Kern, Oliver A; Maier, Andreas; Vercauteren, Nikki (2025): REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for Europe during the Late Pleistocene (75-15 ka BP) [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.973049
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Published: 2025-06-13 • DOI registered: 2025-06-13
Abstract:
We present the first pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions of Europe during the late Last Glacial period from Europe. The results are based on fossil pollen data from 61 sites in Europe and bordering regions, using 38 plant taxa in total. The reconstruction uses the "Regional Estimates of VEgetation Abundance from Large Sites"(REVEALS) model that factors in the relative pollen productivity (RPPs) and fall speed of pollen (FSP) (Sugita, 2007). All REVEALS estimates and their Standard Erorrs are given in proportions for each site in 1kyr time steps from 75 to 15 ka BP. Moreover, we provide the RPP and FSP table, which was adapted from Githumbi et al. (2022) and Serge et al. (2023). We also include REVEALS land-cover reconstructions of the same dataset, using the RPP compilation of Wieczorek & Herzschuh (2020) as well as optimized RPP data after Schild et al. (2024) to highlight the impact of different RPP data on REVEALS land-cover reconstructions.
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Kern, Oliver A (2024): PALVEG - Visualisation tool for pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions [software]. Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.12782121
Kern, Oliver A (2024): Pollen-based land-cover reconstruction in R using the REVEALS method [software]. Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.12625222
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Githumbi, Esther; Fyfe, Ralph M; Gaillard, Marie-José; Trondman, Anna-Kari; Mazier, Florence; Nielsen, Anne Birgitte; Poska, Anneli; Sugita, Shinya; Woodbridge, Jessie; Azuara, Julien; Feurdean, Angelica; Grindean, Roxana; Lebreton, Vincent; Marquer, Laurent; Combourieu-Nebout, Nathalie; Stancikaite, Migle; Tantau, Ioan; Tonkov, Spassimir; Shumilovskikh, Lyudmila S; LandClimII contributors (2022): European pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for the Holocene: methodology, mapping and potentials. Earth System Science Data, 14(4), 1581-1619, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1581-2022
Schild, Laura; Ewald, Peter; Li, Chenzhi; Hébert, Raphaël; Laepple, Thomas; Herzschuh, Ulrike (2025): LegacyVegetation: Northern Hemisphere reconstruction of past plant cover and total tree cover from pollen archives of the last 14 kyr. Earth System Science Data, 17(5), 2007-2033, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2007-2025
Sugita, Shinya (2007): Theory of quantitative reconstruction of vegetation I: pollen from large sites REVEALS regional vegetation composition. The Holocene, 17(2), 229-241, https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683607075837
Wieczorek, Mareike; Herzschuh, Ulrike (2020): Compilation of relative pollen productivity (RPP) estimates and taxonomically harmonised RPP datasets for single continents and Northern Hemisphere extratropics. Earth System Science Data, 12(4), 3515-3528, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3515-2020
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Median Latitude: 44.969424 * Median Longitude: 15.041504 * South-bound Latitude: 31.500000 * West-bound Longitude: -9.530000 * North-bound Latitude: 67.270000 * East-bound Longitude: 50.233330
Date/Time Start: 1965-08-15T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2003-09-01T00:00:00
Minimum Elevation: -0.2 m * Maximum Elevation: 2243.0 m
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
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