Palaeoclimatology

Aarnes, I., Bjune, A.E., Birks, H.H., Balascio, N.L., Bakke, J. & Blaauw, M. 2012. Vegetation responses to rapid climatic changes during the last deglaciation 13,500–8,000 years ago on southwest Andøya, arctic Norway. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 21: 17-35. 10.1007/s00334-011-0320-4

Aarnes, I., Kühl, N. & Birks, H.H. 2012. Quantitative climate reconstruction from late-glacial and early Holocene plant macrofossils in western Norway using the probability density function approach. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 170: 27-39. 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.11.001

Birks, H.H., Jones, V.J., Brooks, S.J., Birks, H.J.B., Telford, R.J., Juggins, S. & Peglar, S.M. 2012. From cold to cool in northermost Norway: Lateglacial and early Holocene multi-proxy environmental and climate reconstructions from Jansvatnet, Hammerfest. Quaternary Science Reviews 33: 100-120. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.11.013

Brown, K.J., Seppä, H., Schoups, G., Fausto, R.S., Rasmussen, P. & Birks, H.J.B. 2012. A spatio-temporal reconstruction of Holocene temperature change in southern Scandinavia. The Holocene 22: 165-177. 10.1177/0959683611414926

Austin, W.E.N., Telford, R.J., Ninnemann, U.S., Brown, L., Wilson, L.J., Small, D.P. & Bryant C.L. 2011. North Atlantic reservoir ages linked to high Younger Dryas atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations. Global and Planetary Change 79: 226-233. 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.06.011

Heiri, O., Brooks, S.J., Birks, H.J.B. & Lotter, A.F. 2011. A 274-lake calibration data-set and inference model for chironomid-based summer air temperature reconstruction in Europe. Quarternary Science Reviews 30: 3445-3456. 10.1016/J.quascirev.2011.09.006

Holmes, N., Langdon, P.G., Caseldine, C., Brooks, S.J. & Birks, H.J.B. 2011. Merging chironomid training sets: implications for palaeoclimate reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 2793-2804. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.06.013

Hoogakker, B., Chapman, M.R., McCave, N., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Ellison, C.R.W., Hall, I.R. & Telford, R.J. 2011. Dynamics of North Atlantic deep water masses during the Holocene. Paleoceanography 10.1029/2011PA002155

Jeffers, E.S., Bonsall, M.B., Brooks, S.J. & Willis, K.J. 2011. Abrupt environmental changes drive shifts in tree--grass interaction outcomes. Journal of Ecology 99: 1063-1070. 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01816.x

Krüger, L.C., Paus, A., Svendsen, J.I. & Bjune, A.E. 2011. Lateglacial vegetation and palaeoenvironment in W Norway, with new pollen data from the Sunnmore region. Boreas 40: 616-635. 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2011.00213.x

Lloyd, J.M., Moros, M., Perner, K., Telford, R.J., Kuijpers, A., Jansen, E. & McCarthy, D. 2011. A 100 yr record of ocean temperature control on the stability of Jakobshavn Isbrae, west Greenland. Geology 39: 867-870. 10.1130/G32076.1

Perner, K., Moros, M., Kuijpers, A., Telford, R.J. & Harff, J. 2011. Centennial scale benthic foraminiferal record of late Holocene oceanographic variability in Disko Bugt, West Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 2815-2826. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.06.018

Płóciennik, M., Self, A.E., Birks, H.J.B. & Brooks, S.J. 2011. Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) succession in Żabieniec bog and its palaeo-lake (central Poland) through the Late Weichselian and Holocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 307: 150-167. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.010

Self, A.E., Brooks, S.J., Birks, H.J.B., Nazarova, L., Porinchu, D., Odland, A., Yang, H. & Jones, V.J. 2011. The distribution and abundance of chironomids in high-latitude Eurasian lakes with respect to temperature and continentality: development and application of new chironomid-based climate-inference models in northern Russia. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 1122-1141. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.01.022

