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Harmonized chronologies of a global late Quaternary pollen dataset (LegacyAge 1.0)
Chenzhi Li
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Environmental Science and Geography, University of
Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24–25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Alexander K. Postl
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Thomas Böhmer
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Xianyong Cao
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Alpine Paleoecology and Human Adaptation Group (ALPHA), State Key
Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment
(TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, 100101 Beijing, China
Andrew M. Dolman
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Ulrike Herzschuh
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research, Telegrafenberg A45, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Environmental Science and Geography, University of
Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24–25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam,
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24–25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- LegacyClimate 1.0: a dataset of pollen-based climate reconstructions from 2594 Northern Hemisphere sites covering the last 30 kyr and beyond U. Herzschuh et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2235-2023
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- LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies U. Herzschuh et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-3213-2022
- LegacyClimate 1.0: a dataset of pollen-based climate reconstructions from 2594 Northern Hemisphere sites covering the last 30 kyr and beyond U. Herzschuh et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-2235-2023
- LegacyVegetation: Northern Hemisphere reconstruction of past plant cover and total tree cover from pollen archives of the last 14 kyr L. Schild et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-2007-2025
- Regional climatic dynamics and cultural divergence in glacial western Europe O. Cartapanis et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109429
- Approaches to pollen taxonomic harmonisation in Quaternary palynology H. Birks et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.104989
- Range‐wide Tsuga tree decline driven by abrupt climate changes in mid‐Holocene America B. Shuman https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.71484
- Regional pollen-based Holocene temperature and precipitation patterns depart from the Northern Hemisphere mean trends U. Herzschuh et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1481-2023
- The Roman Legacy on European Chestnut and Walnut Arboriculture P. Krebs et al. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2022.2137648
- Global biome changes over the last 21 000 years inferred from model–data comparisons C. Li et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1001-2025
- Holocene climate dynamics in the central Mediterranean inferred from pollen data L. d'Oliveira et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-2331-2025
- Evolution of global vegetation patterns since the last glacial maximum J. Geng et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2025.109780
- Improving biome and climate modelling for a set of past climate conditions: evaluating bias correction using the CDF-t approach A. Zapolska et al. https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-5295/accbe2
- Lack of evidence for alternative stable states in Northern Hemisphere forests during the past 8 ka L. Schild et al. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad9508
- Holocene Forest Dynamics in Western Mediterranean Islands: Rates, Periodicity, and Trends F. Michelangeli et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/f16050808
- Millennial-scale climate variability over land overprinted by ocean temperature fluctuations R. Hébert et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01056-4
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Here we present a global chronology framework of 2831 palynological records, including globally harmonized chronologies covering up to 273 000 years. A comparison with the original chronologies reveals a major improvement according to our assessment. Our chronology framework and revised chronologies will interest a broad geoscientific community, as it provides the opportunity to make use in synthesis studies of, for example, pollen-based vegetation and climate change.
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