Calibrating aquatic microfossil proxies with regression-tree ensembles: Cross-validation with modern chironomid and diatom data

Climate is an important driver for stream diatom distributions

(2015) Virpi Pajunen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Chironomid-environment relations in northern North America

(2015) Marie-Claude Fortin et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Assessing the Importance of Climate Variables for the Spatial Distribution of Modern Pollen Data in China

(2015) Jianyong Li et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Taxon selection using statistical learning techniques to improve transfer function prediction

(2014) Steve Juggins et al.   HOLOCENE

Reconstructing palaeoclimatic variables from fossil pollen using boosted regression trees: comparison and synthesis with other quantitative reconstruction methods

(2014) J. Sakari Salonen et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A comparison of novel and traditional numerical methods for the analysis of modern pollen assemblages from major vegetation–landform types

(2014) V.A. Felde et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

How to model species responses along ecological gradients - Huisman-Olff-Fresco models revisited

(2013) Florian Jansen et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Quantitative reconstructions in palaeolimnology: new paradigm or sick science?

(2013) Steve Juggins   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Horizontal, but not vertical, biotic interactions affect fine-scale plant distribution patterns in a low-energy system

(2012) Peter C. le Roux et al.   ECOLOGY

Application and limitations of the Artemisia/Chenopodiaceae pollen ratio in arid and semi-arid China

(2012) Yan Zhao et al.   HOLOCENE

Chironomid-based water depth reconstructions: an independent evaluation of site-specific and local inference models

(2012) Stefan Engels et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Diatom-based models for inferring past water chemistry in western Ugandan crater lakes

(2012) Keely Mills et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

A North European pollen–climate calibration set: analysing the climatic responses of a biological proxy using novel regression tree methods

(2012) J. Sakari Salonen et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Assessing transferability of ecological models: an underappreciated aspect of statistical validation

(2012) Seth J. Wenger et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

No-analog climates and shifting realized niches during the late quaternary: implications for 21st-century predictions by species distribution models

(2011) Samuel D. Veloz et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Changes in fossil chironomid remains along a depth gradient: evidence for common faunal thresholds within lakes

(2011) Stefan Engels et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

A novel method for assessing the statistical significance of quantitative reconstructions inferred from biotic assemblages

(2011) R.J. Telford et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

New trends in species distribution modelling

(2010) Niklaus E. Zimmermann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Are pollen-based climate models improved by combining surface samples from soil and lacustrine substrates?

(2010) Simon Goring et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Evaluation of transfer functions in spatially structured environments

(2009) R.J. Telford et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models

(2008) M. S. Wisz et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Effects of sample size on the accuracy of geomorphological models

(2008) Jan Hjort et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

A working guide to boosted regression trees

(2008) J. Elith et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY