Month: June 2023

Workshop (April-´23) on how to calculate rate of compositional change using R-Ratepol package

On Wed April 26, with Ondřej Mottl we guided a workshop on how to use the new R-package called R-Ratepol to calculate rate of compositional change of your fossil pollen record. Our audience was mostly from the African Pollen Database community but equally useful for those around Latin America.

During almost two hours, we went through the basics of calculating rate of change and how R-Ratepol works. Check out the recording here: LINK

We prepared material that you can easily follow to do it yourself here: LINK

If you interested in more or have question, please check the R-Ratepol website and our publication led by Ondřej Mottl here (send us a direct message if you wish to receive the pdf).

FOSSILPOL workflow and R-package – easy handling and processing of fossil pollen datasets

We are thrilled to announce the public release of #FOSSILPOL, an open-source software and R-package, designed to compile large-scale fossil pollen datasets for multi-proxy analysis at various scales.

FOSSILPOL is designed to create comprehensive, standardized datasets ready for multi-record and multi-proxy analyses, making it ideal for macroecology and palaeoecology research.

Our workflow is designed to make data preparation easy and accessible for everyone, regardless of your coding skills. #FOSSILPOL interacts with users throughout the process, guiding you towards the desired dataset for analysis!

Check out our website and open access publication. (there is also an appendix with more information!)

We aim to do #FOSSILPOL workshops the coming years but more updates on that will follow. We will offer workshops with combined english/spanish support for questions and comments.

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