Velle, G., Kongshavn, K. & Birks, H.J.B. 2011. Minimising the edge-effect in environmental reconstructions by trimming the calibration set: Chironomid-inferred temperatures from Spitsbergen. The Holocene 21: 417-430. 10.1177/0959683610385723

Willis, K.J. & MacDonald, G.M. 2011. Long-term ecological records and their relevance to climate change predictions for a warmer world. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 42: 267-287. 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102209-144704

Willis, K.J., Feurdean, A., Birks, H.J.B., Bjune, A.E., Bremen, E., Broekman, R., Grytnes, J.-A., New, M., Singareyer, J.S. & Rozema, J. 2011. Quantification of UV-B flux through time using UV-B-absorbing compounds contained in fossil Pinus sporopollenin. New Phytologist 192: 553-560. 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03815.x

Andersson, C., Pausata, F.S.R., Jansen, E., Risebrobakken, B. & Telford, R.J. 2010. Holocene trends in the foraminifer record from the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Climate of the Past 6: 179-193.

Birks, H.J.B. & Seppä, H. 2010. Late-Quaternary palaeoclimatic research in Fennoscandia - A historical review. Boreas 39: 655-673. 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00160.x

Birks, H.J.B., Heiri, O., Seppä, H. & Bjune, A.E. 2010. Strengths and weaknesses of quantitative climate reconstructions based on late-Quaternary biological proxies. The Open Ecology Journal 3: 68-110. 10.2174/1874213001003020068

Bjune, A.E., Birks, H.J.B., Peglar, S. & Odland, A. 2010. Developing a modern pollen-climate calibration data-set for Norway. Boreas 39: 674-688. 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00158.x

Engels, S., Helmens, K.F., Väliranta, M., Brooks, S.J. & Birks, H.J.B. 2010. Early Weichselian (MIS 5d and 5c) temperatures and environmental changes in northern Fennoscandia as recorded by chironomids and macroremains at Sokli, northeast Finland. Boreas 39: 689-704. 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00163.x

Helama, S., Seppä, H., Birks, H.J.B. & Bjune, A.E. 2010. Reconciling pollen-stratigraphical and tree-ring evidence for high- and low-frequency temperature variability in the past millennium. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 905-3918. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.09.012

Herzschuh, U., Birks, H.J.B., Miscke, S., Zhang, C. & Böhner, J. 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 37: 752-766. 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02245.x

Lang, B., Bedford, A., Brooks, S.J., Jones, R.T., Richardson, N., Birks, H.J.B. & Marshall, J.D. 2010. Early-Holocene temperature variability inferred from chironomid assemblages at Hawes Water, northwest England. The Holocene 20: 943-954. 10.1177/0959683610366157

Lang, B., Brooks, S.J., Bedford, A., Jones, R.T., Birks, H.J.B. & Marshall, J.D. 2010. Regional consistency in Lateglacial chironomid-inferred temperatures from five sites in north-west England. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 1528-1538. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.02.023

Seppä, H., Birks, H.J.B., Bjune, A.E. & Nesje, A. 2010. Current continental palaeoclimatic research in the Nordic region (100 years since Gunnar Andersson 1909) – Introduction. Boreas 39: 649-654. 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00170.x

Velle, G., Bjune, A.E., Larsen, J. & Birks, H.J.B. 2010. Holocene climate and environmental history of Brurskardstjørni, a lake in the catchment of Øvre Heimdalsvatn, south-central Norway. Hydrobiologia 642: 13-34. 10.1007/s10750-010-0153-7

Watson, J.E., Brooks, S.J., Whitehouse, N.J., Reimer, P., Birks, H.J.B. & Turney, C. 2010. Chironomid-inferred late-glacial summer air temperatures from Lough Nadourcan, Co. Donegal, Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science 25: 1200-1210. 10.1002/jqs.1399

Willis, K.J., Bennett, K.D., Bhagwat, S.A. & Birks, H.J.B. 2010. 4°C and beyond: what did this mean for biodiversity in the past? Systematics and Biodiversity 8: 3-9. 10.1080/14772000903495833

