The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2

0533572 - BÚ 2021 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Davis, B. A. S. - Chevalier, M. - Sommer, P. - Carter, V. A. - Jankovská, Vlasta - Svobodová-Svitavská, Helena … Total 102 authors
The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2.
Earth System Science Data. Roč. 12, č. 4 (2020), s. 2423-2445. ISSN 1866-3508. E-ISSN 1866-3516
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : database * pollen * surface
OECD category: Plant sciences, botany
Impact factor: 11.333, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2423-2020

The Eurasian (nee European) Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) was established in 2013 to provide a public database of high-quality modern pollen surface samples to help support studies of past climate, land cover, and land use using fossil pollen. The EMPD is part of, and complementary to, the European Pollen Database (EPD) which contains data on fossil pollen found in Late Quaternary sedimentary archives throughout the Eurasian region. The EPD is in turn part of the rapidly growing Neotoma database, which is now the primary home for global palaeoecological data. This paper describes version 2 of the EMPD in which the number of samples held in the database has been increased by 60% from 4826 to 8134. Much of the improvement in data coverage has come from northern Asia, and the database has consequently been renamed the Eurasian Modern Pollen Database to reflect this geographical enlargement.
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