The climate of Europe during the Holocene: a gridded pollen-based reconstruction and its multi-proxy evaluation

A Mauri, BAS Davis, PM Collins, JO Kaplan - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
We present a new gridded climate reconstruction for Europe for the last 12,000 years based
on pollen data. The reconstruction is an update of Davis et al.(2003) using the same …

A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

D Kaufman, N McKay, C Routson, M Erb, B Davis… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
A comprehensive database of paleoclimate records is needed to place recent warming into
the longer-term context of natural climate variability. We present a global compilation of …

Quantitative reconstructions of changes in regional openness in north-central Europe reveal new insights into old questions

AB Nielsen, T Giesecke, M Theuerkauf, I Feeser… - Quaternary Science …, 2012 - Elsevier
By applying the recently developed model REVEALS (Regional Estimates of VEgetation
Abundance from Large Sites)(Sugita, 2007) to pollen data from a large number of sites …

Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

HJB Birks - Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Patterns and dynamics of European vegetation change over the last 15,000 years

T Giesecke, S Brewer, W Finsinger… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Palaeoecological reconstructions document past vegetation change, with estimates of
fast shifts in species distributions. The resulting rates of plant spread are often not matched …

Last nine-thousand years of temperature variability in Northern Europe

H Seppä, AE Bjune, RJ Telford, HJB Birks… - Climate of the …, 2009 - cp.copernicus.org
The threat of future global warming has generated a major interest in quantifying past
climate variability on centennial and millennial time-scales. However, palaeoclimatological …

Multicentennial cycles in continental demography synchronous with solar activity and climate stability

KW Wirtz, N Antunes, A Diachenko, J Laabs… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Human population dynamics and their drivers are not well understood, especially over the
long term and on large scales. Here, we estimate demographic growth trajectories from 9 to …

Holocene climate dynamics in Latvia, eastern Baltic region: a pollen‐based summer temperature reconstruction and regional comparison

M Heikkilä, H Seppä - Boreas, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Heikkilä, M. & Seppä, H. 2010: Holocene climate dynamics in Latvia, eastern Baltic region: a
pollen‐based summer temperature reconstruction and regional comparison. Boreas, Vol …

Higher abundance of disturbance‐favoured trees and shrubs in European temperate woodlands prior to the late‐quaternary extinction of megafauna

EA Pearce, F Mazier, R Fyfe, CW Davison… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Large herbivorous mammals strongly influence vegetation structure by creating and
maintaining open areas and causing disturbance within closed woody habitats. The …

Climate change during the Holocene (past 12,000 years)

I Borzenkova, E Zorita, O Borisova, L Kalniņa… - Second assessment of …, 2015 - Springer
This chapter summarises the climatic and environmental information that can be inferred
from proxy archives over the past 12,000 years. The proxy archives from continental and …