The European Pollen Database: past efforts and current activities |
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Authors: | Ralph M Fyfe Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu Heather Binney Richard H W Bradshaw Simon Brewer Anne Le Flao Walter Finsinger Marie-José Gaillard Thomas Giesecke Graciela Gil-Romera Eric C Grimm Brian Huntley Petr Kunes Norbert Kühl Michelle Leydet André F Lotter Pavel E Tarasov Spassimir Tonkov |
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Institution: | 1. School of Geography, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK 2. IMEP UMR 6116 Europole Méditerranéen de l’Arbois, Bat. Villemin, BP 80, 13545, Aix-en-Provence Cedex 04, France 3. School of Geography, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK 4. Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, Roxby Building, Liverpool, L69 7ZT, UK 5. Department of Botany, University of Wyoming, 1000 E. University Ave, Laramie, WY, 82071, USA 6. Laboratoire GEODE, UMR 5602, Université Toulouse-Le Mirail, 5 Allées Antonio Machado, 31058, Toulouse cedex 9, France 7. Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Department of Paleoecology, Institute of Environmental Biology, University Utrecht, Budapestlaan 4, 3584, OD, Utrecht, The Netherlands 8. School of Pure and Applied Natural Sciences, University of Kalmar, 39182, Kalmar, Sweden 9. Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, University of G?ttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073, G?ttingen, Germany 10. African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, 92 Woodstock Rd, Oxford, OX2 7ND, UK 11. Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Aberystwyth, Llandinam Building, Penglais Campus, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK 12. Research and Collections Center, Illinois State Museum, 1011 East Ash Street, Springfield, IL, 62703, USA 13. Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK 14. Department of Botany, Charles University of Prague, Benatska 2, CZ-128 01, Prague 2, Czech Republic 15. Department of Palaeontology, Steinmann Institute, University of Bonn, Nussallee 8, 53115, Bonn, Germany 16. Department of Palaeontology, Institute for Geological Sciences, Free University Berlin, Malteserstr. 74-100 Haus D, 12249, Berlin, Germany 17. Laboratory of Palynology, Department of Botany, St. Kliment Ohridski University Sofia, Dragan Tzankov blvd.8, 1164, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Abstract: | Pollen stratigraphies are the most spatially extensive data available for the reconstruction of past land-cover change. Detailed
knowledge of past land-cover is becoming increasingly important to evaluate the present trends in, and drivers of, vegetation
composition. The European Pollen Database (EPD) was established in the late 1980s and developed in the early 1990s to provide
a structure for archiving, exchanging, and analysing Quaternary pollen data from Europe. It provides a forum for scientists
to meet and engage in collaborative investigations or data analysis. In May 2007 several EPD support groups were developed
to assist in the task of maintaining and updating the database. The mapping and data accuracy work group (MADCAP) aims to
produce an atlas of past plant distributions as detected by pollen analyses in Europe, in order to meet the growing need for
this data from palaeoecologists and the wider scientific community. Due to data handling problems in the past, a significant
number of EPD datasets have errors. The initial task of the work group, therefore, was a systematic review of pollen sequences,
in order to identify and correct errors. The EPD currently (January 2009) archives 1,032 pollen sequences, of which 668 have
age-depth models that allow chronological comparison. Many errors have been identified and corrected, or flagged for users,
most notably errors in the pollen count data. The application of spatial analyses to pollen data is related to the number
of data points that are available for analysis. We therefore take this opportunity to encourage the submission of pollen analytical
results to the EPD or other relevant pollen databases. Only in this way will the scientific community be able to gain a better
understanding of past vegetation dynamics. |
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Keywords: | EPD European Pollen Database Data accuracy Data archive |
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