Collaborative research teams are a necessary and desirable component of most scientific
endeavors. Effective collaborative teams exhibit important research outcomes, far beyond …

Macrosystems ecology is the study of diverse ecological phenomena at the scale of regions
to continents and their interactions with phenomena at other scales. This emerging …

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

… Today, >75% of Earth’s ice-free land surface has been altered by human land use (4), with …
longer-term context in which humanity’s footprint has steadily grown since humans first began …

… This section describes high-level semantic concepts embedded within Neotoma’s data
model. We first describe Neotoma’s system for representing and storing the many kinds of …

Ecology has joined a world of big data. Two complementary frameworks define big data:
data that exceed the analytical capacities of individuals or disciplines or the “Four Vs” axes of …

This study presents pollen-based climate reconstructions of Holocene temperature and
precipitation seasonality for two high-resolution pollen sequences from the central (Lake Accesa, …

Interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to understand ecological systems at scales critical
to human decision making. Current reward structures are problematic for scientists engaged …

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… that there was no systematic bias in the prediction of error (for example, from the inclusion
of steppe samples) we tested the spatial autocorrelation of RMSEP values using Moran’s …