Bakke, J., Lie, Ø., Heegaard, E., Dokken, T., Haug, G.H., Birks, H.H., Dulski, P. & Nilsen, T. 2009. Rapid oceanic and atmospheric changes during the Younger Dryas cold period. Nature Geoscience 2: 202-205. 10.1038/ngeo439

Bjune, A.E., Seppä, H. & Birks, H.J.B. 2009. Quantitative summer-temperature reconstructions for the last 2000 years based on pollen-stratigraphical data from northern Fennoscandia. Journal of Paleolimnology 41: 43-56. 10.1007/s10933-008-9254-y

Bos, J.A.A., Helmens, K.F., Bohncke, S.J.P., Seppä, H. & Birks, H.J.B. 2009. Flora, vegetation and climate at Sokli, northeastern Fennoscandia during the Weichselian Middle Pleniglacial. Boreas 38: 335-348. 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2008.00070.x

Karlsen, L.C. 2009. Late-glacial vegetation and environment at the mouth of Hardangerfjorden, western Norway. Boreas 38: 315-334. 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2008.00062.x

Kaufman, D.S., Schneider, D.P., McKay, N.P., Ammann, C.M., Bradley, R.S., Briffa K.R., Miller, G.H., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Overpeck, J.T., Vinther, B.M. & Arctic Lakes 2k Project Members 2009. Recent warming reverses long-term Arctic cooling. Science 325: 1236-1239. 10.1126/science.1173983

Moros, M., De Dekker, P., Jansen, E., Perner, K. & Telford, R.J. 2009. Holocene climate variability in the Southern Ocean recorded in a deep-sea sediment core off South Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 1932-1940.

Seppä, H., Bjune, A.E., Telford, R.J., Birks, H.J.B. & Veski, S. 2009. Last nine-thousand years of temperature variability in Northern Europe. Climate of the Past 5: 523-535.

Bakke, J., Lie, Ø., Dahl, S.O., Nesje, A. & Bjune, A.E. 2008. Strength and spatial patterns of the Holocene wintertime westerlies in the NE Atlantic region. Global and Planetary Change 60: 28-41.

Birks, H.J.B. 2008. Holocene climate research - progress, paradigms, and problems. In: Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming - A Holocene Perspective. (Eds: Battarbee, R.W. & Binney, H.A.), Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 7-57.

Bjune, A.E. & Birks, H.J.B. 2008. Holocene vegetation dynamics and inferred climate changes at Svanåvatnet, Mo i Rana, northern Norway. Boreas 37: 146-156. 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.00006.x

Bjune, A.E., Seppä, H. & Birks, H.J.B. 2008. Quantitative summer-temperature reconstructions for the last 2000 years based on pollen-stratigraphical data from northern Fennoscandia. Journal of Paleolimnology 10.1007/s10933-008-9254-y

Chen, F., Yu, Z. Yang, M., Ito, E., Wang, S., Madsen, D.B., Huang, X., Zhao, Y., Sato, T., Birks, H.J.B., Boomer, I., Chen, J., An, C. & Wünnemann, B. 2008. Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 351-364. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.10.017

Giesecke, T., Bjune, A.E., Chiverrell, R.C., Seppä, H., Ojala, A.E.K. & Birks, H.J.B. 2008. Exploring Holocene continentality changes in Fennoscandia using present and past tree distributions. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 1296-1308.

Henriksen, M., Magerud, J., Matiouchkov, A., Murray, A.S., Paus, Aa. & Svendsen, J.I. 2008. Intriguing climatic shifts in a 90 kyr old lake record from northern Russia. Boreas 37: 20-37. 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2007.00007.x

Jansen, E., Andersson, C., Moros, M., Nisancioglu, K.H., Nyland, B.F. & Telford, R.J. 2008. The early to mid-Holocene thermal optimum in the North Atlantic. In: Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming - A Holocene Perspective. (Eds: Battarbee, R.W. & Binney, H.A.), Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 123-137.

