Humans On Planet Earth - Long-term impacts on biosphere dynamics

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Peer reviewed articles (18)

Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism

Author(s): Suzette G. A. Flantua, Davnah Payne, Michael K. Borregaard, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Stefan Dullinger, Franz Essl, Severin D. H. Irl, David Kienle, Holger Kreft, Bernd Lenzner, Sietze J. Norder, Kenneth F. Rijsdijk, Sabine B. Rumpf, Patrick Weigelt, Richard Field
Published in: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29/10, 2020, Page(s) 1651-1673, ISSN 1466-822X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13155

Climate-driven plant response and resilience on the Tibetan Plateau in space and time: a review

Author(s): Bhatarai, P., Zheng, Z., Bhatta, K.P., Adhikari, Y.P. & Zhang, Y.
Published in: Plants, 1, 2021, Page(s) 480, ISSN 2223-7747
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants10030480

Diversification in evolutionary arenas—Assessment and synthesis

Author(s): Nicolai M. Nürk, H. Peter Linder, Renske E. Onstein, Matthew J. Larcombe, Colin E. Hughes, Laura Piñeiro Fernández, Philipp M. Schlüter, Luis Valente, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Vanessa Cutts, Michael J. Donoghue, Erika J. Edwards, Richard Field, Suzette G. A. Flantua, Steven I. Higgins, Anke Jentsch, Sigrid Liede‐Schumann, Michael D. Pirie
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, 10/12, 2020, Page(s) 6163-6182, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6313

Special feature: measuring components of ecological resilience in long-term ecological datasets

Author(s): Alistair W. R. Seddon
Published in: Biology Letters, 17/1, 2021, Page(s) 20200881, ISSN 1744-9561
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0881

Temperature reconstructions for the last 1.74-Ma on the eastern Tibetan Plateau based on a novel pollen-based quantitative method

Author(s): Yan Zhao, Chen Liang, Qiaoyu Cui, Feng Qin, Zhuo Zheng, Xiayun Xiao, Chunmei Ma, Vivian A. Felde, Yaoliang Liu, Quan Li, Zhiyong Zhang, Ulrike Herzschuh, Qinghai Xu, Haicheng Wei, Maotang Cai, Xianyong Cao, Zhengtang Guo, H. John B. Birks
Published in: Global and Planetary Change, 199, 2021, Page(s) 103433, ISSN 0921-8181
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103433

High-elevation limits and the ecology of high-elevation vascular plants: legacies from Alexander von Humboldt

Author(s): Birks, H.J.B.
Published in: Frontiers of Biogeography, 2021, Page(s) e53226, ISSN 1948-6596
Publisher: International Biogeography Society
DOI: 10.21425/f5fbg53226

Reflections on the Use of Ecological Attributes and Traits in Quaternary Botany

Author(s): H. John B. Birks
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 2020, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00166

Compositional turnover and variation in Eemian pollen sequences in Europe

Author(s): Vivian A. Felde, Suzette G. A. Flantua, Cathy R. Jenks, Blas M. Benito, Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Petr Kuneš, Donatella Magri, Dorota Nalepka, Bjørg Risebrobakken, Cajo J. F. ter Braak, Judy R. M. Allen, Wojciech Granoszewski, Karin F. Helmens, Brian Huntley, Ona Kondratienė, Laimdota Kalniņa, Mirosława Kupryjanowicz, Małgorzata Malkiewicz, Alice M. Milner, Małgorzata Nita, Bożena Noryśk
Published in: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 29/1, 2020, Page(s) 101-109, ISSN 0939-6314
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-019-00726-5

Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

Author(s): H. John B. Birks
Published in: Plant Ecology & Diversity, 12/3-4, 2019, Page(s) 189-385, ISSN 1755-0874
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2019.1646831

A new modern pollen dataset describing the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Author(s): Vincent Montade, Marie-Pierre Ledru, Thomas Giesecke, Suzette GA Flantua, Hermann Behling, Odile Peyron
Published in: The Holocene, 29/8, 2019, Page(s) 1253-1262, ISSN 0959-6836
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0959683619846981

Using species attributes to characterize late‐glacial and early‐Holocene environments at Kråkenes, western Norway

Author(s): Vivian Astrup Felde, Hilary Helen Birks
Published in: Journal of Vegetation Science, 30/6, 2019, Page(s) 1228-1238, ISSN 1100-9233
Publisher: Opulus Press AB
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12804

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

Author(s): Yan Zhao, Polychronis C. Tzedakis, Quan Li, Feng Qin, Qiaoyu Cui, Chen Liang, H. John B. Birks, Yaoliang Liu, Zhiyong Zhang, Junyi Ge, Hui Zhao, Vivian A. Felde, Chenglong Deng, Maotang Cai, Huan Li, Weihe Ren, Haicheng Wei, Hanfei Yang, Jiawu Zhang, Zicheng Yu, Zhengtang Guo
Published in: Science Advances, 6/19, 2020, Page(s) eaay6193, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay6193

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

Author(s): Blas M. Benito, Graciela Gil‐Romera, H. John B. Birks
Published in: Ecography, 43/1, 2020, Page(s) 1-10, ISSN 0906-7590
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.04772

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

Author(s): Blas M. Benito, H. John B. Birks
Published in: Ecography, 43/5, 2020, Page(s) 660-667, ISSN 0906-7590
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.04895

Rate-of-change analysis in paleoecology revisited: A new approach

Author(s): Ondřej Mottl, John-Arvid Grytnes, Alistair W.R. Seddon, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Kuber P. Bhatta, Vivian A. Felde, Suzette G.A. Flantua, H. John B. Birks
Published in: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 293, 2021, Page(s) 104483, ISSN 0034-6667
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104483

The human dimension of biodiversity changes on islands

Author(s): Sandra Nogué, Ana M. C. Santos, H. John B. Birks, Svante Björck, Alvaro Castilla-Beltrán, Simon Connor, Erik J. de Boer, Lea de Nascimento, Vivian A. Felde, José María Fernández-Palacios, Cynthia A. Froyd, Simon G. Haberle, Henry Hooghiemstra, Karl Ljung, Sietze J. Norder, Josep Peñuelas, Matthew Prebble, Janelle Stevenson, Robert J. Whittaker, Kathy J. Willis, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Manuel J
Published in: Science, 372/6541, 2021, Page(s) 488-491, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abd6706

Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years

Author(s): Ondřej Mottl, Suzette G. A. Flantua, Kuber P. Bhatta, Vivian A. Felde, Thomas Giesecke, Simon Goring, Eric C. Grimm, Simon Haberle, Henry Hooghiemstra, Sarah Ivory, Petr Kuneš, Steffen Wolters, Alistair W. R. Seddon, John W. Williams
Published in: Science, 372/6544, 2021, Page(s) 860-864, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abg1685

Patterns of modern pollen and plant richness across northern Europe

Author(s): Reitalu, Triin; Bjune, Anne E.; Blaus, Ansis; Giesecke, Thomas; Helm, Aveliina; Matthias, Isabelle; Peglar, Sylvia M.; Salonen, J. Sakari; Seppä, Heikki; Väli, Vivika; Birks, H. John B.
Published in: Journal of Ecology, 1, 2019, Page(s) 1662-1667, ISSN 0022-0477
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13134