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Past2Future
Tallin University of Technology
Curated by Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), the dataset provides better-than-centennial-resolution records from central and northern Europe. These well-dated, quality-controlled samples enable the reconstruction of vegetation dynamics and the derivation of quantitative climate parameters (e.g., temperature and precipitation).
As part of the EU Horizon Europe Past2Future project, this dataset demonstrates how high-resolution palaeoecological data can complement modern observations in analyzing long-term environmental change.
This use case demonstrates the capabilities of EOSC Node Data Terra by:
- Integrating quality-controlled Holocene and Late Glacial fossil pollen records from Estonia, Sweden, and the Baltic region through GeoCASe and the EOSC Data Terra Node.
- Linking fossil taxa to Nearest Living Relatives (NLRs) for direct comparison with modern plant distributions and environmental datasets.
- Harmonizing palaeoecological datasets using FAIR metadata standards and linking them with modern Earth Observation datasets.
- Providing researchers with access to harmonized datasets spanning thousands of years, extending the temporal depth of environmental analyses.
- Establishing a reusable model for integrating palaeoecological collections within the EOSC Federation.
