Figure 10: Reconstruction skill through time.
From: A 2,000-year reconstruction of the rain-fed maize agricultural niche in the US Southwest

, validation R2; RMSEn, normalized root mean squared prediction error; CE, coefficient of efficiency; GDDs, growing-season growing degree days. Note the inverted scale for RMSEn. (a) VEPIIN precipitation. (b) VEPIIS precipitation. (c) VEPIIN GDDs. (d) VEPIIS GDDs.