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A global compilation of diatom silica oxygen isotope records from lake sediment – trends and implications for climate reconstruction (2024)
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Meister, P., Alexandre, A., Bailey, H., Barker, P., Biskaborn, B. K., Broadman, E., …Meyer, H. (2024). A global compilation of diatom silica oxygen isotope records from lake sediment – trends and implications for climate reconstruction. Climate of the Past, 20(2), 363-392. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-363-2024

Oxygen isotopes in biogenic silica (δ18OBSi) from lake sediments allow for quantitative reconstruction of past hydroclimate and proxy-model comparison in terrestrial environments. The signals of individual records have been attributed to different fa... Read More about A global compilation of diatom silica oxygen isotope records from lake sediment – trends and implications for climate reconstruction.

Identifying the controls on nitrate and metabolic state within the Red River delta (Vietnam) with the use of stable isotopes (2023)
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Smith, A. C., Leng, M. J., McGowan, S., Panizzo, V. N., Ngo, T. T. T., Luu, T. N. M., …Trinh, A. D. (2024). Identifying the controls on nitrate and metabolic state within the Red River delta (Vietnam) with the use of stable isotopes. Journal of Hydrology, 628, Article 130467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130467

In many places around the world, anthropogenic activities have resulted in nitrate (NO3−) pollution and changes in the metabolic state of aquatic ecosystems. Here we combined stable isotope and physico-chemical monitoring to assess the sources of NO3... Read More about Identifying the controls on nitrate and metabolic state within the Red River delta (Vietnam) with the use of stable isotopes.

Indian Ocean glacial deoxygenation and respired carbon accumulation during mid-late Quaternary ice ages (2023)
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Chang, L., Hoogakker, B. A. A., Heslop, D., Zhao, X., Roberts, A. P., De Deckker, P., …Harrison, R. J. (2023). Indian Ocean glacial deoxygenation and respired carbon accumulation during mid-late Quaternary ice ages. Nature Communications, 14, Article 4841. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40452-1

Reconstructions of ocean oxygenation are critical for understanding the role of respired carbon storage in regulating atmospheric CO2. Independent sediment redox proxies are essential to assess such reconstructions. Here, we present a long magnetofos... Read More about Indian Ocean glacial deoxygenation and respired carbon accumulation during mid-late Quaternary ice ages.

Ice-ocean interactions at the Northeast Greenland Ice stream (NEGIS) over the past 11,000 years (2023)
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Lloyd, J. M., Ribeiro, S., Weckström, K., Callard, L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Leng, M. J., …Roberts, D. H. (2023). Ice-ocean interactions at the Northeast Greenland Ice stream (NEGIS) over the past 11,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 308, Article 108068. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108068

Recent observations have identified increased mass loss from Greenland marine-terminating outlet glaciers (MTOG) with implications for global sea-level rise and wider ocean circulation. The flow of Atlantic-sourced waters to the Greenland margin is t... Read More about Ice-ocean interactions at the Northeast Greenland Ice stream (NEGIS) over the past 11,000 years.

Ecosystem deterioration in the middle Yangtze floodplain lakes over the last two centuries: Evidence from sedimentary pigments (2023)
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Zeng, L., Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., Chen, X., Ji, J., Huang, X., & McGowan, S. (2023). Ecosystem deterioration in the middle Yangtze floodplain lakes over the last two centuries: Evidence from sedimentary pigments. Quaternary Science Reviews, 302, Article 107954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107954

Water quality of floodplain lakes in the Yangtze region which supports ca. 450 million people is being severely compromised by nutrient pollution, climate change and dam installation resulting from intensive socio-economic development. However, due t... Read More about Ecosystem deterioration in the middle Yangtze floodplain lakes over the last two centuries: Evidence from sedimentary pigments.

Eutrophication has a greater influence on floodplain lake carbon cycling than dam installation across the middle Yangtze region (2022)
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Zeng, L., McGowan, S., Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., & Chen, X. (2022). Eutrophication has a greater influence on floodplain lake carbon cycling than dam installation across the middle Yangtze region. Journal of Hydrology, 614, Article 128510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128510

Carbon cycling in shallow floodplain lakes is complex due to variability in delivery of flood-derived allochthonous organic matter (OM). Human activities have potential to significantly modify the carbon balance of lakes by damming which restricts ex... Read More about Eutrophication has a greater influence on floodplain lake carbon cycling than dam installation across the middle Yangtze region.

Urbanization and seasonality strengthens the CO 2 capacity of the Red River Delta, Vietnam (2022)
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Salgado, J., Duc, T. A., Nga, D. T., Panizzo, V. N., Bass, A. M., Zheng, Y., …McGowan, S. (2022). Urbanization and seasonality strengthens the CO 2 capacity of the Red River Delta, Vietnam. Environmental Research Letters, 17(10), Article 104052. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9705

Tropical rivers are dynamic CO2 sources. Regional patterns in the partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) and relationships with other a/biotic factors in densely populated and rapidly developing river delta regions of Southeast Asia are still poorly constrai... Read More about Urbanization and seasonality strengthens the CO 2 capacity of the Red River Delta, Vietnam.

In flux: Annual transport and deposition of suspended heavy metals and trace elements in the urbanised, tropical Red River Delta, Vietnam (2022)
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Roberts, L. R., Do, N. T., Panizzo, V. N., Taylor, S., Watts, M., Hamilton, E., …Salgado, J. (2022). In flux: Annual transport and deposition of suspended heavy metals and trace elements in the urbanised, tropical Red River Delta, Vietnam. Water Research, 224, Article 119053. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.119053

Due to the depositional environment, river deltas are said to act as filters and sinks for pollutants. However, many deltas are also densely populated and rapidly urbanizing, creating new and increased sources of pollutants. These sources pose the ri... Read More about In flux: Annual transport and deposition of suspended heavy metals and trace elements in the urbanised, tropical Red River Delta, Vietnam.

Reconstruction of short-term storm surge-driven increases in shallow coastal lake salinity using ostracod shell chemistry (2022)
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Roberts, L. R., Holmes, J. A., Horne, D. J., Leng, M. J., Sayer, C. D., Timms, R. G. O., …Kelly, A. (2022). Reconstruction of short-term storm surge-driven increases in shallow coastal lake salinity using ostracod shell chemistry. Natural Hazards, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-022-05459-9

Climate change threatens the current protection provided by coastal defences in low-lying mid-latitude regions and increases the risk to coastal lakes from future frequent and intense storms. Quantifying and understanding the impacts of past storm su... Read More about Reconstruction of short-term storm surge-driven increases in shallow coastal lake salinity using ostracod shell chemistry.

Stalagmite evidence for Early Holocene multidecadal hydroclimate variability in Ethiopia (2022)
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Asrat, A., Baker, A., Duan, W., Leng, M. J., Boomer, I., Akter, R., …Wang, L. (2022). Stalagmite evidence for Early Holocene multidecadal hydroclimate variability in Ethiopia. Quaternary Research, 110, 67-81. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2022.29

A multiproxy oxygen and carbon isotope (δ13C and δ18O), growth rate, and trace element stalagmite paleoenvironmental record is presented for the Early Holocene from Ethiopia. The annually laminated stalagmite grew from 10.6 to 10.4 ka and from 9.7 to... Read More about Stalagmite evidence for Early Holocene multidecadal hydroclimate variability in Ethiopia.

Nutrient availability in the North Pacific region not primarily driven by climate through the Quaternary (2022)
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Snelling, A. M., Swann, G. E., Pashley, V., Lacey, J. H., Horstwood, M. S., & Leng, M. J. (2022). Nutrient availability in the North Pacific region not primarily driven by climate through the Quaternary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 601, Article 111109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111109

The subarctic North Pacific Ocean is a relatively understudied region in terms of palaeoclimate, limiting our understanding of how the region has both driven and responded to palaeoenvironmental events. Today, the subarctic North Pacific Ocean is mar... Read More about Nutrient availability in the North Pacific region not primarily driven by climate through the Quaternary.

Climate and human exploitation have regulated Atlantic salmon populations in the River Spey, Scotland, over the last 2000 years (2022)
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Sear, D., Langdon, P., Leng, M., Edwards, M., Heaton, T., Langdon, C., & Leyland, J. (2022). Climate and human exploitation have regulated Atlantic salmon populations in the River Spey, Scotland, over the last 2000 years. Holocene, 32(8), 780-793. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221095983

Historical salmon catch records suggest that climatic variability, and more recently human exploitation, control patterns of abundance in Atlantic salmon populations. We present the first long-term (2000-year) reconstruction of Atlantic Salmon popula... Read More about Climate and human exploitation have regulated Atlantic salmon populations in the River Spey, Scotland, over the last 2000 years.

Micromilling vs hand drilling in stable isotope analyses of incremental carbonates: The potential for δ 13C contamination by embedding resin (2022)
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Branscombe, T., Lee-Thorp, J., Schulting, R., & Leng, M. (2022). Micromilling vs hand drilling in stable isotope analyses of incremental carbonates: The potential for δ 13C contamination by embedding resin. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 36(14), Article e9318. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9318

Rationale: Embedding resins are commonly used to facilitate high-resolution sampling for stable isotope analysis but anomalous δ13C values have been observed in some cases. Here we compare the results of microsampling strategies for hand-drilled vers... Read More about Micromilling vs hand drilling in stable isotope analyses of incremental carbonates: The potential for δ 13C contamination by embedding resin.

