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Introducing relative pollen productivity estimates for Iberian taxa: methodological insights and implications for landscape modelling in the Western Mediterranean
Pyrenean Institute of Ecology-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Department of Geography and Regional Planning, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
Vojtěch Abraham
Department of Botany, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Department of Paleoecology, Brno, Czech Republic
Miguel Sevilla-Callejo
Pyrenean Institute of Ecology-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Xavier Font
Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Héctor Romanos
Pyrenean Institute of Ecology-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
deceased, 2023
Eduardo García-Prieto
Pyrenean Institute of Ecology-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Josu Aranbarri
Department of Geography, Prehistory and Archaeology, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Maria Leunda
Institute of Plant Sciences and Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Michelle Farrell
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom
Fátima Franco-Múgica
Faculty of Sciences, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Michela Mariani
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Florence Mazier
Department of Environmental Geography, Université Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès, UTM UMR Laboratoire GÉODE, France
Helios Sainz-Ollero
Faculty of Sciences, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Penélope González-Sampériz
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Pyrenean Institute of Ecology-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
Graciela Gil-Romera
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Pyrenean Institute of Ecology-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
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Past land-cover reconstructions are essential for understanding long-term landscape changes. In this study, we present the first relative pollen productivity estimates (RPPs) for 21 plant taxa in Spain, a key parameter for reconstructing past vegetation dynamics. Our results provide a new RPP dataset for the Western Mediterranean, enabling more accurate pollen-based palaeoecological reconstructions in future studies.
Past land-cover reconstructions are essential for understanding long-term landscape changes. In...
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