Fossil pollen records are well-established indicators of past vegetation changes. The
prevalence of pollen across environmental settings including lakes, wetlands, and marine …

We present a conceptual framework for a new approach to environmental calibration of
planktonic foraminifer census counts. This approach is based on simultaneous application of …

The importance of reconstructing past environments quantitatively in palaeoecology is
reviewed by showing that many ecological questions asked of palaeoecological data …

Quantitative reconstructions of past environmental conditions (eg, pH) are an important part
of palaeolimnology. Such reconstructions involve three steps:(1) the development of a …

The distribution of dinoflagellate cyst (dinocyst) assemblages in surface sediment samples
from 677 sites of the northern North Atlantic, Arctic and sub‐Arctic seas is discussed with …

Salt-marsh foraminifera have been used to reconstruct Holocene sea-level changes from
coastlines around the world. In this work, we compile the results of surface foraminiferal …

The estimation of the predictive power of transfer functions assumes that the test sites are
independent of the modelling sites. Cross-validation in the presence of spatial …

Transfer function training set sites close to each other tend to have similar species
assemblages and environmental conditions in both oceanic and terrestrial data sets. This is …

At the western continental margin of the Barents Sea, 75° N, hemipelagic sediments provide
a record of Holocene climate change with a time resolution of 10–70 years. Planktic …

Environmental variables such as temperature and salinity cannot be directly measured for
the past. Such variables do, however, influence the chemistry and biology of the marine …