MacDonald, G.M., Bennett, K.D., Jackson, S.T., Parducci, L., Smith, F.A., Smol, J.P. & Willis, K.J. 2008. Impacts of climate change on species, populations and communities: palaeobiogeographical insights and frontiers. Progress in Physical Geography 32: 139-172. 10.1177/0309133308094081

Panizzo, V.N., Jones, V.J., Birks, H.J.B., Boyle, J.F., Brooks, S.J. & Leng, M.J. 2008. A multiproxy palaeolimnological investigation of Holocene environmental change, between c. 10700 and 7200 years BP, at Holebudalen, southern Norway. The Holocene 18: 805-817. 10.1177/0959683608089217

Seppä, H., MacDonald, G.M., Birks, H.J.B., Gervais, B.R. & Snyder, J.A. 2008. Late-Quaternary summer temperature changes in the northern-European tree-line region. Quaternary Research 69: 404-412. 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.02.002

Solovieva, N., Jones, V., Birks, H.J.B., Appleby, P. & Nazarova, L. 2008. Diatom responses to 20th century climate warming in lakes from the northern Urals, Russia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 259: 96-106. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.10.001

Willis, K.J., Bennett, K.D. & Haberle, S.G. 2008. Solar influence on Holocene fire history. British Archaeological Report International Series 1807: 307-318.

Willis, K.J., Gillson, L. & Virah-Sawmy, M. 2008. Nature or nurture: the ambiguity of C4 grasslands in Madagascar. Journal of Biogeography 35: 1471-1472. 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.01985.x

Hald, M., Andersson, C., Ebbesen, H., Jansen, E., Klitgaard-Kristensen, D., Risebrobakken, B., Salamonsen, G., Sarnthein, M., Serjup, H.P. & Telford, R.J. 2007. Variations in temperature and extent of Atlantic Water in the northern North Atlantic during the Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 26: 3423-3440. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.10.005

Helmens, K.F., Bos, J.A.A., Engels, S., van Meerbeeck, C.J., Bohncke, S.J.P., Renssen, H., Heiri, O., Brooks, S.J., Seppä, H., Birks, H.J.B. & Wohlfarth, B. 2007. Present-day temperatures in northern Scandinavia during the last glaciation. Geology 35: 987-990. 10.1130/G23995A.1

Seppä, H., Birks, H.J.B., Giesecke, T., Hammarlund, D., Alenius T., Antonsson, K., Bjune, A.E., Heikkilä, M., MacDonald, G.M., Ojala, A.E.K., Telford, R.J. & Veski, S. 2007. Spatial structure of the 8200 cal yr BP event in Northern Europe. Climate of the Past 3: 225-236. www.clim-past.net/3/225/2007/cp-3-225-2007.pdf

Willis, K.J., Kleczkowski, A., New, M. & Whittaker, R.J. 2007. Testing the impact of climate variability on European plant diversity: 320 000 years of water–energy dynamics and its long-term influence on plant taxonomic richness. Ecology Letters 10: 673-679.

Antonsson, K., Brooks, S.J., Seppä, H., Telford, R.J. & Birks, H.J.B. 2006. Quantitative palaeotemperature records inferred from fossil pollen and chironomid assemblages from Lake Gilltjarnen, northern central Sweden. Journal of Quaternary Science 21: 831-841. 10.1002/jqs.1004

Birks, H.J.B. & Telford, R.J. 2006. Discussion on Bayesian palaeoclimate reconstruction by J. Haslett et al. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A 169: 433-434.

Bjune, A.E., Bakke, J., Nesje, A. & Birks, H.J.B. 2006. Ekstremnedbør i tidligere tider. Cicerone 15: 29-31.

Eide, W. & Birks, H.H. 2006. Stomatal frequency of Betula pubescens and Pinus sylvestris shows no proportional relationship with atmospheric CO2 concentration. Nordic Journal of Botany 24: 327-339.

