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List of works by Willy Tinner

1200 years of decadal-scale variability of Mediterranean vegetation and climate at Pantelleria Island, Italy

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14,500 years of vegetation and land use history in the upper continental montane zone at Lac de Champex (Valais, Switzerland)

16 000 years of vegetation and settlement history from Egelsee (Menzingen, central Switzerland)

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20,000 years of interactions between climate, vegetation and land use in Northern Greece

scientific article published in 2019

8,000 years of climate, vegetation, fire and land-use dynamics in the thermo-mediterranean vegetation belt of northern Sardinia (Italy)

scientific article published in 2021

A 16 000-year record of vegetational change in south-western Alaska as inferred from plant macrofossils and pollen

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A 700-year paleoecological record of boreal ecosystem responses to climatic variation from Alaska

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A Review of 2000 Years of Paleoclimatic Evidence in the Mediterranean

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A critical assessment of human-impact indices based on anthropogenic pollen indicators

scientific article published in May 2020

A deep dig––hindsight on Holocene vegetation composition from ancient environmental DNA.

scientific article published in July 2013

A model-data comparison of Holocene timberline changes in the Swiss Alps reveals past and future drivers of mountain forest dynamics

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A new Late-glacial and Holocene record of vegetation and fire history from Lago del Greppo, northern Apennines, Italy

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A novel testate amoebae trait-based approach to infer environmental disturbance in Sphagnum peatlands

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A palaeoecological attempt to classify fire sensitivity of trees in the southern Alps

A range‐wide postglacial history of Swiss stone pine based on molecular markers and palaeoecological evidence

scientific article published in 2023

Alpine Glacier Reveals Ecosystem Impacts of Europe's Prosperity and Peril Over the Last Millennium

scientific article published in 2021

An empirical perspective for understanding climate change impacts in Switzerland

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An ice-core based history of Siberian forest fires since AD 1250

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Annual pollen traps reveal the complexity of climatic control on pollen productivity in Europe and the Caucasus

Author Correction: Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond

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Central European vegetation response to abrupt climate change at 8.2 ka

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Changes in biodiversity and vegetation composition in the central Swiss Alps during the transition from pristine forest to first farming

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

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Chipped Stone Assemblage of the Layer B of the Kamyana Mohyla 1 Site (South-Eastern Ukraine) and the Issue of Kukrek in the North Meotic Steppe Region

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

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Climate versus human-driven fire regimes in Mediterranean landscapes: the Holocene record of Lago dell’Accesa (Tuscany, Italy)

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Climate warming and vegetation response after Heinrich event 1 (16 700–16 000 cal yr BP) in Europe south of the Alps

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Climatic and anthropogenic forcing of prehistorical vegetation succession and fire dynamics in the Lago di Como area (N-Italy, Insubria)

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Climatic and human impacts on mountain vegetation at Lauenensee (Bernese Alps, Switzerland) during the last 14,000 years

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Climatic change and contemporaneous land-use phases north and south of the Alps 2300 BC to 800 AD

article by Willy Tinner et al published June 2003 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Contrasting patterns of precipitation seasonality during the Holocene in the south- and north-central Mediterranean

Corrigendum to “Responses to rapid warming at Termination 1a at Gerzensee (Central Europe): Primary succession, albedo, soils, lake development, and ecological interactions”[Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 391PB (2014) 111–131]

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Der nacheiszeitliche Bergsturz im Kandertal (Schweiz): Alter und Auswirkungen auf die damalige Umwelt

Determining the long-term changes in biodiversity and provisioning services along a transect from Central Europe to the Mediterranean

Diatom response to mid-Holocene climate change in Lago di Massaciuccoli (Tuscany, Italy)

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Did soil development limit spruce (Picea abies) expansion in the Central Alps during the Holocene? Testing a palaeobotanical hypothesis with a dynamic landscape model

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Early expansion of mixed oak stands at 16,800–16,600 cal bp at a northern Italian glacial refugium in the Euganean Hills

scientific article published on 26 April 2024

Early human impact (5000-3000 BC) affects mountain forest dynamics in the Alps

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

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Early-Holocene afforestation processes in the lower subalpine belt of the Central Swiss Alps as inferred from macrofossil and pollen records

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Effect of climatic and palaeoenvironmental changes on the occurrence of Holocene bats in the Swiss Alps

