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Wil Roebroeks , Philip L. Gibbard , Fulco Scherjon ·

YOU? · · 2024 · Open Access · · DOI: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/ub572

Pearce et al. suggest that “… light woodland and open vegetation represented, on average, more than 50% cover” during the temperate phase of the Last Interglacial period in the whole of Europe. We identify some issues with the way they reach this conclusion and propose an explanation of why a regional dominance of open vegetation is suggested by their modelling work: insufficient attention to various taphonomic processes that influenced the palaeontological assemblages recorded from the sites investigated as well as their larger geographical patterning.

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Taphonomy Woodland Dominance (genetics) Vegetation cover Vegetation (pathology) Geography Temperate climate Ecology Interglacial Geology Paleontology Physical geography Land use Pleistocene Biology Pathology Gene Medicine Biochemistry

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Concepts: Taphonomy, Woodland, Dominance (genetics), Vegetation cover, Vegetation (pathology), Geography, Temperate climate, Ecology, Interglacial, Geology, Paleontology, Physical geography, Land use, Pleistocene, Biology, Pathology, Gene, Medicine, Biochemistry

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