Response of a low elevation carbonate lake in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) to climatic and human forcings (2022)
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Metcalfe, S. E., Holmes, J. A., Jones, M. D., Gonzalez, R. M., Primmer, N. J., Dyrzo, H. M., …Leng, M. J. (2022). Response of a low elevation carbonate lake in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) to climatic and human forcings. Quaternary Science Reviews, 282, Article 107445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107445

The importance of climate change, specifically drought, across the Maya region in the northern Neotropics, remains a topic of lively debate. Part of this discussion hinges on the coherency of response to climatic variability across different archives... Read More about Response of a low elevation carbonate lake in the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) to climatic and human forcings.

Silicic Acid Cycling in the Bering Sea During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (2022)
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Worne, S., Swann, G. E., Kender, S., Lacey, J. H., & Leng, M. J. (2022). Silicic Acid Cycling in the Bering Sea During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(2), Article e2021PA004284. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004284

The rate of deep-ocean carbon burial is considered important for modulating glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global climate during the Quaternary. It has been suggested that glacial iron fertilization and increased efficiency o... Read More about Silicic Acid Cycling in the Bering Sea During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.

Extensive primary production promoted the recovery of the Ediacaran Shuram excursion (2022)
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Cañadas, F., Papineau, D., Leng, M. J., & Li, C. (2022). Extensive primary production promoted the recovery of the Ediacaran Shuram excursion. Nature Communications, 13, Article 148. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27812-5

Member IV of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation records the recovery from the most negative carbon isotope excursion in Earth history. However, the main biogeochemical controls that ultimately drove this recovery have yet to be elucidated. Here, we r... Read More about Extensive primary production promoted the recovery of the Ediacaran Shuram excursion.

Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427 (2021)
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Henderson, A. C. G., Felder, S., Sagawa, T., Greaves, M., Leng, M. J., Ikehara, K., …Henderson, A. C. (2022). Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(1), Article e2021PA004236. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021pa004236

Large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns, such as the East Asian monsoon, have been proposed as possible feedbacks of the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT). Marine sediments of the Japan Sea (JS) record variations in the East Asian monsoon over lo... Read More about Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427.

Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years (2021)
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Maxson, C., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Tyler, J., Leng, M., Lomax, B., …Jacobsen, G. (2022). Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years. Journal of Paleolimnology, 67(1), 75-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-021-00222-9

Lake sediments are important archives of past climate variability and lake responses to climate. In order to accurately infer past climates, it is necessary to understand, and account for, the ecological processes that affect the record of indicators... Read More about Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years.

Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey (2021)
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Jacobson, M. J., Flohr, P., Gascoigne, A., Leng, M. J., Sadekov, A., Cheng, H., …Fleitmann, D. (2021). Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(20), Article e2021GL094733. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094733

Palaeoclimate variability must be constrained to predict the nature and impacts of future climate change in the Eastern Mediterranean. Here, we present a late Holocene high-resolution multiproxy data set from Kocain Cave, the first of its kind from S... Read More about Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey.

Thrust faulting in glaciers? Re-examination of debris bands near the margin of Storglaciären, Sweden (2021)
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Monz, M. E., Hudleston, P. J., Cook, S. J., Zimmerman, T., & Leng, M. J. (2022). Thrust faulting in glaciers? Re-examination of debris bands near the margin of Storglaciären, Sweden. Boreas, 51(1), 78-99. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12549

Thrust faulting has been suggested as a viable mechanism of debris transport at many glaciers, often inferred from the presence of up-glacier dipping bands of debris that emerge at the ice surface to form ridges of basally derived material. However,... Read More about Thrust faulting in glaciers? Re-examination of debris bands near the margin of Storglaciären, Sweden.

Tracing Glacial Meltwater From the Greenland Ice Sheet to the Ocean Using Gliders (2021)
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Hendry, K. R., Briggs, N., Henson, S., Opher, J., Brearley, J. A., Meredith, M. P., …Meire, L. (2021). Tracing Glacial Meltwater From the Greenland Ice Sheet to the Ocean Using Gliders. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(8), Article e2021JC017274. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017274

The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is experiencing significant mass loss and freshwater discharge at glacier fronts. The freshwater input from Greenland will impact the physical properties of adjacent coastal seas, including important regions of deep wat... Read More about Tracing Glacial Meltwater From the Greenland Ice Sheet to the Ocean Using Gliders.

Temperature Gradients Across the Pacific Ocean During the Middle Miocene (2021)
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Fox, L. R., Wade, B. S., Holbourn, A., Leng, M. J., & Bhatia, R. (2021). Temperature Gradients Across the Pacific Ocean During the Middle Miocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36(6), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA003924

Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) of the tropical Pacific Ocean exert powerful controls on regional and global climates. Previous studies have suggested that during warm climate phases, the east-west temperature gradient collapsed. To date, there has b... Read More about Temperature Gradients Across the Pacific Ocean During the Middle Miocene.

Anthropocene climate warming enhances autochthonous carbon cycling in an upland Arctic lake, Disko Island, West Greenland (2021)
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Stevenson, M. A., Mcgowan, S., Pearson, E. J., Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., Jones, V. J., …Whiteford, E. (2021). Anthropocene climate warming enhances autochthonous carbon cycling in an upland Arctic lake, Disko Island, West Greenland. Biogeosciences, 18(8), 2465-2485. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2465-2021

The Arctic is rapidly changing, disrupting biogeochemical cycles and the processing, delivery and sedimentation of carbon (C), in linked terrestrial-aquatic systems. In this investigation, we coupled a hydrogeomorphic assessment of catchment soils, s... Read More about Anthropocene climate warming enhances autochthonous carbon cycling in an upland Arctic lake, Disko Island, West Greenland.

Climatic and environmental change in the western Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene, recorded by lake sediments from Aweng Co (2021)
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Zhang, Y., Zhang, J., McGowan, S., Metcalfe, S., Jones, M., Leng, M. J., & Hou, J. (2021). Climatic and environmental change in the western Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene, recorded by lake sediments from Aweng Co. Quaternary Science Reviews, 259, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106889

Understanding the strength and extent of the Asian summer monsoon (including the East Asian summer monsoon and the Indian summer monsoon) in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) region is crucial for predicting possible changes in the regional eco-environment an... Read More about Climatic and environmental change in the western Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene, recorded by lake sediments from Aweng Co.

Ventilation of the abyss in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean (2021)
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Akhoudas, C. H., Sallée, J. B., Haumann, F. A., Meredith, M. P., Garabato, A. N., Reverdin, G., …Arrowsmith, C. (2021). Ventilation of the abyss in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 6760. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86043-2

The Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean is the world’s main production site of Antarctic Bottom Water, a water-mass that is ventilated at the ocean surface before sinking and entraining older water-masses—ultimately replenishing the abyssal global... Read More about Ventilation of the abyss in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean.

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.

Persistent millennial-scale climate variability in Southern Europe during Marine Isotope Stage 6 (2020)
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Wilson, G. P., Frogley, M. R., Hughes, P. D., Roucoux, K. H., Margari, V., Jones, T. D., …Tzedakis, P. C. (2021). Persistent millennial-scale climate variability in Southern Europe during Marine Isotope Stage 6. Quaternary Science Advances, 3, Article 100016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2020.100016

Exploring the mode and tempo of millennial-scale climate variability under evolving boundary conditions can provide insights into tipping points in different parts of the Earth system, and can facilitate a more detailed understanding of climate telec... Read More about Persistent millennial-scale climate variability in Southern Europe during Marine Isotope Stage 6.

Hydrological (in)stability in Southern Siberia during the Younger Dryas and early Holocene (2020)
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Harding, P., Bezrukova, E. V., Kostrova, S. S., Lacey, J. H., Leng, M. J., Meyer, H., …Mackay, A. W. (2020). Hydrological (in)stability in Southern Siberia during the Younger Dryas and early Holocene. Global and Planetary Change, 195, Article 103333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103333

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Southern Siberia is currently undergoing rapid warming, inducing changes in vegetation, loss of permafrost, and impacts on the hydrodynamics of lakes and rivers. Lake sediments are key archives of environmental change and contain... Read More about Hydrological (in)stability in Southern Siberia during the Younger Dryas and early Holocene.

Deep drilling reveals massive shifts in evolutionary dynamics after formation of ancient ecosystem (2020)
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Wilke, T., Hauffe, T., Jovanovska, E., Cvetkoska, A., Donders, T., Ekschmitt, K., …Wagner, B. (2020). Deep drilling reveals massive shifts in evolutionary dynamics after formation of ancient ecosystem. Science Advances, 6(40), Article eabb2943. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb2943

The scarcity of high-resolution empirical data directly tracking diversity over time limits our understanding of speciation and extinction dynamics and the drivers of rate changes. Here, we analyze a continuous species-level fossil record of endemic... Read More about Deep drilling reveals massive shifts in evolutionary dynamics after formation of ancient ecosystem.

Non-marine carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in the Polish Basin and its relationships to organic carbon preservation, pCO2 and palaeotemperature (2020)
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Pie?kowski, G., Hesselbo, S. P., Barbacka, M., & Leng, M. J. (2020). Non-marine carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in the Polish Basin and its relationships to organic carbon preservation, pCO2 and palaeotemperature. Earth-Science Reviews, 210, Article 103383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103383

© 2020 The Authors New carbon-isotope data obtained from homogenous organic material (separated microfossil wood; δ13Cwood) from the upper Rhaetian and entire Lower Jurassic permit chemostratigraphic correlation of these marginal/non-marine deposits... Read More about Non-marine carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in the Polish Basin and its relationships to organic carbon preservation, pCO2 and palaeotemperature.

Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily regulated, tropical lowland river basin (2020)
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Trinh, A. D., Do, T. N., Panizzo, V. N., McGowan, S., & Leng, M. J. (2020). Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily regulated, tropical lowland river basin. Hydrological Processes, 34(22), 4239-4250. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13878

© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd The young water fraction of streamflow (Fyw), an important hydrological variable, has been calculated for the first time, for a monsoon-fed coastal catchment in northern Vietnam. Oxygen stable isotopes (δ18O) from six r... Read More about Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily regulated, tropical lowland river basin.

Carbonate crusts around volcanic islands: Composition, origin and their significance in slope stability (2020)
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Tucker, M. E., Carey, S. N., Sparks, R. S. J., Stinton, A., Leng, M., Robinson, L., …Cotton, L. (2020). Carbonate crusts around volcanic islands: Composition, origin and their significance in slope stability. Marine Geology, 429, Article 106320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106320

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Extensive carbonate crusts discovered forming on the slopes of seamounts in many parts of the world's oceans are providing extra stability to the volcanic edifices. These crusts are hardgrounds composed of mixtures of volcaniclas... Read More about Carbonate crusts around volcanic islands: Composition, origin and their significance in slope stability.

?18O and ?13C of Cyprideis torosa from coastal lakes: Modern systematics and down-core interpretation (2020)
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Roberts, L. R., Holmes, J. A., Sloane, H. J., Arrowsmith, C., Leng, M. J., & Horne, D. J. (2022). ?18O and ?13C of Cyprideis torosa from coastal lakes: Modern systematics and down-core interpretation. Marine Micropaleontology, 160, Article 101907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2020.101907

© 2020 Stable isotope analyses of ostracod shells are a commonly-used proxy for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Although the fundamental controls on isotope composition of ostracod shells are well understood and, in some instances, quantifiable,... Read More about ?18O and ?13C of Cyprideis torosa from coastal lakes: Modern systematics and down-core interpretation.

Multi-proxy evidence for millennial-scale changes in North Pacific Holocene hydroclimate from the Kenai Peninsula lowlands, south-central Alaska (2020)
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Broadman, E., Kaufman, D. S., Henderson, A. C., Berg, E. E., Anderson, R. S., Leng, M. J., …Muñoz, S. E. (2020). Multi-proxy evidence for millennial-scale changes in North Pacific Holocene hydroclimate from the Kenai Peninsula lowlands, south-central Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews, 241, Article 106420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106420

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd The Holocene hydroclimate of south-central Alaska has been studied extensively, but conflicting interpretations between oxygen isotope paleoclimate datasets are seemingly as common as converging reconstructions, in part due to the... Read More about Multi-proxy evidence for millennial-scale changes in North Pacific Holocene hydroclimate from the Kenai Peninsula lowlands, south-central Alaska.

Stylasterid corals: A new paleotemperature archive (2020)
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Samperiz, A., Robinson, L. F., Stewart, J. A., Strawson, I., Leng, M. J., Rosenheim, B. E., …Santodomingo, N. (2020). Stylasterid corals: A new paleotemperature archive. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 545, Article 116407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116407

© 2020 The Authors Stylasterids are a ubiquitous deep-sea coral taxon that build their skeletons from either calcite, aragonite, or both. Yet, robust geochemical proxy data from these corals are limited. In this study, 95 modern stylasterids, spannin... Read More about Stylasterid corals: A new paleotemperature archive.

Refining trace metal temperature proxies in cold-water scleractinian and stylasterid corals (2020)
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Stewart, J. A., Robinson, L. F., Day, R. D., Strawson, I., Burke, A., Rae, J. W., …Pryer, H. (2020). Refining trace metal temperature proxies in cold-water scleractinian and stylasterid corals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 545, Article 116412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116412

© 2020 The Author(s) The Li/Mg, Sr/Ca and oxygen isotopic (δ18O) compositions of many marine biogenic carbonates are sensitive to seawater temperature. Corals, as cosmopolitan marine taxa with carbonate skeletons that can be precisely dated, represen... Read More about Refining trace metal temperature proxies in cold-water scleractinian and stylasterid corals.

Reduced upwelling of nutrient and carbon-rich water in the subarctic Pacific during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (2020)
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Worne, S., Kender, S., Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., & Ravelo, A. C. (2020). Reduced upwelling of nutrient and carbon-rich water in the subarctic Pacific during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 555, Article 109845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109845

© 2020 Reduction in atmospheric pCO2 has been hypothesised as a causal mechanism for the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), which saw global cooling and increased duration of glacials between 0.6 and 1.2 Ma. Sea ice-modulated high latitude upwelling a... Read More about Reduced upwelling of nutrient and carbon-rich water in the subarctic Pacific during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.

Diatoms in a sediment core from a flood pulse wetland in Malaysia record strong responses to human impacts and hydro‐climate over the past 150 years (2020)
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Briddon, C. L., McGowan, S., Metcalfe, S. E., Panizzo, V., Lacey, J., Engels, S., …Idris, M. (2020). Diatoms in a sediment core from a flood pulse wetland in Malaysia record strong responses to human impacts and hydro‐climate over the past 150 years. Geo: Geography and Environment, 7(1), Article e00090. https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.90

Rapid development and climate change in southeast Asia is placing unprecedented pressures on freshwater ecosystems, but long term records of the ecological consequences are rare. Here we examine one basin of Tasik Chini (Malaysia), a UNESCO?designate... Read More about Diatoms in a sediment core from a flood pulse wetland in Malaysia record strong responses to human impacts and hydro‐climate over the past 150 years.

Orbital pacing and secular evolution of the Early Jurassic carbon cycle (2020)
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Jenkyns, H. C., Storm, M. S., Ruhl, M., Hesselbo, S. P., Ullmann, C. V., Xu, W., …Gorbanenko, O. (2020). Orbital pacing and secular evolution of the Early Jurassic carbon cycle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(8), 3974-3982. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1912094117

Global perturbations to the Early Jurassic environment (∼201 to ∼174 Ma), notably during the Triassic–Jurassic transition and Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, are well studied and largely associated with volcanogenic greenhouse gas emissions released b... Read More about Orbital pacing and secular evolution of the Early Jurassic carbon cycle.

Human occupation and ecosystem change on Upolu (Samoa) during the Holocene (2020)
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Gosling, W. D., Sear, D. A., Hassall, J. D., Langdon, P. G., Bönnen, M. N. T., Driessen, T. D., …McMichael, C. N. H. (2020). Human occupation and ecosystem change on Upolu (Samoa) during the Holocene. Journal of Biogeography, 47(3), 600-614. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13783

Aim: To track the peopling of the South Pacific and assess their impact on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Location: Upolu, Samoa. Taxon: Terrestrial and aquatic plants. Methods: A sedimentary record covering the last c. 10,500years was recovered... Read More about Human occupation and ecosystem change on Upolu (Samoa) during the Holocene.

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., …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.

Extending the tephra and palaeoenvironmental record of the Central Mediterranean back to 430 ka: A new core from Fucino Basin, central Italy (2019)
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Giaccio, B., Leicher, N., Mannella, G., Monaco, L., Regattieri, E., Wagner, B., …Tzedakis, P. C. (2019). Extending the tephra and palaeoenvironmental record of the Central Mediterranean back to 430 ka: A new core from Fucino Basin, central Italy. Quaternary Science Reviews, 225, Article 106003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106003

Here we present the first tephrostratigraphic, palaeomagnetic, and multiproxy data from a new ∼98 m-deep sediment core retrieved from the Fucino Basin, central Italy, spanning the last ∼430 kyr. Palaeoenvironmental proxy data (Ca-XRF, gamma ray and m... Read More about Extending the tephra and palaeoenvironmental record of the Central Mediterranean back to 430 ka: A new core from Fucino Basin, central Italy.

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., …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.

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.

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.

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.

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., …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.

Coupled climate and subarctic Pacific nutrient upwelling over the last 850,000 years (2019)
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Worne, S., Kender, S., Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., & Ravelo, A. C. (2019). Coupled climate and subarctic Pacific nutrient upwelling over the last 850,000 years. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 522, 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.06.028

High latitude deep water upwelling has the potential to control global climate over glacial timescales through the biological pump and ocean-atmosphere CO2 exchange. However, there is currently a lack of continuous long nutrient upwelling records wit... Read More about Coupled climate and subarctic Pacific nutrient upwelling over the last 850,000 years.

Stable isotopes in biological and chemical fossils from lake sediments: Developing and calibrating palaeoenvironmental proxies (2019)
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van Hardenbroek, M., Heiri, O., & Leng, M. (2019). Stable isotopes in biological and chemical fossils from lake sediments: Developing and calibrating palaeoenvironmental proxies. Quaternary Science Reviews, 218, 157-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.021

Stable isotope records of H, C, N, O, and Si derived from lake sediments provide valuable information about changing environmental conditions, with diverse applications in Quaternary research. A key issue with the interpretation of stable isotope dat... Read More about Stable isotopes in biological and chemical fossils from lake sediments: Developing and calibrating palaeoenvironmental proxies.

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.

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), 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., …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.

Sediment residence time reveals Holocene shift from climatic to vegetation control on catchment erosion in the Balkans (2019)
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Francke, A., Dosseto, A., Panagiotopoulos, K., Leicher, N., Lacey, J. H., Kyrikou, S., …Leng, M. J. (2019). Sediment residence time reveals Holocene shift from climatic to vegetation control on catchment erosion in the Balkans. Global and Planetary Change, 177, 186-200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.04.005

Understanding the evolution of soil systems on geological time scales has become fundamentally important to predict future landscape development in light of rapid global warming and intensifying anthropogenic impact. Here, we use an innovative uraniu... Read More about Sediment residence time reveals Holocene shift from climatic to vegetation control on catchment erosion in the Balkans.

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., …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.

