A 274-lake calibration data-set and inference model for chironomid-based summer air temperature reconstruction in Europe

O Heiri, SJ Brooks, HJB Birks, AF Lotter - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
A 274-lake calibration data-set for chironomid-based temperature reconstruction is
presented which is based on the taxonomic amalgamation of a 117-lake data-set from …

Chironomids as indicators in freshwater ecosystems: an assessment of the literature

G Nicacio, L Juen - Insect Conservation and Diversity, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater assessment studies have been used changes on individuals and populations of
Chironomidae assemblages as bioindicators to assay aquatic ecosystems changes and …

[HTML][HTML] A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

D Kaufman, N McKay, C Routson, M Erb, B Davis… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
A comprehensive database of paleoclimate records is needed to place recent warming into
the longer-term context of natural climate variability. We present a global compilation of …

Summer temperature gradients in northwest Europe during the Lateglacial to early Holocene transition (15–8 ka BP) inferred from chironomid assemblages

SJ Brooks, PG Langdon - Quaternary International, 2014 - Elsevier
We present a series of summer air temperature isotherm maps based on chironomid-
inferred temperatures from northwest Europe, covering the Lateglacial and early Holocene …

A first chironomid-based summer temperature reconstruction (13–5 ka BP) around 49 N in inland Europe compared with local lake development

P Hájková, P Pařil, L Petr, B Chattová… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Temperature reconstructions for the end of the Pleistocene and the first half of the Holocene
based on biotic proxies are rare for inland Europe around 49° N. We analysed a 7 m long …

East European chironomid-based calibration model for past summer temperature reconstructions

TP Luoto, B Kotrys, M Płóciennik - Climate Research, 2019 - int-res.com
Understanding local patterns and large-scale processes in past climate necessitates a
detailed network of temperature reconstructions. In this study, a merged temperature …

A chironomid-based mean July temperature inference model from the south-east margin of the Tibetan Plateau, China

E Zhang, J Chang, Y Cao, H Tang, P Langdon… - Climate of the …, 2017 - cp.copernicus.org
A chironomid-based calibration training set comprised of 100 lakes from south-western
China was established. Multivariate ordination analyses were used to investigate the …

Biased niches–Species response curves and niche attributes from Huisman-Olff-Fresco models change with differing species prevalence and frequency

J Michaelis, MR Diekmann - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The study aimed to examine the effects of different numbers of presences and frequencies
(proportions) of occurrences of species in a plot data set of forest vegetation on the species …

A comparison of three Eurasian chironomid–climate calibration datasets on a W–E continentality gradient and the implications for quantitative temperature …

S Engels, AE Self, TP Luoto, SJ Brooks… - Journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Multiple regional chironomid–climate calibration datasets are available to reconstruct
quantitatively July air temperatures from fossil chironomid assemblages. We examined the …

Climatic variability during the last millennium in Western Iceland from lake sediment records

N Holmes, PG Langdon, CJ Caseldine… - The …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of this research was to create a decadal-scale terrestrial quantitative palaeoclimate
record for NW Iceland from lake sediments for the last millennium. Geochemical, stable …