John Birks
- E-mailjohn.birks@uib.no
- Visitor AddressHIB - Thormøhlens gate 555006 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78035020 Bergen
Quaternary palaeoecology, pollen analysis, vegetation history, quantitative palaeoecology and palaeolimnology, quantitative environmental reconstructions, community ecology, plant geography, bryology, alpine plant ecology.
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Invited lectures in Bio-250 Palaeoecology
Selected publications (a more complete list can be found here)
Books
Birks, H.J.B., Lotter, A.F., Juggins, S. and Smol, J.P. (eds.) (2012) Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments. Volume 5: Data Handling and Numerical Techniques. Springer, Dordrecht, 745 pp.
Averis, A.M., Averis, A.B.G., Birks, H.J.B., Horsfield, D., Thompson, D.B.A. and Yeo, M.J.M. (2004) An Illustrated Guide to British Upland Vegetation. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, 454 pp
Birks, H.J.B. and Gordon, A.D. (1985) Numerical Methods in Quaternary Pollen Analysis. Academic Press, 317 pp. (translated into Chinese by Shen Caiming and published by Nanjing University Press, China, 239 pp).
Huntley, B. and Birks, H.J.B. (1983) An Atlas of Past and Present Pollen Maps for Europe: 0‑13000 years ago. Cambridge University Press, 667 pp.
Birks, H.J.B. and Birks, H.H. (1980) Quaternary Palaeoecology. Edward Arnold, 289 pp.
Birks, H.J.B. (1973) Past and Present Vegetation of the Isle of Skye ‑ a Palaeoecological Study. Cambridge University Press, 415 pp.
Papers
Birks, H.J.B., Birks, H.H. & Ammann, B. 2016. The fourth dimension of vegetation. Science 354: 412-413. 10.1126/science.aai8737
Birks, H.J.B., Felde, V.A. & Seddon, A.W.R. 2016. Biodiversity trends within the Holocene. The Holocene 26: 994-1001. 10.1177/095968361562256
Birks, H.J.B., Felde, V.A., Bjune, A.E., Grytnes, J.-A., Seppä, H. & Giesecke, T. 2016. Does pollen-assemblage richness reflect floristic richness? A review of recent developments and future challenges. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 228: 1-25. 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.12.011
Felde, V.A., Hooghiemstra, H., Torres, V. & Birks, H.J.B. 2016. Detecting patterns of change in a long pollen-stratigraphical sequence from Funza, Colombia – a comparison of new and traditional numerical approaches. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 234: 94-109. 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.08.003
Herzschuh, U., Birks, H.J.B., Laepple, T., Andreev, A., Melles, M. & Brigham-Grette, J. 2016. Glacial legacies on interglacial vegetation at the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition in Asia. Nature Communications 7: 11967. 10.1038/ncomms11967
Steinbauer, M.J., Field, R., and 33 co-authors including Grytnes, J.-A., Birks, H.J.B. & Vetaas, O.R. 2016. Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25: 1097-1107. 10.1111/geb.12469
Birks, H.J.B. 2015. Some reflections on the refugium concept in historical biogeography, contemporary ecology, and global-change biology. Biodiversity 16: 196-212. 10.1080/14888386.2015.1117022
Wasof, S., Lenoir, J. and 46 co-authors including Birks, H.J.B., Grytnes, J.-A. & Vandvik, V. 2015. Disjunct populations of European vascular plant species keep the same climatic niches. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24: 1401-1412. 10.1111/geb.12375
Birks, H.J.B. and Willis, K.J. (2008) Alpines, trees, and refugia in Europe. Plant Ecology and Diversity 1: 147-160. 10.1080/17550870802349146
Birks, H.H. and Birks, H.J.B. (2000) Future uses of pollen analysis must include plant macrofossils. Journal of Biogeography 27, 31-35. 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2000.00375.x
Birks, H.J.B. and Line, J.M. (1992) The use of rarefaction analysis for estimating palynological richness from Quaternary pollen-analytical data. The Holocene 2, 1-10. 10.1177/095968369200200101
Birks, H.J.B., Line, J.M., Juggins, S., Stevenson, A.C. and ter Braak, C.J.F. (1990) Diatoms and pH reconstruction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 327, 263‑278. 10.1098/rstb.1990.0062
Birks, H.J.B. (1989) Holocene isochrone maps and patterns of tree‑spreading in the British Isles. Journal of Biogeography 16, 503‑540. 10.2307/2845208
- (2010). What caused the mid-Holocene forest decline on the eastern Tibet-Qinghai Plateau? Global Ecology and Biogeography. 278-286.
