Data for the paper: 'Ecology of testate amoebae along the complete poor–rich gradient of mires in East-Central Europe: development of transfer functions for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions'

This repository provides training sets and R scripts for the development of three transfer function models that allow reconstructions of Holocene hydrochemical or hydrological (hydroclimatic) conditions from testate amoeba assemblages preserved in mires of East-Central Europe. Specifically, the repository contains (<em>i</em>) <strong>the full dataset and an R script for the development of the final MLRC model</strong> for inferring past water-mineral richness (expressed as pH) in various types of mires; (<em>ii</em>) <strong>the minerotrophic subset and an R script for the development of the final WAPLS com1 model</strong> for the reconstructions of past water-mineral richness (expressed as pH) in rich and calcareous fens; and (<em>iii</em>) <strong>the ombrotrophic subset and an R script for the development of the final PLS com2 model</strong> for inferring past depth to the water table (DWT) in bogs and poor fens. Additionally, the repository includes <strong>the original versions of the full, minerotrophic and ombrotrophic training sets</strong> (i.e., the versions before the removal of outlier samples and rare taxa due to the optimization of the transfer function models), and <strong>the compiled dataset</strong>, from which the three above-mentioned training sets were generated. For details, see the paper by Šímová et al. (under review).