Palaeoecology, palaeolimnology & vegetational history of Scandinavia

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

Vasskog, K., Paasche, Ø., Nesje, A., Boyle, J.F. & Birks, H.J.B. 2012. A new approach for reconstructing glacial variability based on lake sediments recording input from more than one glacier. Quaternary Research 77: 192-204. 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.10.001

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

Ohlson, M., Brown, K.J., Birks, H.J.B., Grytnes, J.-A., Hörnberg, G., Niklasson, M., Seppä, H. & Bradshaw, R.H.W. 2011. Invasion of Norway spruce diversifies the fire regime in boreal forests. Journal of Ecology 99: 395-403. 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01780.x

Paus, A., Velle, G. & Berge, J. 2011. The Lateglacial and early Holocene vegetation and environment in the Dovre mountains, central Norway, as signalled in two Lateglacial nunatak lakes. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 1780-1796. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.010

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

Birks, H.H. & Bjune, A.E. 2010. Can we detect a west Norwegian tree line from modern samples of plant remains and pollen? Results from the DOORMAT project. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 19: 325-340. 10.1007/s00334-010-0256-0

Birks, H.H. & van Dinter, M. 2010. Lateglacial and early Holocene vegetation and climate gradients in the Nordfjord–Ålesund area, western Norway. Boreas 39: 783-798. 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00161.x

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

Gaillard, M.-J., Sugita, S., and 39 others including Birks, H.J.B., Bjune, A.E. & Hjelle, K.L. 2010. Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks. Climate of the Past 6: 483-499.

Paus, Aa. 2010. Vegetation and environment of the Rødalen alpine area, Central Norway, with emphasis on the early Holocene. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 19: 29-51. 10.1007/s00334-009-0228-4

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

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., Ohlson, M., Birks, H. J. B. & Bradshaw, R. H. W. 2009. The development and local stand-scale dynamics of a Picea abies forest in southeastern Norway. The Holocene 19: 1073-1082.

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

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.

Väliranta, M., Birks, H.H., Helmens, K.F., Engels, S. & Piirainen, M. 2009. Early Weichselian interstadial (MIS 5c) summer temperatures were higher than today in northern Fennoscandia. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 777-782. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.01.004

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. & Birks, H.H. 2008. Biological responses to rapid climate change at the Younger Dryas-Holocene transition at Kråkenes, western Norway. The Holocene 18: 19-30. 10.1177/0959683607085572

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

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.

Kaland, P.E. 2008. Kulturlandskapet historie. Naturen 4-08: 147-165.

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

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

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.H., Larsen, E. & Birks, H.J.B. 2006. On the presence of late-glacial trees in western Norway and the Scandes: a further comment. Journal of Biogeography 33: 376. 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01437.x

Bondevik, S., Mangerud, J., Birks, H.H., Gulliksen, S. & Reimer, P. 2006. Changes in North Atlantic radiocarbon reservoir ages during the Allerød and Younger Dryas. Science 312: 1514-1517. 10.1126/science.1123300

Clarke, A.L., Weckström, K., Conley, D.J., Anderson, N.J., Adser, F., Andrén, E., de Jonge, V.N., Ellegaard, M., Juggins, S., Kauppila, P., Korhola, A., Reuss, N., Telford, R.J. & Vaalgamaa. S. 2006. Long-term trends in eutrophication and nutrients in the coastal zone. Limnology & Oceanography 51: 385-397.

Eide, W., Birks, H.H., Bigelow, N.H., Peglar, S.M & Birks, H.J.B. 2006. Holocene forest development along the Setesdal valley, southern Norway, reconstructed from macrofossil and pollen evidence. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 15: 65-85. 10.1007/s00334-005-0025-7

Hjelle, K.L., Hufthammer, A.K. & Bergsvik, K.A. 2006. Hesitant hunters: a review of the introduction of agriculture in western Norway. Environmental Archaeology 11: 147-170. 10.1179/174963106x123188

Larsen, J., Bjune, A.E. & de la Riva Cabellero, A. 2006. Holocene environmental and climate history of Trettetjørn, a low-alpine lake in western Norway, based on subfossil pollen, diatoms, oribatid mites, and plant macrofossils. Arctic, Antarctic, & Alpine Research 38: 571-583. 10.1657/1523-0430(2006)38[571:HEACHO]2.0.CO;2

Larsen, J., Jones, V.J. & Eide. W. 2006. Climatically driven pH changes in two Norwegian alpine lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology 36: 57-69. 10.1007/s10933-006-0013-7

Larsen, J., Paasche, Ø., Andersen, D.O., Bjune, A.E. & de la Riva Caballero, A. 2006. Sedimentary diatom asseblages in a small alpine west Norwegian lake: evidence for metal release and precipitation? In: 18th International Diatom Symposium 2004, Miedzyzdroje, Poland. Witkowski, A. (ed.) Biopress Limited, Bristol. pp. 221-234.

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

Paus, A., Velle, G., Larsen, J., Nesje, A. & Lie, Ø. 2006. Lateglacial nunataks in central Scandinavia: Biostratigraphical evidence for ice thickness from Lake Flåfattjønn, Tynset, Norway. Quaternary Science Reviews 25: 1228-1246. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2005.10.008

Birks, H.H., Larsen, E. & Birks, H.J.B. 2005. Did tree-Betula, Pinus, and Picea survive the last glaciation along the west coast of Norway? A review of the evidence, in light of Kullman (2002). Journal of Biogeography 32: 1461-1471.

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.

Bjune, A.E., Mangerud, J. & Moe, D. 2005. Past grazing habitats for Svalbard reindeer indicated by the pollen content of 3300-year-old faeces from Edgeøya, Svalbard. Grana 44: 45-50.

Heinrichs M.L., Peglar, S.M. Bigler, C., & Birks, H.J.B. 2005. A multi-proxy palaeoecological study of Alanen Laanijarvi, a boreal-forest lake in Swedish Lapland. Boreas 34: 192-206.

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. 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. 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. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.10.010

Velle, G., Larsen, J. Eide, W., Peglar, S.M. & Birks, H.J.B. 2005. Holocene environmental history and climate of Råtåsjøen, a low-alpine lake in south-central Norway. Journal of Paleolimnology 33: 129-153.

Birks, H.J.B., Jones, V. J. & Rose, N.L. 2004. Recent environmental change and atmospheric contamination on Svalbard as recorded in lake sediments – an introduction. Journal of Paleolimnology 31: 403-411.

Birks, H.J.B., Jones, V.J. & Rose, N.L. 2004. Recent environmental change and atmospheric contamination on Svalbard as recorded in lake sediments – synthesis and general conclusions. Journal of Paleolimnology 31: 531-546.

Birks, H.J.B., Monteith, D.T. Rose, N.L., Jones, V.J., & Peglar, S.M. 2004. Recent environmental change and atmospheric contamination on Svalbard as recorded in lake sediments – modern limnology, vegetation, and pollen deposition. Journal of Paleolimnology 31: 411-433.

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.

Boyle, J.F., Rose, N.L. Appleby, P.G. & Birks. H.J.B. 2004. Recent environmental change and human impact on Svalbard: the lake-sediment geochemical record. Journal of Paleolimnology 31: 515-530.

Brooks, S.J. & Birks, H.J.B. 2004. The dynamics of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) assemblages in response to environmental change during the past 700 years on Svalbard. Journal of Paleolimnology 31: 483-498.

Hammarlund, D., Velle, G., Wolfe, B.B., Edwards, T.W.D., Barnekow, L., Bergman, J., Holmgren, S., Lamme, S., Snowball, I., Wohlfarth, B. & Possnert, G. 2004. Palaeolimnological and sedimentary responses to Holocene forest retreat in the Scandes Mountains, west central Sweden. The Holocene 14: 862-876. 10.1191/0959683604hl756rp

Jones, V.J. & Birks, H.J.B. 2004. Lake-sediment records of recent environmental change on Svalbard: results of diatom analysis. Journal of Paleolimnology 31: 445-466.

Seppä, H., Birks, H.J.B., Odland, A., Poska, A. & Veski, S. 2004. A modern pollen-climate calibration set from northern Europe: developing and testing a tool for palaeoclimatological reconstructions. Journal of Biogeography 31: 251-267.