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Summary
The Global Palaeovegetation Mapping (BIOME 6000) Project is a community-wide
collaboration inaugurated in 1994 under the joint auspices of four of the
elements of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program. The aims of BIOME
6000 are to: - create fully-documented pollen and plant macrofossil data sets
for 6000 and 18,000 years before present (yr B.P.) - ... construct global maps of
biomes for these time periods, using a standard objective biomisation technique
based on plant functional types (PFTs).

This is the first release of the Biome6000 data. The data are organised
according to publications. This first release only contains the most basic
metadata (region, site name or code, latitude, longitude, and elevation) and
the biome assignments for each of the sites, if available. A more detailed
data report will be made available as soon as the regional data have come in.

An updated Version 4.2 of BIOME 6000 is available from the University of
Bristol: http://www.bridge.bris.ac.uk/resources/Databases/BIOMES_data

Geographic Coverage Spatial coordinates   

N: 90.0

S: -90.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Creator: Boenisch, G., Harrison, S.P., Prentice, I.C., and Biome 6000 members Dataset Title: BIOME 6000 Data Release 1 Dataset Series Name: IGBP PAGES/WDCA Data Contribution Series #: 2001-046 Dataset Release Date: May 2001 Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO Dataset Publisher: IGBP PAGES/World Data Center for Paleoclimatology Version: Release 1 Issue Identification: 2001-046 Online Resource: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/biome6000.html

Paleo Temporal Coverage

Paleo Start Date: 6000 ybp Paleo Stop Date: 0 ybp Chrono Unit: PHANEROZOIC  >  CENOZOIC  >  QUATERNARY  >  HOLOCENE

Location Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL LAND

Science Keywords

BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > ALPINE/TUNDRA BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > DESERTS BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > FORESTS BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > GRASSLANDS BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > SAVANNAS BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > SHRUBLAND/SCRUB BIOSPHERE > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS LAND SURFACE > LAND USE/LAND COVER > LAND COVER PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > MACROFOSSILS PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > PALEOVEGETATION PALEOCLIMATE > LAND RECORDS > POLLEN PALEOCLIMATE > OCEAN/LAKE RECORDS > MACROFOSSILS PALEOCLIMATE > PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS > VEGETATION RECONSTRUCTION BIOSPHERE > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > WETLANDS

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE OCEANS

Project

BIOME 6000 > Global Paleovegetation Mapping Project PAGES > Past Global Changes, IGBP

Ancillary Keywords

biomes paleovegetation IGBP BIOME 6000 TEMS GTOS G3OS

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

NOAA/NCDC

Data Center

World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, Boulder Data Center URL: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ Data Center Personnel Name: WDC/PALEOCLIMATOLOGY, BOULDER Phone: +1 (303) 497-6160 Fax: +1 (303) 497-6513 Email: paleo at noaa.gov Contact Address: World Data Center for Paleoclimatology NOAA/NCDC Code E/GCx3 325 Broadway City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80303 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: online www, ftp Distribution Format: ascii, excel Fees: none

Personnel

GERHARD BOENISCH Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: 49 3641 576277 Email: boenischbgc-jena.mpg.de Contact Address: Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry P.O. Box 100164 Hans-Knoll-Str. 10 City: Jena Postal Code: 07745 Country: GERMANY SANDY P. HARRISON Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: +44 (0)117 33 17223 Fax: +44 (0)117 928 7878 Email: sandy.harrison at bristol.ac.uk Contact Address: BRIDGE School of Geographical Sciences University of Bristol University Road City: Bristol Postal Code: BS8 1SS Country: United Kingdom I. COLIN PRENTICE Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: +49 3641 576200 Email: Colin.Prentice at bristol.ac.uk Contact Address: Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry P.O. Box 100164 Hans-Knoll-Str. 10 City: Jena Postal Code: 07745 Country: GERMANY

Related URL

Link: GET DATA Description: Access to BIOME 6000 data, maps and additional information Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE Description: BIOME 6000 home page for latest version and download Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION Description: Documentation for the BIOME 6000 data set

Publications/References
Prentice, C.I., Guiot, J., Huntley, B., Jolly D. and Cheddadi, R., 1996,
Reconstructing biomes from palaeoecological data: a general method and its
application to European pollen data at 0 and 6 ka. Climate Dynamics
12:185-194.

Africa 1998:
D. Jolly, S. P. Harrison, B. Damnati and R. Bonnefille, 1998, SILMULATED
CLIMATE AND BIOMES OF AFRICA ... DURING THE LATE QUATERNARY: COMPARISON WITH
POLLEN AND LAKE STATUS DATA, Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol.: 17, 629-657.

