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

2023; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 12; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/land12050986

2073-445X

Maria Antonia Serge, Florence Mazier, Ralph Fyfe, Marie‐José Gaillard, Thierry Klein, Agnès Lagnoux, Didier Galop, Esther Githumbi, M. Mîndrescu, Anne Birgitte Nielsen, Anna‐Kari Trondman, Anneli Poska, S. Sugita, Jessie Woodbridge, Daniel Abel‐Schaad, Caroline Piercey Åkesson, Teija Alenius, Brigitta Ammann, Stig Uggerhøj Andersen, R. Scott Anderson, Maja Andrič, Lauras Balakauskas, Lena Barnekow, Vlada Batalova, J. BERGMAN, H. J. B. Birks, Leif Björkman, Anne E. Bjune, О. К. Борисова, Nils Broothaerts, José S. Carrión, Chris Caseldine, Jörg Christiansen, Qiaoyu Cui, Andrés Currás, Sambor Czerwiński, Romain David, Althea L. Davies, R. de Jong, Federico Di Rita, Benjamin Diètre, Walter Dörfler, Élise Doyen, Kevin J. Edwards, Ana Ejarque, Elisabeth Endtmann, David Étienne, Élodie Faure, Ingo Feeser, Angelica Feurdean, Elske Fischer, William J. Fletcher, Fátima Franco Múgica, Erik Daniel Fredh, Cynthia A. Froyd, Sandra Garcés‐Pastor, Iria García‐Moreiras, Émilie Gauthier, Graciela Gil‐Romera, Penélope González‐Sampériz, Michael Grant, Roxana Grindean, Jean Nicolas Haas, Gina E. Hannon, Andrew Heather, Maija Heikkilä, Kari Loe Hjelle, Susanne Jahns, Nauris Jasiunas, Gonzalo Jiménez‐Moreno, Isabelle Jouffroy‐Bapicot, Meilutė Kabailienė, Ilse M. Kamerling, Mihkel Kangur, Monika Karpińska‐Kołaczek, Alisa Kasianova, Piotr Kołaczek, Per Lagerås, Małgorzata Latałowa, Jutta Lechterbeck, Chantal Leroyer, Michelle Leydet, Matts Lindbladh, Olga Lisitsyna, José Antonio López Sáez, J. John Lowe, Reyes Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, Ekaterina Lukanina, Lina Macijauskaitė, Donatella Magri, Dominique Marguerie, Laurent Marquer, Antonio Martı́nez Cortizas, Ingvild Kristine Mehl, José Manuel Mesa-Fernández, Tim Mighall, Antonella Miola, Yannick Miras, César Morales‐Molino, Almut Mrotzek, Castor Muñoz Sobrino, Bent Vad Odgaard, Ilze Ozola, Sebastián Pérez Díaz, Ramón Pérez i Obiol, C. Poggi, Pablo Ramil Rego, María J. Ramos‐Román, Peter Rasmussen, Maurice Reille, Manfred Rösch, Pascale Ruffaldi, Marı́a Fernanda Sánchez Goñi, Nijole Savukyniene, Tabea Schröder, Manuela Schult, Ulf Segerström, Heikki Seppä, Gabriel Servera-Vives, Lyudmila Shumilovskikh, Hans W. Smettan, Miglė Stančikaitė, Tony Stevenson, Normunds Stivriņš, Ioan Tanțău, Martin Theuerkauf, Spassimir Tonkov, W. van der Knaap, Jacqueline van Leeuwen, Elina Vecmane, Gert Verstraeten, Siim Veski, R. Voigt, Henrik von Stedingk, Martyn Waller, Julian Wiethold, Katherine J. Willis, Steffen Wolters, Valentina Zernitskaya,

Lichen and fungal ecology

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° × 1°) 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.