- (2010). Quantifying recent ecological changes in remote lakes of North America and Greenland using sediment diatom assemblages. PLOS ONE.
- (2010). Oribatid mite assemblages across the tree-line in western Norway and their representation in lake sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology. 361-374.
- (2010). Holocene land-cover changes on the Tibetan Plateau. The Holocene. 91-104.
- (2010). Holocene climate and environmental history of Brurskardstjørni, a lake in the catchment of Øvre Heimdalsvatn, south-central Norway. Hydrobiologia. 13-34.
- (2010). Evaluating the indicator value of Tibetan pollen taxa for modern vegetation and climate. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 197-208.
- (2010). Early-Holocene temperature variability inferred from chironomid assemblages at Hawes Water, northwest England. The Holocene. 943-954.
- (2010). Developing a modern pollen-climate calibration data set for Norway. Boreas. 674-688.
- (2010). A modern pollen–climate calibration set based on lake sediments from the Tibetan Plateau and its application to a Late Quaternary pollen record from the Qilian Mountains. Journal of Biogeography. 752-766.
- (2010). 4 ◦C and beyond: what did this mean for biodiversity in the past? Systematics and Biodiversity. 3-9.
- (2009). Variability in thermal and UV-B energy fluxes through time and their influence on plant diversity and speciation. Journal of Biogeography. 1630-1644.
- (2009). Svend Th Anderssen (1926-2009). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 189-191.
- (2009). Quantitative summer-temperature reconstructions for the last 2000 years based on pollen-stratigraphical data from northern Fennoscandia. Journal of Paleolimnology. 43-56.
- (2009). Evaluation of transfer functions in spatially structured environments. Quaternary Science Reviews. 1309-1316.
- (2008). Exploring Holocene continentality changes in Fennoscandia using present and past tree distributions. Quaternary Science Reviews. 1296-1308.
- (2008). Alpines, trees, and refugia in Europe. Plant Ecology & Diversity. 147-160.
- (2005). A multi-proxy study of lake-development in response to catchment changes during the Holocene at Lochnagar, north-east Scotland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
- (2003). Recent increases in species richness and shifts in altitudinal distributions of Norwegian mountain plants. The Holocene. 1-6.
- (1999). Surface-sediment and epilithic diatom pH calibration sets for remote European mountain lakes (AL:PE Project) and their comparison with the Surface Waters Acidification Programme (SWAP) calibration set. Journal of Paleolimnology. 291-317.
- (1999). Predicting heavy metal concentrations in the surface sediments of Norwegian headwater lakes from atmospheric deposition: an application of a simple sediment-water partitioning model. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. 27-51.
- (1999). Plant species richness in Fennoscandia: evaluating the relative importance of climate and history. Nordic Journal of Botany (NJB). 489-503.
- (1999). Frode Berge (1938-1997). Journal of Paleolimnology. 259-261.
- (1999). Early Holocene atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Science. 1815-1816.
- (1999). An expanded calibration model for inferring lakewater and air temperatures from fossil chironomid assemblages in northern Fennoscandia. The Holocene. 279-294.
- (1996). Variation in the geochemistry of recent lake sediments along a west-east pollution gradient in the Bergen area, Norway. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. 47-81.
