Inconsistent results should not be overlooked: A reply to Brooks et al. (2012)

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1501-1508

  Velle, G ^a   Brodersen, K P ^b   Birks, H J B ^c,d,e   Willassen, E ^c  

^a Uni Research   (Norway)

^b klausbrodersendk ^*  (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

chironomids; confounding gradients; palaeoenvironmental proxies; reconstruction validation; temperature; training set

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; DATA SET; FLY; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 84870047478     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612449765     Document Type: Article

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