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