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 >
PMIP2 diagnostic for mid-Holocene precipitation over northern Africa Description: This dataset provides the latitudinal distribution of biomes (reconstructed at individual pollen sites) in northern Africa today and during the…Read More >
UK-Russian researcher collaboration for improved understanding of global change in the North. The DIMA workshop. By David Kesner
Global change in the Anthropocene knows no political boundaries. We need to understand environmental dynamics on regional to global scales, to understand the implications of global change for the future…Read More >
“Climate Change: the FAQs” and CLIMOVAR workshop. By Laia Comas Bru
What are the causes of climate change? And its consecuences? What can we do about it? These are some of the questions posed by Secondary School students about climate change…Read More >
SPECIAL and the Tsinghua Tiger Team in Gongga Mountains. By Sandy Harrison
The Gongga Mountains in Sichuan are foothills of the Tibetan Plateau and provide a very special opportunity to gather data on the environmental controls on leaf traits. Following a first…Read More >
The SPECIAL contribution to INQUA 2019. By Laia Comas Bru
Sandy Harrison and Laia Comas Bru attended the 20th INQUA (International Union for Quaternary Research) Congress between 25th and 31st July 2019 in Dublin (Ireland) to represent the SPECIAL research…Read More >