A taxonomically harmonized and temporally standardized fossil pollen dataset from  Siberia covering the last 40&thinsp;kyr

Cao, Xianyong; Tian, Fang; Andreev, Andrei; Anderson, Patricia M.; Lozhkin, Anatoly V.; Bezrukova, Elena; Ni, Jian; Rudaya, Natalia; Stobbe, Astrid; Wieczorek, Mareike; Herzschuh, Ulrike

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-119-2020

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Data description paper

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22 Jan 2020

Data description paper |

| 22 Jan 2020

A taxonomically harmonized and temporally standardized fossil pollen dataset from Siberia covering the last 40 kyr

Xianyong Cao, Fang Tian, Andrei Andreev, Patricia M. Anderson, Anatoly V. Lozhkin, Elena Bezrukova, Jian Ni, Natalia Rudaya, Astrid Stobbe, Mareike Wieczorek, and Ulrike Herzschuh

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A taxonomically harmonized and temporally standardized fossil pollen dataset from Siberia covering the last 40 ka Xianyong Cao, Fang Tian, Andrei A. Andreev, Patricia M. Anderson, Anatoly V. Lozhkin, Elena V. Bezrukova, Jian Ni, Natalya A. Rudaya, Astrid Stobbe, Mareike Wieczorek, and Ulrike Herzschuh https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.898616

Short summary

Pollen percentages in spectra cannot be utilized to indicate past plant abundance directly because of the different pollen productivities among plants. In this paper, we applied relative pollen productivity estimates (PPEs) to calibrate plant abundances during the last 40 kyr using pollen counts from 203 pollen spectra in northern Asia. Results indicate the vegetation are generally stable during the Holocene and that climate change is the primary factor.