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.

Holocene El Niño–Southern Oscillation variability reflected in subtropical Australian precipitation (2019)
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Barr, C., Tibby, J., Leng, M., Tyler, J., Henderson, A., Overpeck, J., …McRobie, F. (2019). Holocene El Niño–Southern Oscillation variability reflected in subtropical Australian precipitation. Scientific Reports, 9, Article 1627. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-38626-3

The La Niña and El Niño phases of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) have major impacts on regional rainfall patterns around the globe, with substantial environmental, societal and economic implications. Long-term perspectives on ENSO behaviour,... Read More about Holocene El Niño–Southern Oscillation variability reflected in subtropical Australian precipitation.

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.

An experimental evaluation of the use of ?13C as a proxy for palaeoatmospheric CO2 (2018)
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Lomax, B. H., Lake, J. A., Leng, M. J., & Jardine, P. E. (2019). An experimental evaluation of the use of ?13C as a proxy for palaeoatmospheric CO2. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 247, 162-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.12.026

Understanding changes in atmospheric CO2 over geological time via the development of well constrained and tested proxies is of increasing importance within the Earth sciences. Recently a new proxy (identified as the C3 proxy) has been proposed that i... Read More about An experimental evaluation of the use of ?13C as a proxy for palaeoatmospheric CO2.

Closure of the Bering Strait caused Mid-Pleistocene Transition cooling (2018)
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Kender, S., Ravelo, A. C., Worne, S., Swann, G. E. A., Leng, M. J., Asahi, H., …Hall, I. R. (2018). Closure of the Bering Strait caused Mid-Pleistocene Transition cooling. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 5386. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07828-0

The Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT) is characterised by cooling and lengthening glacial cycles from 600–1200 ka, thought to be driven by reductions in glacial CO2 in particular from ~900 ka onwards. Reduced high latitude upwelling, a process that re... Read More about Closure of the Bering Strait caused Mid-Pleistocene Transition cooling.

Red Sea Palaeoclimate: Stable Isotope and Element-Ratio Analysis of Marine Mollusc Shells (2018)
Book Chapter
Hausmann, N., Kokkinaki, O., & Leng, M. J. (2019). Red Sea Palaeoclimate: Stable Isotope and Element-Ratio Analysis of Marine Mollusc Shells. In N. M. Rasullan, & C. F. Stewart (Eds.), Geological Setting, Palaeoenvironment and Archaeology of the Red Sea (725-740). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99408-6_33

The southern Red Sea coast is the location of more than 4,200 archaeological shell midden sites. These shell middens preserve archaeological and climatic archives of unprecedented resolution and scale. By using shells from these contexts, it is possi... Read More about Red Sea Palaeoclimate: Stable Isotope and Element-Ratio Analysis of Marine Mollusc Shells.

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.

Essential tips for a rock-solid PhD: part III (2018)
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Leng, M., & Mackay, A. (2018). Essential tips for a rock-solid PhD: part III. Geoscientist, 28(10), 28-29. https://doi.org/10.1144/geosci2018-025

We’ve previously explained how important it is to carefully choose your PhD project and supervisor, to manage your time and relationships, and given more detailed advice on the practical side of doing a PhD. To finish, we’ll cover social media, CVs a... Read More about Essential tips for a rock-solid PhD: part III.

Holocene glacier fluctuations and environmental changes in subantarctic South Georgia inferred from a sediment record from a coastal inlet (2018)
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Berg, S., White, D. A., Jivcov, S., Melles, M., Leng, M. J., Rethemeyer, J., …Viehberg, F. (2019). Holocene glacier fluctuations and environmental changes in subantarctic South Georgia inferred from a sediment record from a coastal inlet. Quaternary Research, 91(1), 132-148. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2018.85

© 2018 University of Washington. Published by Cambridge University Press. The subantarctic island of South Georgia provides terrestrial and coastal marine records of climate variability, which are crucial for the understanding of the drivers of Holoc... Read More about Holocene glacier fluctuations and environmental changes in subantarctic South Georgia inferred from a sediment record from a coastal inlet.

Evidence for carbon cycling in a large freshwater lake in the Balkans over the last 0.5 million years using the isotopic composition of bulk organic matter (2018)
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Zanchetta, G., Baneschi, I., Francke, A., Boschi, C., Regattieri, E., Wagner, B., …Sadori, L. (2018). Evidence for carbon cycling in a large freshwater lake in the Balkans over the last 0.5 million years using the isotopic composition of bulk organic matter. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 154-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.022

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd In the DEEP core from the Lake Ohrid ICDP drilling project, the carbon isotope composition of bulk organic matter (δ 13 C TOC ) over the last 516 ka shows a negative correlation with total organic carbon (TOC) and total inorganic... Read More about Evidence for carbon cycling in a large freshwater lake in the Balkans over the last 0.5 million years using the isotopic composition of bulk organic matter.

Middle-late quaternary palaeoclimate variability from lake and wetland deposits in the Nefud Desert, Northern Arabia (2018)
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Parton, A., Clark-Balzan, L., Parker, A. G., Preston, G. W., Sung, W. W., Breeze, P. S., …Petraglia, M. D. (2018). Middle-late quaternary palaeoclimate variability from lake and wetland deposits in the Nefud Desert, Northern Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.010

Records of former lake and wetland development in present day arid/hyper-arid environments provide an important source of information for palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental studies. In Arabia, such records are typically confined to eccentricity-m... Read More about Middle-late quaternary palaeoclimate variability from lake and wetland deposits in the Nefud Desert, Northern Arabia.

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.

Environmental change during MIS4 and MIS 3 opened corridors in the Horn of Africa for Homo sapiens expansion (2018)
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Viehberg, F. A., Just, J., Dean, J. R., Wagner, B., Franz, S. O., Klasen, N., …Schäbitz, F. (2018). Environmental change during MIS4 and MIS 3 opened corridors in the Horn of Africa for Homo sapiens expansion. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 139-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.008

Archaeological findings, numerical human dispersal models and genome analyses suggest several time windows in the past 200 kyr (thousands of years ago) when anatomically modern humans (AMH) dispersed out of Africa into the Levant and/or Arabia. From... Read More about Environmental change during MIS4 and MIS 3 opened corridors in the Horn of Africa for Homo sapiens expansion.

Development of a southern hemisphere subtropical wetland (Welsby Lagoon, south-east Queensland, Australia) through the last glacial cycle (2018)
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Cadd, H. R., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Tyler, J., Unger, L., Leng, M. J., …Baldock, J. (2018). Development of a southern hemisphere subtropical wetland (Welsby Lagoon, south-east Queensland, Australia) through the last glacial cycle. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 53-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.010

Continuous records of terrestrial environmental and climatic variability that extend beyond the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in Australia are rare. Furthermore, where long records do exist, interpretations of climate and ecological change can be hamper... Read More about Development of a southern hemisphere subtropical wetland (Welsby Lagoon, south-east Queensland, Australia) through the last glacial cycle.

A landscape perspective of Holocene organic carbon cycling in coastal SW Greenland lake-catchments (2018)
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Anderson, N., Leng, M., Osburn, C., Fritz, S., Law, A., & McGowan, S. (2018). A landscape perspective of Holocene organic carbon cycling in coastal SW Greenland lake-catchments. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 98-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.006

Arctic organic carbon (OC) stores are substantial and have accumulated over millennia as a function of changes in climate and terrestrial vegetation. Arctic lakes are also important components of the regional C-cycle as they are sites of OC productio... Read More about A landscape perspective of Holocene organic carbon cycling in coastal SW Greenland lake-catchments.

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.

Investigating the environmental interpretation of oxygen and carbon isotope data from whole and fragmented bivalve shells (2018)
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Lacey, J., Leng, M., Peckover, E., Dean, J., Wilke, T., Francke, A., …Wagner, B. (2018). Investigating the environmental interpretation of oxygen and carbon isotope data from whole and fragmented bivalve shells. Quaternary Science Reviews, 194, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.06.025

Sclerochronological data from whole bivalve shells have been used extensively to derive palaeoenvironmental information. However, little is known about the relevance of shell fragments more commonly preserved in the sediment record. Here, we investig... Read More about Investigating the environmental interpretation of oxygen and carbon isotope data from whole and fragmented bivalve shells.

Holocene atmospheric circulation in the central North Pacific: a new terrestrial diatom and δ18O dataset from the Aleutian Islands (2018)
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Bailey, H. L., Kaufman, D. S., Sloane, H. J., Hubbard, A. L., Henderson, A. C., Leng, M. J., …Welker, J. M. (2018). Holocene atmospheric circulation in the central North Pacific: a new terrestrial diatom and δ18O dataset from the Aleutian Islands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 194, 27-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.06.027

The North Pacific is a zone of cyclogenesis that modulates synoptic-scale atmospheric circulation, yet there is a paucity of instrumental and paleoclimate data to fully constrain its long-term state and variability. We present the first Holocene oxyg... Read More about Holocene atmospheric circulation in the central North Pacific: a new terrestrial diatom and δ18O dataset from the Aleutian Islands.

Late Pleistocene-Holocene coastal adaptation in central Mediterranean: Snapshots from Grotta d’Oriente (NW Sicily) (2018)
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Colonese, A., Lo Vetro, D., Landini, W., Di Giuseppe, Z., Hausmann, N., Demarchi, B., …Martini, F. (in press). Late Pleistocene-Holocene coastal adaptation in central Mediterranean: Snapshots from Grotta d’Oriente (NW Sicily). Quaternary International, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.06.018

Marine faunal remains from Grotta d’Oriente (Favignana Island, NW Sicily) offer invaluable snapshots of human-coastal environment interaction in the central Mediterranean from the Late Pleistocene to the Middle Holocene. The long-term shellfish and f... Read More about Late Pleistocene-Holocene coastal adaptation in central Mediterranean: Snapshots from Grotta d’Oriente (NW Sicily).

