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The Holocene vegeta...
The Holocene vegetation cover of Britain and Ireland : overcoming problems of scale and discerning patterns of openness
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- Fyfe, Ralph M. (author)
- Plymouth University, UK
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- Twiddle, Claire (author)
- University of Aberdeen, UK
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- Sugita, Shinya (author)
- Tallinn University, Estonia
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- Gaillard, Marie-José (author)
- Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för biologi och miljö (BOM)
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- Barratt, Philip (author)
- Queen's University of Belfast, UK
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- Caseldine, Christopher J. (author)
- University of Exeter, UK
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- Dodson, John (author)
- Institute for Environmental Research, Australia
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- Edwards, Kevin J. (author)
- University of Aberdeen, UK
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- Farrell, Michelle (author)
- University of Hull, UK
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- Froyd, Cynthia (author)
- Swansea University, UK
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- Grant, Michael J. (author)
- Wessex Archaeology, UK;Kingston University, UK
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- Huckerby, Elizabeth (author)
- Oxford Archaeology North, UK
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- Innes, James B. (author)
- Durham University, UK
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- Shaw, Helen (author)
- Lancaster University, UK
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- Waller, Martyn (author)
- Kingston University, UK
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- Elsevier BV, 2013
- 2013
- English.
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In: Quaternary Science Reviews. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-3791 .- 1873-457X. ; 73, s. 132-148
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- The vegetation of Europe has undergone substantial changes during the course of the Holocene epoch, resulting from range expansion of plants following climate amelioration, competition between taxa and disturbance through anthropogenic activities. Much of the detail of this pattern is understood from decades of pollen analytical work across Europe, and this understanding has been used to address questions relating to vegetation-climate feedback, biogeography and human impact. Recent advances in modelling the relationship between pollen and vegetation now make it possible to transform pollen proportions into estimates of vegetation cover at both regional and local spatial scales, using the Landscape Reconstruction Algorithm (LRA), i.e. the REVEALS (Regional Estimates of VEgetation Abundance from Large Sites) and the LOVE (Local VEgetation) models. This paper presents the compilation and analysis of 73 pollen stratigraphies from the British Isles, to assess the application of the LRA and describe the pattern of landscape/woodland openness (i.e. the cover of low herb and bushy vegetation) through the Holocene. The results show that multiple small sites can be used as an effective replacement for a single large site for the reconstruction of regional vegetation cover. The REVEALS vegetation estimates imply that the British Isles had a greater degree of landscape/woodland openness at the regional scale than areas on the European mainland. There is considerable spatial bias in the British Isles dataset towards wetland areas and uplands, which may explain higher estimates of landscape openness compared with Europe. Where multiple estimates of regional vegetation are available from within the same region inter-regional differences are greater than intra-regional differences, supporting the use of the REVEALS model to the estimation of regional vegetation from pollen data. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences (hsv//eng)
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- Pollen analysis
- British Isles
- Vegetation
- Landscape openness
- REVEALS
- Holocene
- Paleoecology
- Paleoekologi
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