Fossil & Surface Pollen Data

Contributing Data Obtaining Data at the WDC     Please Cite Data Contributors! Data archived here were last updated in February 2005. Data contributed since March 2005 are available from the Neotoma Paleoecology Database. Pollen Search Engine Download Pollen Data via FTP Bartlein et al. 2010 Continental Temp., Precip., GDD, 6ka & 21k Bjune et al. 2008 Northern Fennoscandia Counts and Reconstructions, Text or Excel format. Finsinger et al. 2010 Lago dell'Accesa, Italy Summer Precipitation and January Temperature Reconstructions, Text or Excel format. Gajewski 1988 NE USA LIA Reconstructions Nakagawa et al. Lake Suigetsu, Japan Counts and Reconstructions, Text or Excel format. Peros and Gajewski 2008 Nunavut, Canada Counts and Reconstructions, Text or Excel Viau ang Gajewski 2009 Boreal Canada Regional Holocene Climate Reconstructions, Text or Excel Viau et al. 2008 Eastern Beringia 25,000 Year Climate Reconstructions, Text or Excel Viau et al. 2006 North American July Temperature Reconstructions Vegetation Mapping for eastern North America BIOME 6000 African and European 6K Climate and Surface Reconstructions Ray and Adams 2001 GIS-based Vegetation Map of the World at the Last Glacial Maximum Williams et al. 2004 Pollen Viewer for Quaternary North America and gridded pollen data. Search All Paleoclimatology Data Related Journals

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Pollen Viewer

North American Pollen Atlas

Other Data Archives

• African Pollen Database: a tool for all scientists involved in African palynology.
• Base de données polliniques et macrofossiles du Québec at the Université de Montréal.
• Canadian Pollen Database, at the Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology, University of Ottawa.
• European Pollen Database: Europe, Northern Africa, Western Asia, the Middle East.
• Pollen Monitoring Programme: monitoring pollen deposition across Europe.
• Global Pollen Database: spanning the globe. Updates since March 2005 available from PaleoScienceData.net
• Indo-Pacific Pollen Database: India, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania.
• Latin American Pollen Database: Mexico, Central and South America.
• North American Pollen Database: Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and the United States.
• The INQUA File Boutique contains newsletters, pollen data programs, and other information on Quaternary pollen research (from the INQUA Commission for Study of the Holocene, Working Group on Data Handling Methods).
• North American Modern Pollen Data: Whitmore et al. 2005.
• North American Packrat Midden Database: Southwest USA and Mexico Packrat Midden Data.

Free Pollen Database Software

Other Software

• Tilia and TGView, spreadsheet and diagramming programs for stratigraphic data are available from Dr. Eric Grimm of the Illinois State Museum.
• PALYHELP is a suite of six programs from L.J. Maher, Jr. at the University of Wisconsin. These programs address common statistical questions in palynological and paleoecological research.

Other Places of Interest

• Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
• An Internet Directory for Botany lists resources of interest to botanists.
• The Missouri Botanical Garden maintains a searchable database of plant taxonomic information.
• The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants.

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