The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

ISSN
0939-6314
1617-6278
Date Issued
2013
Author(s)
Davis, Basil A. S.
Zanon, Marco
Collins, Pamella
Mauri, Achille
Bakker, Johan
Barboni, Doris
Barthelmes, Alexandra
Beaudouin, Celia
Bjune, Anne E.
Bozilova, Elissaveta
Bradshaw, Richard H. W.
Brayshay, Barbara A.
Brewer, Simon
Brugiapaglia, Elisabetta
Bunting, Jane
Connor, Simon E.
de Beaulieu, Jacques-Louis
Edwards, Kevin
Ejarque, Ana
Fall, Patricia
Florenzano, Assunta
Fyfe, Ralph
Galop, Didier
Giardini, Marco
Giesecke, Thomas
Grant, Michael J.
Guiot, Jöel
Jahns, Susanne
Jankovská, Vlasta
Juggins, Stephen
Kahrmann, Marina
Karpińska-Kołaczek, Monika
Kołaczek, Piotr
Kühl, Norbert
Kuneš, Petr
Lapteva, Elena G.
Leroy, Suzanne A. G.
Leydet, Michelle
Guiot, José
López Sáez, José Antonio
Masi, Alessia
Mazier, Florence
Meltsov, Vivika
Mercuri, Anna Maria
Miras, Yannick
Mitchell, Fraser J. G.
Morris, Jesse L.
Naughton, Filipa
Nielsen, Anne Birgitte
Novenko, Elena
Odgaard, Bent
Ortu, Elena
Overballe-Petersen, Mette Venås
Pardoe, Heather S.
Peglar, Silvia M.
Pidek, Irena A.
Sadori, Laura
Seppä, Heikki
Severova, Elena
Shaw, Helen
Swieta-Musznicka, Joanna
Theuerkauf, Martin
Tonkov, Spassimir
Veski, Siim
van der Knaap, W. O.
van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F. N.
Woodbridge, Jessie
Zimny, Marcelina
Kaplan, Jed O.
DOI
10.1007/s00334-012-0388-5
Abstract
Modern pollen samples provide an invaluable research tool for helping to interpret the Quaternary fossil pollen record, allowing investigation of the relationship between pollen as the proxy and the environmental parameters such as vegetation, land-use, and climate that the pollen proxy represents. The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) is a new initiative within the European Pollen Database (EPD) to establish a publicly accessible repository of modern (surface sample) pollen data. This new database will complement the EPD, which at present holds only fossil sedimentary pollen data. The EMPD is freely available online to the scientific community and currently has information on almost 5000 pollen samples from throughout the Euro- Siberian and Mediterranean regions, contributed by over 40 individuals and research groups. Here we describe how the EMPD was constructed, the various tables and their fields, problems and errors, quality controls, and continuing efforts to improve the available data.