APD R-Ratepol workshop

Materials for R-Ratepol workshop with an African focus (APD data users)

Overview

This workshop is designed to teach palynologists how to estimate rate-of-vegetation change using {R-Ratepol} package. We will show how to get the R package and use it in various scenarios with examples of African fossil pollen data.

Resources

• Workshop website
• GitHub materials for the workshop
• GitHub repo for the R-Ratepol package
• R-Ratepol-package website
• Mottl et al publication in Rev. Paly. Paleobot.: “Rate-of-change analysis in paleoecology revisited: A new approach”