Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation
Reliable quantitative vegetation reconstructions for Europe during the Holocene are crucial to improving our understanding of landscape dynamics, making it possible to assess the past effects of environmental variables and land-use change on ecosystems and biodiversity, and mitigating their effects...
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ftunivcantabria:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/30163 2023-11-05T03:45:21+01:00 Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation Serge, M. A. Mazier, F. Fyfe, R. Gaillard, M.-J. Klein, Antonio Lagnoux, A. Galop, D. Githumbi, E. Mindrescu, M. Nielsen, A. B. Trondman, A.-K. Poska, A. Sugita, S. Woodbridge, J. Abel-Schaad, D. Åkesson, C. Alenius, T. Ammann, B. Pérez Díaz, Sebastián Pérez Obiol, Ramón Universidad de Cantabria 2023 https://hdl.handle.net/10902/30163 https://doi.org/10.3390/land12050986 eng eng MDPI 2073-445X https://hdl.handle.net/10902/30163 doi:10.3390/land12050986 © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ openAccess Land, 2023, 12, 986 Europe Quantitative past land cover Holocene Pollen data REVEALS model Relative pollen productivity Validation info:eu-repo/semantics/article publishedVersion 2023 ftunivcantabria https://doi.org/10.3390/land12050986 2023-10-10T23:17:56Z Reliable quantitative vegetation reconstructions for Europe during the Holocene are crucial to improving our understanding of landscape dynamics, making it possible to assess the past effects of environmental variables and land-use change on ecosystems and biodiversity, and mitigating their effects in the future. We present here the most spatially extensive and temporally continuous pollen-based reconstructions of plant cover in Europe (at a spatial resolution of 1º × 1º) over the Holocene (last 11.7 ka BP) using the "Regional Estimates of VEgetation Abundance from Large Sites" (REVEALS) model. This study has three main aims. First, to present the most accurate and reliable generation of REVEALS reconstructions across Europe so far. This has been achieved by including a larger number of pollen records compared to former analyses, in particular from the Mediterranean area. Second, to discuss methodological issues in the quantification of past land cover by using alternative datasets of relative pollen productivities (RPPs), one of the key input parameters of REVEALS, to test model sensitivity. Finally, to validate our reconstructions with the global forest change dataset. The results suggest that the RPPs.st1 (31 taxa) dataset is best suited to producing regional vegetation cover estimates for Europe. These reconstructions offer a long-term perspective providing unique possibilities to explore spatial-temporal changes in past land cover and biodiversity. This research was funded by the TERRANOVA Project, H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 813904 Article in Journal/Newspaper Terranova Universidad de Cantabria: UCrea Land 12 5 986 |
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Reliable quantitative vegetation reconstructions for Europe during the Holocene are crucial to improving our understanding of landscape dynamics, making it possible to assess the past effects of environmental variables and land-use change on ecosystems and biodiversity, and mitigating their effects in the future. We present here the most spatially extensive and temporally continuous pollen-based reconstructions of plant cover in Europe (at a spatial resolution of 1º × 1º) over the Holocene (last 11.7 ka BP) using the "Regional Estimates of VEgetation Abundance from Large Sites" (REVEALS) model. This study has three main aims. First, to present the most accurate and reliable generation of REVEALS reconstructions across Europe so far. This has been achieved by including a larger number of pollen records compared to former analyses, in particular from the Mediterranean area. Second, to discuss methodological issues in the quantification of past land cover by using alternative datasets of relative pollen productivities (RPPs), one of the key input parameters of REVEALS, to test model sensitivity. Finally, to validate our reconstructions with the global forest change dataset. The results suggest that the RPPs.st1 (31 taxa) dataset is best suited to producing regional vegetation cover estimates for Europe. These reconstructions offer a long-term perspective providing unique possibilities to explore spatial-temporal changes in past land cover and biodiversity. This research was funded by the TERRANOVA Project, H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 813904 |
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Serge, M. A. Mazier, F. Fyfe, R. Gaillard, M.-J. Klein, Antonio Lagnoux, A. Galop, D. Githumbi, E. Mindrescu, M. Nielsen, A. B. Trondman, A.-K. Poska, A. Sugita, S. Woodbridge, J. Abel-Schaad, D. Åkesson, C. Alenius, T. Ammann, B. Pérez Díaz, Sebastián Pérez Obiol, Ramón |
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Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation |
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Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation |
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Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation |
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Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation |
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Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation |
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testing the effect of relative pollen productivity on the reveals model: a validated reconstruction of europe-wide holocene vegetation |
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