- (1996). The Kråkenes Late-glacial Palaeoenvironmental Project. Journal of Paleolimnology. 281-286.
- (1996). Statistical approaches to interpreting diversity patterns in the Norwegian mountain flora. Ecography. 332-340.
- (1996). Spatial and environmental components of variation in the distribution patterns of subarctic plant species at Kevo, N Finland - A case study the meso-scale level. Ecography. 341-351.
- (1996). Quantitative relationships of invertebrates to pH in Norwegian river systems. Hydrobiologia. 57-74.
- (1996). Quantitative Reconstruction of Past Land-use and Soil Conditions Using the Modern Analogue Approach - A Case Study in South Sweden. PACT (Strasbourg). 431-442.
- (1996). Numerical analysis of modern and fossil pollen spectra as a tool for elucitating the natureof fine-scale human activities in boreal areas. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 257-272.
- (1996). Factors influencing inter-population variation in Ranunculus acris seed production in an alpine area of southwestern Norway. Ecography. 269-270.
- (1996). Diatom-based water chemistry reconstructions from northern Sweden: A comparison of reconstruction techniques. Journal of Paleolimnology. 65-77.
- (1996). Contributions of Quaternary palaeoecology to nature conservation. Journal of Vegetation Science (JVS). 89-98.
- (1995). Long-term chemical and biological trends in Scottish streams and lochs. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. 701-706.
- (1995). Late-glacial pollen and diatom changes in responses to two different environmental perturbations: volcanic eruption and the Younger Dryas cooling. Journal of Paleolimnology. 23-47.
- (1995). Briksdalsbreen, western Norway: climatic effects on the terminal response of a temperate glacier between AD 1901 and 1994. The Holocene. side 343-347.
- (1994). When did acid-sensitive Adirondack lakes (New York, USA) begin to acidify and are they still acidifying? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 1550-1568.
- (1994). The importance of pollen and diatom taxonomic precision in quantitative palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 107-117.
- (1994). The impact of the Laacher See Volcano (11000 yr B. P.) on terrestrial vegetation and diatoms. Journal of Paleolimnology. 313-322.
- (1994). Sequence splitting of pollen accumulation rates from the Holocene and Devensian late-glacial of Scotland. Dissertationes Botanicae. 145-160.
- (1994). Recurrent groups of pollen types in time. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 165-173.
- (1994). Quantitative studies on saxicolurs bryophyte-environment relationships in western Norway. Journal of Bryology. 579-612.
- (1994). Plants of the Serra da Estr#^ela. Quarterly Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society. 457-464.
- (1994). Patterns of variation in late-glacial pollen stratigraphy along a northwest-southeast transect through Switzerland - a numerical analysis. Quaternary Science Reviews. 277-286.
- (1994). Is the hypothesis of survival on glacial nunataks necessary to explain the present-day distributions of Norwegian mountain plants? Phytocoenologia. 399-426.
- (1994). Examples of recurrent groups of pollen and macrofossils in space and time delimited by simple discriminant functions. Dissertationes Botanicae. 337-351.
- (1994). Discussion of D. Borcard and P. Legendre's Environmental control and spatial structure in ecological communities: an example using oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatei). Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 55-57.
- (1994). Did Icelandic volcanic eruptions influence the post-glacial vegetational history of the British Isles? Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 312-314.
- (1994). Application of moedern/pollen/land-use relationships to the interpretation of pollen diagrams - reconstructions of land-use history in south Sweden, 3000 - 0 BP. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 47-73.
- (1993). The mid-Holocene Ulmus decline at Diss Mere, south-east England - disease and human impact? Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 61-68.
- (1993). The impact of the Laacher Sea Tephra on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in the Black Forest (Southern Germany). Journal of Quaternary Science. 263-276.
- (1993). The ecology and conservation of the Killarney Fern (Trichomanes speciosum Willd.) in Britain and Ireland. Biological Conservation. 231-247.
