A North European pollen-climate calibration set: Analysing the climatic responses of a biological proxy using novel regression tree methods

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 95-110

  Salonen, J Sakari ^a   Seppä, Heikki ^a   Luoto, Miska ^a   Bjune, Anne E ^b   Birks, John H B ^b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boosted regression trees; Continentality; Multivariate regression trees; Palaeoclimate; Species responses

Indexed keywords

BOOSTED REGRESSION TREES; CONTINENTALITY; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION TREES; PALAEOCLIMATE; SPECIES RESPONSES;

CALIBRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

CALIBRATION; GIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; POLLEN; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY; WATER BUDGET;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATES; EUROPE; FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84861465605     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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