Reconstructing biomes from palaeoecological data: a general method and its application to European pollen data at 0 and 6 ka

Black Sea nitrogen cycling and the preservation of phytoplankton δ15N signals during the Holocene

“…[36] Mode-2 most likely dominated during Unit IIb 1 deposition from 6.9 to 5.1 ka, coincident with the 6 ka "climate optimum" when wet and warm conditions dominated in Northern Europe [Prentice et al, 1996]. High Caspian Sea levels, pollen records from Romania and the Crimean Peninsula, and the interruption of scytonemin deposition in the Black Sea illustrate that a warm and wet climate regime was in place in the Black Sea region at that time (Figure 3) [Chepalyga, 1985;Cordova and Lehman, 2005;Feurdean et al, 2008;Fulton et al, 2012].…”

Effect of changing vegetation on denudation (part 1): Predicted vegetation composition and cover over the last 21 thousand years along the Coastal Cordillera of Chile

“…Using a biomization approach (see Prentice and Guiot, 1996 for the general concept), we classified the simulated PFTs into discrete vegetation types (referred to as biomes in the manuscript, see Forest; see Fig. B1).…”

Pollen of Malagasy grasses as a potential tool for interpreting grassland palaeohistory

“…Jolly et al (1998) published a biome reconstruction for Africa and the Arabian Peninsula at 0 and 6000 years. The 'biomisation' method was implemented (Prentice et al 1996); this uses modern pollen data to predict major vegetation types with high confidence levels; taxa are assigned to one or more plant functional types. The study concluded that Eastern, Southern and Central Africa and Madagascar have seen minor changes in biomes over the past 6000 years (Jolly et al 1998).…”