List of works - Christoph Schwörer

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

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

scientific article

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

Climate impacts on vegetation and fire dynamics since the last deglaciation at Moossee (Switzerland)

scientific article published in 2020

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

article

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

article

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

scientific article published in 2018

High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change

scientific article published on 4 November 2022

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

scientific article published in 2012

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

article

Holocene vegetation dynamics in southern Ukraine under changing land use and climate

scientific article published in 2024

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

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

scientific article published in 2018

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

article

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

article

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

Modeling postglacial vegetation dynamics of temperate forests on the Olympic Peninsula (WA, USA) with special regard to snowpack

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

scholarly article

Palaeoecological multiproxy reconstruction captures long-term climatic and anthropogenic impacts on vegetation dynamics in the Rhaetian Alps

scientific article published in 2024

Pollen, macrofossils and sedaDNA reveal climate and land use impacts on Holocene mountain vegetation of the Lepontine Alps, Italy

scientific article published in November 2022

Rates of palaeoecological change can inform ecosystem restoration

scientific article published in 2024

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

article

Simulating past and future fire impacts on Mediterranean ecosystems

scientific article published on 31 March 2024

The untapped potential of macrofossils in ancient plant DNA research

scientific article published in 2022

Tracing devastating fires in Portugal to a snow archive in the Swiss Alps: a case study

scientific article

Tracing devastating fires in Portugal to a snow archive in the Swiss Alps: a case study

scholarly article

Vegetation changes since the late Middle Ages around Bern, Switzerland

scientific article published in 2024

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

scientific article published in 2022

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)

scientific article

List of works by Christoph Schwörer

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

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

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

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

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

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

Climate impacts on vegetation and fire dynamics since the last deglaciation at Moossee (Switzerland)

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

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

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

High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change

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

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

Holocene vegetation dynamics in southern Ukraine under changing land use and climate

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

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

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

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

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

Modeling postglacial vegetation dynamics of temperate forests on the Olympic Peninsula (WA, USA) with special regard to snowpack

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

Palaeoecological multiproxy reconstruction captures long-term climatic and anthropogenic impacts on vegetation dynamics in the Rhaetian Alps

Pollen, macrofossils and sedaDNA reveal climate and land use impacts on Holocene mountain vegetation of the Lepontine Alps, Italy

Rates of palaeoecological change can inform ecosystem restoration

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

Simulating past and future fire impacts on Mediterranean ecosystems

The untapped potential of macrofossils in ancient plant DNA research

Tracing devastating fires in Portugal to a snow archive in the Swiss Alps: a case study

Tracing devastating fires in Portugal to a snow archive in the Swiss Alps: a case study

Vegetation changes since the late Middle Ages around Bern, Switzerland

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

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)