{"id":1549,"date":"2026-02-17T11:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:10:34","slug":"1549-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/1549-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"ep_tm_pagetitle rd_citation_left\" style=\"text-align: center\">ACER2: The Abrupt Climate Changes and Environmental Responses Database (version 2)<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Abrupt Climate Changes and Environmental Responses (ACER) database (S\u00e1nchez Go\u00f1i et al., 2017) was originally developed to provide pollen and charcoal data for investigating past climate events. ACER2 includes\u00a0site metadata, age models, and pollen counts from all sites not included in the original ACER database. Taxon names have also been harmonised to align with the terminology used in version 3 of the SPECIAL Modern Pollen Database (SMPDSv3).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link to dataset:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/researchdata.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/Harrison=3ASandy=3A=3A.html\"><span class=\"person_name\">Harrison, Sandy<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/researchdata.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/Egbudom=3AMary-Ann=3A=3A.html\"><span class=\"person_name\">Egbudom, Mary-Ann<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/researchdata.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/Liu=3AMengmeng=3A=3A.html\"><span class=\"person_name\">Liu, Mengmeng<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(2025): ACER2: The Abrupt Climate Changes and Environmental Responses Database (version 2). University of Reading. Dataset.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17864\/1947.001449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17864\/1947.001449<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sanchez Go\u00f1i, MF et al. (2017): The ACER pollen and charcoal database: a global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period. Earth System Science Data, 9(2), 679-695,<a href=\"https:\/\/essd.copernicus.org\/articles\/9\/679\/2017\/\"> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/essd-9-679-2017\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACER2: The Abrupt Climate Changes and Environmental Responses Database (version 2) &nbsp; Description:\u00a0 The Abrupt Climate Changes and Environmental Responses (ACER) database (S\u00e1nchez Go\u00f1i et al., 2017) was originally developed&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#112;&#97;&#108;&#97;&#101;&#111;&#99;&#108;&#105;&#109;&#97;&#116;&#101;&#47;&#49;&#53;&#52;&#57;&#45;&#50;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":959,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[52,29,46,54],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources","tag-database","tag-pollen","tag-resources","tag-smpds"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>- SPECIAL Palaeoclimate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/palaeoclimate\/1549-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"- SPECIAL Palaeoclimate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ACER2: The Abrupt Climate Changes and Environmental Responses Database (version 2) &nbsp; 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