LegacyPollen 1.0: a taxonomically harmonized global late Quaternary pollen dataset of 2831 records with standardized chronologies

Abstract. Here we describe the LegacyPollen 1.0, a dataset of 2831 fossil pollen records with metadata, harmonized taxonomy, and standardized chronologies. A total 1032 originate from North America, 1075 Europe, 488 Asia, 150 Latin 54 Africa, 32 Indo-Pacific. The data cover late Quaternary (mostly Holocene). original 10 110 taxa names (including variations in notations) were to 1002 terrestrial Cyperaceae), woody major herbaceous genus level other family level. is valuable for synthesis studies of, example, areal changes, vegetation dynamics, human impacts (e.g., deforestation), climate change at global or continental scales. metadata as well harmonization table are available PANGAEA (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.929773; Herzschuh et al., 2021). R code provided Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5910972; 2022) so that datasets customized can be easily established.