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Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironment of Mississippian coastal lakes and marshes during the early terrestrialisation of tetrapods (2020)
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Bennett, C. E., Kearsey, T. I., Davies, S. J., Leng, M. J., Millward, D., Smithson, T. R., …Curry, L. (2021). Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironment of Mississippian coastal lakes and marshes during the early terrestrialisation of tetrapods. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 564, Article 110194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110194

© 2020 The Ballagan Formation of northern Britain provides an exceptional record of Early Mississippian ecosystems that developed as tetrapods emerged onto land. In this paper, we study two 500-metre sections of the formation near Berwick-upon-Tweed,... Read More about Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironment of Mississippian coastal lakes and marshes during the early terrestrialisation of tetrapods.

A century of anthropogenic environmental change in tropical Asia: Multi-proxy palaeolimnological evidence from Singapore’s Central Catchment (2019)
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Fong, L. S., Leng, M. J., & Taylor, D. (2019). A century of anthropogenic environmental change in tropical Asia: Multi-proxy palaeolimnological evidence from Singapore’s Central Catchment. Holocene, https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619875808

The environmental ramifications of rapid development on the functioning of warm tropical freshwater ecosystems are poorly understood. Here, a multi-proxy palaeolimnological approach is used to examine the nature and degree of anthropogenic environmen... Read More about A century of anthropogenic environmental change in tropical Asia: Multi-proxy palaeolimnological evidence from Singapore’s Central Catchment.

Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years (2019)
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Wagner, B., Vogel, H., Francke, A., Friedrich, T., Donders, T., Lacey, J. H., …Zhang, X. (2019). Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years. Nature, 573, 256-260. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1529-0

Mediterranean climates are characterized by strong seasonal contrasts between dry summers and wet winters. Changes in winter rainfall are critical for regional socioeconomic development, but are difficult to simulate accurately1 and reconstruct on Qu... Read More about Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years.

Temporal variability in foraminiferal morphology and geochemistry at the West Antarctic Peninsula: a sediment trap study (2019)
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Mikis, A., Hendry, K. R., Pike, J., Schmidt, D. N., Edgar, K. M., Peck, V., …Ducklow, H. (2019). Temporal variability in foraminiferal morphology and geochemistry at the West Antarctic Peninsula: a sediment trap study. Biogeosciences, 16, 3267-3282. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3267-2019

The West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) exhibits strong spatial and temporal oceanographic variability, resulting in highly heterogeneous biological productivity. Calcifying organisms that live in the waters off the WAP respond to temporal and spatial var... Read More about Temporal variability in foraminiferal morphology and geochemistry at the West Antarctic Peninsula: a sediment trap study.

The biogeochemical impact of glacial meltwater from Southwest Greenland (2019)
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Hendry, K. R., Huvenne, V. A., Robinson, L. F., Annett, A., Badger, M., Jacobel, A. W., …Woodward, E. M. S. (2019). The biogeochemical impact of glacial meltwater from Southwest Greenland. Progress in Oceanography, 176, Article 102126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102126

Biogeochemical cycling in high-latitude regions has a disproportionate impact on global nutrient budgets. Here, we introduce a holistic, multi-disciplinary framework for elucidating the influence of glacial meltwaters, shelf currents, and biological... Read More about The biogeochemical impact of glacial meltwater from Southwest Greenland.

Role of Asian summer monsoon subsystems in the inter-hemispheric progression of deglaciation (2019)
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Nilsson-Kerr, K., Anand, P., Sexton, P. F., Leng, M. J., Misra, S., Clemens, S. C., & Hammond, S. J. (2019). Role of Asian summer monsoon subsystems in the inter-hemispheric progression of deglaciation. Nature Geoscience, 12(4), 290-295. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0319-5

The responses of Asian monsoon subsystems to both hemispheric climate forcing and external orbital forcing are currently issues of vigorous debate. The Indian summer monsoon is the dominant monsoon subsystem in terms of energy flux, constituting one... Read More about Role of Asian summer monsoon subsystems in the inter-hemispheric progression of deglaciation.

A 6,000-year record of environmental change from the eastern Pacific margin of central Mexico (2018)
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Davies, S. J., Metcalfe, S. E., Aston, B. J., Byrne, A. R., Champagne, M. R., Jones, M. D., …Noren, A. (2018). A 6,000-year record of environmental change from the eastern Pacific margin of central Mexico. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 211-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.11.008

The transition from the mid- to late-Holocene in MesoAmerica saw increasing complexity in spatial patterns of change. Records from the western part of the region are sparse, with lacustrine sequences affected by long term anthropogenic disturbance or... Read More about A 6,000-year record of environmental change from the eastern Pacific margin of central Mexico.

Paleoclimate change in Ethiopia around the last interglacial derived from annually-resolved stalagmite evidence (2018)
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Asrat, A., Baker, A., Leng, M. J., Hellstrom, J., Mariethoz, G., Boomer, I., …Gunn, J. (2018). Paleoclimate change in Ethiopia around the last interglacial derived from annually-resolved stalagmite evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 197-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.06.016

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Oxygen and carbon (δ18Ο/δ13C) isotope, growth rate and trace element data are reported for a U-Th dated, annually-laminated stalagmite, GM1 from Goda Mea Cave, Ethiopia. The stalagmite grew intermittently around the last interglac... Read More about Paleoclimate change in Ethiopia around the last interglacial derived from annually-resolved stalagmite evidence.

The stable isotope composition of organic and inorganic fossils in lake sediment records: current understanding, challenges, and future directions (2018)
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van Hardenbroek, M., Chakraborty, A., Davies, K., Harding, P., Heiri, O., Henderson, A., …Wooller, M. (2018). The stable isotope composition of organic and inorganic fossils in lake sediment records: current understanding, challenges, and future directions. Quaternary Science Reviews, 196, 154-176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.08.003

This paper provides an overview of stable isotope analysis (H, C, N, O, Si) of the macro and microscopic remains from aquatic organisms found in lake sediment records and their application in (palaeo)environmental science. Aquatic organisms, includin... Read More about The stable isotope composition of organic and inorganic fossils in lake sediment records: current understanding, challenges, and future directions.