EUROPE
Moderated by:
Graciela Gil-Romera (University of Marburg) & Thomas Giesecke (University of Utrecht)
Time slot (CEST, UTC+2): 11:00-15:00
Time slot (CEST) Title - Speakers
11:00 Introduction - Who was Eric for us? - Graciela Gil-Romera
11:10 Eric - a friend and close colleague (1979 - 1989) - John Birks and Hilary Birks
11:25 Keynote: Eric in the early days of the European pollen database - Rachid Cheddadi
11:55 Mapping plant abundances in 4 dimensions - Thomas Giesecke
12:10 Exploring the long-term emergence of biological novelty using large datasets - Walter Finsinger
12:25 Plant attributes for explaining ecological trends using large pollen datasets - Petr Kuneš
12:40 Placing pollen on the calendar scale: Radiocarbon dating and age-depth modeling - Maarten Blaauw
12:55 Personal memories, anecdotes, toasts - Jacques Louis de Beaulieu, Michelle Leydet, Marie-Jose Gaillard
13:10 Mapping Holocene vegetation cover across Europe - Florènce Mazier
13:25 Examples of how the EPD has facilitated interdisciplinary research - Jessie Woodbridge
13:40 Hungry science and the need for long-term vegetation reconstruction - Ralph Fyfe
13:55 Personal memories, anecdotes, toasts - Mary E. Edwards, Henry E. Lamb
14:05 A worldwide database of conifer range loss during the past 30,000 years - Donatella Magri and James R.P. Worth
14:20 Pollen databases and climate reconstructions. From regional to global scales - Heikki Seppä and Jon Camuera
14:35 A mammoth comeback? Can large herbivores dominate ecosystem functions? - Richard Bradshaw
14:50 Closing - Thomas Giesecke and Graciela Gil-Romera
Next session: AFRICA