arctic.pollen {palaeoSig}R Documentation

Arctic Pollen and associated environmental data

Description

Arctic pollen percent data and associated environmental data

Usage

data(arctic.pollen)
data(arctic.env)

Format

arctic.pollen

A data frame with 828 observations on the percentage of 39 pollen taxa

arctic.env

Environmental data for the pollen sites

Source

Data extracted from North American Pollen Database and New et al. (2002) by Fréchette et al. (2008). Following Fréchette (Pers. Comm.), three duplicate sites have been deleted.

References

Fréchette, B., de Vernal, A., Guiot, J., Wolfe, A. P., Miller, G. H., Fredskild, B., Kerwin, M. W. and Richard, P. J. H. (2008) Methodological basis for quantitative reconstruction of air temperature and sunshine from pollen assemblages in Arctic Canada and Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews 27, 1197–1216 doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.02.016


[Package palaeoSig version 2.1-3 Index]