Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model : A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation

• Published in: Land
• Main Authors: Serge, M. A., Mazier, F., Fyfe, R., Gaillard, M. J., Klein, T., 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., Andersen, S. T., Anderson, R. Scott, Andrič, M., Balakauskas, L., Barnekow, L., Batalova, V., Bergman, J., Birks, H. John B., Björkman, L., Bjune, A. E., Borisova, O., Broothaerts, N., Carrion, J., Caseldine, C., Christiansen, J., Cui, Q., Currás, A., Czerwiński, S., David, R., Davies, A. L., De Jong, R., Di Rita, F., Dietre, B., Dörfler, W., Doyen, E., Edwards, K. J., Ejarque, A., Endtmann, E., Etienne, D., Faure, E., Feeser, I., Feurdean, A., Fischer, E., Fletcher, W., Franco-Múgica, F., Fredh, E. D., Froyd, C., Garcés-Pastor, S., García-Moreiras, I., Gauthier, E., Gil-Romera, G., González-Sampériz, P., Grant, M. J., Grindean, R., Haas, J. N., Hannon, G., Heather, A. J., Heikkilä, M., Hjelle, K., Jahns, S., Jasiunas, N., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Jouffroy-Bapicot, I., Kabailienė, M., Kamerling, I. M., Kangur, M., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kasianova, A., Kołaczek, P., Lagerås, P., Latalowa, M., Lechterbeck, J., Leroyer, C., Leydet, M., Lindbladh, M., Lisitsyna, O., López-Sáez, J. A., Lowe, John, Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, R., Lukanina, E., Macijauskaitė, L., Magri, D., Marguerie, D., Marquer, L., Martinez-Cortizas, A., Mehl, I., Mesa-Fernández, J. M., Mighall, T., Miola, A., Miras, Y., Morales-Molino, C., Mrotzek, A., Sobrino, C. Muñoz, Odgaard, B., Ozola, I., Pérez-Díaz, S., Pérez-Obiol, R. P., Poggi, C., Rego, P. Ramil, Ramos-Román, M. J., Rasmussen, P., Reille, M., Rösch, M., Ruffaldi, P., Goni, M. Sanchez, Savukynienė, N., Schröder, T., Schult, M., Segerström, U., Seppä, H., Vives, G. Servera, Shumilovskikh, L., Smettan, H. W., Stancikaite, M., Stevenson, A. C., Stivrins, N., Tantau, I., Theuerkauf, M., Tonkov, S., van der Knaap, W. O., van Leeuwen, J. F.N., Vecmane, E., Verstraeten, G., Veski, S., Voigt, R., Von Stedingk, H., Waller, M. P., Wiethold, J., Willis, K. J., Wolters, S., Zernitskaya, V. P.
• Other Authors: Department of Cultures, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Geology (-2014), Department of Forest Sciences, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Doctoral Programme in Geosciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: 1181 Ecology; evolutionary biology; Europe; Holocene; REVEALS model; Pollen data; Quantitative past land cover; Relative pollen productivity; Validation; Terranova
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/359544; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85160569864&partnerID=8YFLogxK

Funding Information: This research was funded by the TERRANOVA Project, H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 813904. Funding Information: The work was supported by the project TERRANOVA, the European Landscape Learning Initiative, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 813904. The output reflects the views of the authors only, and the European Union cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. This study is also a contribution to the Past Global Change (PAGES) project and its working group LandCover6k ( http://pastglobalchanges.org/landcover6k , accessed on 24 April 2023) that in turn received support from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. M.-J. Gaillard acknowledges the financial support from Linnaeus University’s Faculty of Health and Life Science and the Swedish strategic research area MERGE (ModEling the Regional and Global Earth system; www.merge.lu.se , accessed on 24 April 2023). Anneli Poska was supported by the project TrackLag, Tracking the time-lags of species response to environmental change using palaeo-proxy data and modelling (ETF grant PRG323). Publisher Copyright: © 2023 by the authors. 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 1 degrees x 1 degrees) over the Holocene (last 11.7 ka BP) using the 'Regional Estimates of VEgetation Abundance from Large Sites' (REVEALS) model. This study has three ...