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Research article
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21 Dec 2016
Research article |
| 21 Dec 2016
Assessing performance and seasonal bias of pollen-based climate reconstructions in a perfect model world
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
present address: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Mathias Trachsel
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Postboks 7803, 5020 Bergen, Norway
present address: Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Richard J. Telford
Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Postboks 7803, 5020 Bergen, Norway
Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, Allégaten 55, 5007 Bergen, Norway
Thomas Laepple
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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Short summary
Indirect evidence on past climate comes from the former composition of ecological communities such as plants, preserved as pollen grains in sediments of lakes. Transfer functions convert relative counts of species to a climatologically meaningful scale (e.g. annual mean temperature in degrees C). We show that the fundamental assumptions in the algorithms impact the reconstruction results in he idealized model world, in particular if the reconstructed variables were not ecologically relevant.
Indirect evidence on past climate comes from the former composition of ecological communities...
