Palaeoenvironmental Reconstructions Through Compositional Data Analysis

The modern analogue technique has been accordingly revised with compositional data analysis framework. The method adopts the Aitchison distance, obtained from isometric log-ratio coordinates of relative abundances, as a natural measure of similarity among assemblages. The number of analogues from wh...

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Autores: Di Donato, Valentino, Martín Fernández, Josep Antoni, Comas Cufí, Marc, Jamka, Joanna
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/18966
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/18966
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Anàlisi de regressió
Regression analysis
Paleoecologia
Paleoecology
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Sumario:The modern analogue technique has been accordingly revised with compositional data analysis framework. The method adopts the Aitchison distance, obtained from isometric log-ratio coordinates of relative abundances, as a natural measure of similarity among assemblages. The number of analogues from which obtain the estimates was determined through leave-oneout verification of modern assemblages. Mean distances and local outlier factor are considered to evaluate the quality of palaeoestimates. The method has been tested on Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean planktonic foraminiferal assemblages to reconstruct past sea surface temperatures (SST). In comparison with previous planktonic foraminiferal based reconstructions, the Portugal offshore SST record for the last 210 ka shows a higher coherence with other paleoclimate proxies (i.e. the stable isotope and alkenone records). In comparison with raw data analysis, CoDa-MAT yields lower estimates of the western Mediterranean last glacial period SST