The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2
Basil Davis, Manuel Chevalier, Philipp S. Sommer, Vachel A. Carter, Walter Finsinger, Achille Mauri, Leanne N. Phelps, Marco Zanon, Roman Abegglen, Christine M. Åkesson, Francisca Alba‐Sánchez, R. Scott Anderson, Т. Г. Антипина, Juliana Atanassova, Ruth Beer, N. I. Belyanina, Tatiana Blyakharchuk, О. К. Борисова, Elissaveta Bozilova, Galina Bukreeva, M. Jane Bunting, Eleonora Clò, Danièle Colombaroli, Nathalie Combourieu‐Nebout, Stéphanie Desprat, Federico Di Rita, Morteza Djamali, Kevin J. Edwards, Patricia L. Fall, Angelica Feurdean, William J. Fletcher, Assunta Florenzano, Giulia Furlanetto, Emna Gaceur, A. T. Galimov, Mariusz Gałka, Iria García‐Moreiras, Thomas Giesecke, Roxana Grindean, Maria Angela Guido, И.Г. Гвоздева, Ulrike Herzschuh, Kari Loe Hjelle, Sergey Nikolaevich Ivanov, Susanne Jahns, Vlasta Jankovská, Gonzalo Jiménez‐Moreno, Monika Karpińska‐Kołaczek, Ikuko Kitaba, Piotr Kołaczek, Е. Г. Лаптева, Małgorzata Latałowa, V. Lebreton, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Michelle Leydet, D. A. Lopatina, José Antonio López Sáez, André F. Lotter, Donatella Magri, Elena Marinova, Isabelle Matthias, Anastasia Mavridou, Anna Maria Mercuri, José Manuel Mesa-Fernández, Yu.А. Mikishin, Krystyna Milecka, Carlo Montanari, César Morales‐Molino, Almut Mrotzek, Castor Muñoz Sobrino, O. D. Naidina, Takeshi Nakagawa, Anne Birgitte Nielsen, Елена Новенко, Sampson Panajiotidis, Н. К. Панова, Maria Papadopoulou, Heather S. Pardoe, Anna Pędziszewska, T.I. Petrenko, María J. Ramos‐Román, Cesare Ravazzi, Manfred Rösch, N.E. Ryabogina, Silvia Sabariego Ruiz, J. Sakari Salonen, Т. В. Сапелко, J. Edward Schofield, Heikki Seppä, Lyudmila Shumilovskikh, Normunds Stivriņš, Philipp Stojakowits, Hélèna Svobodova, Joanna Święta-Musznicka, Ioan Tanţău, Willy Tinner, Kazimierz Tobolski, Spassimir Tonkov, Margarita Tsakiridou, Verushka Valsecchi
Abstract
Abstract. 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).