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LandClim Exports

LandClim exports are the public pollen-context surfaces derived from LandClim. They help the repository show environmental setting, vegetation context, and broader landscape pattern around the places that later appear in maps and reports.

That matters because ancient DNA alone cannot answer every landscape question a public user will naturally have. A country or regional view may contain only a thin set of sample-backed points while still sitting inside a much richer environmental context. LandClim helps make that context visible.

What LandClim Makes Clear

  • what kind of pollen context surrounds a published geography
  • whether a visible map or report is grounded in broader environmental context or only in point-like evidence
  • how one region can be compared with another on the pollenomics side of the product
  • why a public geography may still be informative even when direct sample-based evidence remains uneven

What LandClim Adds To The Public Product

LandClim is most useful when you want more than a list of sites or sample rows. It helps the repository show:

  • broader environmental framing
  • pollenomics-first interpretation instead of DNA-only storytelling
  • continuity across regions where point density alone would be too thin

What It Does Not Do

LandClim exports are contextual surfaces, not direct proof of one specific sample-backed event. They should not be read as if they:

  • identify one individual or one site the way a sample record can
  • replace locality or chronology review for sample-backed evidence
  • make a weak animal evidence surface suddenly strong just because the pollen background is rich

How These Exports Appear In Public Outputs

When LandClim is visible in a map or report, it is there to help you understand environmental setting rather than to settle a sample-level dispute. It keeps the public product pollenomics-first without pretending that context and direct evidence are the same kind of claim.

If You Need The Repository-Owned Records

The normalized family outputs live under:

  • data/landclim/normalized/

If your question is about the visible publication, continue to maps or reports. If your question is about the family itself, continue to LandClim source guidance.