER pollen and charcoal database: a global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period. Earth System Science Data, 9(2), 679-695, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-679-2017 PB - PANGAEA DO - 10.1594/PANGAEA.870867 UR - https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.870867 N2 - Quaternary records provide an opportunity to examine the nature of the vegetation and fire responses to rapid past climate changes comparable in velocity and magnitude to those expected in the 21st century. The best documented examples of rapid climate change in the past are the warming events associated with the Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) cycles during the last glacial period, which were sufficiently large to have had a potential feedback through changes in albedo and greenhouse gas emissions on climate. Previous reconstructions of vegetation and fire changes during the D-O cycles used independently constructed age models, making it difficult to compare the changes between different sites and regions. Here we present the ACER (Abrupt Climate Changes and Environmental Responses) global database which includes 93 pollen records from the last glacial period (73-15 ka) with a temporal resolution better than 1,000 years, 32 of which also provide charcoal records. A harmonized and consistent chronology based on radiometric dating (14C, 234U/230Th, OSL, 40Ar/39Ar dated tephra layers) has been constructed for 86 of these records, although in some cases additional information was derived using common control points based on event stratigraphy. The ACER database compiles metadata including geospatial and dating information, pollen and charcoal counts and pollen percentages of the characteristic biomes, and is archived in Microsoft ACCESS(TM). ER -