The goal of PAGES’ new LandCover6k Working Group is to achieve Holocene landcover
and land-use reconstructions that can be used to evaluate and improve the scenarios
of anthropogenic land-cover change (ALCC ) by Klein Goldewijk et al. (2011; HYDE) and Kaplan et al. (2009; KK) for the purpose of climate modeling studies (Gaillard et al.
2015). LandCover6k focuses on the last 6000 calendar years, i.e. the period in the Holocene when anthropogenic deforestation occurred in most continents, but it will also cover older periods in regions where significant human impact on vegetation occurred earlier.

Check for more information: PAGES Magazine Vol. 23, No.23, pp. 81, December 2015.
Check the website: www.pages-igbp.org/ini/wg/landcover6k/