TY  - JOUR
A1  - Herzschuh, Ulrike
A1  - Li, Chenzhi
A1  - Boehmer, Thomas
A1  - Postl, Alexander K.
A1  - Heim, Birgit
A1  - Andreev, Andrei A.
A1  - Cao, Xianyong
A1  - Wieczorek, Mareike
A1  - Ni, Jian
T1  - LegacyPollen 1.0
T2  - Earth system science data : ESSD
N2  - Here we describe the LegacyPollen 1.0, a dataset of 2831 fossil pollen records with metadata, a harmonized taxonomy, and standardized chronologies. 
A total of 1032 records originate from North America, 1075 from Europe, 488 from Asia, 150 from Latin America, 54 from Africa, and 32 from the Indo-Pacific. 

The pollen data cover the late Quaternary (mostly the Holocene). The original 10 110 pollen taxa names (including variations in the notations) were harmonized to 1002 terrestrial taxa (including Cyperaceae), with woody taxa and major herbaceous taxa harmonized to genus level and other herbaceous taxa to family level. 

The dataset is valuable for synthesis studies of, for example, taxa areal changes, vegetation dynamics, human impacts (e.g., deforestation), and climate change at global or continental scales. 

The harmonized pollen and metadata as well as the harmonization table are available from PANGAEA (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.929773; Herzschuh et al., 2021). R code for the harmonization is provided at Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5910972; Herzschuh et al., 2022) so that datasets at a customized harmonization level can be easily established.
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/63863
SN  - 1866-3508
SN  - 1866-3516
VL  - 14
IS  - 7
SP  - 3213
EP  - 3227
PB  - Copernicus
CY  - Göttingen
ER  -