- (1993). Quaternary palaeoecology and vegetation science - current contributions and possible future developments. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 153-177.
- (1993). Quantitative studies on saxicolous bryophyte-environment relationships in western Norway. Journal of Bryology. 579-611.
- (1993). Prehistoric increases in the pH of acid-sensitive Swedish lakes caused by land-use changes. Nature. 824-827.
- (1993). Impact of computer-intensive procedures in testing palaeoecological hypotheses. INQUA - Commission for the Study of the Holocene - Working Group on Data-Handling Methods Newsletter. 1-5.
- (1993). How to maximise bioloigical diversity in nature reserve selection: vascular plants and breeding birds in deciduous woodlands, western Norway. Biological Conservation. 131-138.
- (1993). Glacial refugia of European trees - a matter of change? Dissertationes Botanicae. 283-291.
- (1993). Diatom assemblages from Adirondac lakes (New York, USA) and the development of predictive models for retrospective environmental assessment. Journal of Paleolimnology. 27-47.
- (1993). Assessing the representativeness of nature reserves using multivariate analyses: vascular plants and breeding birds in deciduous forests, western Norway. Biological Conservation. 121-132.
- (1993). A numerical analysis of the distribution patterns of Salix species in Europe. Journal of Biogeography. 1-32.
- (1993). A new biogeographical classification of the Scottish Uplands II. Vegetation-environment associations. Journal of Ecology. 231-251.
- (1992). The use of rarefraction analysis for estimating palynological richness from Quaternary pollen-analytical data. The Holocene. 1-10.
- (1992). The use of rarefraction analysis for estimating palynological richness from Quaternary pollen-analytical data. The Holocene. 1-10.
- (1992). Scaled chrysophytes (Chrysophyceae and Synurophyceae) from Adirondac drainage lakes and their relationships to environmental variables. Journal of Phycology. 162-178.
- (1992). Modern pollen/land-use relationships as an aid in the reconstruction of past land-use and cultural landscape: an example from South Sweden. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 3-17.
- (1992). How much acidification has occured in Adirondack (New York, USA) lakes since pre-industrial times? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 128-141.
- (1992). Assessing damaged fishery resources and lake water aluminum trends using paleolimnological analyses of siliceous algae. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 116-127.
- (1992). Aquatic invertebrates, climate, scale, and statistical hypothesis testing; a response to Hann, Warner and Warwick. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 1276-1280.
- (1992). Anoectangium warburgii in western Norway. Lindbergia. 67-68.
- (2020). A Humboldt Legacy – High-elevational limits of vascular plants: Europe, North America, Himalaya, East Africa, Andes.
- (2016). Lennart von Post and Quaternary palynology since the 1960s.
- (2015). A brief history of climate – the northern seas from the Last Glacial Maximum to global warming.
- (2014). 52 glaciers and one lake: how to reconstruct past regional glacier variability.
- (2013). The Fagus sylvatica forests in the Larvik region, southern Norway – their history and origin.
- (2013). North-Atlantic Holocene climate variability reflected in the dynamical response of Norwegian maritime glaciers.
- (2013). Diversity relationships between vegetation and modern pollen samples in the Setesdal valley of south-central Norway.
- (2012). The Fagus sylvatica forests in the Larvik region, southern Norway - their history and origin.
- (2012). Land-cover and ecological changes in Tibet during the last 15,000 years.
- (2012). Ecosystem changes at the time of the establishment of beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests in the Larvik region, southern Norway.
- (2012). Ecological and land-cover thresholds, inertia, and responses to climate change during the last 15,000 years on the Tibet Plateau – A case study.
- (2012). Biodiversity relationships between vegetation and modern pollen samples in the Setesdal valley of south-central Norway.
- (2012). Ancient DNA from lake sediments - Fact or fiction?
