Long-Term Vegetation Dynamics: Bayesian Inference for Spatio-temporal Trends in Forest Composition Using the Fossil Pollen Proxy Record
- HF-ID: HF2007-55
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: McLachlan, Jason S., Paciorek, C.J.
- Associated Person: Foster, D.R., Oswald, W.W., Ellison, A.M.
- Date: December 2003 to June 2007
- Location: New England
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- Correspondence, notes, rough drafts, manuscript. 1 File Folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.
- Keywords: paleoecology
- Abstract:
- Ecologists use the relative abundance of fossil pollen in sediments to estimate how tree species abundances change over space and time. To predict historical forest composition and quantify the available information, we build a Bayesian hierarchical model of forest composition in central New England, USA, based on pollen in a network of ponds...
- [Dirichlet-multinomial, Gaussian process, paleoecology, radial basis functions, smoothing, spatial statistics, compositional data, spatial statistics, overdispersion]
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