The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2

Basil A. S. Davis , Manuel Chevalier , Philipp Sommer , Vachel A. Carter , Walter Finsinger (1) , Achille Mauri , Leanne N. Phelps , Marco Zanon , Roman Abegglen , Christine M. Åkesson , Francisca Alba-Sánchez , R. Scott Anderson , Tatiana G. Antipina , Juliana R. Atanassova , Ruth Beer , Nina I. Belyanina , Tatiana A. Blyakharchuk , Olga K. Borisova , Elissaveta Bozilova , Galina Bukreeva , M. Jane Bunting , Eleonora Clò , Daniele Colombaroli , Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout (2) , Stéphanie Desprat (3) , Federico Di Rita , Morteza Djamali (4) , Kevin J. Edwards , Patricia L. Fall , Angelica Feurdean , William Fletcher , Assunta Florenzano , Giulia Furlanetto , Emna Gaceur , Arsenii T. Galimov , Mariusz Gałka , Iria García-Moreiras , Thomas Giesecke , Roxana Grindean , Maria A. Guido , Irina G. Gvozdeva , Ulrike Herzschuh , Kari L. Hjelle , Sergey Ivanov , Susanne Jahns , Vlasta Jankovska , Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno , Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek , Ikuko Kitaba , Piotr Kołaczek , Elena G. Lapteva , Małgorzata Latałowa , Vincent Lebreton , Suzanne Leroy (5) , Michelle Leydet (6) , Darya A. Lopatina , José Antonio López-Sáez , André F. Lotter , Donatella Magri , Elena Marinova , Isabelle Matthias , Anastasia Mavridou , Anna Maria Mercuri , Jose Manuel Mesa-Fernández , Yuri A. Mikishin , Krystyna Milecka , Carlo Montanari , César Morales-Molino , Almut Mrotzek , Castor Muñoz Sobrino , Olga D. Naidina , Takeshi Nakagawa , Anne Birgitte Nielsen , Elena Y. Novenko , Sampson Panajiotidis , Nata K. Panova , Maria Papadopoulou , Heather S. Pardoe , Anna Pędziszewska , Tatiana I. Petrenko , María J. Ramos-Román , Cesare Ravazzi , Manfred Rösch , Natalia Ryabogina , Silvia Sabariego Ruiz , J. Sakari Salonen , Tatyana V. Sapelko , James E. Schofield , Heikki Seppä , Lyudmila Shumilovskikh , Normunds Stivrins , Philipp Stojakowits , Helena Svobodova Svitavska , Joanna Święta-Musznicka , Ioan Tantau , Willy Tinner , Kazimierz Tobolski , Spassimir Tonkov , Margarita Tsakiridou , Verushka Valsecchi , Oksana G. Zanina , Marcelina Zimny

1 UMR ISEM - Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier
2 HNHP - Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique
3 EPOC - Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques
4 IMBE - Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
5 AMU - Aix Marseille Université
6 AU - Avignon Université

The Eurasian (née 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. The EMPD can be viewed online using a dedicated map-based viewer at https://empd2.github.io and downloaded in a variety of file formats at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.909130 (Chevalier et al., 2019).

Domaines: Planète et Univers [physics]; Sciences de la Terre

Basil A. S. Davis, Manuel Chevalier, Philipp Sommer, Vachel A. Carter, Walter Finsinger, et al.. The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2. Earth System Science Data, 2020, 12, pp.2423-2445. ⟨10.5194/essd-12-2423-2020⟩. ⟨insu-03678689⟩