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Effects of climatic change and bog development on Holocene tufa formation in the Lorze Valley (central Switzerland)

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Effects of sample mass and macrofossil type on radiocarbon dating of arctic and boreal lake sediments

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Effects of temporal floral resource availability and non-crop habitats on broad bean pollination

scientific article published on 30 April 2022

Ein paläoökologischer Beitrag zum besseren Verständnis der natürlichen Vegetation der Schweiz

scientific article published in 2010

Environmental and climatic conditions at a potential Glacial refugial site of tree species near the Southern Alpine glaciers. New insights from multiproxy sedimentary studies at Lago della Costa (Euganean Hills, Northeastern Italy)

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Erratum to: Ein paläoökologischer Beitrag zum besseren Verständnis der natürlichen Vegetation der Schweiz

scholarly article published in Alpine botany

Evidence for Late-Mesolithic agriculture? A reply to Karl-Ernst Behre

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Evidence for cooler European summers during periods of changing meltwater flux to the North Atlantic

scientific article (publication date: 26 October 2004)

Fire ecology north and south of the Alps since the last ice age

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

scientific article published in 2018

Fire—vegetation interactions during the Mesolithic—Neolithic transition at Lago dell'Accesa, Tuscany, Italy

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First absolute chronologies of neolithic and bronze age settlements at Lake Ohrid based on dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating

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Four thousand years of vegetation and fire history in the spruce forests of northern Kyrgyzstan (Kungey Alatau, Central Asia)

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Gerhard Lang (21.10.1924–19.6.2016)

scholarly article about botanist Gerhard Lang

Global biomass burning: a synthesis and review of Holocene paleofire records and their controls

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Holocene biomass burning and global dynamics of the carbon cycle.

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Holocene climate, fire and vegetation dynamics at the treeline in the Northwestern Swiss Alps

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Holocene environmental and climatic changes at Gorgo Basso, a coastal lake in southern Sicily, Italy

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Holocene hydrological changes in south-western Mediterranean as recorded by lake-level fluctuations at Lago Preola, a coastal lake in southern Sicily, Italy

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Holocene paleoclimate inferred from salinity histories of adjacent lakes in southwestern Sicily (Italy)

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

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Holocene vegetation and fire dynamics in the supra-mediterranean belt of the Nebrodi Mountains (Sicily, Italy)

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Holocene vegetation and fire history of the mountains of Northern Sicily (Italy)

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

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Holocene vegetation, fire and land use dynamics at Lake Svityaz, an agriculturally marginal site in northwestern Ukraine

How Climate and Vegetation Influence the fire Regime of the Alaskan Boreal Biome: The Holocene Perspective

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

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Human impact on vegetation at the Alpine tree-line ecotone during the last millennium: lessons from high temporal and palynological resolution

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HyRAD-X, a versatile method combining exome capture and RAD sequencing to extract genomic information from ancient DNA

scientific article published in 2017

Ice cave reveals environmental forcing of long-term Pyrenean tree line dynamics

scientific article published in 2018

Ice records provide new insights into climatic vulnerability of Central Asian forest and steppe communities

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Impact of Holocene climate changes on alpine and treeline vegetation at Sanetsch Pass, Bernese Alps, Switzerland

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Impacts of changing climate and land use on vegetation dynamics in a Mediterranean ecosystem: insights from paleoecology and dynamic modeling

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Implementing Microscopic Charcoal Particles Into a Global Aerosol-Climate Model

Implementing microscopic charcoal particles into a global aerosol–climate model

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Influence of human impact and bedrock differences on the vegetational history of the Insubrian Southern Alps

Influence of taxonomic resolution on the value of anthropogenic pollen indicators

scientific article published on 11 May 2021

Insights about past forest dynamics as a tool for present and future forest management in Switzerland

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

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Land-use history as a guide for forest conservation and management

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Land-use history as a major driver for long-term forest dynamics in the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (central Spain) during the last millennia: implications for forest conservation and management

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Landscape distribution of food and nesting sites affect larval diet and nest size, but not abundance of Osmia bicornis

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Late-Glacial and Holocene vegetation history of Pavullo nel Frignano (Northern Apennines, Italy)

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Late-Holocene climate variability and ecosystem responses in Alaska inferred from high-resolution multiproxy sediment analyses at Grizzly Lake

