REVEALS reconstruction of past vegetation cover with optimized RPP values for African samples

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This data set presents the reconstructed vegetation cover for 155 African sites based on harmonized pollen data from the data set LegacyPollen 2.0 (https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.929773) and optimized RPP values. Sugita's REVEALS model (2000) was applied to all pollen records using REVEALSinR from the DISQOVER package (Theuerkauf et al. 2016). Pollen counts were translated into vegetation cover by taking into account taxon-specific pollen productivity and fall speed. Additionally, relevant source areas of pollen were also calculated using the aforementioned taxon-specific parameters and a gaussian plume model for deposition and dispersal and forest cover was reconstructed.In this optimized reconstruction, relative pollen productivity estimates for the ten most common taxa were first optimized by using reconstructed tree cover from modern pollen samples and LANDSAT remotely sensed tree cover (Townshend 2016) for Africa. Values for non-optimized taxa for relative pollen productivity and fall speed were taken from the synthesis from Wiezcorek and Herzschuh (2010). The average values from all Northern Hemisphere values were used where taxon-specific continental values were not available. We present tables with optimized reconstructed vegetation cover for all records in North America. As further details we list a table with the taxon-specific parameters used and a list of parameters adjusted in the default version of REVEALSinR.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.962458
Related Identifier https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.961699
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.962458
Provenance
Creator Schild, Laura ORCID logo; Herzschuh, Ulrike ORCID logo; Laepple, Thomas ORCID logo; Hébert, Raphaël ORCID logo; Ewald, Peter; Li, Chenzhi ORCID logo; Böhmer, Thomas ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2023
Rights Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints)
OpenAccess false
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 19034560 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-24.703W, -46.892S, 59.667E, 37.153N); Africa; Bourdim, Algeria; Dar Fatma, Tunisia; South Atlantic Ocean; Algeria; South Africa; Garaat El-Ouez, Algeria; Djebel El Ghorra, Tunisia; Majen Ben Hmida, Tunisia; Majen El Orbi, Tunisia; Nile Delta S2, Egypt; Nile Delta S6, Egypt; Nile Delta S7, Egypt; Nile Delta S8, Egypt; Tigalmamine, Morocco
Temporal Coverage Begin 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2013-10-24T00:00:00Z