Spatiotemporal Variability of Barium in Arctic Sea-Ice and Seawater (2018)
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Hendry, K. R., Pyle, K. M., Butler, G. B., Cooper, A., Fransson, A., Chierici, M., …Dodd, P. A. (2018). Spatiotemporal Variability of Barium in Arctic Sea-Ice and Seawater. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123(5), 3507-3522. https://doi.org/10.1029/2017jc013668

Freshwater export from the Arctic is critical in determining the density of water at sites of North Atlantic deep water formation, which in turn influences the global flux of oceanic heat and nutrients. We need geochemical tracers and high-resolution... Read More about Spatiotemporal Variability of Barium in Arctic Sea-Ice and Seawater.

An early Cambrian greenhouse climate (2018)
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Hearing, T. W., Harvey, T. H., Williams, M., Leng, M. J., Lamb, A. L., Wilby, P. R., …Donnadieu, Y. (2018). An early Cambrian greenhouse climate. Science Advances, 4(5), Article eaar5690. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar5690

The oceans of the early Cambrian (~541 to 509 million years ago) were the setting for a marked diversification of animal life. However, sea temperatures — a key component of the early Cambrian marine environment — remain unconstrained, in part becaus... Read More about An early Cambrian greenhouse climate.

Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation (2018)
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Swann, G. E., Mackay, A. W., Vologina, E., Jones, M. D., Panizzo, V., Leng, M. J., …Sturm, M. (2018). Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation. Quaternary Science Reviews, 189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.04.013

Climate models currently provide conflicting predictions of future climate change across Central Asia. With concern over the potential for a change in water availability to impact communities and ecosystems across the region, an understanding of hist... Read More about Lake Baikal isotope records of Holocene Central Asian precipitation.

Effects of cleaning methods upon preservation of stable isotopes and trace elements in shells of Cyprideis torosa (Crustacea, Ostracoda): implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction (2018)
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Roberts, L., Holmes, J., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H., & Horne, D. (2018). Effects of cleaning methods upon preservation of stable isotopes and trace elements in shells of Cyprideis torosa (Crustacea, Ostracoda): implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Quaternary Science Reviews, 189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.03.030

The trace element (Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca) and stable isotope (δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C) geochemistry of fossil ostracod valves provide valuable information, particularly in lacustrine settings, on palaeo-water composition and palaeotemperature. The removal of sedimen... Read More about Effects of cleaning methods upon preservation of stable isotopes and trace elements in shells of Cyprideis torosa (Crustacea, Ostracoda): implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction.

Groundwater quality beneath an Asian megacity on a delta: Kolkata’s (Calcutta’s) disappearing arsenic and present manganese (2018)
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McArthur, J., Sikdar, P., Leng, M., Ghosal, U., & Sen, I. (in press). Groundwater quality beneath an Asian megacity on a delta: Kolkata’s (Calcutta’s) disappearing arsenic and present manganese. Environmental Science and Technology, 52(9), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b04996

Kolkata, the capital city of West Bengal, exploits groundwater for public water-supply. The groundwater has been reported to be widely polluted by arsenic (As). Analysis for As in 280 groundwaters from across Kolkata, failed to detect As concentratio... Read More about Groundwater quality beneath an Asian megacity on a delta: Kolkata’s (Calcutta’s) disappearing arsenic and present manganese.

Assessing human impact on Rostherne Mere, UK, using the geochemistry of organic matter (2018)
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Lacey, J. H., Leng, M. J., Vane, C. H., Radbourne, A. D., Yang, H., & Ryves, D. B. (in press). Assessing human impact on Rostherne Mere, UK, using the geochemistry of organic matter. Anthropocene, 21, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2018.02.002

This study investigates recent changes in the geochemistry of organic material from a hypereutrophic lake (Rostherne Mere, United Kingdom) using the geochemical and molecular composition of radiometrically dated sediment cores. Modern samples suggest... Read More about Assessing human impact on Rostherne Mere, UK, using the geochemistry of organic matter.

Historical atmospheric pollution trends in Southeast Asia inferred from lake sediment records (2018)
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Leng, M., Engels, S., Fong, L., Chen, Q., Leng, M. J., McGowan, S., …Yang, H. (2018). Historical atmospheric pollution trends in Southeast Asia inferred from lake sediment records. Environmental Pollution, 235, 907-917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.01.007

Fossil fuel combustion leads to increased levels of air pollution, which negatively affects human health as well as the environment. Documented data for Southeast Asia (SEA) show a strong increase in fossil fuel consumption since 1980, but informatio... Read More about Historical atmospheric pollution trends in Southeast Asia inferred from lake sediment records.

Oxygen isotope analysis of the eyes of pelagic trilobites: Testing the application of sea temperature proxies for the Ordovician (2018)
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Bennett, C. E., Williams, M., Leng, M. J., Lee, M. R., Bonifacie, M., Calmels, D., …Vandenbroucke, T. R. (2018). Oxygen isotope analysis of the eyes of pelagic trilobites: Testing the application of sea temperature proxies for the Ordovician. Gondwana Research, 57, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2018.01.006

The oxygen isotope composition of well-preserved trilobite eye calcite, retaining its original optical properties, represents a possible source of information on Paleozoic sea temperatures. Species of the epipelagic telephinid genera Carolinites and... Read More about Oxygen isotope analysis of the eyes of pelagic trilobites: Testing the application of sea temperature proxies for the Ordovician.

A review of the stable isotope bio-geochemistry of the global silicon cycle and its associated trace elements (2018)
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Sutton, J. N., André, L., Cardinal, D., Conley, D. J., de Souza, G. F., Dean, J. R., …Swann, G. E. (2018). A review of the stable isotope bio-geochemistry of the global silicon cycle and its associated trace elements. Frontiers in Earth Science, 5, Article 112. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2017.00112

Silicon (Si) is the second most abundant element in the Earth’s crust and is an important nutrient in the ocean. The global Si cycle plays a critical role in regulating primary productivity and carbon cycling on the continents and in the oceans. Deve... Read More about A review of the stable isotope bio-geochemistry of the global silicon cycle and its associated trace elements.

Vertical distribution and diurnal migration of atlantid heteropods (2018)
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Wall-Palmer, D., Metcalfe, B., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H. J., Ganssen, G., Vinayachandran, P., & Smart, C. W. (2018). Vertical distribution and diurnal migration of atlantid heteropods. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 587,

Understanding the vertical distribution and migratory behaviour of shelled holoplanktonic gastropods is essential in determining the environmental conditions to which they are exposed. This is increasingly important in understanding the effects of oc... Read More about Vertical distribution and diurnal migration of atlantid heteropods.

Evolution of the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) carbon-cycle and global climatic controls on local sedimentary processes (Cardigan Bay Basin, UK) (2018)
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Xu, W., Ruhl, M., Jenkyns, H. C., Leng, M. J., Huggett, J. M., Minisini, D., …Hesselbo, S. P. (2018). Evolution of the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) carbon-cycle and global climatic controls on local sedimentary processes (Cardigan Bay Basin, UK). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 484, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.12.037

The late Early Jurassic Toarcian Stage represents the warmest interval of the Jurassic Period, with an abrupt rise in global temperatures of up to ∼7 °C in mid-latitudes at the onset of the early Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE; ∼183 Ma). The T-... Read More about Evolution of the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) carbon-cycle and global climatic controls on local sedimentary processes (Cardigan Bay Basin, UK).

"Live” (stained) benthic foraminiferal living depths, stable isotopes, and taxonomy offshore South Georgia, Southern Ocean: implications for calcification depths (2018)
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Dejardin, R., Kender, S., Allen, C. S., Leng, M. J., Swann, G. E., & Peck, V. L. (2018). "Live” (stained) benthic foraminiferal living depths, stable isotopes, and taxonomy offshore South Georgia, Southern Ocean: implications for calcification depths. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 37(1), 25-71. https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-25-2018

It is widely held that benthic foraminifera exhibit species-specific calcification depth preferences, with their tests recording sediment pore water chemistry at that depth (i.e. stable isotope and trace metal compositions). This assumed depth habita... Read More about "Live” (stained) benthic foraminiferal living depths, stable isotopes, and taxonomy offshore South Georgia, Southern Ocean: implications for calcification depths.

Age and growth rate estimations of the commercially fished gastropod Buccinum undatum (2018)
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Hollyman, P. R., Chenery, S. R., Leng, M. J., Laptikhovsky, V. V., Colvin, C. N., & Richardson, C. A. (2018). Age and growth rate estimations of the commercially fished gastropod Buccinum undatum. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 75(6), 2129-2144. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsy100

Calculating age and growth rate for the commercially important whelk, Buccinum undatum in the aid of fishery management has historically been undertaken using growth rings on the organic operculum. This is difficult due to their poor readability and... Read More about Age and growth rate estimations of the commercially fished gastropod Buccinum undatum.

A new high-resolution chronology for the late Maastrichtian warming event: establishing robust temporal links with the onset of Deccan volcanism (2017)
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Barnet, J. S., Littler, K., Kroon, D., Leng, M. J., Westerhold, T., Röhl, U., & Zachos, J. C. (in press). A new high-resolution chronology for the late Maastrichtian warming event: establishing robust temporal links with the onset of Deccan volcanism. Geology, https://doi.org/10.1130/G39771.1

The late Maastrichtian warming event was defined by a global temperature increase of ∼2.5–5 °C that occurred ∼150–300 k.y. before the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction. This transient warming event has traditionally been associated with a m... Read More about A new high-resolution chronology for the late Maastrichtian warming event: establishing robust temporal links with the onset of Deccan volcanism.