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Late-Holocene land-use history and environmental changes at the high altitudes of St Antönien (Switzerland, Northern Alps): Combined evidence from pollen, soil and tree-ring analyses

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Late-Holocene vegetation and land-use dynamics in the Southern Alps (Switzerland) as a basis for nature protection and forest management

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Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation history in the Insubrian Southern Alps—New indications from a small-scale site

article published in 2006

Lateglacial and early Holocene summer temperatures in the southern Swiss Alps reconstructed using fossil chironomids

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Long-distance transport of macroscopic charcoal by an intensive crown fire in the Swiss Alps - implications for fire history reconstruction

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Long-term forest fire ecology and dynamics in southern Switzerland

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Long-term hydrological dynamics and fire history over the last 2000 years in CE Europe reconstructed from a high-resolution peat archive

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Long-term interactions between Mediterranean climate, vegetation and fire regime at Lago di Massaciuccoli (Tuscany, Italy)

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

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Mesolithic agriculture in Switzerland? A critical review of the evidence

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Microclimatic gradients provide evidence for a glacial refugium for temperate trees in a sheltered hilly landscape of Northern Italy

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Mid- and late-Holocene vegetation and fire history at Biviere di Gela, a coastal lake in southern Sicily, Italy

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Middle to Late Holocene vegetation history of the Upper Engadine (Swiss Alps): the role of man and fire

Scholarly article, 2003

Millennial multi-proxy reconstruction of oasis dynamics in Jordan, by the Dead Sea

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

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Modern pollen assemblages as climate indicators in southern Europe

scientific article published in 2007

Modern pollen – vegetation – plant diversity relationships across large environmental gradients in northern Greece

scientific article published on 27 November 2021

Morphological differentiation of Betula (birch) pollen in northwest North America and its palaeoecological application

North–south palaeohydrological contrasts in the central Mediterranean during the Holocene: tentative synthesis and working hypotheses

article published in 2013

Olive groves around the lake. A ten-thousand-year history of a Cretan landscape (Greece) reveals the dominant role of humans in making this Mediterranean ecosystem

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On trend estimation under monotone Gaussian subordination with long-memory: application to fossil pollen series

Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond

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Palaeoclimate records 60–8 ka in the Austrian and Swiss Alps and their forelands

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Past and future evolution of Abies alba forests in Europe - comparison of a dynamic vegetation model with palaeo data and observations

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Placing unprecedented recent fir growth in a European-wide and Holocene-long context

scientific article published in 2014

Pollen and charcoal in lake sediments compared with historically documented forest fires in southern Switzerland since AD 1920

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

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Pollen representation in surface samples of the Juniperus, Picea and Juglans forest belts of Kyrgyzstan, central Asia

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Postglacial vegetational and fire history: pollen, plant macrofossil and charcoal records from two Alaskan lakes

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Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes

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Preface of the special issue “Multidisciplinary reconstructions in palaeoecology–the diversity of ways and means”

article published in 2006

Quaternary refugia of the sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.): an extended palynological approach

article published in 2004

Quaternary refugia of the sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.): an extended palynological approach

Radiocarbon Wiggle Matching on Laminated Sediments Delivers High-Precision Chronologies

Rapid responses of high-mountain vegetation to early Holocene environmental changes in the Swiss Alps

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Reconstructing past fire regimes: methods, applications, and relevance to fire management and conservation

article by Marco Conedera et al published March 2009 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Reconstruction of Holocene vegetation dynamics at Lac de Bretaye, a high-mountain lake in the Swiss Alps

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Reconstruction of full glacial environments and summer temperatures from Lago della Costa, a refugial site in Northern Italy

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Response of broadleaved evergreen Mediterranean forest vegetation to fire disturbance during the Holocene: insights from the peri-Adriatic region

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Responses of vegetation and testate amoeba trait composition to fire disturbances in and around a bog in central European lowlands (northern Poland)

scientific article published in 2019

Responses to rapid warming at Termination 1a at Gerzensee (Central Europe): Primary succession, albedo, soils, lake development, and ecological interactions

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Reviving extinct Mediterranean forest communities may improve ecosystem potential in a warmer future

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Seasonal shifts and complementary use of pollen sources by two bees, a lacewing and a ladybeetle species in European agricultural landscapes

