Current interest and debate on pollen-assemblage richness as a proxy for past plant
richness have prompted us to review recent developments in assessing whether modern …

Early agriculture can be detected in palaeovegetation records, but quantification of the
relative importance of climate and land use in influencing regional vegetation composition …

Abstract 8000 years ago, prior to Neolithic agriculture, Europe was mostly a wooded
continent. Since then, its forest cover has been progressively fragmented, so that today it …

Quantitative reconstructions of past land-cover are necessary for research into the
processes involved in climate-human-land interactions. We present the first temporally …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Paleoenvironmental studies are essential to understand biodiversity changes over long
timescales and to assess the relative importance of anthropogenic and environmental …

REVEALS-based quantitative reconstruction of Holocene vegetation cover (expressed in
plant functional types, PFTs) is used in the LANDCLIM project to assess the effect of human …

There appears to be no single axis of causality between life and its landscape, but rather,
each exerts a simultaneous influence on the other over a wide range of temporal and spatial …

The vegetation of Europe has undergone substantial changes during the course of the
Holocene epoch, resulting from range expansion of plants following climate amelioration …

We present pollen-based reconstructions of the spatio-temporal dynamics of northern
European regional vegetation abundance through the Holocene. We apply the Regional …