Quantitative reconstructions in palaeolimnology: New paradigm or sick science?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 20-32

  Juggins, Steve ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Quantitative reconstructions; Secondary variables; Training sets; Transfer functions; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL FACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; PALAEOLIMNOLOGY; PREDICTIVE POWER; SECONDARY VARIABLES; SIMULATED TRAININGS; SPACE AND TIME; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TRAINING SETS; UNCERTAINTY; WATER DEPTH;

GEOLOGY; NATURAL SCIENCES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

REPAIR;

DIATOM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PARADIGM SHIFT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSFER FUNCTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84872545667     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.12.014     Document Type: Review

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