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4 °C and beyond: what did this mean for biodiversity in the past?

scientific article published in 2010

A 274-lake calibration data-set and inference model for chironomid-based summer air temperature reconstruction in Europe

scholarly article

A North European pollen–climate calibration set: analysing the climatic responses of a biological proxy using novel regression tree methods

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A brief history of climate – the northern seas from the Last Glacial Maximum to global warming

scholarly article

A comparison of altitudinal species richness patterns of bryophytes with other plant groups in Nepal, Central Himalaya

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A comparison of novel and traditional numerical methods for the analysis of modern pollen assemblages from major vegetation–landform types

A diverse scientific life

scholarly article

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

scientific article published in 2023

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

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A modern pollen-climate calibration set from northern Europe: developing and testing a tool for palaeoclimatological reconstructions

A multiproxy palaeolimnological investigation of Holocene environmental change, between c. 10 700 and 7200 years BP, at Holebudalen, southern Norway

A new approach for reconstructing glacier variability based on lake sediments recording input from more than one glacier

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A spatio-temporal reconstruction of Holocene temperature change in southern Scandinavia

Agroforestry: a refuge for tropical biodiversity?

scientific article

Alpine vegetation and species-richness patterns along two altitudinal gradients in the Gyama Valley, south-central Tibet, China

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Alpines, trees, and refugia in Europe

scientific article published in 2008

Aquatic ecotones-new insights from Arctic Canada

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Arctic Holocene proxy climate database – new approaches to assessing geochronological accuracy and encoding climate variables

scholarly article by H. S. Sundqvist et al published 29 August 2014 in Climate of the Past

Are diversity trends in western Scandinavia influenced by post-glacial dispersal limitation?

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

scholarly article

Assessment of freshwater diatoms as quantitative indicators of past climatic change in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada

scholarly article

Biodiversity baselines, thresholds and resilience: testing predictions and assumptions using palaeoecological data.

scientific article

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

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Biotic homogenization of upland vegetation: patterns and drivers at multiple spatial scales over five decades

article by Louise C. Ross et al published 2 February 2012 in Journal of Vegetation Science

Challenges in the presentation and analysis of plant-macrofossil stratigraphical data

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Chironomid-inferred air temperatures from Lateglacial and Holocene sites in north-west Europe: progress and problems

scholarly article

Chironomid-inferred late-glacial summer air temperatures from Lough Nadourcan, Co. Donegal, Ireland

scholarly article

Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) succession in Żabieniec bog and its palaeo-lake (central Poland) through the Late Weichselian and Holocene

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Climate variability and ecosystem dynamics of remote alpine and arctic lakes: the MOLAR project

scholarly article

Climate-driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes

scientific article (publication date: 22 March 2005)

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

scientific article

Comparing palaeolimnological and instrumental evidence of climate change for remote mountain lakes over the last 200 years

scholarly article

Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

scientific article published on 06 December 2019

Corrigendum to Quantitative reconstruction of precipitation changes on the NE Tibetan Plateau since the Last Glacial Maximum – extending the concept of pollen source area to pollen-based climate reconstructions from large lakes" published in C"

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Creating spatially continuous maps of past land cover from point estimates: A new statistical approach applied to pollen data

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Current continental palaeoclimatic research in the Nordic region (100 years since Gunnar Andersson 1909) - Introduction

Developing a modern pollen-climate calibration data set for Norway

Diatom flickering prior to regime shift ⬇️

scientific article published on June 27, 2013

Disjunct populations of European vascular plant species keep the same climatic niches

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Dispersal limitations matter for microbial morphospecies

scientific article published in May 2006

Does pollen-assemblage richness reflect floristic richness? A review of recent developments and future challenges

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Driving forces of mid-Holocene vegetation shifts on the upper Tibetan Plateau, with emphasis on changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations

scholarly article

Early Weichselian (MIS 5d and 5c) temperatures and environmental changes in northern Fennoscandia as recorded by chironomids and macroremains at Sokli, northeast Finland

scholarly article by Stefan Engels et al published 7 June 2010 in Boreas

Early-Holocene temperature variability inferred from chironomid assemblages at Hawes Water, northwest England

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East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation

scientific article

Ecological memory at millennial time-scales: the importance of data constraints, species longevity and niche features

scholarly article

Effect of uneven sampling along an environmental gradient on transfer-function performance

scholarly article

Effects of within-lake variability of fossil assemblages on quantitative chironomid-inferred temperature reconstruction

