Bugs & MCR
| The BugsMCR Computer Program |
BugsMCR has been superseded and integrated into the BugsCEP package,
available from the new website at http://www.bugscep.com/downloads.html
The information is maintained for the moment, but will be replaced on the new site soon. Note that there may be mistakes in the earlier versions, especially the Betas, that are corrected in BugsCEP.
BugsMCR is a piece of free software for producing temperature reconstructions
from (fossil) beetle (Coleoptera) data. It allows the creation and/or
import of species/sample lists in MS Excel format, and provides both numerical
and graphical output as MS Excel files. Graphical output is in the form
of TMax(low-high) and TMin(low-high) bar graphs, with the option of exporting
thermal overlap matrices (climate space maps) and species lists for each
sample (see the download page
for screenshots).
Basic instructions are to be found on the download
page, and more comprehensive help is provided within the program.
Please reference the software and data sources as below in any
publications.
DOWNLOAD |
Latest version: BugsMCR Beta 1.52a1 Click here to go to the BugsMCR Beta download & help page. |
The dataset used in BugsMCR is derived from that used in RECON, and is credited to Atkinson et al. 1986 (see below). All results from the program are uncallibrated.
If you wish to be informed of, or take part in further developments of the program then please email me at phil.buckland@arke.umu.se. Feel free to use it in teaching.
Referencing the BugsMCR software:
If you use BugsMCR in work leading to a publication you are obliged to
reference the software, we suggest:
Buckland P.I. (2003) BugsMCR Climate Reconstruction Software [version]
[Downloaded: DATE].
| Presentation of the BugsMCR project |
Click here to go to the presentation webpage... based on a poster presented at the PAGES-PEPIII -- ESF-HOLIVAR "Past Climate Variability Through Europe and Africa" conference held in Aix-en-Provence, from 27-31st August 2001.
The project is also outlined in the paper:
BUCKLAND, P. I.. & BUCKLAND, P. C. (2002) How can a database full of Bugs help reconstruct the climate? In, G. Burenhult & J. Arvidsson (eds.) Archaeological informatics: pushing the envelope. CAA 2001. Computer applications and quantitative methods in archaeology. Proceedings of the 29th conference, Gotland, April 2001, 453-462. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1016. Oxford.
| Important MCR references |
ATKINSON, T. C., BRIFFA, K. R., COOPE, G. R., JOACHIM, J. M. & PERRY,
D. W. (1986) Climatic calibration of coleopteran data. In B. E. Berglund
(ed.) Handbook of Holocene Palaeoecology and Palaeohydrology, 851-858.
J. Wiley & Son, Chichester.
ATKINSON, T. C., BRIFFA, K. R. & COOPE, G. R. (1987) Seasonal temperatures
in Britain during the past 22,000 years, reconstructed using beetle remains.
Nature (London), 325, 587-592.
