Landscape reconstructions for Europe  during the late Last Glacial (60–20&thinsp;ka&thinsp;BP):  a pollen-based REVEALS approach

Kern, Oliver A.; Maier, Andreas; Vercauteren, Nikki

doi:10.5194/essd-17-5997-2025

Articles | Volume 17, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5997-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-5997-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 11

Data description paper

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11 Nov 2025

Data description paper |

| 11 Nov 2025

Landscape reconstructions for Europe during the late Last Glacial (60–20 ka BP): a pollen-based REVEALS approach

Oliver A. Kern, Andreas Maier, and Nikki Vercauteren

Data sets

REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for Europe during the Late Pleistocene (75-15 ka BP) Oliver A. Kern et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.973049

PALVEG source metadata Oliver A. Kern https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16812766

Model code and software

Pollen-based land-cover reconstruction in R using the REVEALS method Oliver A. Kern https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12625221

PALVEG - Visualisation tool for pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions Oliver A. Kern https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12624842

Short summary

We provide vegetation reconstructions during the Last Glacial period (60,000 to 20,000 years before present) using fossil pollen data and the REVEALS model. Understanding vegetation change in response to abrupt climate change is critical to enhance our understanding plant migration patterns and the demographic development and dispersal of anatomically modern humans into Europe. Our application PALVEG (https://oakern.shinyapps.io/PALVEG/), aims to make such data accessible to non-experts.