Erratum to: Veget Hist Archaeobot DOI 10.1007/s00334-012-0388-5

Unfortunately, the list of authors contains a number of duplications, omissions and other errors in the original publication of the article. The correct list appears in this erratum.

The complete list of author addresses and e-mails is contained in the electronic supplementary material, to which should be added: H. John B. Birks, Department of Biology and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Post Box 7803, N-5020 Bergen, Norway, e-mail: john.birks@bio.uib.no.