TERRANOVA from the last and current Interglacial periods into the Anthropocene: an Atlas database drawing lessons from ancient land use for future European landscape management

• Main Authors: Kluiving, Sjoerd, Roche, Didier, Zapolska, Anhelina, Pearce, Elena, Hatlestad, Kailin, Karl-Johan, Lindholm, Nikulina, Anastasia, Scherjon, Fulco, Martinez, Alexandre, Vella, Emily, Serge, Maria Antonia, Mazier, Florence, Davoli, Marco, Arthur, Frank, Renssen, Hans, Macdonald, Katherine, Roebroeks, Wil, Fernández, Nestor
• Other Authors: Vrije Universiteit & CLUE+ Research Institute for Culture, History and Heritage, Dept. of Archaeology, Humanities, Amsterdam, Faculty of Science, cluster Earth and Climate VU University Amsterdam, Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE) Section for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity, Department of Biology Aarhus University, Uppsala University, Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology, World Archaeology, Human Origins Group, Géographie de l'environnement (GEODE), Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences Department of Natural Sciences and Environmental Health, University of Southern Norway, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: TERRANOVA; atlas; human interaction; climate change; Holocene; [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society; Terranova
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03723528

International audience TERRANOVA is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (H2020-MSCA-ITN) project (2019-2023) training 15 PhD students in a new learning initiative between Humanities and Science: Mapping past environments and energy regimes, rethinking human-environment interaction and designing land management tools for policy. TERRANOVA will produce an unprecedented atlas with layers of reconstructed and modelled land-use and vegetation dynamics, climate change and mega-fauna history in Europe from the Eemian (Last Interglacial) and the Holocene from the start up until the present day. This paper describes the intermediate results of two years of research into Atlas building. Communication and data exchange, as well as the process of atlas generation work flow, have been undertaken, including examples of datasets from deep history, ancient landscapes, energy regimes and climate scenarios. The atlas database implements state-of-the-art standards for increasing the interoperability of spatiotemporal datasets. It is currently formed by four main data types: Archaeological data, Climate data, Land cover data, and Megafauna (i.e. large mammals) distribution. The intermediate publication concludes with listing the next steps to stream the Terranova atlas as a tool for communicating the European history of environmental change, including support for future landscape management policies.