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Environmental and climate reconstruction of the late-glacial-Holocene transition from a lake sediment sequence in Aubrac, French Massif Central: Chironomid and diatom evidence

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Erratum to: The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

scholarly article published in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Establishing a terrestrial chronological framework as a basis for biostratigraphical comparisons

scholarly article

Evaluating the indicator value of Tibetan pollen taxa for modern vegetation and climate

Evolution of vegetation and climate variability on the Tibetan Plateau over the past 1.74 million years

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Exploring Holocene continentality changes in Fennoscandia using present and past tree distributions

scholarly article

Fine-scale changes in vegetation composition in a boreal mire over 50 years

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Flora, vegetation and climate at Sokli, northeastern Fennoscandia, during the Weichselian Middle Pleniglacial

Forests at Løvenholm, Djursland, Denmark, at Present and in the Past

Frank Oldfield and his contributions to environmental change research

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

scholarly article

Fusing pollen-stratigraphic and dendroclimatic proxy data to reconstruct summer temperature variability during the past 7.5 ka in subarctic Fennoscandia

scholarly article

Geographical trends in the species-to-family ratio of vascular plants in Fennoscandia

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Glacial legacies on interglacial vegetation at the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition in NE Asia

scientific article

Global Change in the Holocene

Holocene changes in vegetation composition in northern Europe: why quantitative pollen-based vegetation reconstructions matter

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Holocene climate and environmental history of Brurskardstjørni, a lake in the catchment of Øvre Heimdalsvatn, south-central Norway

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Holocene climate variability in the northern North Atlantic region: A review of terrestrial and marine evidence

scientific article

Holocene glacier history of Bjørnbreen and climatic reconstruction in central Jotunheimen, Norway, based on proximal glaciofluvial stream-bank mires

scholarly article

Holocene land-cover changes on the Tibetan Plateau

Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks

Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history

scholarly article

Holocene vegetation and climate history on a continental-oceanic transect in northern Fennoscandia based on pollen and plant macrofossils

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Holocene vegetation dynamics and inferred climate changes at Svanåvatnet, Mo i Rana, northern Norway

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

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

How important is plot relocation accuracy when interpreting re-visitation studies of vegetation change?

scientific article published in 2010

How many freshwater diatoms are pH specialists? A response to Pither & Aarssen (2005).

scientific article published in April 2006

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

scientific article published in 2014

Improved quantification of UV-B absorbing compounds in Pinus sylvestris L. pollen grains using an internal standard methodology

In Memoriam: Herbert E Wright Jr 1917–2015

Invasion of Norway spruce diversifies the fire regime in boreal European forests

scientific article published in 2011

Late-Quaternary palaeoclimatic research in Fennoscandia - A historical review

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Late-Quaternary summer temperature changes in the northern-European tree-line region

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

scholarly article

Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

scientific article

Long-term vegetation stability in northern Europe as assessed by changes in species co-occurrences

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

scientific article

Merging chironomid training sets: implications for palaeoclimate reconstructions

scholarly article

Microrefugia and Shifts of Hippophae tibetana (Elaeagnaceae) on the north side of Mt. Qomolangma (Mt. Everest) during the last 25000 years

scientific article

Midges as quantitative temperature indicator species: Lessons for palaeoecology

Minimizing the edge-effect in environmental reconstructions by trimming the calibration set: Chironomid-inferred temperatures from Spitsbergen

Modern diatom, cladocera, chironomid, and chrysophyte cyst assemblages as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in the Alps. I. Climate

scholarly article

Modern diatom, cladocera, chironomid, and chrysophyte cyst assemblages as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in the Alps. II. Nutrients

scholarly article

Modern pollen–plant richness and diversity relationships exist along a vegetational gradient in southern Norway

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Natural and cultural heritage in mountain landscapes: towards an integrated valuation

One hundred years of Quaternary pollen analysis 1916–2016

Orchid species richness along Himalayan elevational gradients

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

scholarly article

Palaeolimnological evidence for recent climatic change in lakes from the northern Urals, arctic Russia

scholarly article

Patterns of modern pollen and plant richness across northern Europe

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Pollen-based palaeoclimate reconstructions over long glacial-interglacial timescales: methodological tests based on the Holocene and MIS 5d-c deposits at Sokli, northern Finland

scholarly article by J. SAKARI SALONEN et al published 13 March 2013 in Journal of Quaternary Science

Pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene regional vegetation cover (plant-functional types and land-cover types) in Europe suitable for climate modelling.

scientific article

Present-day temperatures in northern Scandinavia during the last glaciation

scholarly article

Quantification of UV-B flux through time using UV-B-absorbing compounds contained in fossil Pinus sporopollenin.

scientific article published on 2 August 2011

Quantification of biotic responses to rapid climatic changes around the Younger Dryas — a synthesis

scholarly article

Quantifying recent ecological changes in remote lakes of North America and Greenland using sediment diatom assemblages

scientific article (publication date: 2 April 2010)

Quantifying the effects of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in Europe

scholarly article

Quantitative palaeotemperature records inferred from fossil pollen and chironomid assemblages from Lake Gilltjärnen, northern central Sweden

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Quantitative reconstruction of precipitation changes on the NE Tibetan Plateau since the Last Glacial Maximum – extending the concept of pollen source area to pollen-based climate reconstructions from large lakes

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Quantitative summer-temperature reconstructions for the last 2000 years based on pollen-stratigraphical data from northern Fennoscandia

scholarly article

Quaternary Palaeoecology

scientific article (publication date: May 1981)

Rapid climatic changes during the Greenland stadial 1 (Younger Dryas) to early Holocene transition on the Norwegian Barents Sea coast

scholarly article by HEIKKI SEPPÄ et al published 28 June 2008 in Boreas

Rate-of-change analysis in palaeoecology revisited: a new approach

scientific article published on 18 December 2020

Recent ecological change in a remote Scottish mountain loch: An evaluation of a Cladocera-based temperature transfer-function

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Recent vegetation changes at the high-latitude tree line ecotone are controlled by geomorphological disturbance, productivity and diversity

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Reconciling pollen-stratigraphical and tree-ring evidence for high- and low-frequency temperature variability in the past millennium

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Reconstructing palaeoclimatic variables from fossil pollen using boosted regression trees: comparison and synthesis with other quantitative reconstruction methods

scholarly article

Regional climate model simulations for Europe at 6 and 0.2 k BP: sensitivity to changes in anthropogenic deforestation

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Regional consistency in Lateglacial chironomid-inferred temperatures from five sites in north-west England

scholarly article

Response to Comment on "Dispersal Limitations Matter for Microbial Morphospecies"

scientific article published in Science

Revisiting tree-migration rates: Abies alba (Mill.), a case study

Rick Battarbee and his many contributions to palaeolimnology

scholarly article

SCALED CHRYSOPHYTES (CHRYSOPHYCEAE AND SYNUROPHYCEAE) FROM ADIRONDACK DRAINAGE LAKES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES1

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Siberian larch forests and the ion content of thaw lakes form a geochemically functional entity

scientific article

Soil mineral depletion drives early Holocene lake acidification

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Spatial structure of the 8200 cal yr BP event in northern Europe

Stability of alpine vegetation over 50 years in central Norway

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

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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

scholarly article

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN RETRACTED: What caused the mid-Holocene forest decline on the eastern Tibet-Qinghai Plateau?

scientific article published in 2009

Temporally changing drivers for late-Holocene vegetation changes on the northern Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published in 2012

Testing intra-site transfer functions: an example using chironomids and water depth

scholarly article

Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation

scientific article published in 2023

The Fagus sylvatica forests in the Larvik region, south-eastern Norway: their origin and history

The development and local stand-scale dynamics of a Picea abies forest in southeastern Norway

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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

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The effect of calibration data set selection on quantitative palaeoclimatic reconstructions

The pace of Holocene vegetation change – testing for synchronous developments

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The relationship between vegetation composition, vegetation zones and modern pollen assemblages in Setesdal, southern Norway

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The taxonomic distribution of rare and common species among families in the vascular plant flora of Fennoscandia. BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH

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Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation

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Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments

scientific article published in 2001

Tree migration-rates: narrowing the gap between inferred post-glacial rates and projected rates

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

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

scientific article

distantia: an open-source toolset to quantify dissimilarity between multivariate ecological time-series

scholarly article

‘Diatoms and pH reconstruction’ (1990) revisited

scholarly article

“Think horizontally, act vertically”: the centenary (1916–2016) of pollen analysis and the legacy of Lennart von Post

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