A fossil pollen dataset of China

作者：Bo-Rui ZHOU, Mengna Liao, Kai Li, De-Yu XU, H.B. Chen, Jian Ni, Xianyong Cao, Zhaochen Kong, Qinghai Xu, Yun Zhang, HERZSCHUH Ulrike, Yong-Li CAI, Bishan Chen, Jing-An CHEN, Ling-Kang CHEN, Bo Cheng, Yang Gao, boxedhboxHUANG Ci-Xuan, Xiao-Zhong HUANG, Sheng-Feng LI, Wen-Yi LI, Kam-Biu LIU, Guangxiu Liu, Ping-Mei LIU, Xing-Qi LIU, Chun-Mei MA, Chang-Qing SONG, Xiang-Jun SUN, Ling-Yu TANG, Man-Hua WANG, Yong-Bo WANG, boxedhboxXIA Yu-Mei, Jia-Sheng XU, Yan Shun, Xiang-Dong YANG, Yi-Feng YAO, Chuan-Yong YE, Zhi-Yong ZHANG, Zeng-You ZHAO, Zhuo Zheng, Cheng ZHU · 发表于：Chinese Journal of Plant Ecology · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.17521/cjpe.2022.0316 · 被引用次数：16 · 研究领域：Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Fossil pollen and spore records provide highly creditable proxy data to investigate the past environmental changes such as palaeovegetation and palaeoclimate. Pollen database promotes past environmental studies from local to regional and global scales and from qualitative to quantitative reconstructions. This is of great significance on exploring the interactions among past vegetation, climates and anthropogenic disturbances at large spatial scale and long temporal scale, to better understand the evolution of the earth system. In this paper, a fossil pollen dataset of China is compiled, by synthesizing 372 original or digitized fossil pollen records including 790 pollen taxa in China’s land and ocean during the late-Quaternary (since 50 ka BP). The dataset includes site names, latitude, longitude and altitude, pollen data source, sample type, sediment length or span, sample number of each site, dating method and dating number, age span and reference, as well as the fossil pollen percentage of each sampling site. The pollen data, mostly published from late 1980s to present, are concentrated in vegetation regions of temperate and subtropical forests, temperate grasslands, temperate deserts and alpine vegetation on the Qingzang Plateau. Sample sites are distributed at different altitudes from deep sea to high Qingzang Plateau, but the majority of the sites are located between 0–2 000 m. The dataset comprises of 178 raw pollen records (47.8%) and 194 digitized pollen records (52....