Czech Quaternary Palynological Database - PALYCZ

Title:

Czech Quaternary Palynological Database - PALYCZ
review and basic statistics of the data
Česká kvartérní pylová databáze - PALYCZ
přehled a základní statistika

Creator:

Kuneš, Petr, Abraham, Vojtěch, Kovařík, Oleg, and Kopecký, Martin

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:63bf8458-3ffb-4577-996e-4bfb93ddbdf2
uuid:63bf8458-3ffb-4577-996e-4bfb93ddbdf2

Subject:

data archive, Czech Republic, Holocene, multivariate analysis, pollen analysis, and Pleistocene

Type:

article and TEXT

Description:

This paper reviews the data on quaternary palynological sequences collected in the Czech Republic, attempts to store them in the Czech Quaternary Palynological Database (PALYCZ) and outlines a possible use for regional syntheses. Work on pollen stratigraphies done over the last hundred years has yielded a very large amount of data for this region. These data can be used globally for various types of environmental reconstructions and are of local importance, especially when combined with local databases. For data to be included in PALYCZ it has to meet certain criteria, the determination of the pollen of herbaceous plants must be well resolved and radiocarbon dated. As of 31 December 2008, we had reviewed 177 pollen profiles. Data from 152 sequences are already stored in PostgreSQL® in relational tables, which allow a broad range of queries to be addressed using the html protocol. The data collected since 1959 by 15 authors contain raw pollen counts together with 14C dates and various metadata on locality. All the pollen samples were ordered using non-metric multidimensional scaling. Display of the ordination diagram incorporating the appropriate millennial time slices revealed a common pattern in all data. The quality of data is also discussed in the context of the history of the research and methods used. Database access can be found at http://botany.natur.cuni.cz/palycz.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Source:

Preslia | 2009 Volume:81 | Number:3

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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