Pollen‐based reconstruction reveals the impact of the onset of agriculture on plant functional trait composition

People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

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(2021) Ondřej Mottl et al.   SCIENCE

Early historical forest clearance caused major degradation of water quality at Lake Væng, Denmark

(2021) Ole Bennike et al.   Anthropocene

Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

(2021) Julia S. Joswig et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Reflections on the Use of Ecological Attributes and Traits in Quaternary Botany

(2020) H. John B. Birks   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Holocene global mean surface temperature, a multi-method reconstruction approach

(2020) Darrell Kaufman et al.   Scientific Data

Modern Pollen–Plant Diversity Relationships Inform Palaeoecological Reconstructions of Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity in Calcareous Fens

(2020) Ansis Blaus et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

What do you mean “functional” in ecology? Patterns versus processes

(2020) Florence Volaire et al.   Ecology and Evolution

What drives biodiversity patterns? Using long‐term multidisciplinary data to discern centennial‐scale change

(2020) Jessie Woodbridge et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

CoordinateCleaner: standardized cleaning of occurrence records from biological collection databases

(2019) Alexander Zizka et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A 7000‐year history of changing plant trait composition in an Amazonian landscape; the role of humans and climate

(2019) Masha T. Sande et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A method for reconstructing temporal changes in vegetation functional trait composition using Holocene pollen assemblages

(2019) Fabio Carvalho et al.   PLoS One

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

(2019) Lucas Stephens et al.   SCIENCE

Postglacial change of the floristic diversity gradient in Europe

(2019) Thomas Giesecke et al.   Nature Communications

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Community-level functional interactions with fire track long-term structural development and fire adaptation

(2018) Thomas Brussel et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a multiproxy, international, community-curated data resource

(2018) John W. Williams et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Europe’s lost forests: a pollen-based synthesis for the last 11,000 years

(2018) N. Roberts et al.   Scientific Reports

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

(2018) Anne D. Bjorkman et al.   NATURE

Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size‐related traits across the tundra biome

(2018) H. J. D. Thomas et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Causes and mechanisms of synchronous succession trajectories in primeval Central European mixed Fagus sylvatica forests

(2018) Fabian Rey et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

(2018) Helge Bruelheide et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Shifts in plant functional strategies over the course of wheat domestication

(2017) Agathe Roucou et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Ancient plant DNA in lake sediments

(2017) Laura Parducci et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Quantifying the effects of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in Europe

(2017) Laurent Marquer et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Global climatic drivers of leaf size

(2017) Ian J. Wright et al.   SCIENCE

Trait-based approaches to analyze links between the drivers of change and ecosystem services: Synthesizing existing evidence and future challenges

(2017) Violeta Hevia et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Revisiting the Holy Grail: using plant functional traits to understand ecological processes

(2016) Jennifer L. Funk et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

(2016) Simon Pierce et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

29. Vrbka (Czech Republic): Pollen record of secondary steppe vegetation development within the Bronze Age agricultural landscape

(2016) Petr Pokorný   GRANA

runjags: AnRPackage Providing Interface Utilities, Model Templates, Parallel Computing Methods and Additional Distributions for MCMC Models inJAGS

(2016) Matthew J. Denwood   Journal of Statistical Software

Quantifying pollen-vegetation relationships to reconstruct ancient forests using 19th-century forest composition and pollen data

(2016) Andria Dawson et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Seven Millennia of human impact as reflected in a high resolution pollen profile from the profundal sediments of Litzelsee, Lake Constance region, Germany

(2016) Manfred Rösch et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

(2015) Andrew Siefert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography

(2015) Franziska Schrodt et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Novel insights into post-glacial vegetation change: functional and phylogenetic diversity in pollen records

(2015) Triin Reitalu et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

The role of palaeoecological records in assessing ecosystem services

(2015) Elizabeth S. Jeffers et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene regional vegetation cover (plant-functional types and land-cover types) in Europe suitable for climate modelling

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The world-wide ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

(2014) Peter B. Reich   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The age and post-glacial development of the modern European vegetation: a plant functional approach based on pollen data

(2014) Basil A. S. Davis et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Carbon burial in soil sediments from Holocene agricultural erosion, Central Europe

(2013) Thomas Hoffmann et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

7000 years of vegetation history and land-use changes in the Morvan Mountains (France): A regional synthesis

(2013) Isabelle Jouffroy-Bapicot et al.   HOLOCENE

Plant functional diversity and carbon storage - an empirical test in semi-arid forest ecosystems

(2013) Georgina Conti et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Crop manuring and intensive land management by Europe's first farmers

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Palynological perspectives on vegetation survey: a critical step for model-based reconstruction of Quaternary land cover

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Changes in biodiversity and vegetation composition in the central Swiss Alps during the transition from pristine forest to first farming

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Trait-based approaches to unravelling the assembly of weed communities and their impact on agro-ecosystem functioning

(2012) M-L NAVAS   WEED RESEARCH

taxonstand: An r package for species names standardisation in vegetation databases

(2012) Luis Cayuela et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Cascading effects of long-term land-use changes on plant traits and ecosystem functioning

(2011) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Succession-induced trait shifts across a wide range of NW European ecosystems are driven by light and modulated by initial abiotic conditions

(2011) Jacob C. Douma et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How fundamental plant functional trait relationships scale-up to trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services

(2011) Sandra Lavorel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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The traditional management of European heathlands

(2010) N.R. WEBB   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Vegetation and climate history in the Westeifel Volcanic Field (Germany) during the past 11 000 years based on annually laminated lacustrine maar sediments

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(2009) Angela T. Moles et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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The European Pollen Database: past efforts and current activities

(2009) Ralph M. Fyfe et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Establishing a Holocene sediment budget for the river Dijle

(2008) Bastiaan Notebaert et al.   CATENA

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

(2008) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Scale linkage and contingency effects of field-scale and hillslope-scale controls of long-term soil erosion: Anthropogeomorphic sediment flux in agricultural loess watersheds of Southern Germany

(2008) Peter Houben   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Evolution of vegetation landscapes since the Late Mesolithic on the French West Atlantic coast

(2008) Camille Joly et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Land-use patterns and cultural change in the Middle to Late Bronze Age in Ireland: inferences from pollen records

(2008) Gill Plunkett   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY