Palaeoecology, palaeolimnology, and vegetational history outside Scandinavia

Brooks, S.J., Jones, V.J., Telford, R.J., Appleby, P.G., Watson, E., McGowan, S. & Benn, S. 2012. Population trends in the Slavonian grebe Podiceps auritus (L.) and Chironomidae (Diptera) at a Scottish loch. Journal of Paleolimnology 10.1007/s10933-012-9587-4

Brooks, S.J., Matthews, I.P., Birks, H.H. & Birks, H.J.B. 2012. High resolution Late-glacial and early-Holocene summer air temperature records from Scotland inferred from Chironomid assemblages. Quaternary Science Reviews 41: 67-52. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.03.007

Cañellas-Boltà, N., Rull, V., Sáez, A., Margalef, O., Giralt, S., Pueyo, J.J., Birks, H.H., Birks, H.J.B. & Pla-Rabes, S. 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 33: 113-126. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.12.013

Feurdean, A., Spessa, A., Magyari, E.K., Willis, K.J., Veres, D. & Hickler, T. 2012. Trends in biomass burning in the Carpathian region over the last 15,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 45: 111-125. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.04.001

Figueroa-Rangel, B.L., Willis, K.J. & Olvera-Vargas, M. 2012. Late-Holocene successional dynamics in a transitional forest of west-central Mexico. The Holocene 22: 143-153 10.1177/0959683611414929

Jeffers, E.S., Bonsall, M.B., Watson, J.E. & Willis, K.J. 2012. Climate change impacts on ecosystem functioning: evidence from an Empetrum heathland. New Phytologist 193: 150-164 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03907.x

Bremen, E., Gillson, L. & Willis, K.J. 2011. How fire and climate shaped grass-dominated vegetation and forest mosaics in northern South Africa during past millennia. The Holocene 10.1177/0959683611400196

Coffey, E.E.D., Froyd, C.A. & Willis, K.J. 2011. When is an invasive not an invasive? Macrofossil evidence of doubtful native plant species in the Galápagos Islands. Ecology 92: 805-812. 10.1890/10-1290.1

Giesecke, T., Bennett, K.D., Birks, H.J.B., Bjune, A.E., Bozilova, E., Feurdean, A., Finsinger, W., Froyd, C., Pokorný, P., Rösch, M., Seppä, H., Tonkov, S., Valsecchi, V. & Wolters, S. 2011. The pace of Holocene vegetation change - testing for synchronous developments. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 2805-2814. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.06.014

Herzschuh, U., Ni, J., Birks, H.J.B. & Böhner, J. 2011. Driving forces of mid-Holocene vegetation shifts on the upper Tibetan Plateau, with emphasis on changes in atmospheric CO₂ concentrations. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 1907-1917. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.03.007

Jeffers, E.S., Bonsall, M.B. & Willis, K.J. 2011. Stability in ecosystem functioning across a climatic threshold and contrasting forest regimes. PLoS ONE 6: e16134. 10.1371/journal.pone.0016134

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

Matthews, I.P., Birks, H.H., Bourne, A.J., Brooks, S.J., Lowe, J.J., Macleod, A. & Pyne-O'Donnell, S.D.F. 2011. New age estimates and climatostratigraphic correlations for the Borrobol and Penifilier Tephrasa: evidence from Abernethy Forest, Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science 26: 247-252. 10.1002/jqs.1498

Mortensen, M.F., Birks, H.H., Christensen, C., Holm, J., Noe-Nygaard, N., Odgaard, B.V., Olsen, J. & Rasmussen, K.L. 2011. Lateglacial vegetation development in Denmark - New evidence based on macrofossils and pollen from Slotseng, a small-scale site in south Jutland. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 2534-2550. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.018

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

Seddon, A.W.R., Froyd, C.A., Leng, M.J., Milne, G.A. & Willis, K.J. 2011. Ecosystem resilience and threshold response in the Galápagos coastal zone. PLoS ONE 6: e22376. 10.1371/journal.pone.0022376

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

Davidson, T.A., Sayer, C.D., Perrow, M., Bramm, M. & Jeppesen, E. 2010. The simultaneous inference of zooplanktivorous fish and macrophyte density from sub-fossil cladoceran assemblages: a multivariate regression tree approach. Freshwater Biology 55: 546-564. 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2008.02124.x

Davidson, T.A., Sayer, C.D., Langdon, P.G., Burgess, A. & Jackson, M. 2010. Inferring past zooplanktivorous fish and macrophyte density in a shallow lake: application of a new regression tree model. Freshwater Biology 55: 584-599. 10.1111/j.1365-2427.2009.02391.x

Feurdean, A., Willis, K.J., Parr, C.K., Tantau, I. & Farcas, S. 2010. Post-glacial patterns in vegetation dynamics in Romania: homogenisation or differentiation? Journal of Biogeography 37: 2197-2208. 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02370.x

Figueroa-Rangel, B.L., Willis, K.J. & Olvera-Vargas, M. 2010. Cloud forest dynamics in the Mexican neotropics during the last 1300 years. Global Change Biology 16: 1689-1704. 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02024.x

Froyd, C.A., Lee, J.A., Anderson, A.J., Haberle, S.G., Gasson, P.E. & Willis, K.J. 2010. Historic fuel wood use in the Galapagos Islands: identification of charcoal remains. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 19: 207-217. 10.1007/s00334-010-0239-1

Heggen, M.P., Birks, H.H. & Anderson, N.J. 2010. Long-term ecosystem dynamics of a small lake and its catchment in west Greenland. The Holocene 20: 1207-1222. 10.1177/0959683610371995

Herzschuh, U. & Birks, H.J.B. 2010. Evaluating the indicator value of Tibetan pollen taxa for modern vegetation and climate. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 160: 197-208. 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.02.016

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

Herzschuh, U., Birks, H.J.B., Ni, J., Zhao, Y, Liu, H., Liu, X. & Grosse, G. 2010. Holocene land-cover changes on the Tibetan Plateau. The Holocene 20: 91-104. 10.1177/0959683609348882

Hobbs, W.O., Telford, R.J., Birks, H.J.B., Saros, J.E., Hazewinkel, R.R.O., Perren, B.B., Saulnier-Talbot, E. & Wolfe, A. 2010. Quantifying recent ecological changes in remote lakes of North America and Greenland using sediment diatom assemblages. PLoS One 5(4): e10026. 10.1371/journal.pone.0010026

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

Larrasoaña, J.C., Ortuño, M., Parés, J.M., Birks, H.H., Valero-Garcés, B., Bordonau, J. & Copon, R. 2010. Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoseismic implications of a 3700-year sedimentary record from proglacial Lake Barrancs (Maladeta Massif, Central Pyrenees, Spain). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 294: 83-93. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.04.003

Virah-Sawmy, M., Willis, K.J. & Gillson, L. 2010. Evidence for drought and forest declines during the recent megafaunal extinctions in Madagascar. Journal of Biogeography 37: 506-519. 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02203.x

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

Binney, H.A., Willis, K.J., Edwards, M.E., Bhagwat, S.A., Anderson, P.M., Andreev, A.A., Blaauw, M., Da,blon, F., Haesaerts, P., Kienast, F., Kremenetski, K.V., Krivonogov, S.K., Lozhkin, A.V., MacDonald, G.M., Novenko, E.Y., Oksanen, P. Sapelko, T.V., Väliranta, M. & Vazhenina, L. 2009. The distribution of late-Quaternary woody taxa in northern Eurasia: evidence from a new macrofossil database. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 2445-2464. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.04.016

Brncic, T.M., Willis, K.J., Harris, D.J., Telfer, M.W. & Bailey, R.M. 2009. Fire and climate change impacts on lowland forest composition in northern Congo during the last 2580 years from palaeoecological analyses of a seasonally flooded swamp. The Holocene 19: 79-89. 10.1177/0959683608098954

Feurdean, A.N., Willis, K.J. & Astalos, C. 2009. Legacy of the past land-use changes and management on the 'natural' upland forest composition in the Apuseni National Park, Romania. The Holocene 19:967-981. 10.1177/0959683609337358

Miehe, G., Miehe, S., Kaiser, K., Ruedenbach, C., Behrendes, L., La Duo & Schlütz, F. 2009. How old is pastoralism in Tibet? An ecological approach to the making of a Tibetan landscape. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 276: 130-147. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.03.005

de Nascimento, L., Willis, K.J., Fernandez-Palacios, J.M., Criado, C. & Whittaker, R.J. 2009. The long-term ecology of the lost forest of La Laguna, Tenerife (Canary Islands). Journal of Biogeography 36: 499-514. 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2008.02012.x

Virah-Sawmy, M., Bonasll, M.B. & Willis, K.J. 2009. 'Tales of Symphonia: extinction dynamics in response to past climate change in Madagascan rainforests. Biological Letters 5: 821-825. 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0428

Virah-Sawmy, M., Gillson, L. & Willis, K.J. 2009. How does spatial heterogeneity influence resilience to climatic changes? Ecological dynamics in southeast Madagascar. Ecological Modelling 79: 557-574.

Virah-Sawmy, M., Willis, K.J. & Gillson, L. 2009. Threshold response of Madagascar's littoral forest to sea-level rise. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18: 98-110. 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2008.00429.x

Bhagwat, S.A. & Willis, K.J. 2008. Species persistence in northerly glacial refugia of Europe: a matter of chance or biogeographical trait? Journal of Biogeography 35: 464-482. 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01861.x

Birks, H.J.B. & Willis, K.J. 2008. Alpines, trees, and refugia in Europe. Plant Ecology and Diversity 1: 147-160.

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

Duffin, K.I., Gillson, L. & Willis, K.J. 2008. Testing the sensitivity of charcoal as an indicator of fire events in savanna environments: quantitative predictions of fire proximity, area, and intensity. The Holocene 18: 279-291. 10.1177/0959683607086766

Feurdean, A. & Willis K.J. 2008. The usefulness of a long-term perspective in assessing current forest conservation management in the Apuseni Natural Park, Romania. Forest Ecology and Management 256: 421-430. 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.04.050

Feurdean, A. & Willis K.J. 2008. Long-term variability of Abies alba in NW Romania: iplications for its conservation management. Diversity and Distributions 14: 1004-1017. 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00514.x

Figueroa-Rangel, B.L., Willis, K.J. & Olvera-Vargas, M. 2008. 4200 years of pine-dominated upland forest dynamics in west central Mexico: human or natural legacy? Ecology 89: 1893-1907.

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

Kattel, G.R., Battarbee, R.W., Mackay, A. & Birks, H.J.B. 2008. Recent ecological change in a remote Scottish mountain loch: an evaluation of a Cladocera-based temperature transfer function. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 259: 51-76. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.052

Miehe, G., Miehe, S., Will, M., Opgenoorth, L., LaDuo, Dorgeh, T. & Liu, J. 2008. An inventory of forest relicts in the pastures of southern Tibet (Xizang, A.R. China). Plant Ecology 194: 157-177. 10.1007/s11258-007-9282-0

Payne, R., Blackford, J. & van der Plicht, J. 2008. Using cryptotephras to extend regional tephrochronologies: An example from southeast Alaska and implications for hazard assessments. Quaternary Research 69: 42-55.

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

van Geel, B. and 15 others including Birks, H.H. 2008. The ecological implications of a Yakutian mammoth's last meal. Quaternary Research 69: 361-371. 10.1016/j.yqres.2008.02.004

van Leeuwan, J.F.N., Froyd, C.A., van der Knaap, W.O., Coffey, E.E., Tye, A. & Willis, K.J. 2008. Fossil pollen as a guide to conservation in the Galapagos. Science 322: 1206. 10.1126/science.1163454

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

Lamb, H.F., Leng, M., Telford, R.J., Ayenew, T. & Umer, M. 2007. Oxygen and carbon isotope composition of authigenic carbonate from an Ethiopian lake: a climate record of the last 2000 years. The Holocene 17: 517-526. 10.1177/0959683607076452

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.

Flower, R.J., Stickley, C., Rose, N.L., Peglar, S.M., Faathi, A.A. & Appleby, P.G. 2006. Environmental Changes at the Desert Margin: An Assessment of Recent Paleolimnological Records in Lake Qarun, Middle Egypt. Journal of Paleolimnology 35: 1-24. 10.1007/s10933-005-6393-2

Herzschuh, U. 2006. Palaeo-moisture evolution in monsoonal Central Asia during the last 50,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 25: 163-178. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.02.006

Herzschuh, U., Kurschner, H., Battarbee, R. & Holmes, J. 2006. Desert plant pollen production and a 160-year record of vegetation and climate change on the Alashan Plateau, NW China. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 15: 181-190. 10.1007/s00334-005-0031-9

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

Kattel, G.R., Battarbee, R.W., Mackay, A.W. & Birks, H.J.B. 2006. Recent ecological change in northwest Sctoland: evidence from the sub-fossil assemblages of Cladocera in Loch Coire Fionnaraich. In: Global Change in Mountain Regions. Price, M.F. (ed.) Sapiens Publishing, Dumfries & London. pp. 37-38.

Larsen, E., Kjaer, K.. Jensen, M., Demidov, I., Håkonsson, L. & Paus, Aa. 2006. Early Weichselian palaeoenvironments reconstructed from a mega-scale thrust-fault complex, Kanin Peninsula, northwestern Russia. Boreas 35: 476-492. 10.1080/03009480600781925

Miehe, G., Miehe, S., Schlütz, F., Kaiser, K. & LaDuo. 2006. Palaeoecological and experimental evidence of former forests and woodlands in the treeless desert pastures of Southern Tibet (Lhasa, A.R. Xizang, China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 242: 54-67. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.05.010

Rose, N., Birks, H.J.B., Helliwell, R., Jenkins, A., Kettle, H., Monteith, D., Muir, D., Rosseland, B.-O., Tipping, E., Thompson, R. & Woodward, G. 2006. Impacts of global change on Lochnagar, a remote Scottish mountain lake. In: Global Change in Mountain Regions. Price, M.F. (ed.) Sapiens Publishing, Dumfries & London. pp. 113-114.

Dalton, C., Birks, H.J.B. Brooks, S.J., Cameron N.G., Evershed, R.P., Peglar, S.M., Scott, J.A. & Thompson, R. 2005. A multi-proxy study of lake-development in response to catchment changes during the Holocene at Lochnagar, north-east Scotland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 221: 175-201.

Herzschuh, U., Zhang, C. Mischke, S., Herzschuh, R., Mohammadi, F., Mingram, B., Kürschner, H. & Riedel F. 2005. A Late Quaternary lake record from the Qilian Mountains (NW China): evolution of the primary production and the water depth reconstructed from macrofossil, pollen, biomarker, and isotope data. Global and Planetary Change 46: 361-379.

Lamb, A.L., Leng, M.J. Sloane, H.J. & Telford, R.J. 2005. A comparison of the palaeoclimatic signals from diatom oxygen isotope ratios and carbonate oxygen isotope ratios from a low latitude crater lake. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 223: 290-302.

Mischke, S., Herzschuh, U. Zhang, C., Bloemendal, J. & Riedel, F. 2005. A Late Quaternary lake record from the Qilian Mountains (NW China): lake level and salinity changes inferred from sediment properties and ostracod assemblages. Global and Planetary Change 46: 337-359.

Newton, A.J., Metcalfe, S.E. Davies, S.J., Cook, G., Barker, P. & Telford, R.J. 2005. Late Quaternary volcanic record from lakes of Michoacán, central Mexico. Quaternary Science Reviews 24: 91-104. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.07.008

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

Solovieva, N., Jones, V.J. Nazarova, L., Brooks, S.J., Birks, H.J.B., Grytnes, J.-A., Appleby, P., Kauppila, T., Kondratenok, B., Renberg, I. & Ponomarev, V. 2005. Palaeolimnological evidence for recent climatic change in lakes from the northern Urals, arctic Russia. Journal of Paleolimnology 33: 463-482. DOI: 10.1007/s10933-005-0811-3