List of works - Walter Finsinger

A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

A guide to screening charcoal peaks in macrocharcoal-area records for fire-episode reconstructions

A long-term multi-proxy record of varved sediments highlights climate-induced mixing-regime shift in a large hard-water lake ~5000 years ago

article

A regional tephrostratigraphic framework for central and southern European climate archives during the Last Glacial to Interglacial transition: comparisons north and south of the Alps

scholarly article

Assessing paleo-biodiversity using low proxy influx

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Author Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Between Atlantic and Mediterranean: Changes in technology during the Late Glacial in Western Europe and the climate hypothesis

scholarly article

Carbon accumulation rates of Holocene peatlands in central–eastern Europe document the driving role of human impact over the past 4000 years

scientific article published in 2021

Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data

scholarly article

Changes in the vegetation and water cycle of the Ecuadorian páramo during the last 5000 years

scientific article published in 2022

Charcoal dispersion and deposition in boreal lakes from 3 years of monitoring: Differences between local and regional fires

article

Circum-Mediterranean fire activity and climate changes during the mid-Holocene environmental transition (8500-2500 cal. BP)

article

Climate and Peatlands

scientific article published in 2010

Climate change during the past 1000 years: a high-temporal-resolution multiproxy record from a mire in northern Finland

scholarly article by Walter Finsinger et al published 19 December 2012 in Journal of Quaternary Science

Differing climatic mechanisms control transient and accumulated vegetation novelty in Europe and eastern North America

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Early to mid-Holocene climate change at Lago dell'Accesa (central Italy): climate signal or anthropogenic bias?

article

Effect of increased fire activity on global warming in the boreal forest

article

Emergence patterns of novelty in European vegetation assemblages over the past 15 000 years

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

Estimating variation in stomatal frequency at intra-individual, intra-site, and inter-taxonomic levels in populations of the Leonardoxa africana (Fabaceae) complex over environmental gradients in Cameroon

article

Evidence of changing intrinsic water-use efficiency under rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations in Boreal Fennoscandia from subfossil leaves and tree ring δ13C ratios

article

Exceptionally high levels of lead pollution in the Balkans from the Early Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution.

scientific article

Exploring the Ecological History of a Tropical Agroforestry Landscape Using Fossil Pollen and Charcoal Analysis from Four Sites in Western Ghats, India

Fire on ice and frozen trees? Inappropriate radiocarbon dating leads to unrealistic reconstructions

scientific article published in 2018

Historical range of fire frequency is not the Achilles' heel of the Corsican black pine ecosystem

scientific article published in 2014

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

scholarly article

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

Holocene vegetation and fire dynamics at Crveni Potok, a small mire in the Dinaric Alps (Tara National Park, Serbia)

scholarly article

Holocene vegetation and land-use changes in response to climatic changes in the forelands of the southwestern Alps, Italy

article

Holocene-scale fire dynamics of central European temperate spruce-beech forests

article by Vachel A. Carter et al published July 2018 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Human impact during the Bronze Age on the vegetation at Lago Lucone (northern Italy)

article

Human impacts and eutrophication patterns during the past ~200 years at Lago Grande di Avigliana (N. Italy)

scholarly article

Impact of the Atlantic Warm Pool on precipitation and temperature in Florida during North Atlantic cold spells

scholarly article

Interactions between climate and vegetation during the Lateglacial period as recorded by lake and mire sediment archives in Northern Italy and Southern Switzerland

scholarly article

Late-glacial and Holocene European pollen data

article by Simon Brewer et al published 30 August 2016 in Journal of Maps

Late-glacial chironomid-based temperature reconstructions for Lago Piccolo di Avigliana in the southwestern Alps (Italy)

scholarly article

Localversusregional processes: can soil characteristics overcome climate and fire regimes by modifying vegetation trajectories?