Herzschuh, U. 2006. Palaeo-moisture evolution in monsoonal Central Asia during the last 50,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 25: 163-178. 

Herzschuh, U., Winter, K., Wünnermann, B. & Li, S. 2006. A general cooling trend on the central Tibetan Plateau throughout the Holocene recorded by the Lake Zigetang pollen spectra. Quaternary International 154-155: 113-121. 10.1016/j.quaint.2006.02.005

 

HOLIVAR2006 2006. Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming. Jones, V., Jenks, C., Hughes, M., Binney, H. & Birks, H.J.B. (eds.) University College London 184 pp.

Nesje, A., Bjune, A.E., Bakke, J., Dahl, S.O., Lie, Ø. & Birks, H.J.B. 2006. Holocene palaeoclimate reconstructions at Vanndalsvatnet, western Norway, with particular reference to the 8200 cal. yr BP event. The Holocene 16: 717-729. 10.1191/0959683606hl954rp

Payne, R., Kishaba, K., Blackford, J.J. & Mitchell, E.A.D. 2006. Ecology of testate ameoba (Protista) in south-central Alaska peatlands: building transfer-function models for palaeoenvironmental studies. The Holocene 16: 403-414. 10.1191/0959683606hl936rp

Telford, R.J. 2006. Limitations of dinoflagellate cyst transfer function. Quaternary Science Reviews 25: 1375-1382. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.02.012

Birks, H.H., Kristensen, D.K. Dokken, T & Andersson, C. 2005. Exploratory comparisons of quantitative temperature estimates over the last deglaciation in Norway and the Norwegian Sea. American Geophysical Union, Washington, Geophysical Monograph Series 158 pp. 341-355.

Bjune, A.E. 2005. Holocene vegetation history and tree-line changes on a north–south transect crossing major climate gradients in southern Norway—evidence from pollen and plant macrofossils in lake sediments. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 133: 249-275.

Bjune, A.E., Bakke, J. Nesje, A. & Birks, H.J.B. 2005. Holocene mean July temperature and winter precipitation in western Norway inferred from palynological and glaciological lake-sediment proxies. The Holocene 15: 177-189.

Hald, M., Andersson, C. Ebbesen, H., Jansen, E., Klitgaard-Kristensen, D., Risebrobakken, B., Salomonsen, G.R., Serjup, H.P. & Telford, R.J. 2005. Havtemperatur utenfor norskekysten de siste 12000 år. Cicerone 3: 20-21.

Matthews, J.A., Berrisford, M.S. Dresser, P.Q., Nesje, A., Dahl, S.O., Bjune, A.E., Bakke, J., Birks, H.J.B., Lie, Ø., Dumayne-Peaty, L. & Barnett, C. 2005. Holocene glacier history of Bjørnbreen and climatic reconstruction in central Jotunheimen, Norway, based on proximal glaciofluvial stream-bank mires. Quaternary Science Reviews 24: 67-90. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.07.003

Nesje, A., Jansen, E. Birks, H.J.B., Bjune, A.E., Bakke, J., Andersson, C., Dahl, S.O., Kristensen, D.K., Lauritzen, S.-E., Lie, Ø., Risebrobakken, B. & Svendsen, J.-I. 2005. Holocene climate variability in the northern North Atlantic region: A review of terrestrial and marine evidence. American Geophysical Union, Washington, Geophysical Monograph Series 158 pp. 289-322.

Smol, J., Wolfe, A.P. Birks, H.J.B. & 23 others 2005. Climate-driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102: 4397-4402. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0500245102

Velle, G., Brooks, S.J. Birks, H.J.B. & Willassen, E. 2005. Chironomids as a tool for inferring Holocene climate: an assessment based on six sites in southern Scandinavia. Quaternary Science Reviews 24: 1429-1462. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.10.010

Bjune, A.E., Birks, H.J.B. & Seppä, H. 2004. Holocene vegetation and climate history on a continental-oceanic transect in northern Fennoscandia based on pollen and plant macrofossils. Boreas 33: 211-223.