Does pollen-assemblage richness reflect floristic richness? A review of recent developments and future challenges

HJB Birks, VA Felde, AE Bjune, JA Grytnes… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 …

Quantifying the effects of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in Europe

L Marquer, MJ Gaillard, S Sugita, A Poska… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Early agriculture can be detected in palaeovegetation records, but quantification of the
relative importance of climate and land use in influencing regional vegetation composition …

Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens

EA Pearce, F Mazier, S Normand, R Fyfe, V Andrieu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The extent of vegetation openness in past European landscapes is widely debated. In
particular, the temperate forest biome has traditionally been defined as dense, closed …

100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark

ME Allentoft, M Sikora, A Fischer, KG Sjögren… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad
regional scales,,–. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are …

Europe's lost forests: a pollen-based synthesis for the last 11,000 years

N Roberts, RM Fyfe, J Woodbridge, MJ Gaillard… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
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 …

European pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for the Holocene: methodology, map** and potentials

E Githumbi, R Fyfe, MJ Gaillard… - Earth System …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Quantitative reconstructions of past land-cover are necessary for research into the
processes involved in climate-human-land interactions. We present the first temporally …

Pollen‐based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene regional vegetation cover (plant‐functional types and land‐cover types) in Europe suitable for climate …

AK Trondman, MJ Gaillard, F Mazier… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We present quantitative reconstructions of regional vegetation cover in north‐western
Europe, western Europe north of the Alps, and eastern Europe for five time windows in the …

European forest cover during the past 12,000 years: a palynological reconstruction based on modern analogs and remote sensing

M Zanon, BAS Davis, L Marquer, S Brewer… - Frontiers in plant …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Characterization of land cover change in the past is fundamental to understand the evolution
and present state of the Earth system, the amount of carbon and nutrient stocks in terrestrial …

Testing the effect of relative pollen productivity on the REVEALS model: A validated reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene vegetation

MA Serge, F Mazier, R Fyfe, MJ Gaillard, T Klein… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Reliable quantitative vegetation reconstructions for Europe during the Holocene are crucial
to improving our understanding of landscape dynamics, making it possible to assess the …

Studies of modern pollen assemblages for pollen dispersal-deposition-preservation process understanding and for pollen-based reconstructions of past vegetation …

Q Xu, S Zhang, M Gaillard, M Li, X Cao, F Tian… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Fossil pollen, as a direct proxy record of past vegetation, and indirect proxy record of past
climate, plays an essential role in revealing and reconstructing past vegetation and climate …