Long-term fire history in northern Quebec: implications for the northern limit of commercial forests

article

Long-term man–environment interactions in the Bolivian Amazon: 8000 years of vegetation dynamics

article

Migration and population expansion of Abies, Fagus, Picea, and Quercus since 15000 years in and across the Alps, based on pollen-percentage threshold values

scholarly article

Minimum count sums for charcoal concentration estimates in pollen slides: accuracy and potential errors

article

Modern pollen assemblages as climate indicators in southern Europe

scientific article published in 2007

PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data

scientific article published in October 2019

Patterns and dynamics of European vegetation change over the last 15,000 years

article

Pollen and plant macrofossils at Lac de Fully (2135 m a.s.l.): Holocene forest dynamics on a highland plateau in the Valais, Switzerland

article

Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Rates of palaeoecological change can inform ecosystem restoration

scientific article published in 2024

Small-scale moisture availability increase during the 8.2-ka climatic event inferred from biotic proxy records in the South Carpathians (SE Romania)

Stomatal-based inference models for reconstruction of atmospheric CO2 concentration: a method assessment using a calibration and validation approach

Temporal patterns in lacustrine stable isotopes as evidence for climate change during the late glacial in the Southern European Alps

scholarly article

Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem responses to early Holocene rapid climate change (RCC) events in the South Carpathian Mountains, Romania

article

Testing the influence of climate, human impact and fire on the Holocene population expansion of Fagus sylvatica in the southern Prealps (Italy)

article

The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2

scientific article

The European Pollen Database: past efforts and current activities

The late glacial–Holocene transition as inferred from ostracod and pollen records in the Lago Piccolo di Avigliana (Northern Italy)

article

The lateglacial Quercus expansion in the southern European Alps: rapid vegetation response to a late Allerød climate warming?

article

The pace of Holocene vegetation change – testing for synchronous developments

article

The potential of stomata analysis in conifers to estimate presence of conifer trees: examples from the Alps

article

The rise of novelty in marine ecosystems: The Baltic Sea case

scientific article published on 15 January 2021

The role of fire disturbances, human activities and climate change for long-term forest dynamics in upper-montane forests of the central Dinaric Alps

scientific article published in 2023

Towards mapping the late Quaternary vegetation change of Europe

article by Thomas Giesecke et al published 1 March 2013 in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Tracing growing degree-day changes in the cuticle morphology of Betula nana leaves: a new micro-phenological palaeo-proxy

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

scientific article

Using tree-ring records to calibrate peak detection in fire reconstructions based on sedimentary charcoal records

article

Wildfire history and fire ecology of the Swiss National Park (Central Alps): new evidence from charcoal, pollen and plant macrofossils

article

List of works by Walter Finsinger

A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

A guide to screening charcoal peaks in macrocharcoal-area records for fire-episode reconstructions

A long-term multi-proxy record of varved sediments highlights climate-induced mixing-regime shift in a large hard-water lake ~5000 years ago

A regional tephrostratigraphic framework for central and southern European climate archives during the Last Glacial to Interglacial transition: comparisons north and south of the Alps

Assessing paleo-biodiversity using low proxy influx

Author Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

Between Atlantic and Mediterranean: Changes in technology during the Late Glacial in Western Europe and the climate hypothesis

Carbon accumulation rates of Holocene peatlands in central–eastern Europe document the driving role of human impact over the past 4000 years

Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data

Changes in the vegetation and water cycle of the Ecuadorian páramo during the last 5000 years

Charcoal dispersion and deposition in boreal lakes from 3 years of monitoring: Differences between local and regional fires

Circum-Mediterranean fire activity and climate changes during the mid-Holocene environmental transition (8500-2500 cal. BP)

Climate and Peatlands

Climate change during the past 1000 years: a high-temporal-resolution multiproxy record from a mire in northern Finland

Differing climatic mechanisms control transient and accumulated vegetation novelty in Europe and eastern North America

Early to mid-Holocene climate change at Lago dell'Accesa (central Italy): climate signal or anthropogenic bias?