Regional Holocene climate and landscape changes recorded in the large subarctic lake Torneträsk, N Fennoscandia (2017)
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Meyer-Jacob, C., Bindler, R., Bigler, C., Leng, M. J., Lowick, S. E., & Vogel, H. (2017). Regional Holocene climate and landscape changes recorded in the large subarctic lake Torneträsk, N Fennoscandia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 487, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.08.001

Understanding the response of sensitive Arctic and subarctic landscapes to climate change is essential to determine the risks of ongoing and projected climate warming. However, these responses will not be uniform in terms of timing and magnitude acro... Read More about Regional Holocene climate and landscape changes recorded in the large subarctic lake Torneträsk, N Fennoscandia.

Post-mortem oxygen isotope exchange within cultured diatom silica (2017)
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Tyler, J. J., Sloane, H. J., Rickaby, R. E., Cox, E. J., & Leng, M. J. (2017). Post-mortem oxygen isotope exchange within cultured diatom silica. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 31(20), 1749-1760. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.7954

Rationale Potential post-mortem alteration to the oxygen isotope composition of biogenic silica is critical to the validity of palaeoclimate reconstructions based on oxygen isotope ratios (δ18O values) from sedimentary silica. We calculate the deg... Read More about Post-mortem oxygen isotope exchange within cultured diatom silica.

Seasonality of Holocene hydroclimate in the Eastern Mediterranean reconstructed using the oxygen isotope composition of carbonates and diatoms from Lake Nar, central Turkey (2017)
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Dean, J. R., Jones, M. D., Leng, M. J., Metcalfe, S. E., Sloane, H. J., Eastwood, W. J., & Roberts, C. N. (2018). Seasonality of Holocene hydroclimate in the Eastern Mediterranean reconstructed using the oxygen isotope composition of carbonates and diatoms from Lake Nar, central Turkey. Holocene, 28(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683617721326

A positive shift in the oxygen isotope composition (?18O) of lake carbonates in the Eastern Mediterranean from the early to late Holocene is usually interpreted as a change to drier (reduced P/E) conditions. However, it has also been suggested that c... Read More about Seasonality of Holocene hydroclimate in the Eastern Mediterranean reconstructed using the oxygen isotope composition of carbonates and diatoms from Lake Nar, central Turkey.

Sedimentary context and palaeoecology of Gigantoproductus shell beds in the Mississippian Eyam Limestone Formation, Derbyshire carbonate platform, central England (2017)
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Nolan, L., Angiolini, L., Jadoul, F., Della Porta, G., Davies, S., Banks, V., …Leng, M. J. (in press). Sedimentary context and palaeoecology of Gigantoproductus shell beds in the Mississippian Eyam Limestone Formation, Derbyshire carbonate platform, central England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, https://doi.org/10.1144/pygs2017-393

A sedimentological study was conducted at two localities exposing the Mississippian Eyam Limestone Formation of the Derbyshire carbonate platform, UK. Ricklow Quarry comprises seven facies with diverse skeletal assemblages, representing deposition on... Read More about Sedimentary context and palaeoecology of Gigantoproductus shell beds in the Mississippian Eyam Limestone Formation, Derbyshire carbonate platform, central England.

A late Quaternary record of seasonal sea surface temperatures off southern Africa (2017)
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Loftus, E., Sealy, J., Leng, M. J., & Lee-Thorp, J. (2017). A late Quaternary record of seasonal sea surface temperatures off southern Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews, 171, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.07.003

The southern Cape coastal region is important for understanding both the behavioural history of modern humans, and regional and global climate dynamics, because it boasts a long archaeological record and occupies a key geographical location near the... Read More about A late Quaternary record of seasonal sea surface temperatures off southern Africa.

Timing recovery after the cretaceous/paleogene boundary: evidence from Brazos River, Texas (2017)
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Leighton, A. D., Hart, M. B., Smart, C. W., Leng, M. J., & Hampton, M. (2017). Timing recovery after the cretaceous/paleogene boundary: evidence from Brazos River, Texas. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 47(3), https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.47.3.229

As part of an on-going re-assessment of the Cretaceous/ Paleogene boundary in the Brazos River area, Falls County, Texas, a number of new exposures have been described. One of these, at River Bank South, provides a near continuous record of the lower... Read More about Timing recovery after the cretaceous/paleogene boundary: evidence from Brazos River, Texas.

The prospectivity of a potential shale gas play: An example from the southern Pennine Basin (central England, UK) (2017)
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Hennissen, J. A., Hough, E., Vane, C. H., Leng, M. J., Kemp, S. J., & Stephenson, M. H. (in press). The prospectivity of a potential shale gas play: An example from the southern Pennine Basin (central England, UK). Marine and Petroleum Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.06.033

During the Serpukhovian (late Mississippian) Stage, the Pennine Basin, now underlying much of northern England, consisted of a series of interlinked sub-basins that developed in response to the crustal extension north of the Hercynic orogenic zone. F... Read More about The prospectivity of a potential shale gas play: An example from the southern Pennine Basin (central England, UK).

Temporal controls on silicic acid utilisation along the West Antarctic Peninsula (2017)
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Swann, G. E., Pike, J., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H. J., & Snelling, A. M. (2017). Temporal controls on silicic acid utilisation along the West Antarctic Peninsula. Nature Communications, 14645, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14645

The impact of climatic change along the Antarctica Peninsula has been widely debated in light of atmospheric/oceanic warming and increases in glacial melt over the past half century. Particular concern exists over the impact of these changes on marin... Read More about Temporal controls on silicic acid utilisation along the West Antarctic Peninsula.

C/N ratios and carbon isotope composition of organic matter in estuarine environments (2017)
Book Chapter
Leng, M. J., & Lewis, J. P. (2017). C/N ratios and carbon isotope composition of organic matter in estuarine environments. In K. Weckström, K. Saunders, P. Gell, & G. Skilbeck (Eds.), Applications of Paleoenvironmental Techniques in Estuarine Studies. Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0990-1_9

The sediments that are preserved in estuarine environments (saltmarsh, riverine estuaries, mangrove habitats, lagoons, isolation basins and fjords) contain organic matter that allows investigation of the provenance of that material. These data can th... Read More about C/N ratios and carbon isotope composition of organic matter in estuarine environments.

Holocene carbon dynamics at the forest – steppe ecotone of southern Siberia (2016)
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Mackay, A. W., Seddon, A., Leng, M. J., Heumann, G., Morley, D., Piotrowska, N., …Swann, G. E. (2017). Holocene carbon dynamics at the forest – steppe ecotone of southern Siberia. Global Change Biology, 23(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13583

The forest–steppe ecotone in southern Siberia is highly sensitive to climate change; global warming is expected to push the ecotone northwards, at the same time resulting in degradation of the underlying permafrost. To gain a deeper understanding of... Read More about Holocene carbon dynamics at the forest – steppe ecotone of southern Siberia.

Astronomical constraints on the duration of the Early Jurassic Pliensbachian Stage and global climatic fluctuations (2016)
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Ruhl, M., Hesselbo, S. P., Hinnov, L., Jenkyns, H. C., Xu, W., Riding, J. B., …Leng, M. J. (2016). Astronomical constraints on the duration of the Early Jurassic Pliensbachian Stage and global climatic fluctuations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 455, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.08.038

The Early Jurassic was marked by multiple periods of major global climatic and palaeoceanographic change, biotic turnover and perturbed global geochemical cycles, commonly linked to large igneous province volcanism. This epoch was also characterised... Read More about Astronomical constraints on the duration of the Early Jurassic Pliensbachian Stage and global climatic fluctuations.

Osmium isotope evidence for two pulses of increased continental weathering linked to Early Jurassic volcanism and climate change (2016)
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Percival, L. M., Cohen, A., Davies, M., Hesselbo, S. P., Jenkyns, H., Leng, M. J., …Xu, W. (2016). Osmium isotope evidence for two pulses of increased continental weathering linked to Early Jurassic volcanism and climate change. Geology, 44(9), 759-762. https://doi.org/10.1130/G37997.1

Large igneous provinces (LIPs) are proposed to have caused a number of episodes of abrupt environmental change by increasing atmospheric CO2 levels, which were subsequently alleviated by drawdown of CO2 via enhanced continental weathering and burial... Read More about Osmium isotope evidence for two pulses of increased continental weathering linked to Early Jurassic volcanism and climate change.

Mid Pleistocene foraminiferal mass extinction coupled with phytoplankton evolution (2016)
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Kender, S., McClymont, E. L., Elmore, A. C., Emanuele, D., Leng, M. J., & Elderfield, H. (2016). Mid Pleistocene foraminiferal mass extinction coupled with phytoplankton evolution. Nature Communications, 7(1), Article 11970. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11970

Understanding the interaction between climate and biotic evolution is crucial for deciphering the sensitivity of life. An enigmatic mass extinction occurred in the deep oceans during the Mid Pleistocene, with a loss of over 100 species (20%) of sea f... Read More about Mid Pleistocene foraminiferal mass extinction coupled with phytoplankton evolution.

Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of sea surface and intermediate water temperatures from the Southwest Pacific (2016)
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McClymont, E. L., Elmore, A. C., Kender, S., Leng, M. J., Greaves, M., & Elderfield, H. (in press). Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of sea surface and intermediate water temperatures from the Southwest Pacific. Paleoceanography, 31(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/2016PA002954

Over the last 5 million years, the global climate system has evolved toward a colder mean state, marked by large amplitude oscillations in continental ice volume. Equatorward expansion of polar waters and strengthening temperature gradients have been... Read More about Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of sea surface and intermediate water temperatures from the Southwest Pacific.

