Outputs (10)

Insights into the evolution of the young Lake Ohrid ecosystem and vegetation succession from a southern European refugium during the Early Pleistocene (2019)
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Panagiotopoulos, K., Holtvoeth, J., Kouli, K., Marinova, E., Francke, A., Cvetkoska, A., Jovanovska, E., Lacey, J. H., Lyons, E. T., Buckel, C., Bertini, A., Donders, T., Just, J., Leicher, N., Leng, M. J., Melles, M., Pancost, R. D., Sadori, L., Tauber, P., Vogel, H., …Wilke, T. (2020). Insights into the evolution of the young Lake Ohrid ecosystem and vegetation succession from a southern European refugium during the Early Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 227, Article 106044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106044

© 2019 Mediterranean mid-altitude sites are critical for the survival of plant species allowing for elevational vegetation shifts in response to high-amplitude climate variability. Pollen records from the southern Balkans have underlined the importan... Read More about Insights into the evolution of the young Lake Ohrid ecosystem and vegetation succession from a southern European refugium during the Early Pleistocene.

δ18O-inferred salinity from Littorina littorea (L.) gastropods in a Danish shell midden at the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition (2019)
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Lewis, J. P., Lamb, A. L., Ryves, D. B., Rasmussen, P., Leng, M. J., & Andersen, S. H. (2020). δ18O-inferred salinity from Littorina littorea (L.) gastropods in a Danish shell midden at the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition. Holocene, 30(2), 233-243. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619883015

© The Author(s) 2019. Norsminde Fjord has received extensive geoarchaeological investigation, hosting one of the classic Stone Age shell midden sites in Denmark, and one of the best examples of the widespread oyster decline at the Mesolithic–Neolithi... Read More about δ18O-inferred salinity from Littorina littorea (L.) gastropods in a Danish shell midden at the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition.

Enhanced glacial discharge from the eastern Antarctic Peninsula since the 1700s associated with a positive Southern Annular Mode (2019)
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Dickens, W. A., Kuhn, G., Leng, M. J., Graham, A. G., Dowdeswell, J. A., Meredith, M. P., Hillenbrand, C. D., Hodgson, D. A., Roberts, S. J., Sloane, H., & Smith, J. A. (2019). Enhanced glacial discharge from the eastern Antarctic Peninsula since the 1700s associated with a positive Southern Annular Mode. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 14606. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50897-4

© 2019, The Author(s). The Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet is currently experiencing sustained and accelerating loss of ice. Determining when these changes were initiated and identifying the main drivers is hampered by the short instrumental record (19... Read More about Enhanced glacial discharge from the eastern Antarctic Peninsula since the 1700s associated with a positive Southern Annular Mode.

Stable isotopes reveal independent carbon pools across an Arctic hydro-climatic gradient: Implications for the fate of carbon in warmer and drier conditions (2019)
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Osburn, C. L., Anderson, N. J., Leng, M. J., Barry, C. D., & Whiteford, E. J. (2019). Stable isotopes reveal independent carbon pools across an Arctic hydro-climatic gradient: Implications for the fate of carbon in warmer and drier conditions. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 4(6), 205-213. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10119

Arctic lakes are poised for substantial changes to their carbon (C) cycles in the near future. Autochthonous processes in lakes which consume inorganic C and create biomass that can be sequestered in sediments are accompanied by allochthonous inputs... Read More about Stable isotopes reveal independent carbon pools across an Arctic hydro-climatic gradient: Implications for the fate of carbon in warmer and drier conditions.

Dynamic climate-driven controls on the deposition of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire, UK (2019)
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Atar, E., März, C., Aplin, A. C., Dellwig, O., Herringshaw, L. G., Lamoureux-Var, V., Leng, M. J., Schnetger, B., & Wagner, T. (2019). Dynamic climate-driven controls on the deposition of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire, UK. Climate of the Past, 15(4), 1581-1601. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1581-2019

The Kimmeridge Clay Formation (KCF) is a laterally extensive, total-organic-carbon-rich succession deposited throughout northwest Europe during the Kimmeridgian–Tithonian (Late Jurassic). It has recently been postulated that an expanded Hadley cell,... Read More about Dynamic climate-driven controls on the deposition of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation in the Cleveland Basin, Yorkshire, UK.

A method for reconstructing temporal changes in vegetation functional trait composition using Holocene pollen assemblages (2019)
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Carvalho, F., Brown, K. A., Waller, M. P., Bunting, M. J., Boom, A., & Leng, M. J. (2019). A method for reconstructing temporal changes in vegetation functional trait composition using Holocene pollen assemblages. PLoS ONE, 14(5), Article e0216698. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216698

Methods of reconstructing changes in plant traits over long time scales are needed to understand the impact of changing environmental conditions on ecosystem processes and services. Although Holocene pollen have been extensively used to provide recor... Read More about A method for reconstructing temporal changes in vegetation functional trait composition using Holocene pollen assemblages.

Spatial variability of 2H and 18O composition of meteoric freshwater lakes in Scotland (2019)
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Hoogewerff, J., Kemp, H. F., Leng, M. J., & Meier-Augenstein, W. (2019). Spatial variability of 2H and 18O composition of meteoric freshwater lakes in Scotland. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 55(3), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2019.1609958

Coastal regions, and in particular islands where precipitation from clouds formed out at sea occurs for the first time, are prime candidates for regions where 2H and 18O composition of precipitation will deviate significantly from the global mean geo... Read More about Spatial variability of 2H and 18O composition of meteoric freshwater lakes in Scotland.

Controls on amorphous organic matter type and sulphurization in a Mississippian black shale (2019)
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Emmings, J. F., Hennissen, J. A., Stephenson, M. H., Poulton, S. W., Vane, C. H., Davies, S. J., Leng, M. J., Lamb, A., & Moss-Hayes, V. (2019). Controls on amorphous organic matter type and sulphurization in a Mississippian black shale. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 268, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.04.004

Paleoredox proxies (Fe speciation, trace element and δ34Spy) integrated with sedimentological and palynological observations link the distribution and type of particulate organic matter (OM) preserved to hydrocarbon source rock potential. In the Miss... Read More about Controls on amorphous organic matter type and sulphurization in a Mississippian black shale.

A High‐Fidelity Benthic Stable Isotope Record of Late Cretaceous–Early Eocene Climate Change and Carbon‐Cycling (2019)
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Barnet, J., Littler, K., Westerhold, T., Kroon, D., Leng, M., Bailey, I., Röhl, U., & Zachos, J. (2019). A High‐Fidelity Benthic Stable Isotope Record of Late Cretaceous–Early Eocene Climate Change and Carbon‐Cycling. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34(4), 672-691. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019pa003556

The Late Cretaceous–Early Paleogene is the most recent period in Earth history that experienced sustained global greenhouse warmth on multimillion year timescales. Yet, knowledge of ambient climate conditions and the complex interplay between various... Read More about A High‐Fidelity Benthic Stable Isotope Record of Late Cretaceous–Early Eocene Climate Change and Carbon‐Cycling.

Seasonal scheduling of shellfish collection in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of southern Africa (2019)
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Loftus, E., Lee-Thorp, J., Leng, M., Marean, C., & Sealy, J. (2019). Seasonal scheduling of shellfish collection in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of southern Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 128, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.12.009

This study assesses the seasonal scheduling of shellfish harvesting among hunter-gatherer populations along the southernmost coast of South Africa, based on a large number of serial oxygen isotope analyses of marine mollusk shells from four archaeolo... Read More about Seasonal scheduling of shellfish collection in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of southern Africa.