Random walk simulations of fossil proxy data

Holocene

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 645-649

  Blaauw, Maarten ^a   Bennett, K D ^a,b   Christen, J Andrés ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Environmental change; Forcing factors; Interpreting proxy data; Quasi cyclicities; Random walk; Simulations

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BOG; DIATOM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; IMMIGRATION; LAKE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RANDOM WALK METHOD; TIMESCALE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 77953377890     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683609355180     Document Type: Article

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