- (2011). Vegetation responses to rapid climate change at the late-glacial/Holocene transition.
- (2011). Towards an integrated valuation of mountain landscapes.
- (2011). The evolutionary legacies of the Quaternary ice ages.
- (2011). Significance tests for transfer function-derived quantitative reconstructions.
- (2011). Plant life in the cold - arctic and alpine environments.
- (2011). Ongoing research and future perspectives- the Bergen palaeoecology group’s work in the Arctic.
- (2011). Long-term ecology and conservation biology - controversies, challenges, and compromises.
- (2011). Introduction to Quaternary palaeoecology.
- (2011). Inferring past environments from biological data: progress, problems, and potentialities.
- (2011). DYNAWARM: Dynamics of Past Warm Climates.
- (2011). Can the secrets of the past help us make future predictions: Controversies, challenges, and compromises.
- (2011). Biotic responses to rapid climate chagnes 10000-12000 years ago - ecological processes, thresholds, resilience, and novel ecosystems.
- (2010). Towards a new Framework for the Management of Cultural and Natural Heritage in upland Landscape Conservation Areas (LCA) in Norway.
- (2010). Summer temperature trends during the last 2000 years innorthern Fennoscandia and the Kola Peninsula.
- (2010). Long-Term Ecology and Conservation Biology – Controversies, Challenges, and Compromises.
- (2010). Long-Term Ecology and Conservation Biology – Controversies, Challenges, and Compromises.
- (2010). Introduction and Overview of Major Numerical Methods.
- (2010). Introduction and Overview of Major Numerical Methods.
- (2010). Indirect Gradient Analysis.
- (2010). Hypothesis Testing and Time-Series Analysis.
- (2010). Direct Gradient Analysis.
- (2010). Calibration, Transfer Functions, and Environmental Reconstructions.
- (2010). Analysis of stratigraphical data.
- (2010). Alpine plants at the equator - giants and dwarfs.
- (2009). Plant Species Richness in Space - Patterns and Processes.
- (2009). Past climates of the Arctic: A chironomid-based temperature reconstruction of an Arctic lake on western Spitsbergen.
- (2009). New approaches to the interpretation of Holocene palaeoecological data.
- (2009). Long-Term Ecology and Management in Upland Landscapes - controversies, challenges, and compromises.
- (2009). Last nine-thousand years of temperature variability in Fennoscandia.
- (2009). How the secrets of the past can help future ecological predictions.
- (2009). How the secrets of the past can help future ecological predictions.
- (2009). Atlantic hazel woods - a lichenologist's paradise, an ecologist's problem.
- (2008). Using Earth System Models to test competing palaeoecological hypotheses about Holocene forest decline on the Tibetan Plateau.
- (2008). Using Earth System Models to test competing palaeoecological hypotheses about Holocene forest decline on the Tibetan Plateau.
- (2008). Time-series analysis.
- (2008). Stratigraphical data analysis.
- (2008). Rapid ecosystem shifts during the late Holocene in a Picea abies forest in south-eastern Norway - local stand scale dynamics and patterns.
- (2008). Quantitative environmental reconstructions.
- (2008). Overview of continental palaeoclimatic proxies in time and space.
- (2008). Introduction and Overview of Major Numerical Methods.
- (2008). Interglacial-glacial vegetational dynamics - a natural ecological laboratory.
- (2008). Interglacial - glacial vegetation dynamics - a natural long-term ecological laboratory.
- (2008). Interglacial - glacial vegetation dynamics - a natural ecological laboratory.
- (2008). Hypothesis testing.
- (2008). Biological proxies in sedimentray archives - progress, problems, potentialities.
- (2008). Alpine Plant Biodiversity. Patterns, processes, functions, and threats.
- (2007). The Holocene “Thermal Maximum” – The pollen view.
- (2007). Temperature and precipitation changes around the 8200 cal yr BP event in western and northern Norway - pollen evidence.
