Cenograms are used in studying ancient communities to draw conclusions about a biome's species richness.
Notes on verification
Core claim confirmed by independent peer-reviewed paleoecology literature showing cenograms (mammalian body-weight distribution plots) are used to infer paleoenvironmental variables including species richness. Some proposed cenogram-based relationships have been questioned in critical reviews, indicating known methodological limitations. [tier=gold indep_score=0.867 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- Cenogram (wikipedia)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018208006299 (corroboration)
- https://www.scup.com/doi/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1999.tb00551.x (corroboration)
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/40663205_Cenogram_analysis_of_the_Rudabanya_mammalian_community_palaeoenvironmental_interpretations (corroboration)