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Esmeralda Cruz-Silva¹, Sandy P Harrison¹, Elena Marinova²

¹School of Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Science Reading University Reading UK.

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A new method improves past vegetation reconstruction by combining biomisation with dissimilarity techniques, offering more accurate and stable biome assignments. This approach overcomes limitations of traditional methods, enhancing our understanding of past plant functional types (PFTs) and biomes.

Keywords:

EMBSeCBIO Eastern Mediterranean biomes biomisation palaeovegetation pollen data potential natural vegetation vegetation change vegetation reconstruction

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Area of Science:

Paleobotany
Quaternary science
Ecology

Background:

Biomisation is a common method for reconstructing past vegetation but relies on subjective expert judgment for assigning pollen taxa to plant functional types (PFTs) and PFTs to biomes.
Existing biomisation techniques have limitations, including dependence on expert opinion and potential inaccuracies in biome assignment.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a novel method integrating biomisation with dissimilarity-based techniques for improved vegetation reconstruction.
To enhance the accuracy and temporal stability of past biome assignments compared to traditional biomisation.

Main Methods:

Utilized modern pollen samples, linked to potential natural vegetation data, to establish biome-specific taxon abundance means and standard deviations.
Calculated a dissimilarity index between pollen samples and biomes to determine the most probable biome assignment.
Defined a threshold for biome assignment to identify non-analogue vegetation assemblages in fossil records.

Main Results:

The new method accurately reflects changes in taxon importance along environmental gradients.
Achieved higher balanced accuracy (77%) compared to biomisation (65%) in the Eastern Mediterranean-Black Sea Caspian Corridor (EMBSeCBIO) region.
Demonstrated improved temporal stability in biome assignments for 70% of fossil records and successfully identified non-analogue assemblages.

Conclusions:

The developed method provides more accurate and stable vegetation reconstructions than traditional biomisation.
This technique reduces subjectivity by avoiding expert-driven taxon and PFT allocations to biomes.
Requires an extensive modern pollen dataset but offers a conceptually simple and robust approach to paleovegetation reconstruction.