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List of works by Hilary H. Birks

A calendar age estimate of the Younger Dryas-Holocene boundary at Kråkenes, western Norway

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A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large‐scale syntheses using fossil pollen

scientific article published in 2023

Are fossil assemblages in a single sediment core from a small lake representative of total deposition of mite, chironomid, and plant macrofossil remains?

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Biological responses to rapid climate change at the Younger Dryas—Holocene transition at Kråkenes, western Norway

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Can we detect a west Norwegian tree line from modern samples of plant remains and pollen? Results from the DOORMAT project

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Changes in North Atlantic radiocarbon reservoir ages during the Allerød and Younger Dryas

scientific article published in June 2006

Comment on "Glacial survival of boreal trees in northern Scandinavia".

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Dating, synthesis, and interpretation of palaeoclimatic records of the Last Glacial cycle and model-data integration: advances by the INTIMATE (INTegration of Ice-core, MArine and TErrestrial records) COST Action ES0907

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Early Weichselian interstadial (MIS 5c) summer temperatures were higher than today in northern Fennoscandia

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Evidence for the diet and habitat of two late Pleistocene mastodons from the Midwest, USA

scientific article published on 4 December 2018

From cold to cool in northernmost Norway: Lateglacial and early Holocene multi-proxy environmental and climate reconstructions from Jansvatnet, Hammerfest

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High resolution Lateglacial and early-Holocene summer air temperature records from Scotland inferred from chironomid assemblages

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Holocene fire-regime changes near the treeline in the Retezat Mts. (Southern Carpathians, Romania)

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Holocene treeline and timberline changes in the South Carpathians (Romania): Climatic and anthropogenic drivers on the southern slopes of the Retezat Mountains

How foreign is the past?

scientific article published in Nature

How have studies of ancient DNA from sediments contributed to the reconstruction of Quaternary floras?

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Identifying the driving factors behind observed elevational range shifts on European mountains

scientific article published in 2014

In Memoriam: Herbert Edgar Wright, Jr

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John Birks: Pioneer in quantitative palaeoecology

Late-Glacial Mosses and Environmental Reconstructions at Kråkenes, Western Norway

scientific article published in 1995

Lateglacial and early-Holocene climate variability reconstructed from multi-proxy records on Andøya, northern Norway

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Lateglacial vegetation development in Denmark – New evidence based on macrofossils and pollen from Slotseng, a small-scale site in southern Jutland

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Life and times of the Bering land bridge

scientific article published in Nature

Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

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New age estimates and climatostratigraphic correlations for the Borrobol and Penifiler Tephras: evidence from Abernethy Forest, Scotland

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Oribatid mite assemblages across the tree-line in western Norway and their representation in lake sediments

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Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoseismic implications of a 3700-year sedimentary record from proglacial Lake Barrancs (Maladeta Massif, Central Pyrenees, Spain)

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Palaeolimnological responses of nine North African lakes in the CASSARINA Project to recent environmental changes and human impact detected by plant macrofossil, pollen, and faunal analyses

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Paleoecology. The rise and fall of forests

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

Quaternary Palaeoecology

scientific article (publication date: May 1981)

Soil mineral depletion drives early Holocene lake acidification

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Stay or go – how topographic complexity influences alpine plant population and community responses to climate change

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The Ecological implications of a Yakutian mammoth's last meal

The Würmian Late-Glacial and early-Holocene vegetation and environment of Gourds des Aillères in the Monts du Forez (Massif Central, France) based on pollen and macrofossil evidence

scientific article published on 20 May 2022

The fourth dimension of vegetation

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The importance of plant macrofossils in the reconstruction of Lateglacial vegetation and climate: examples from Scotland, western Norway, and Minnesota, USA

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Treeline and timberline dynamics on the northern and southern slopes of the Retezat Mountains (Romania) during the late glacial and the Holocene

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Validation of climate model-inferred regional temperature change for late-glacial Europe

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Vegetation responses to rapid climatic changes during the last deglaciation 13,500–8,000 years ago on southwest Andøya, arctic Norway

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