Cenograms are used in studying ancient communities to draw conclusions about a biome's level of forestation.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by multiple independent peer-reviewed/academic sources describing cenogram methodology and its use in reconstructing paleoenvironments, including forestation levels, from mammal body-size distributions. [tier=gold indep_score=0.983 clusters=3 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://www.scup.com/doi/10.1111/j.1502-3931.1999.tb00551.x (corroboration)