Scientific drilling projects in ancient lakes: integrating geological and biological histories (2016)
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Wilke, T., Wagner, B., Van Bocxlaer, B., Albrecht, C., Ariztegui, D., Delicado, D., …Wonik, T. (in press). Scientific drilling projects in ancient lakes: integrating geological and biological histories. Global and Planetary Change, 143, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.05.005

Sedimentary sequences in ancient or long-lived lakes can reach several thousands of meters in thickness and often provide an unrivalled perspective of the lake's regional climatic, environmental, and biological history. Over the last few years, deep... Read More about Scientific drilling projects in ancient lakes: integrating geological and biological histories.

Low-latitude Holocene hydroclimate derived from lake sediment flux and geochemistry (2016)
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Parker, A. G., Preston, G. W., Parton, A., Walkington, H., Jardine, P. E., Leng, M. J., & Hodson, M. J. (2016). Low-latitude Holocene hydroclimate derived from lake sediment flux and geochemistry. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31(4), 286-299. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2859

This study investigates hydrological responses to climatic shifts using sediment flux data derived from two dated palaeolake records in south-east Arabia. Flux values are generally low during the early Holocene humid period (EHHP) (∼9.0–6.4k cal a BP... Read More about Low-latitude Holocene hydroclimate derived from lake sediment flux and geochemistry.

A tale of two lakes: a multi-proxy comparison of Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change in Cappadocia, Turkey (2016)
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Roberts, N., Allcock, S. L., Arnaud, F., Dean, J. R., Eastwood, W. J., Jones, M. D., …Yiğitbaşıoğlu, H. (2016). A tale of two lakes: a multi-proxy comparison of Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change in Cappadocia, Turkey. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2852

Individual palaeoenvironmental records represent a combination of regional-scale (e.g. climatic) and site-specific local factors. Here we compare multiple climate proxies from two nearby maar lake records, assuming that common signals are due to regi... Read More about A tale of two lakes: a multi-proxy comparison of Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change in Cappadocia, Turkey.

Interpretation and application of carbon isotope ratios in freshwater diatom silica (2016)
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Webb, M., Barker, P. A., Wynn, P. M., Heiri, O., van Hardenbroek, M., Pick, F., …Leng, M. J. (2016). Interpretation and application of carbon isotope ratios in freshwater diatom silica. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2837

Carbon incorporated into diatom frustule walls is protected from degradation enabling analysis for carbon isotope composition (?13Cdiatom). This presents potential for tracing carbon cycles via a single photosynthetic host with well-constrained ecoph... Read More about Interpretation and application of carbon isotope ratios in freshwater diatom silica.

North Atlantic forcing of moisture delivery to Europe throughout the Holocene (2016)
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Smith, A. C., Wynn, P. M., Barker, P. A., Leng, M. J., Noble, S. R., & Tych, W. (2016). North Atlantic forcing of moisture delivery to Europe throughout the Holocene. Scientific Reports, 6, https://doi.org/10.1038/srep24745

Century-to-millennial scale fluctuations in precipitation and temperature are an established feature of European Holocene climates. Changes in moisture delivery are driven by complex interactions between ocean moisture sources and atmospheric circula... Read More about North Atlantic forcing of moisture delivery to Europe throughout the Holocene.

Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the common paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall (2016)
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Tibby, J., Barr, C., McInerney, F. A., Henderson, A. C., Leng, M. J., Greenway, M., …McNeil, V. (in press). Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the common paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall. Global Change Biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13277

Quantitative reconstructions of terrestrial climate are highly sought after but rare, particularly in Australia. Carbon isotope discrimination in plant leaves (?leaf) is an established indicator of past hydroclimate because the fractionation of carbo... Read More about Carbon isotope discrimination in leaves of the common paperbark tree, Melaleuca quinquenervia, as a tool for quantifying past tropical and subtropical rainfall.

Northern Mediterranean climate since the Middle Pleistocene: a 637 ka stable isotope record from Lake Ohrid (Albania/Macedonia) (2016)
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Lacey, J. H., Leng, M. J., Francke, A., Sloane, H. J., Milodowski, A., Vogel, H., …Wagner, B. (2016). Northern Mediterranean climate since the Middle Pleistocene: a 637 ka stable isotope record from Lake Ohrid (Albania/Macedonia). Biogeosciences, 13, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1801-2016

Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania) is an ancient lake with unique biodiversity and a site of global significance for investigating the influence of climate, geological, and tectonic events on the generation of endemic populations. Here, we present oxygen... Read More about Northern Mediterranean climate since the Middle Pleistocene: a 637 ka stable isotope record from Lake Ohrid (Albania/Macedonia).

Spatial patterns in the oxygen isotope composition of daily rainfall in the British Isles (2015)
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Tyler, J. J., Jones, M. D., Arrowsmith, C., Allott, T., & Leng, M. J. (2016). Spatial patterns in the oxygen isotope composition of daily rainfall in the British Isles. Climate Dynamics, 47(5-6), 1971–1987. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2945-y

Understanding the modern day relationship between climate and the oxygen isotopic composition of precipitation (δ18OP) is crucial for obtaining rigorous palaeoclimate reconstructions from a variety of archives. To date, the majority of empirical stud... Read More about Spatial patterns in the oxygen isotope composition of daily rainfall in the British Isles.

Comparisons of observed and modelled lake ?18O variability (2015)
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Jones, M. D., Cuthbert, M., Leng, M. J., McGowan, S., Mariethoz, G., Arrowsmith, C., …Cross, I. (2016). Comparisons of observed and modelled lake δ18O variability. Quaternary Science Reviews, 131(B), 329-340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.09.012

With the substantial number of lake sediment ?18O records published in recent decades, a quantitative, process-based understanding of these systems can increase our understanding of past climate change. We test mass balance models of lake water ?18O... Read More about Comparisons of observed and modelled lake ?18O variability.

Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate over the late glacial and Holocene, reconstructed from the sediments of Nar lake, central Turkey, using stable isotopes and carbonate mineralogy (2015)
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Dean, J. R., Jones, M. D., Leng, M. J., Noble, S. R., Metcalfe, S. E., Sloane, H. J., …Roberts, C. N. (2015). Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate over the late glacial and Holocene, reconstructed from the sediments of Nar lake, central Turkey, using stable isotopes and carbonate mineralogy. Quaternary Science Reviews, 124, 162-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.07.023

There is a lack of high-resolution records of hydroclimate variability in the Eastern Mediterranean from the late glacial and early Holocene. More knowledge of the speed of climate shifts and the degree to which they were synchronous with changes in... Read More about Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate over the late glacial and Holocene, reconstructed from the sediments of Nar lake, central Turkey, using stable isotopes and carbonate mineralogy.

Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late-Holocene (2015)
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Jones, M. D., Djamali, M., Holmes, J., Weeks, L., Leng, M. J., Lashkari, A., …Metcalfe, S. E. (2015). Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late-Holocene. Holocene, 25(10), 1651-1661. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615594242

A multiproxy record from Lake Parishan, SW Iran, shows human impact on the lake and its catchment over the last 4000 years. The Parishan record provides evidence of changes in lake hydrology, from ostracod, diatom and isotope analyses, that are direc... Read More about Human impact on the hydroenvironment of Lake Parishan, SW Iran, through the late-Holocene.

Silica stable isotopes and silicification in a carnivorous sponge Asbestopluma sp. (2015)
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Hendry, K., Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H. J., Goodwin, C., Berman, J., & Maldonado, M. (2015). Silica stable isotopes and silicification in a carnivorous sponge Asbestopluma sp. Biogeosciences, 12, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3489-2015

The stable isotope composition of benthic sponge spicule silica is a potential source of palaeoceanographic information about past deep seawater chemistry. The silicon isotope composition of spicules has been shown to relate to the silicic acid conce... Read More about Silica stable isotopes and silicification in a carnivorous sponge Asbestopluma sp..

Tracking the hydro-climatic signal from lake to sediment: a field study from central Turkey (2014)
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Dean, J. R., Eastwood, W. J., Roberts, N., Jones, M. D., Yiğitbaşıoğlu, H., Allcock, S. L., …Leng, M. J. (2015). Tracking the hydro-climatic signal from lake to sediment: a field study from central Turkey. Journal of Hydrology, 529(2), 608-621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.004

Palaeo-hydrological interpretations of lake sediment proxies can benefit from a robust understanding of the modern lake environment. In this study, we use Nar Gölü, a non-outlet, monomictic maar lake in central Turkey, as a field site for a natural e... Read More about Tracking the hydro-climatic signal from lake to sediment: a field study from central Turkey.

Holocene-aged human footprints from the Cuatrociénegas Basin, NE Mexico (2013)
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Felstead, N. J., Gonzalez, S., Huddart, D., Noble, S. R., Hoffmann, D. L., Metcalfe, S. E., …Jimenez-Lopez, J. C. (2014). Holocene-aged human footprints from the Cuatrociénegas Basin, NE Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science, 42, 250-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.11.010

Two sets of well-preserved human footprints have been found in tufa sediments in the Cuatrociénegas Basin, NE Mexico, and here we present their U-series dates of 10.55±0.03ka and 7.24±0.13ka. The former are the oldest known footprints in Mexico, alth... Read More about Holocene-aged human footprints from the Cuatrociénegas Basin, NE Mexico.