Africa and Arabia FSI 1998:
Jolly, D., Prentice, C.I., Bonnefille, R., Ballouche, A., Bengo, M., Brenac,
P., Buchet, G., Burney, D., Cazet, J-P., Cheddadi, R., Edorh, T., Elenga, H.,
Elmoutaki, S., Guiot, J., Laarif, F., Lamb, H., Lezine, A-M., Maley, J.,
Mbenza, M., Peryon, O., Reille, M., Reynaud-Farrera, I., Riollet, G., Ritchie,
J.C., Roche, E., Scott, L., Ssemmanda, I., Straka, H., Umer, M., Van Campo,
E., Vilimumbalo, S., Vincens, A. and Waller, M., 1998, Biome reconstruction
from pollen and plant macrofossil data for Africa and the Arabian peninsula at
0 and 6000 years. Journal of Biogeography

Former Soviet Union and Mongolia FSI 1998:
Tarasov, P.E., Webb III, T., Andreev, A.A., Afanas'eva, N.B., Berezina, N.A.,
Bezusko, L.G., Blyakharchuk, T.A., Bolikhovskaya, N.S., Cheddadi, R.,
Chernavskaya, M.M., Chernova, G.M., Dorofeyuk, N.I., Dirksen, V.G., Elina,
G.A., Filimonova, L.V., Glebov, F.Z., Guiot, J., Gunova, V.S., Harrison, S.P.,
Jolly, D., Khomutova, V.I., Kvavadze, E.V., Osipova, I.M., Panova, N.K.,
Prentice, I.C., Saarse, L., Sevastyanov, Volkova, V.S., Zernitskaya, V.P.,
1998, Present-day and mid-Holocene biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant
macrofossil data from the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. Journal of
Biogeography 25, 1029-1053. 25, 1007-1027.

China FSI 1998:
Yu, G., Prentice, I.C., Harrison, S.P., Sun, X., 1998, Pollen-based biome
reconstruction for China at 0 and 6000 years. Journal of Biogeography, 25,
1055-1069.

Berengia SSI 2000:
Edwards, M.E., Anderson, P.M., Brubaker, L.B., Ager, T.A., Andreev, A.A.,
Bigelow, N.H., Cwynar, L.C., Eisner, W.R., Harrison, S.P., Hu, F-S., Jolly,
D., Lozhkin, A.V., MacDonald, G.M., Mock, C.J., Ritchie, J.C., Sher, A.V.,
Spear, R.W., Williams, J.W. and Yu, G., (2000) Pollen-based biomes for
Beringia 18,000, 6,000 and 0 14C yr B.P. Journal of Biogeography 27: 521-554.

Western USA SSI 2000:
Thompson, R.S. and Anderson, K.H., 2000. Biomes of Western North America at
18,000, 6,000 and 0 14C yr B.P. reconstructed from pollen and packrat midden
data. Journal of Biogeography 27: 555-584.

Canada and Eastern USA SSI 2000:
Williams, J.W., Webb III, T., Richard, P.J.H. and Newby, P., 2000, Late
quaternary biomes of Canada and the eastern United States. Journal of
Biogeography 27: 585-607.

Africa and Southern Europe SSI 2000: Elenga, H., Peryon, O., Bonnefille, R.,
Prentice, I.C., Jolly, D., Cheddadi, R., Guiot, J., Andrieu, V., Bottema, S.,
Buchet, G.-L., de Beaulieu, J.L., Hamilton, A.C., Maley, J., Marchant, R.,
Perez-Obiol, R., Reille, M., Riollet, G., Scott, L., Straka, H., Taylor, D.,
Van Campo, E., Vincens, A., Laarif, F. and Jonson, H., 2000, Pollen-based
reconstruction for Southern Europe and Africa 18,000 years ago. Journal of
Biogeography 27: 621-634.

Northern Eurasia SSI 2000:
Tarasov, P.E., Volkova, V.S., Webb III, T., Guiot, J., Andreev, A.A., Bezusko,
L.G., Bezusko, T.V., Bykova, G.V., Dorofeyuk, N.I., Kvavadze, E.V., Osipova,
I.M., Panova, N.K. and Sevastyanov, D.V., 2000, Last glacial maximum biomes
reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from northern Eurasia.
Journal of Biogeography 27: 609-620.

China SSI 2000:
Yu, G., Chen, X., Ni, J., Cheddadi, R., Guiot, J., Han, H., Harrison, S.P.,
Huang, C., Ke, M., Kong, Z., Li, S., Li, W., Liew, P., Liu, G., Liu, J., Liu,
K.-B., Prentice, I.C., Qui, W., Ren, G., Song, C., Sugita, S., Sun X., Tang,
L., Van Campo, E., Xia, Y., Xu, Q., Yan, S., Yang, X., Zhao, J., Zheng, Z.,
2000, Palaeovegetation of China: a pollen data-based synthesis for the
mid-Holocene and last glacial maximum. Journal of Biogeography 27:635-664.

Japan SSI 2000:
Takahara, H., Sugita, S., Harrison, S.P., Miyoshi, N., Morita, Y. and Uchiyama,
T., 2000, Pollen-based reconstruction of Japanese biomes at 0, 6000 and 18,000
14C yr B.P. Journal of Biogeography 27: 665-683.

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2004-03-23 Last DIF Revision Date: 2006-09-26

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