[HTML][HTML] Development of a new pan-European testate amoeba transfer function for reconstructing peatland palaeohydrology

MJ Amesbury, GT Swindles, A Bobrov… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
In the decade since the first pan-European testate amoeba-based transfer function for
peatland palaeohydrological reconstruction was published, a vast amount of additional data …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Preparation and analysis of testate amoebae in peatland palaeoenvironmental studies.

RK Booth, M Lamentowicz, DJ Charman - Mires & Peat, 2010 - pixelrauschen.de
The use of testate amoebae in studies of peatland hydrology and palaeohydrology has been
increasing, and considerable efforts have been made over the past decade to standardise …

Testate amoebae as proxies for mean annual water‐table depth in Sphagnum‐dominated peatlands of North America

RK Booth - Journal of Quaternary Science: Published for the …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Peatland‐inhabiting testate amoebae are sensitive indicators of substrate‐moisture
conditions and have increasingly been used in palaeohydrological studies. However, to …

Rapid climate change did not cause population collapse at the end of the European Bronze Age

I Armit, GT Swindles, K Becker… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The impact of rapid climate change on contemporary human populations is of global
concern. To contextualize our understanding of human responses to rapid climate change it …

Conservative composition of n-alkane biomarkers in Sphagnum species: implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction in ombrotrophic peat bogs

EM Bingham, EL McClymont, M Väliranta… - Organic …, 2010 - Elsevier
The n-alkane distributions from total lipid extracts of ten modern Sphagnum moss species,
collected from a suite of ombrotrophic bogs across Europe, were determined using gas …

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 …

Ecohydrological feedbacks confound peat‐based climate reconstructions

GT Swindles, PJ Morris, AJ Baird… - Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Water‐table reconstructions from Holocene peatlands are increasingly being used as
indicators of terrestrial palaeoclimate in many regions of the world. However, the links …

Centennial-scale climate change in Ireland during the Holocene

GT Swindles, IT Lawson, IP Matthews, M Blaauw… - Earth-Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
We examine mid-to late Holocene centennial-scale climate variability in Ireland using proxy
data from peatlands, lakes and a speleothem. A high degree of between-record variability is …

Was there a '4.2 ka event'in Great Britain and Ireland? Evidence from the peatland record

TP Roland, CJ Caseldine, DJ Charman… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Palaeoenvironmental and archaeological data from several regions around the world show
evidence of a multi-centennial climatic event occurring approximately 4200 cal yr BP (4.2 …