Glacial discharge along the west Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene (2013)
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Pike, J., Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., & Snelling, A. M. (2013). Glacial discharge along the west Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene. Nature Geoscience, 6, https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1703

The causes for rising temperatures along the Antarctic Peninsula during the late Holocene have been debated, particularly in light of instrumental records of warming over the past decades. Suggested mechanisms range from upwelling of warm deep waters... Read More about Glacial discharge along the west Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene.

Seasonally resolved diatom ?18O records from the west Antarctic Peninsula over the last deglaciation (2013)
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Swann, G. E., Pike, J., Snelling, A. M., Leng, M. J., & Williams, M. C. (2013). Seasonally resolved diatom ?18O records from the west Antarctic Peninsula over the last deglaciation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 364, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.12.016

Understanding the response of the Antarctic ice sheets during the rapid climatic change that accompanied the last deglaciation has implications for establishing the susceptibility of these regions to future 21st Century warming. A unique diatom δ18O... Read More about Seasonally resolved diatom ?18O records from the west Antarctic Peninsula over the last deglaciation.

Influence of the ratio of planktonic to benthic diatoms on lacustrine organic matter ? 13 C from Erlongwan maar lake, northeast China (2012)
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Wang, L., Mackay, A. W., Leng, M. J., Rioual, P., Panizzo, V. N., Lu, H., …Kendrick, C. P. (2013). Influence of the ratio of planktonic to benthic diatoms on lacustrine organic matter δ 13 C from Erlongwan maar lake, northeast China. Organic Geochemistry, 54, 62-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.09.010

Carbon isotope ratio (δ 13 C org ) values of organic matter in lake sediments are commonly used to reconstruct environmental change, but the factors which influence change are varied and complex. Here we report δ 13 C values for sediments from Erlong... Read More about Influence of the ratio of planktonic to benthic diatoms on lacustrine organic matter ? 13 C from Erlongwan maar lake, northeast China.

Evidence of past environmental conditions during the evolution of a calcretised Wadi System in Southern Jordan using stable isotopes (2012)
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McLaren, S. J., Leng, M. J., Knowles, T., & Bradley, A. V. (2012). Evidence of past environmental conditions during the evolution of a calcretised Wadi System in Southern Jordan using stable isotopes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 348-349, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.05.010

A stratigraphically and temporally ordered sequence of channel calcretes preserved along the Wadi Dana, Southern Jordan, records the Quaternary evolution of the formation and infilling of rock-cut channels and their subsequent incision in a tectonica... Read More about Evidence of past environmental conditions during the evolution of a calcretised Wadi System in Southern Jordan using stable isotopes.

A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia (2010)
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Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., Juschus, O., Melles, M., Brigham-Grette, J., & Sloane, H. J. (2010). A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29(5-6), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.024

Determining the response of sites within the Arctic Circle to long-term climatic change remains an essential pre-requisite for assessing the susceptibility of these regions to future global warming and Arctic amplification. To date, existing records... Read More about A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia.

A multiproxy palaeolimnological investigation of Holocene environmental change, between c. 10 700 and 7200 years BP, at Holebudalen, southern Norway (2008)
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Panizzo, V. N., Jones, V. J., Birks, H. J., Boyle, J. F., Brooks, S. J., & Leng, M. J. (2008). A multiproxy palaeolimnological investigation of Holocene environmental change, between c. 10 700 and 7200 years BP, at Holebudalen, southern Norway. Holocene, 18(5), 805-817. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683608089217

Geochemical analyses (x-ray fluorescence, δ13C and C/N ratios) were used to reconstruct early Holocene environments (between 10685 and 7260 cal. yr BP) at a small lake near Holebudalen, southern Norway. Results show a period of increasing stability,... Read More about A multiproxy palaeolimnological investigation of Holocene environmental change, between c. 10 700 and 7200 years BP, at Holebudalen, southern Norway.

Reconstructing hydrological variability in Lake Baikal during MIS 11: An application of oxygen isotope analysis of diatom silica (2008)
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Mackay, A. W., Karabanov, E., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H. J., Morley, D. W., Panizzo, V. N., …Williams, D. (2008). Reconstructing hydrological variability in Lake Baikal during MIS 11: An application of oxygen isotope analysis of diatom silica. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23(4), 365-374. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1174

In this paper we reconstruct hydrological variability in Lake Baikal during Marine Isotope Stage 11 (MIS 11) (427-362 ka BP) from oxygen isotope analysis of diatom silica. Highest δ18Odiatom values are found during MIS 11.3, highlighting the dominanc... Read More about Reconstructing hydrological variability in Lake Baikal during MIS 11: An application of oxygen isotope analysis of diatom silica.

Isotope offsets in marine diatom ?18O over the last 200 ka (2008)
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Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H. J., & Maslin, M. A. (2008). Isotope offsets in marine diatom ?18O over the last 200 ka. Journal of Quaternary Science, 23(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1185

Previous work has suggested that a species effect may be present in diatom oxygen isotope ratios (δ18Odiatom). While predominantly attributed to be a size related species effect, currently the precise mechanism remains unknown. Here, two size fractio... Read More about Isotope offsets in marine diatom ?18O over the last 200 ka.

A 140-year record of recent changes in aquatic productivity in a remote, tropical alpine lake in the Rwenzori Mountain National Park, Uganda (2007)
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Panizzo, V. N., MacKay, A. W., Ssemmanda, I., Taylor, R., Rose, N., & Leng, M. J. (2008). A 140-year record of recent changes in aquatic productivity in a remote, tropical alpine lake in the Rwenzori Mountain National Park, Uganda. Journal of Paleolimnology, 40(1), 325-338. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-007-9163-5

Environmental change in many tropical, alpine habitats remains poorly resolved due to an absence of proximate and sustained observations. In the Rwenzori Mountains of East Africa, glaciers have receded rapidly over the last century, and here we asses... Read More about A 140-year record of recent changes in aquatic productivity in a remote, tropical alpine lake in the Rwenzori Mountain National Park, Uganda.

Diatom oxygen isotopes: evidence of a species effect in the sediment record (2007)
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Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H. J., Maslin, M. A., & Onodera, J. (2007). Diatom oxygen isotopes: evidence of a species effect in the sediment record. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 8(6), Article Q06012. https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GC001535

Diatom oxygen isotope measurements are commonly made on bulk mixed species assemblages due to the difficulty in purifying and separating individual taxa. As such, it is essential to understand processes in diatoms which may lead to isotope offsets bo... Read More about Diatom oxygen isotopes: evidence of a species effect in the sediment record.

A high-resolution late Holocene lake isotope record from Turkey and links to North Atlantic and monsoon climate (2006)
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Jones, M. D., Roberts, C. N., Leng, M. J., & Türkeş, M. (2006). A high-resolution late Holocene lake isotope record from Turkey and links to North Atlantic and monsoon climate. Geology, 34(5), 361-364. https://doi.org/10.1130/G22407.1

A high resolution proxy record of precipitation and evaporation variability through the past 1700 yr from δ18O analysis of a varved lake sequence from central Turkey shows rapid shifts between dry periods (AD 300–500 and AD 1400–1950) and wetter inte... Read More about A high-resolution late Holocene lake isotope record from Turkey and links to North Atlantic and monsoon climate.

Diatom D18O evidence for the development of the modern halocline system in the subarctic northwest Pacific at the onset of major Northern Hemisphere glaciation (2006)
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Swann, G. E., Maslin, M. A., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H. J., & Haug, G. H. (2006). Diatom D18O evidence for the development of the modern halocline system in the subarctic northwest Pacific at the onset of major Northern Hemisphere glaciation. Paleoceanography, 21(PA1009), https://doi.org/10.1029/2005PA001147

Establishing a time frame for the development of the modern halocline and stratified water column in the subarctic North Pacific has significant paleoclimatic implications. Here we present a d18O(diatom) record consisting of only two species that rep... Read More about Diatom D18O evidence for the development of the modern halocline system in the subarctic northwest Pacific at the onset of major Northern Hemisphere glaciation.

A coupled calibration and modelling approach to the understanding of dry-land lake oxygen isotope records (2005)
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Jones, M. D., Leng, M. J., Roberts, C. N., Turkes, M., & Moyeed, R. (2005). A coupled calibration and modelling approach to the understanding of dry-land lake oxygen isotope records. Journal of Paleolimnology, 34(3), 391–411. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-005-6743-0

Comparisons between climate proxies and instrumental records through the last two centuries are often used to understand better the controls on palaeoarchives and to find relationships that can be used to quantify changes in pre-instrumental climate.... Read More about A coupled calibration and modelling approach to the understanding of dry-land lake oxygen isotope records.

Climatic change in Central Asia during MIS 3/2: a case study using biological responses from Lake Baikal (2005)
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Swann, G. E., Mackay, A. W., Leng, M. J., & Demory, F. (2005). Climatic change in Central Asia during MIS 3/2: a case study using biological responses from Lake Baikal. Global and Planetary Change, 44(1-4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2004.09.019

A Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3/early MIS 2 section from a structural high along the east coast of the North Basin of Lake Baikal was analysed for diatoms, C/N ratios, and organic carbon isotope ratios. Diatoms were present throughout MIS 3 and early... Read More about Climatic change in Central Asia during MIS 3/2: a case study using biological responses from Lake Baikal.

A review of diatom ?18O in palaeoceanography
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Swann, G. E., & Leng, M. J. A review of diatom ?18O in palaeoceanography. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28(5-6), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.11.002

Measurements of diatom oxygen isotopes (?18Odiatom) hold the potential to provide an important additional source of palaeoceanographic information in regions depleted in carbonates. However, despite analyses of ?18Odiatom being carried out since the... Read More about A review of diatom ?18O in palaeoceanography.