Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-95-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-95-2023
Data description paper
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06 Jan 2023
Data description paper |  | 06 Jan 2023

Gridded pollen-based Holocene regional plant cover in temperate and northern subtropical China suitable for climate modelling

Furong Li, Marie-José Gaillard, Xianyong Cao, Ulrike Herzschuh, Shinya Sugita, Jian Ni, Yan Zhao, Chengbang An, Xiaozhong Huang, Yu Li, Hongyan Liu, Aizhi Sun, and Yifeng Yao

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The objective of this study is present the first gridded and temporally continuous quantitative plant-cover reconstruction for temperate and northern subtropical China over the last 12 millennia. The reconstructions are based on 94 pollen records and include estimates for 27 plant taxa, 10 plant functional types, and 3 land-cover types. The dataset is suitable for palaeoclimate modelling and the evaluation of simulated past vegetation cover and anthropogenic land-cover change from models.
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