Development and refinement of proxy-climate indicators from peats

FM Chambers, RK Booth, F De Vleeschouwer… - Quaternary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Peat, especially from acidic mires (bogs), is a natural archive of past environmental change.
Reconstructions of past climate from bogs commenced in the 19th Century through …

Testate amoeba functional traits and their use in paleoecology

K Marcisz, VEJ Jassey, A Kosakyan… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This review provides a synthesis of current knowledge on the morphological and functional
traits of testate amoebae, a polyphyletic group of protists commonly used as proxies of past …

Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands

H Zhang, M Väliranta, GT Swindles… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
High-latitude peatlands are changing rapidly in response to climate change, including
permafrost thaw. Here, we reconstruct hydrological conditions since the seventeenth century …

How many is enough? Determining optimal count totals for ecological and palaeoecological studies of testate amoebae

RJ Payne, EAD Mitchell - Journal of Paleolimnology, 2009 - Springer
Testate amoebae are increasingly used in ecological and palaeoecological studies of
wetlands. To characterise the amoeba community a certain number of individuals need to be …

A 13,000-year peatland palaeohydrological response to the ENSO-related Asian monsoon precipitation changes in the middle Yangtze Valley

H Liu, Y Gu, X Huang, Z Yu, S Xie, S Cheng - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantitative reconstructions of the depth to water table (DWT) of ombrotrophic (rain-fed)
peatlands are important for understanding the palaeohydrological responses of peatlands to …

Late Holocene paleoecohydrology and carbon accumulation estimates from two boreal peat bogs in eastern Canada: Potential and limits of multi-proxy archives

J Loisel, M Garneau - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2010 - Elsevier
The stratigraphy of four peat sequences collected in two peat bogs located in the Eastmain
River watershed (52° N, 76° W), James Bay lowlands, Québec, Canada, was investigated to …

Testate amoebae and nutrient cycling with particular reference to soils

DM Wilkinson, EAD Mitchell - Geomicrobiology Journal, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
We asked the following question: Is the lack of attention given to testate amoebae, and other
protists, in studies of nutrient cycling justified by their relative unimportance or are we …

Review on protozoic silica and its role in silicon cycling

D Puppe - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
Biogenic silicon (BSi) has been found to play a fundamental role in the link between global
Si and carbon cycles, because it represents a key factor in the control of Si fluxes from …

Holocene paleohydrological reconstruction and carbon accumulation of a permafrost peatland using testate amoeba and macrofossil analyses, Kuujjuarapik …

A Lamarre, M Garneau, H Asnong - Review of Palaeobotany and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Testate amoeba analyses were realized to reconstruct Holocene hydroclimatic variations
and carbon accumulation from two peat cores collected in a permafrost peatland located at …

Palaeohydrology, fires and vegetation succession in the southern Baltic during the last 7500 years reconstructed from a raised bog based on multi-proxy data

M Gałka, G Miotk-Szpiganowicz, T Goslar… - Palaeogeography …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present the first 7500yr long multi-proxy record from a raised bog located at the southern
Baltic coast, Poland. Testate amoebae, plant macrofossils, pollen and microscopic charcoal …