The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

BAS Davis; M Zanon; P Collins; A Mauri; J Bakker; D Barboni; A Barthelmes; C Beaudouin; AE Bjune; E Bozilova; RHW Bradshaw; BA Brayshay; S Brewer; E Brugiapaglia; J Bunting; SE Connor; JL de Beaulieu; K Edwards; A Ejarque; P Fall; A Florenzano; R Fyfe; D Galop; M Giardini; T Giesecke; MJ Grant; J Guiot; S Jahns; V Jankovská; S Juggins; M Kahrmann; M Karpińska-Kołaczek; P Kołaczek; N Kühl; P Kuneš; EG Lapteva; SAG Leroy; M Leydet; JA López Sáez; A Masi; I Matthias; F Mazier; V Meltsov; AM Mercuri; Y Miras; FJG Mitchell; JL Morris; F Naughton; AB Nielsen; E Novenko; B Odgaard; E Ortu; MV Overballe-Petersen; HS Pardoe; SM Peglar; IA Pidek; L Sadori; H Seppä; E Severova; H Shaw; J Świeta-Musznicka; M Theuerkauf; S Tonkov; S Veski; WO van der Knaap; JFN van Leeuwen; J Woodbridge; M Zimny; JO Kaplan

Journal article

The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

BAS Davis, M Zanon, P Collins, A Mauri, J Bakker, D Barboni, A Barthelmes, C Beaudouin, AE Bjune, E Bozilova, RHW Bradshaw, BA Brayshay, S Brewer, E Brugiapaglia, J Bunting, SE Connor, JL de Beaulieu, K Edwards, A Ejarque, P Fall Show all

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany | SPRINGER | Published : 2013

DOI: 10.1007/s00334-012-0388-5

Abstract

Modern pollen samples provide an invaluable research tool for helping to interpret the quaternary fossil pollen record, allowing investigation of the relationship between pollen as the proxy and the environmental parameters such as vegetation, land-use, and climate that the pollen proxy represents. The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) is a new initiative within the European Pollen Database (EPD) to establish a publicly accessible repository of modern (surface sample) pollen data. This new database will complement the EPD, which at present holds only fossil sedimentary pollen data. The EMPD is freely available online to the scientific community and currently has information on almost 5,..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Simon Connor Author

Grants

Awarded by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Funding Acknowledgements

We would like to thank MarleenVermoere and Barbora Pelankova for contributing their data to the database. The EMPD workshop was funded by an International Workshop Grant to Basil Davis from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) (Grant No. IZ32Z0_137342/1), with further support from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the ARVE Group at EPFL.