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Simulating past and future fire impacts on Mediterranean ecosystems

scientific article published on 31 March 2024

Six millennia of summer temperature variation based on midge analysis of lake sediments from Alaska

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Size parameters, size-class distribution and area-number relationship of microscopic charcoal: relevance for fire reconstruction

Sources and distribution of CuO-derived benzene carboxylic acids in soils and sediments

Spatio-temporal patterns of Holocene environmental change in southern Sicily

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Species responses to fire, climate and human impact at tree line in the Alps as evidenced by palaeo-environmental records and a dynamic simulation model

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Synchronous Holocene climatic oscillations recorded on the Swiss Plateau and at timberline in the Alps

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THE LAST HUNTER-GATHERERS AND EARLY FARMERS OF THE MIDDLE SOUTHERN BUH RIVER VALLEY (CENTRAL UKRAINE) IN VIII–V MILL. BC

Taxon-related pollen source areas for lake basins in the southern Alps: an empirical approach

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

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Testing the potential of luminescence dating of high-alpine lake sediments

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The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2

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The cultivation of Castanea sativa (Mill.) in Europe, from its origin to its diffusion on a continental scale

The historical demise of Pinus nigra forests in the Northern Iberian Plateau (south-western Europe)

article published in 2016

The past ecology ofAbies albaprovides new perspectives on future responses of silver fir forests to global warming

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

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The role of human-induced fire and sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.) cultivation on the long-term landscape dynamics of the southern Swiss Alps

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The sedimentary and remote-sensing reflection of biomass burning in Europe

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The use of mineral magnetism in the reconstruction of fire history: a case study from Lago di Origlio, Swiss Alps

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Treeline Fluctuations Recorded for 12,500 Years by Soil Profiles, Pollen, and Plant Macrofossils in the Central Swiss Alps

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Tropical Andean glacier reveals colonial legacy in modern mountain ecosystems

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Unprecedented herbivory threatens rear-edge populations of Betula in southwestern Eurasia

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Uppermost Limit, Extent, and Fluctuations of the Timberline and Treeline Ecocline in the Swiss Central Alps during the Past 11,500 Years

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

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Variations of sedimentary Fe and Mn fractions under changing lake mixing regimes, oxygenation and land surface processes during Late-glacial and Holocene times

scientific article published on 31 October 2020

Vegetation Changes and Timberline Fluctuations in the Central Alps as Indicators of Holocene Climatic Oscillations

scientific article (publication date: November 1997)

Vegetation and fire dynamics during the last 4000 years in the Cabañeros National Park (central Spain)

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Vegetation and fire history of coastal north-eastern Sardinia (Italy) under changing Holocene climates and land use

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Vegetation and fire history of the Euganean Hills (Colli Euganei) as recorded by Lateglacial and Holocene sedimentary series from Lago della Costa (northeastern Italy)

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Vegetation changes since the late Middle Ages around Bern, Switzerland

scientific article published in 2024

Vegetation dynamics and land-use change at the Neolithic lakeshore settlement site of Ploča Mičov Grad, Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia

scientific article published in 2023

Vegetation history of the walnut forests in Kyrgyzstan (Central Asia): natural or anthropogenic origin?

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Vegetation history, fire history and lake development recorded for 6300 years by pollen, charcoal, loss on ignition and chironomids at a small lake in southern Kyrgyzstan (Alay Range, Central Asia)

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Vegetation response to rapid climate change during the Lateglacial–Early Holocene transition at Gola di Lago, southern Switzerland

scientific article published in 2022

Vegetation responses to climatic variability in the Swiss Southern Alps during the Misox event at the early-mid Holocene transition

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Vegetation responses to rapid warming and to minor climatic fluctuations during the Late-Glacial Interstadial (GI-1) at Gerzensee (Switzerland)

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Vegetational and agricultural dynamics at Burgäschisee (Swiss Plateau) recorded for 18,700 years by multi-proxy evidence from partly varved sediments

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Warm Mediterranean mid-Holocene summers inferred from fossil midge assemblages

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Why loss matters: Reply to the comments of Festi and others on ‘A quantitative comparison of microfossil extraction methods from ice cores’ by Brugger and others (2018)

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

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Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America

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Zur Langzeitökologie des Lärchen-Arvengürtels in den südlichen Walliser Alpen

scientific article published in 2005