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Europe was the birthplace of palaeoecology, and investigators there developed pollen analysis as a tool for studying the history of both vegetation and its environment, natural and anthropogenic. Subsequent research lead to publication of hundreds of pollen diagrams from late-glacial and post-glacial deposits, and many authors have previously synthesised parts of these data on a regional or national basis using various forms of data-representation including mapped summaries. Szafer (1935) first used isopoll maps to study Polish vegetation history, and this mode of presentation has since been widely adopted. The advent of radiocarbon dating provided an absolute timescale that has been exploited by more recent authors of isopoll maps, and, appropriately, Ralska-Jasiewiczowa (1983) drew isopoll maps for Poland based upon radiocarbon-dated sites.
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Huntley, B. (1988). Europe. In: Huntley, B., Webb, T. (eds) Vegetation history. Handbook of vegetation science, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3081-0_10
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