Tag: Climate change
Posted on January 2, 2019
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Cárdenes-Sandí, G.M., Shadik, C.R., Correa-Metrio, A., Gosling, W.D., Cheddadi, R. & Bush, M.B. (2019) Central American climate and microrefugia: A view from the last interglacial. Quaternary Science Reviews 205, 224-233. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.12.021 For free access click here before 19 February 2019
Category: Journal articles, Publications, William GoslingTags: Central America, Climate change, El Valle, fossil charcoal, fossil pollen, interglacial, microrefugia, palaeoecology, paleoecology, Panama, Quercus
Posted on August 30, 2018
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Nolan, C., Overpeck, J.T., Allen, J.R.M., Anderson, P.M., Betancourt, J.L., Binney, H.A., Brewer, S., Bush, M.B., Chase, B.M., Cheddadi, R., Djamali, M., Dodson, J., Edwards, M.E., Gosling, W.D., Haberle, S., Hotchkiss, S.C., Huntley, B., Ivory, S.J., Kershaw, A.P., Kim, S., Latorre, C., Leydet, M.,…
Category: Journal articles, Publications, William GoslingTags: biodiversity, Climate change, community climate system model, composition, direct observations, emission scenario, expert assessment, Future, glacial-to-interglacial, global change, greenhouse gas, high emissions scenario, Holocene, Jackson, last glacial maximum, LGM, macrofossil, models, Nolan, Overpeck, palaeoecology, paleoecology, past, planetry-scale, pollen, structure, temperature, terrestrial ecosystems, transformation, vegetation
Posted on March 23, 2018
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Valencia, B.G., Bush, M.B., Coe, A.L., Elizabeth, O. & Gosling, W.D. (2018) Polylepis woodland dynamics during the last 20,000 years. Journal of Biogeography online. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13209
Category: Bryan Valencia, Journal articles, Publications, William GoslingTags: Andes, biogeography, charcoal, Climate change, dynamics, endemism, fossil, Holocene, human impact, hyper-fragmented, interglacial, natural fires, pollen, Polylepis, Quaternary, woodland
Posted on October 11, 2017
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Goni, M.F.S., Desprat, S., Daniau, A., Bassinot, F.C., Polanco-Martinez, J.M., Harrison, S.P., Allen, J.R.M., Anderson, R.S., Behling, H., Bonnefille, R., Burjachs, F., Carrion, J.S., Cheddadi, R., Clark, J.S., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Mustaphi, C.J.C., Debusk, G.H., Dupont, L.M., Finch, J.M., Fletcher, W.J., Giardini, M., Gonzalez, C.,…
Posted on July 28, 2017
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Two articles recently published on-line in the journal Vegetation History & Archaebotany (of which I am an Associate Editor) recently caught my attention.These explore: agricultural practices of people living in the Netherlands c. 3000-2000 years ago (Arnoldussen & van der Linden, 2017), and what…
Category: Reading, William GoslingTags: ancient agriculture, animals, archaeobotany, Bronze Age, Celtic fields, charcoal, Chultun, Climate change, drums, feast, geochemistry, Guatemala, La Corona, macrobotanical, Maya, Netherlands, north-west Europe, pit, plants, pollen, Raarakker, raised bed agriculture, ritual, Roman period, Vegetation History & Archaeobotany, whistles
Posted on June 15, 2017
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Palynologische Kring presents four seminars focus on past climate change Date: Thursday 22 June Time: Starts 14:10 Location: University of Amsterdam, Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, Science Park Eric Grimm: A high-resolution record of hydrologic variability, vegetation, and fire from the Northern Great…
Category: News, William GoslingTags: Amazon, Amazon River, Andes, Arctic seal, biogeography, Carina Hoorn, Caspian Sea, Climate change, Eric Grimm, Great Plains North America, Keith Richards, Neogene, Palynologische Kring, palynology, Phoca hispida, pollen, Suzette Flantua, University of Amsterdam
Posted on June 14, 2017
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Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics seminar University of Amsterdam 22 June 2017 (for details click here) New paleoclimatic perspectives on the future of terrestrial systems: bigger change, higher confidence? Jonathan Overpeck The University of Arizona Numerous assessments of future freshwater and terrestrial system…
Category: News, William GoslingTags: Climate change, climate models, deglaciation, ecological, emissions, greenhouse gasses, hydrological, Jonathan Overpeck, landscapes, megadrought, palaeoclimate, Paleoclimate, percipitation, terrestrial ecosystems, terrestrial water
Posted on December 15, 2016
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An international team of scientists have reconstructed the longest ever record of past sunshine using pollen trapped in lake sediments collected in Ghana, Africa. The study published today in Scientific Reports enables us to understand past changes in solar input to the global system…
Category: Journal articles, Phil Jardine, Publications, Wesley Fraser, William GoslingTags: Barry Lomax, biological recorders, Charoltte Miller, chemical, chemical palynology, Climate change, fossil pollen, fossil sunshine, Fourier Transformed Infra-red Spectrscopy, FTIR, Mark Sephton, OU, Oxford Brooks University, palynology, Phillip Jardine, pollen, solar radiation, spores, Sporomiella, The Open University, Tim Shanahan, total solar irradance, TSI, University of Amsterdam, University of Nottingham, University of Texas Austin, UV, UV-B, UvA, Wesley Fraser, William Gosling
Posted on November 8, 2016
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Seminar Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics University of Amsterdam Tropical forests in the Anthropocene by Prof. Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford) 16:00-17:00, 24 November 2016 Science Park, Amsterdam If you want to attend please click here for full details. ABSTRACT:
Category: News, William GoslingTags: Anthropocene, Biomes, Climate change, CO2, conservation, Earth system, ecology, forest, IBED, Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, landscape fragmentation, tropics, University of Amsterdam, Universuty of Oxford, wood extraction, Yadvinder Malhi
Posted on November 7, 2016
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Treub Maatschappij – Society for the Advancement of Research in the Tropics & Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED),University of Amsterdam “Biodiversity and global change in the tropics” Coordinators: Carina Hoorn & W. Daniel Kissling Time: Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:30-17:00 Location: University…
Category: News, William GoslingTags: Andes, Annonaceae, biological corridor, Climate change, coral, evolution, fauna, mesoamerica, pantropical, patterns, plant distributions, Symposium, Treub Maatschapij, Trinil, Zika
Posted on October 28, 2016
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Hall, S.A. (2010) Early maize pollen from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA. Palynology 34, 125-137. DOI: 10.1080/01916121003675746 Janzen, D.H. (1967) Why mountain passes are higher in the tropics. The American Naturalist 101, 233-249. DOI: 10.1086/282487 Tovar, C., Arnillas, C.A., Cuesta, F. & Buytaert, W….
Category: Reading, William GoslingTags: agriculture, Americas, Andes, Biomes, Climate change, high, Maize, mountain passes, tropics, USA, Zea mays
Posted on July 21, 2016
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Shanahan, T.M., Hughen, K.A., McKay, N.P., Overpeck, J.T., Scholz, C.A., Gosling, W.D., Miller, C.S., Peck, J.A., King, J.W. & Heil, C.W. (2016) CO2 and fire influence tropical ecosystem stability in response to climate change. Scientific Reports 6, 29587. DOI: 10.1038/srep29587
Category: Charlotte Miller, Journal articles, Publications, William GoslingTags: Africa, charcoal, climate, Climate change, CO2, Fire, Ghana, Lake Bosumtwi, stability, tropics, vegetation
