Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1285-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1285-2017
Research article
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28 Sep 2017
Research article |  | 28 Sep 2017

Examining bias in pollen-based quantitative climate reconstructions induced by human impact on vegetation in China

Wei Ding, Qinghai Xu, and Pavel E. Tarasov

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Pollen-based past climate reconstruction for regions with long-term human occupation is always controversial. We examined the bias induced by the human impact on vegetation in a climate reconstruction for temperate eastern China by comparing the deviations in the reconstructed results for a fossil record based on two pollen–climate calibration sets. Climatic signals in pollen assemblages are indeed obscured by human impact; however, the extent of the bias could be assessed.