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 …

Climate drivers for peatland palaeoclimate records

DJ Charman, KE Barber, M Blaauw… - Quaternary Science …, 2009 - Elsevier
Reconstruction of hydroclimate variability is an important part of understanding natural
climate change on decadal to millennial timescales. Peatland records reconstruct 'bog …

[图书][B] Reconstructing quaternary environments

JJ Lowe, M Walker - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

Comparison of different methods to determine the degree of peat decomposition in peat bogs

H Biester, KH Knorr, J Schellekens, A Basler… - …, 2014 - bg.copernicus.org
Peat humification or decomposition is a frequently used proxy to extract past time changes in
hydrology and climate from peat bogs. During the past century several methods to determine …

Postglacial climate-change record in biomarker lipid compositions of the Hani peat sequence, Northeastern China

W Zhou, Y Zheng, PA Meyers, AJT Jull, S Xie - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
The peat sequence at Hani in northeastern China accumulated over the past 16calkyr in a
percolation mire in which rain water and ground water seeped through the peat system. The …

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 …

Midges as quantitative temperature indicator species: Lessons for palaeoecology

G Velle, KP Brodersen, HJB Birks… - The …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Calibration data sets give a unique opportunity to establish patterns of biological existence
and their statistical associations with environmental variables. By use of calibration data …

Hydrogen isotopic ratios of plant wax n-alkanes in a peat bog deposited in northeast China during the last 16 kyr

O Seki, PA Meyers, K Kawamura, Y Zheng… - Organic Geochemistry, 2009 - Elsevier
Based on paleoclimatic reconstructions using various proxies, the Holocene Climate
Optimum (10.5–6ka) has been characterized as a warmer and wetter period in most of East …

Assessing the vulnerability of blanket peat to climate change using an ensemble of statistical bioclimatic envelope models

JM Clark, AV Gallego-Sala, TEH Allott, SJ Chapman… - Climate …, 2010 - int-res.com
We assessed the vulnerability of blanket peat to climate change in Great Britain using an
ensemble of 8 bioclimatic envelope models. We used 4 published models that ranged from …

A 4500-year proxy climate record from peatlands in the North of Ireland: the identification of widespread summer 'drought phases'?

GT Swindles, A Blundell, HM Roe, VA Hall - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
Mid-to-late Holocene high-resolution testate amoebae-derived water table reconstructions
from two peatlands in the North of Ireland are presented. The proxy climate records are …