Cenograms are used in studying ancient communities to draw conclusions about a biome's species richness, relative humidity, and level of forestation.
Notes on verification
The claim accurately describes the intended use of cenograms as a paleoecological tool, confirmed by multiple sources including a primary NCBI chapter and peer-reviewed studies. However, the scientific validity of cenogram-based inferences is contested in the literature (Rodríguez 1999, Travouillon & Legendre 2009), so confidence is medium rather than high given this caveat about the method's reliability. [tier=gold indep_score=0.925 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Cenogram (wikipedia)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018208006299 (corroboration)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK231933/ (corroboration)
- https://smithpaleo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Lyons-Smith-2010-Short-course.pdf (corroboration)
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233918870_Palaeoecological_analyses_of_Riversleigh's_Oligo-Miocene_sites_Implications_for_Oligo-Miocene_climate_change_in_Australia (corroboration)