<p>Supplementary information</p><p>From myopia to clarity: sharpening the focus of ecosystem management through the lens of palaeoecology</p><p>Lindsey Gillson1 and Rob Marchant2</p><p>1Plant Conservation Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, </p><p>Rondebosch 7701, South Africa</p><p>2York Institute for Tropical Ecosystems, Environment Department, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10</p><p>5DD, UK</p><p>Corresponding author: Gillson, L. (Lindsey.Gillson@uct.ac.za).</p><p>Table S1. Palaeoecological databases, expanded from [60] Database Information and use URL Global Pollen Download and graph fossil pollen data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/gpd.ht Data Base and summary metadata, from mapped ml African Pollen sites, or by country, investigator or site http://apd.sedoo.fr/apd/accueil.htm Database name Canadian Pollen http://www.lpc.uottawa.ca/data/cpd/ Database European Pollen http://www.europeanpollendatabase.ne Database t/ Indo-Pacific Pollen http://palaeoworks-dev.anu.edu.au/? Database database=indo-pacific-pollen- database-co-ordinated-by-geoff-hope Latin American http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/lapd.h Pollen Database tml North American http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/napd. Pollen Database html Archaeobotanical Plant fossils from Ireland http://www.chrono.qub.ac.uk/instar/arc database haeobotanicalDatabase.php BugsCEP Fossil Beetles http://www.bugscep.com/ CARD Dating of American archaeological and http://www.canadianarchaeology.ca/ environmental sites Chronos Data Geological Datasets http://chronos.org/resources/databases portal .html Earthcube Community-guided cyberinfrastructure to http://earthcube.ning.com/ integrate information and data across the geosciences European Diatom Fossil diatoms http://craticula.ncl.ac.uk/Eddi/jsp/ Database FaunMap Mammal fossils in North America http://www.museum.state.il.us/researc h/ Fossil Works Tools on the site can generate http://fossilworks.org/ Paleontology palaeomaps, data summary tables, lists of Database common taxa, first appearances, diversity curves, ecological statistics, time scale confidence intervals, stratigraphic confidence intervals. Global Charcoal Charcoal records from across the globe http://www.gpwg.org/ Database with on-site tools for showing fire histories International Tree Tree ring records Global Last two http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treerin Ring DB millennia g.html International Tree Tree ring records http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/treerin Ring Database g.html MOLTEN Diatoms in the Baltic http://craticula.ncl.ac.uk/Molten/jsp/ Neogene of the Mammal fossils Eurasia http://www.helsinki.fi/science/now Old World Neotoma Integration, synthesis, and understanding http://www.neotomadb.org/ Paleoecology of the palaeorecord, and it promotes database information sharing and collaboration NOAA Palaeoclimate data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo Palaeoclimate Palaeoclimate Paleoclimate simulations from last glacial http://pmip.lsce.ipsl.fr/ modelling maximum to present Intercomparison Project (PMIP) Paleobiology All fossil records http://paleodb.org database Paleobiology DB All fossil records Global 542 Ma to present http://paleodb.org Paleontology All fossils http://www.paleoportal.org/ portal Pangaea Paleoenvironmental data Global 1 Ma to http://www.pangaea.de/ present Plant Macrofossil Plant macrofossil data, often from http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/plant Database sediment cores and largely Late macros.html Quaternary PMIP Paleoclimate simulations Global 21 ka to http://pmip.lsce.ipsl.fr/ present WODAN Archaeological wood and charcoal http://www.wodancharcoal.ie/ database</p>