Neotoma Exports¶
Neotoma exports are the public paleoecological context surfaces derived from Neotoma. Their main public value is breadth: they keep the environmental side of the product from leaning too heavily on one pollen family alone.
That matters because you should be able to ask whether a visible geography reflects a wider paleoecological pattern or only one especially strong source stream. Neotoma helps the repository answer that question more honestly.
What Neotoma Makes Clear¶
- what environmental context is visible beyond the LandClim slice
- whether a published geography reflects agreement across more than one pollen family
- how the repository keeps its pollenomics framing broader than one source collection
- why a region may gain interpretive depth even when sample-backed evidence is still incomplete
What Neotoma Adds To The Public Product¶
Neotoma strengthens the public product by adding:
- another pollenomics context family for comparison
- wider paleoecological framing across geography
- a check against overconfidence built from one source family alone
What It Does Not Do¶
These exports are not a substitute for sample-level evidence. They should not be read as if they:
- settle chronology or locality questions for ancient DNA rows
- make all visible regions equally mature
- erase the difference between environmental context and direct sample-backed claims
Why This Matters Beyond One Region¶
This is especially important for people who want to reuse the codebase or the publication model in other regions. A reusable product needs multi-family context logic, not one lucky dataset.
If You Need The Repository-Owned Records¶
The normalized family outputs live under:
data/neotoma/normalized/
If your question is about the visible publication, continue to maps or reports. If your question is about the family itself, continue to Neotoma source guidance.