- (2007). Quantitative palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from fossils assemblages - approaches, methods, assumptions, evaluation, and validation.
- (2007). Quantitative palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from fossil assemblages - approaches, methods, assumptions, evaluation, and validation.
- (2007). Present-day temperatures at Sokli (northern Finland) during MIS 3 recorded by high-resolution multiproxy analysis and climate modelling.
- (2007). Palaeoecology and current environmental problems. Is palaeoecology still a 'quaint but irrelevant speciality'?
- (2007). New Approaches to the interpretation of Holocene palaeoecological data.
- (2007). Multi-proxy studies in Quaternary palaeoecology - origins, development, and potentials.
- (2007). Klima i Follo, søndre Akershus, gjennom 5000 år.
- (2007). Holocene forest decline on the Tibetan Plateau - climate or humans.
- (2007). Holocene forest decline on the Tibetan Plateau - climate or human activity.
- (2007). Holocene Climate Research - Progress, Paradigms, and Problems.
- (2007). History, Evolution, and Future of Arctic and Alpine Flora.
- (2007). Climate Change in the Holocene - an overview.
- (2007). Biological responses to rapid climate change at the Last Glacial - Interglacial transition - dynamics, turnover, and rates of change.
- (2007). Alpines, trees, and refugia.
- (2007). Alpines, trees, and refugia.
- (2006). Vegetation and climate history at Svanåvatnet, Mo i Rana, Nordland.
- (2006). Recent developments in radiocarbon-age calibration and age-depth modelling of Holocene stratigraphical sequences.
- (2006). Recent developments in Holocene climate reconstructions based on pollen analysis.
- (2006). Pollen – climate transfer functions.
- (2006). New approaches to the interpretation of Holocene palaeoecological data.
- (2006). Multi-proxy studies in Quaternary palaeoecology - origins, development and potential.
- (2006). Holocene summer temperature variability in southern Norway - a palaeolimnological study based on chironimids, pollen, and geochemical data.
- (2006). Holocene climate research - progress, paradigms and problems.
- (2006). Holocene climate reseach - progress, paradigms and problems.
- (2006). Exploring the World of High Alpines.
- (2006). Diatom responses to 20th century climate warming in lakes from the Northern Urals, Russia.
- (2006). Biological responses to rapid climate change at the last glacial - interglacial transition - dynamics, turnover and rates of change.
- (2006). Biological responses to rapid climate change at the Last Glacial-Interglacial transition - dynamics, turnover, and rates of change.
- (2006). An introduction of quantitative palaeoecology.
- (2005). The secret assumption of transfer functions: the problem with spatial autocorrelation.
- (2005). The secret assumption of transfer functions.
- (2005). The secret assumption of transfer functions.
- (2005). Patterns of change in Holocene climate records from Lyngen, Northern Norway.
- (2004). Plant Distributional Data, Palaeoecology, and Climate Change.
- (2004). Holocene mean July temperature and winter precipitation in western Norway inferred from lake sediment proxies.
- (2004). Holocene 'Thermal Maximum' - the Pollen View.
- (2003). Holosen vegetasjons- og klimahistorie fra Skibotn og Lyngen, Troms, vist ved pollen- og makrofossilanalyse.
- (2003). Holocene vegetation and climate history in Troms based on pollen and plant macrofossils.
- (2003). All age-depth models are wrong: but which are useful?
- (2002). Assessing the effects of within-lake variability of fossil assemblages on quantitative chironomid-inferred temperature reconstructions.
- (2001). Past climate changes in the Norwegian Region during the glacial-Holocene transition, 14.000 - ca. 10.000 cal yr BP.
- (2001). Holocene vegetation and climate history in Troms, northern Norway, based on pollen and plant macrofossils from lake sediments.
- (2001). Development of benthic foraminiferal transfer functions along the north eastern Atlantic margin.
