Region	Reference											
Europe 1996	"Prentice, C.I., Guiot, J., Huntley, B., Jolly D. and Cheddadi, R., (1996) Reconstructing biomes from palaeoecological data: a general method and its application to European pollen data at 0 and 6 ka. Climate Dynamics 12:185-194"											
Africa 1998	"D. Jolly, S. P. Harrison, B. Damnati and R. Bonnefille (1998), SILMULATED CLIMATE AND BIOMES OF AFRICA DURING THE LATE QUATERNARY: COMPARISON WITH POLLEN AND LAKE STATUS DATA, Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol.: 17, 629-657"											
Africa and Arabia FSI 1998	"Jolly, D., Prentice, C.I., Bonnefille, R., Ballouche, A., Bengo, M., Brenac, P., Buchet, G., Burney, D., Cazet, J-P., Cheddadi, R., Edorh, T., Elenga, H., Elmoutaki, S., Guiot, J., Laarif, F., Lamb, H., Lezine, A-M., Maley, J., Mbenza, M., Peryon, O., Reille, M., Reynaud-Farrera, I., Riollet, G., Ritchie, J.C., Roche, E., Scott, L., Ssemmanda, I., Straka, H., Umer, M., Van Campo, E., Vilimumbalo, S., Vincens, A. and Waller, M., (1998) Biome reconstruction from pollen and plant macrofossil data for Africa and the Arabian peninsula at 0 and 6000 years. Journal of Biogeography 25, 1007-1027"											
Former Soviet Union and Mongolia FSI 1998	"Tarasov, P.E., Webb III, T., Andreev, A.A., Afanas'eva, N.B., Berezina, N.A., Bezusko, L.G., Blyakharchuk, T.A., Bolikhovskaya, N.S., Cheddadi, R., Chernavskaya, M.M., Chernova, G.M., Dorofeyuk, N.I., Dirksen, V.G., Elina, G.A., Filimonova, L.V., Glebov, F.Z., Guiot, J., Gunova, V.S., Harrison, S.P., Jolly, D., Khomutova, V.I., Kvavadze, E.V., Osipova, I.M., Panova, N.K., Prentice, I.C., Saarse, L., Sevastyanov, Volkova, V.S., Zernitskaya, V.P., (1998) Present-day and mid-Holocene biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. Journal of Biogeography 25, 1029-1053"											
China FSI 1998	"Yu, G., Prentice, I.C., Harrison, S.P., Sun, X., (1998) Pollen-based biome reconstruction for China at 0 and 6000 years. Journal of Biogeography, 25, 1055-1069"											
Berengia SSI 2000	"Edwards, M.E., Anderson, P.M., Brubaker, L.B., Ager, T.A., Andreev, A.A., Bigelow, N.H., Cwynar, L.C., Eisner, W.R., Harrison, S.P., Hu, F-S., Jolly, D., Lozhkin, A.V., MacDonald, G.M., Mock, C.J., Ritchie, J.C., Sher, A.V., Spear, R.W., Williams, J.W. and Yu, G., (2000) Pollen-based biomes for Beringia 18,000, 6,000 and 0 14C yr B.P. Journal of Biogeography 27: 521-554."											
Western USA SSI 2000	"Thompson, R.S. and Anderson, K.H., (2000) Biomes of Western North America at 18,000, 6,000 and 0 14C yr B.P. reconstructed from pollen and packrat midden data. Journal of Biogeography 27: 555-584."											
Canada and Eastern USA SSI 2000	"Williams, J.W., Webb III, T., Richard, P.J.H. and Newby, P., (2000) Late quaternary biomes of Canada and the eastern United States. Journal of Biogeography 27: 585-607"											
Africa and Southern Europe SSI 2000	"Elenga, H., Peryon, O., Bonnefille, R., Prentice, I.C., Jolly, D., Cheddadi, R., Guiot, J., Andrieu, V., Bottema, S., Buchet, G.-L., de Beaulieu, J.L., Hamilton, A.C., Maley, J., Marchant, R., Perez-Obiol, R., Reille, M., Riollet, G., Scott, L., Straka, H., Taylor, D., Van Campo, E., Vincens, A., Laarif, F. and Jonson, H., (2000) Pollen-based reconstruction for Southern Europe and Africa 18,000 years ago. Journal of Biogeography 27: 621-634"											
Northern Eurasia SSI 2000	"Tarasov, P.E., Volkova, V.S., Webb III, T., Guiot, J., Andreev, A.A., Bezusko, L.G., Bezusko, T.V., Bykova, G.V., Dorofeyuk, N.I., Kvavadze, E.V., Osipova, I.M., Panova, N.K. and Sevastyanov, D.V., (2000) Last glacial maximum biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from northern Eurasia. Journal of Biogeography 27: 609-620."											
China SSI 2000	"Yu, G., Chen, X., Ni, J., Cheddadi, R., Guiot, J., Han, H., Harrison, S.P., Huang, C., Ke, M., Kong, Z., Li, S., Li, W., Liew, P., Liu, G., Liu, J., Liu, K.-B., Prentice, I.C., Qui, W., Ren, G., Song, C., Sugita, S., Sun X., Tang, L., Van Campo, E., Xia, Y., Xu, Q., Yan, S., Yang, X., Zhao, J., Zheng, Z. (2000) Palaeovegetation of China: a pollen data-based synthesis for the mid-Holocene and last glacial maximum. Journal of Biogeography 27:635-664."											
Japan SSI 2000	"Takahara, H., Sugita, S., Harrison, S.P., Miyoshi, N., Morita, Y. and Uchiyama, T., (2000) Pollen-based reconstruction of Japanese biomes at 0, 6000 and 18,000 14C yr B.P. Journal of Biogeography 27: 665-683."