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European pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for the Holocene: methodology, mapping and potentials
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, University of
Lund, 22362 Lund, Sweden
Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University,
39182 Kalmar, Sweden
Ralph Fyfe
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Plymouth, PL4 8AA Plymouth, United Kingdom
Marie-Jose Gaillard
Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University,
39182 Kalmar, Sweden
Anna-Kari Trondman
Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University,
39182 Kalmar, Sweden
Division of Education Affairs, Swedish University of Agricultural
Science (SLU), 23456 Alnarp, Sweden
Florence Mazier
Environmental Geography Laboratory, GEODE UMR 5602 CNRS,
Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 31058 Toulouse, France
Anne-Birgitte Nielsen
Department of Geology, Lund University, 22100 Lund, Sweden
Anneli Poska
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, University of
Lund, 22362 Lund, Sweden
Department of Geology, Tallinn University of Technology, 19086
Tallinn, Estonia
Shinya Sugita
Institute of Ecology, Tallinn University of Technology, 10120 Tallinn,
Estonia
Jessie Woodbridge
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Plymouth, PL4 8AA Plymouth, United Kingdom
Julien Azuara
Département Homme et Environnement, UMR 7194 Histoire Naturelle de
l'Homme Préhistorique, 75013 Paris, France
Angelica Feurdean
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), 60325
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Department of Geology, Faculty of Biology and Geology,
Babeş-Bolyai University, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Roxana Grindean
Department of Geology, Faculty of Biology and Geology,
Babeş-Bolyai University, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Institute of Archaeology and History of Arts, Romanian
Academy, 400015 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Vincent Lebreton
Département Homme et Environnement, UMR 7194 Histoire Naturelle de
l'Homme Préhistorique, 75013 Paris, France
Laurent Marquer
Department of Botany, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck,
Austria
Nathalie Nebout-Combourieu
Département Homme et Environnement, UMR 7194 Histoire Naturelle de
l'Homme Préhistorique, 75013 Paris, France
Miglė Stančikaitė
Institute of Geology and Geography, Vilnius University, 03101 Vilnius, Lithuania
Ioan Tanţău
Department of Geology, Faculty of Biology and Geology,
Babeş-Bolyai University, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Spassimir Tonkov
Department of Botany, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, 1164
Sofia, Bulgaria
Lyudmila Shumilovskikh
Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics,
Georg August University, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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Reconstruction of past land cover is necessary for the study of past climate–land cover interactions and the evaluation of climate models and land-use scenarios. We used 1128 available pollen records from across Europe covering the last 11 700 years in the REVEALS model to calculate percentage cover and associated standard errors for 31 taxa, 12 plant functional types and 3 land-cover types. REVEALS results are reliant on the quality of the input datasets.
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