[HTML][HTML] Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies

M Chevalier, BAS Davis, O Heiri, H Seppä… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fossil pollen records are well-established indicators of past vegetation changes. The
prevalence of pollen across environmental settings including lakes, wetlands, and marine …

Environmental processes of the ice age: land, oceans, glaciers (EPILOG)

AC Mix, E Bard, R Schneider - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2001 - Elsevier
Knowledge of the state of the earth at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, an interval around
21,000 years ago) is an important benchmark for understanding the sensitivity of global …

[PDF][PDF] Strengths and weaknesses of quantitative climate reconstructions based on late-Quaternary biological proxies

HJB Birks, O Heiri, H Seppä, AE Bjune - Open Ecology Journal, 2011 - boris.unibe.ch
The importance of reconstructing past environments quantitatively in palaeoecology is
reviewed by showing that many ecological questions asked of palaeoecological data …

Reconstruction of sea-surface temperatures from assemblages of planktonic foraminifera: multi-technique approach based on geographically constrained calibration …

M Kucera, M Weinelt, T Kiefer, U Pflaumann… - Quaternary Science …, 2005 - Elsevier
We present a conceptual framework for a new approach to environmental calibration of
planktonic foraminifer census counts. This approach is based on simultaneous application of …

Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa

IS Castañeda, S Mulitza, E Schefuß… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
The carbon isotopic composition of individual plant leaf waxes (a proxy for C3 vs. C4
vegetation) in a marine sediment core collected from beneath the plume of Sahara-derived …

Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages as tracers of sea‐surface conditions in the northern North Atlantic, Arctic and sub‐Arctic seas: the new 'n = 677' data base and its …

A Vernal, M Henry, J Matthiessen… - … : Published for the …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The distribution of dinoflagellate cyst (dinocyst) assemblages in surface sediment samples
from 677 sites of the northern North Atlantic, Arctic and sub‐Arctic seas is discussed with …

Reconstruction of sea-surface conditions at middle to high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) based on dinoflagellate cyst …

A de Vernal, F Eynaud, M Henry… - Quaternary Science …, 2005 - Elsevier
A new calibration database of census counts of organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst (dinocyst)
assemblages has been developed from the analyses of surface sediment samples collected …

Centennial‐to‐millennial‐scale periodicities of Holocene climate and sediment injections off the western Barents shelf, 75 N

M Sarnthein, S Van Kreveld, H Erlenkeuser… - Boreas, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
At the western continental margin of the Barents Sea, 75° N, hemipelagic sediments provide
a record of Holocene climate change with a time resolution of 10–70 years. Planktic …

Clues to ocean history: a brief overview of proxies

G Wefer, WH Berger, J Bijma, G Fischer - Use of proxies in …, 1999 - Springer
The reconstruction of ocean history employs a large variety of methods with origins in the
biological, chemical, and physical sciences, and uses modern statistical techniques for the …

Assigning individual fish to populations using microsatellite DNA markers

MM Hansen, E Kenchington, EE Nielsen - Fish and Fisheries, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
New statistical developments combined with the use of highly polymorphic microsatellite
DNA markers enable the determination of the population of origin of single fish, resulting in …