Publications by Pamela Collins

The climate of Europe during the Holocene: a gridded pollen-based reconstruction and its multi-proxy evaluation

Jed Oliver Kaplan, Pamela Collins, Basil Andrew Stansfield Davis, Achille Mauri

We present a new gridded climate reconstruction for Europe for the last 12,000 years based on pollen data. The reconstruction is an update of Davis et al. (2003) using the same methodology, but with a greatly expanded fossil and surface-sample dataset and ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

The influence of atmospheric circulation on the mid-Holocene climate of Europe: a data-model comparison

Jed Oliver Kaplan, Pamela Collins, Basil Andrew Stansfield Davis, Achille Mauri

The atmospheric circulation is a key area of uncertainty in climate model simulations of future climate change, especially in mid-latitude regions such as Europe where atmospheric dynamics have a significant role in climate variability. It has been propose ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2014

Erratum to: The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

Jed Oliver Kaplan, Pamela Collins, Basil Andrew Stansfield Davis, Achille Mauri

Springer, Springer Berlin Heidelberg2013

Drivers of Holocene Land Cover Change in Europe

Pamela Collins

The modern vegetation of Europe is a product of its history. Climate change, plant migration, and human activity have all been important drivers of Holocene (11,500 years ago to the present) vegetation dynamics, but it is difficult to disentangle the relat ...

EPFL2013

The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

Jed Oliver Kaplan, Pamela Collins, Basil Andrew Stansfield Davis, Achille Mauri

Modern pollen samples provide an invaluable research tool for helping to interpret the quaternary fossil pollen record, allowing investigation of the relationship between pollen as the proxy and the environmental parameters such as vegetation, land-use, an ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2013

The mid-Holocene vegetation of the Mediterranean region and southern Europe, and comparison with the present day

Jed Oliver Kaplan, Pamela Collins, Basil Andrew Stansfield Davis

Aim To contribute to the intense debate surrounding the relative influence of climate and humans on Mediterranean-region land cover over the past 6000 years, we assess the Holocene biogeography and vegetation history of southern Europe by means of an exten ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Could anthropogenic soil erosion have influenced Mediterranean vegetation distribution over the Holocene?

Jed Oliver Kaplan, Pamela Collins, Basil Andrew Stansfield Davis

The circum-Mediterranean region is characterized by a strongly seasonal climate with rainy winters and intense summertime drought, steep topography, and a multi-millennial history of intensive human land use, all of which make its soils vulnerable to erosi ...

2010