“…This study aims to demonstrate overall trends in the plant cover of the region by applying the REVEALS model (Regional Estimates of VEgetation Abundance from Large Sites; Sugita, ) – the first step of the LRA – for reconstruction of regional vegetation within a 50–100‐km radius of pollen sites. REVEALS has been evaluated (e.g., Hellman, Gaillard, Broström, & Sugita, ; Sugita, Parshall, Calcote, & Walker, ; Soepboer, Sugita, & Lotter, ; Abraham, Oušková, & Kuneš, ; Hjelle, Mehl, Sugita, & Andersen, ) with encouraging results. Regional vegetation has been estimated using REVEALS (e.g., Fyfe et al., ; Marquer et al., ; Kuneš et al., ; Mehl & Hjelle, ), and all papers point to more open vegetation during the Holocene, than indicated by pollen percentages.…”