- (2000). Past climates of the Norwegian region (NORPAST) - a new national research project.
- (2000). Past climates of the Norwegian region (NORPAST) - a new national research project.
- (2000). Climate history as recorded by ecologically sensitive arctic and alpine lakes in Europe during the last 10,000 years: a multi-proxy approach (CHILL-10,000).
- (2012). Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments, Volume 5: Data Handling and Numerical Techniques. Springer.
- (1988). The Cultural Landscape - Past, Present and Future. Cambridge University Press.
- (1988). The Cultural Landscape - Past, Present and Future. Cambridge University Press.
- (2023). Exploring spatio-temporal patterns of palynological changes in Asia during the Holocene. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 20 pages.
- (2016). Does pollen-assemblage richness reflect floristic richness? A review of recent developments and future challenges. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 1-25.
- (2012). Macrofossils in Raraku Lake (Easter Island) integrated with sedimentary and geochemical records: towards a palaeoecological synthesis for the last 34,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews. 113-126.
- (2011). The pace of Holocene vegetation change - testing for synchronous developments. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2805-2814.
- (2011). Merging chironomid training sets: implications for palaeoclimate reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2793-2804.
- (2010). Late-Quaternary palaeoclimatic research in Fennoscandia – A historical review. Boreas. 655-673.
- (2010). Biodiversity baselines, thresholds and resilience: testing predictions and assumptions using palaeoecological data. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 583-591.
- (2009). Last nine-thousand years of temperature variability in Northern Europe. Climate of the Past. 523-535.
- (2009). Flora, vegetation and climate at Sokli, northeastern Fennoscandia, during the Weichselian Middle Pleniglacial. Boreas. 335-348.
- (2008). Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history. Quaternary Science Reviews. 351-364.
- (2008). Agroforestry: a refuge for tropical biodiversity? Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 261-267.
- (2006). What is natural? The need for a long-term perspective in biodiversity conservation. Science. 1261-1265.
- (2006). Multi-proxy studies in palaeolimnology. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 235-251.
- (2005). Holocene environmental history and climate of Råtåsjøen, a low-alpine lake in south-central Norway. Journal of Paleolimnology. 129-153.
- (2005). Fifty years of Quaternary pollen analysis in Fennoscandia 1954-2004. Grana. 1-22.
- (2005). Chironomids as a tool for inferring Holocene climate: an assessment based on six sites in southern Scandinavia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 1429-1462.
- (2005). A multi-proxy palaeoecological study of Alanen Laanijärvi, a boreal-forest lake in Swedish Lapland. Boreas. 192-206.
- (2004). Benthonic foraminiferal distributions and quantitative transfer functions for the northwest European continental margin. Marine Micropaleontology. 197-226.
- (2004). A modern pollen-climate calibration set from northern Europe: developing and testing a tool for palaeoclimatological reconstructions. Journal of Biogeography. 251-267.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
HOPE Humans on Planet Earth - long-term impacts on biosphere dynamics
IGNEX Interglacials and glacials - natural experiments in biodiversity dynamics
IGNEX-eco applying the ideas of IGNEX to restoration ecology, landscape management, and conservation
PollChem Pollen Chemistry as the Next Generation Tool in Palaeoecological Research - Theory, Methods and Applications
Qualifications and society memberships
BA (1966), PhD (1969), MA (1970), ScD (1981) University of Cambridge
Philosophiae Doctor Honoris Causa (1998) University of Lund
Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1987), The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2014), and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2016)
Awards
Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society of London (1982)
Władysław Szafer Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1986)
Fridtjof Nansen Prize, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1998)
Rector's Medal, University of Helsinki (1998)
Fridtjof Nansen Medal, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2003)
Honorary Fellow, Botanical Society of Scotland (2004)
President's Prize, Botanical Society of the British Isles (2005)
Honorary Fellow, University College London (2010)
Lifetime Acheivement Award and Medal, International Paleolimnology Association (2012)