Erratum to: The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

Davis, Basil; Zanon, Marco; Collins, Pamella; Mauri, Achille; Bakker, Johan; Barboni, Doris; Barthelmes, Alexandra; Beaudouin, Célia; Birks, H. John B.; Bjune, Anne E.; Bozilova, Elissaveta; Bradshaw, Richard; Brayshay, Barbara; Brewer, Simon; Brugiapaglia, Elisabetta; Bunting, Jane; Connor, Simon; Beaulieu, Jacques‐Louis de; Edwards, Kevin J.; Ejarque, Ana; Fall, Patricia L.; Florenzano, Assunta; Fyfe, Ralph; Galop, Didier; Giardini, Marco; Giesecke, Thomas; Grant, Michael J.; Guiot, Joël; Jahns, Susanne; Jankovská, Vlasta; Juggins, Steve; Kahrmann, Marina; Karpińska‐Kołaczek, Monika; Kołaczek, Piotr; Kühl, Norbert; Kuneš, Petr; Лаптева, Е. Г.; Leroy, Suzanne A G; Leydet, Michelle; Sáez, José Antonio López; Masi, Alessia; Matthias, Isabelle; Mazier, Florence; Meltsov, Vivika; Mercuri, Anna Maria; Miras, Yannick; Mitchell, Fraser; Morris, Jesse L.; Naughton, Filipa; Nielsen, Anne Birgitte; Novenko, Elena; Odgaard, Bent Vad; Ortu, Elena; Overballe-Petersen, Mette Venås; Pardoe, Heather S.; Peglar, Silvia M.; Pidek, Irena Agnieszka; Sadori, Laura; Seppä, Heikki; Severova, Elena; Shaw, Helen; Święta-Musznicka, Joanna; Theuerkauf, Martin; Tonkov, Spassimir; Veski, Siim; Knaap, P. van der; Leeuwen, Jacqueline F. N. van; Woodbridge, Jessie; Zimny, Marcelina; Kaplan, Jed O.

doi:10.1007/s00334-013-0408-0

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“…Charcoal Database project (GCD; www.paleofire.org). Surface pollen samples were extracted from the European Modern Pollen Database (Davis et al, 2013) and the work of the data contributors and community is gratefully acknowledged. Many thanks to Alistair Seddon and Petr Kuneš for kindly providing R code and support and to our helpful reviewers for their expert commentary.…”

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Humans take control of fire-driven diversity changes in Mediterranean Iberia’s vegetation during the mid–late Holocene

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Fire regime changes are considered a major threat to future biodiversity in the Mediterranean Basin. Such predictions remain untested, however, given that fire regime changes and their ecological impacts occur over timescales that are too long for direct observation. Here we analyse centennial-3 and millennial-scale shifts in fire regimes and compositional turnover to track the consequences of fire regime shifts on Mediterranean vegetation diversity. We estimated rate-of-change, richness and compositional turnover (beta diversity) in 13 selected high-resolution palaeoecological records from Mediterranean Iberia and compared these to charcoal-inferred fire regime changes. Event sequence analysis showed fire regime shifts to be significantly temporally associated with compositional turnover, particularly during the last three millennia. We find that the timing and direction of fire and diversity change in Mediterranean Iberia are best explained by long-term human-environment interactions dating back perhaps 7500 years. Evidence suggests that Neolithic burning propagated a first wave of increasing vegetation openness and promoted woodland diversity around early farming settlements. Landscape transformation intensified around 5500-5000 cal. yr BP and accelerated during the last two millennia, as fire led to permanent transitions in ecosystem state. These fire episodes increased open vegetation diversity, decreased woodland diversity and significantly altered richness on a regional scale. Our study suggests that anthropogenic fires played a primary role in diversity changes in Mediterranean Iberia. Their millennia-long legacy in today's vegetation should be considered for biodiversity conservation and landscape management.

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“…Both approaches were applied here, with the empirical approach validated using 352 modern pollen samples and associated vegetation descriptions from J.A. López-Sáez's contributions to the European Modern Pollen Database (Davis et al, 2013;López-Sáez et al, 2010).…”

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Humans take control of fire-driven diversity changes in Mediterranean Iberia’s vegetation during the mid–late Holocene

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“…Pollen count data from the European modern (Davis et al, 2013) and fossil pollen databases (EPD version Oct. 2017: Leydet, 2007 were combined with additional fossil records provided by a network of data contributors to compile a dataset of 257 fossil records and 1798 modern pollen surface samples spanning the Mediterranean region. Pollen sequences with reliable chronologies (Giesecke et al, 2014) were selected for analysis and new sediment core chronologies were constructed for additional records using the 'bacon' R package (Blaauw & Christen, 2011).…”

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Prehistoric palaeodemographics and regional land cover change in eastern Iberia

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Much attention has been placed on the drivers of vegetation change on the Iberian Peninsula. Whilst climate plays a key role in determining the species pools within different regions and exerts a strong influence on broad vegetation patterning, the role of humans, particularly during prehistory, is less clear. The aim of this paper is to assess the influence of prehistoric population change on shaping vegetation patterns in eastern Iberia and the Balearic Islands between the start of the Neolithic and the late Bronze Age. 3385 radiocarbon dates have been compiled across the study area to provide a palaeodemographic proxy (radiocarbon summed probability distributions: SPD). Modelled trends in palaeodemographics are compared with regional-scale vegetation patterns deduced from analysis of 30 fossil pollen sequences. The pollen sequences have been standardised with count data aggregated into contiguous 200-yr time windows from 11000 cal. yr BP to present. Samples have been classified using cluster analysis to determine the predominant regional land cover types through the Holocene. Regional human impact indices and diversity metrics have been derived for northeast and southeast Spain and the Balearic Islands. The SPDs show characteristic boom-and-bust cycles of population growth and collapse, but there is no clear synchronism between northeast and southeast Spain other than the rise of Neolithic farming. In northeast Iberia patterns 2 of demographic change are strongly linked to changes in vegetation diversity and human impact indicator groups. In the southeast increases in population throughout the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Age result in more open landscapes and increased vegetation diversity. The demographic maximum occurred early in the 3 rd millennium cal. BP on the Balearic Islands and is associated with highest levels of human impact indicator groups. The results demonstrate the importance of population change in shaping the abundance and diversity of taxa within broad climaticallydetermined biomes.

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