Effect of increased fire activity on global warming in the boreal forest

Emergence patterns of novelty in European vegetation assemblages over the past 15 000 years

Estimating variation in stomatal frequency at intra-individual, intra-site, and inter-taxonomic levels in populations of the Leonardoxa africana (Fabaceae) complex over environmental gradients in Cameroon

Evidence of changing intrinsic water-use efficiency under rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations in Boreal Fennoscandia from subfossil leaves and tree ring δ13C ratios

Exceptionally high levels of lead pollution in the Balkans from the Early Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution.

Exploring the Ecological History of a Tropical Agroforestry Landscape Using Fossil Pollen and Charcoal Analysis from Four Sites in Western Ghats, India

Fire on ice and frozen trees? Inappropriate radiocarbon dating leads to unrealistic reconstructions

Historical range of fire frequency is not the Achilles' heel of the Corsican black pine ecosystem

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

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

Holocene vegetation and fire dynamics at Crveni Potok, a small mire in the Dinaric Alps (Tara National Park, Serbia)

Holocene vegetation and land-use changes in response to climatic changes in the forelands of the southwestern Alps, Italy

Holocene-scale fire dynamics of central European temperate spruce-beech forests

Human impact during the Bronze Age on the vegetation at Lago Lucone (northern Italy)

Human impacts and eutrophication patterns during the past ~200 years at Lago Grande di Avigliana (N. Italy)

Impact of the Atlantic Warm Pool on precipitation and temperature in Florida during North Atlantic cold spells

Interactions between climate and vegetation during the Lateglacial period as recorded by lake and mire sediment archives in Northern Italy and Southern Switzerland

Late-glacial and Holocene European pollen data

Late-glacial chironomid-based temperature reconstructions for Lago Piccolo di Avigliana in the southwestern Alps (Italy)

Localversusregional processes: can soil characteristics overcome climate and fire regimes by modifying vegetation trajectories?

Long-term fire history in northern Quebec: implications for the northern limit of commercial forests

Long-term man–environment interactions in the Bolivian Amazon: 8000 years of vegetation dynamics

Migration and population expansion of Abies, Fagus, Picea, and Quercus since 15000 years in and across the Alps, based on pollen-percentage threshold values

Minimum count sums for charcoal concentration estimates in pollen slides: accuracy and potential errors

Modern pollen assemblages as climate indicators in southern Europe

PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data

Patterns and dynamics of European vegetation change over the last 15,000 years

Pollen and plant macrofossils at Lac de Fully (2135 m a.s.l.): Holocene forest dynamics on a highland plateau in the Valais, Switzerland

Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

Rates of palaeoecological change can inform ecosystem restoration

Small-scale moisture availability increase during the 8.2-ka climatic event inferred from biotic proxy records in the South Carpathians (SE Romania)

Stomatal-based inference models for reconstruction of atmospheric CO2 concentration: a method assessment using a calibration and validation approach

Temporal patterns in lacustrine stable isotopes as evidence for climate change during the late glacial in the Southern European Alps

Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem responses to early Holocene rapid climate change (RCC) events in the South Carpathian Mountains, Romania

Testing the influence of climate, human impact and fire on the Holocene population expansion of Fagus sylvatica in the southern Prealps (Italy)

The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2

The European Pollen Database: past efforts and current activities

The late glacial–Holocene transition as inferred from ostracod and pollen records in the Lago Piccolo di Avigliana (Northern Italy)

The lateglacial Quercus expansion in the southern European Alps: rapid vegetation response to a late Allerød climate warming?

The pace of Holocene vegetation change – testing for synchronous developments

The potential of stomata analysis in conifers to estimate presence of conifer trees: examples from the Alps

The rise of novelty in marine ecosystems: The Baltic Sea case

The role of fire disturbances, human activities and climate change for long-term forest dynamics in upper-montane forests of the central Dinaric Alps

Towards mapping the late Quaternary vegetation change of Europe

Tracing growing degree-day changes in the cuticle morphology of Betula nana leaves: a new micro-phenological palaeo-proxy

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

Using tree-ring records to calibrate peak detection in fire reconstructions based on sedimentary charcoal records

Wildfire history and fire ecology of the Swiss National Park (Central Alps): new evidence from charcoal, pollen and plant macrofossils