Integrated Paleoecological Modeling of Pleistocene Vegetation and Megafauna

Wolfgang Traylor’s PhD thesis:

  • development of a bottom-up dynamic megafauna model (Modular Megafauna Model = MMM)
  • parametrized for woolly mammoth, steppe bison, and horse
  • Bayesian calibration, uncertainty analysis, and sensitivity analysis for mammoth

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Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Taxonomic coverage
Species Mammuthus primigenius
Species Bison priscus
Species Equus ferus
Other info
Last Updated June 11, 2024, 09:46 (UTC)
Created December 14, 2023, 12:52 (UTC)

Responsible parties

Creator and point of contact
Name Wolfgang Traylor
Organization affiliations
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)

Associated party
Name Thomas Hickler
Organization affiliations
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)
Goethe University Frankfurt
Role Principal investigator

Associated publications

Publication
Link https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03631

Research data management planning

Types of data that will be / are / were created during the project Models, code
Estimated volume of created data <10GB
Data will be stored at (long-term archived) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4972504 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5779267 https://osf.io/vpfwa/ https://osf.io/ut6bz/

Link to this dataset:

https://dataportal.senckenberg.de/dataset/44efae5b-f482-4951-8d9e-6deab3d8f053