[en] Paleovegetation reconstructions rely virtually exclusively on inferences from vascular plants, particularly pollen grains, ignoring other components of the land flora. Artificial intelligence (AI) opens the door to the identification of other microfossils, particularly bryophyte spores, which offer a new, higher magnification lens to characterize past climatic environments.
Mäder, Patrick; Technische Universität Ilmenau, Fakultät für Informatik und Automatisierung, Data-intensive Systems and Visualization, Ilmenau, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Leipzig, Germany, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Thuringia, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Germany
de Haan, Myriam; Botanic Garden Meise, Meise, Belgium
Van der Beeten, Iris; Botanic Garden Meise, Meise, Belgium
Goffinet, Bernard; University of Connecticut, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Storrs, CT, USA
Vanderpoorten, Alain ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Biologie, Ecologie et Evolution > Biologie de l'évolution et de la conservation - Unité aCREA-Ulg (Conseils et Recherches en Ecologie Appliquée)
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Time to spice-up paleoecological records with bryophyte spores.
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