Peter W. Brewer

TL;DR: This work investigates the quality and coverage of data digitally available, from the perspective of a biologist seeking distribution data for spatial analysis on a global scale, and presents an example of automatic verification of geographic data using distributions from the International Legume Database and Information Service to test empirically, issues of geographic coverage and accuracy.

TL;DR: A generic approach for building a single computing framework capable of handling different data formats and multiple algorithms that can be used in potential distribution modelling is described and an example use case illustrates potential distribution maps generated by the framework.

TL;DR: Results show an offset from the international radiocarbon calibration curve, which indicates a shift in the calibrated age range for Thera toward the 16th century BCE, and sheds new light on the long-running debate focused on a discrepancy.

TL;DR: The most marked tree-ring growth anomaly in the Aegean dendrochronological record over the last 9000 years occurs in the mid 17th century BC, and has been speculatively correlated with the impact of the Late Bronze Age eruption of Thera (Santorini) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates how different lines of evidence from tree rings in widely spread growth locations can combine to fix an approximately dated tree-ring record from the East Mediterranean Bronze–Iron Age to an exact calendar-dated range.