The launch of the new Leverhulme Centre was celebrated with a symposium on November the 13th, 2019, at Imperial College London. SPECIAL group members Alexander Kuhn-Regnier, David Kesner, Pablo Paiewonsky,…Read More >
On the road to the ERC Starting grant through the SPECIAL highway by Łukasz Pawlik
I’m happy to join the Special group and glad Professor Sandy Harrison agreed to be my supervisor during my stay here at the University of Reading. I currently work as…Read More >
Fossil pollen data for climate reconstructions from El Cañizar de Villarquemado Description: The sedimentary sequences from El Cañizar de Villarquemado provide a palaeoenvironmental record from the western Mediterranean Basin spanning…Read More >
The climatic space of European pollen taxa Description: Pollen data are widely used to reconstruct past climate changes, using relationships between modern pollen abundance in surface samples and climate at…Read More >
Multi-variable benchmark for Last Glacial Maximum climate simulations Description: Reconstruction of climate anomalies for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, c.a. 21,000 years ago), made by combining pollen based reconstructions (from…Read More >
The China Plant Trait Database Description: Plant functional traits provide information about adaptations to climate and environmental conditions, and can be used to explore the existence of alternative plant strategies…Read More >
BIOME 6000 vegetation reconstructions Description: This dataset contains BIOME 6000 reconstructions of vegetation at 0, 6, and 21ka at individual sites, where the original published nomenclature for individual regions has…Read More >
Modern pollen data for climate reconstructions, version 1 (SMPDS) Description: The dataset contains percentage counts for the 247 most important European pollen taxa from individual modern samples from Europe…Read More >
EMBSeCBIO modern pollen biomisation Description: The data set contains metadata describing modern pollen samples for the Eastern Mediterranean-Black Sea-Caspian-Corridor region and biome reconstructions made using these data. Observed vegetation…Read More >
SISAL (Speleothem Isotopes Synthesis and AnaLysis Working Group) database Description: Stable isotope records from speleothems provide information on past climate changes, most particularly information that can be used to reconstruct…Read More >