European Pollen Database
Encyclopedia
The European Pollen Database (EPD) is a freely available database
of pollen
frequencies, past and present, in the larger Europe
an area.
The database is hosted by the "Institut Méditerranéen d'Ecologie et de Paléoécologie".
Database
A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...
of pollen
Pollen
Pollen is a fine to coarse powder containing the microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce the male gametes . Pollen grains have a hard coat that protects the sperm cells during the process of their movement from the stamens to the pistil of flowering plants or from the male cone to the...
frequencies, past and present, in the larger Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an area.
The database is hosted by the "Institut Méditerranéen d'Ecologie et de Paléoécologie".