Publikationen

2024

  • Antoine, E.; Marquer, L.; Muigg, B.; Tegel, W.; Bisson, U.; Bolliger, M. et al. (2024): Legacy of last millennium timber use on plant cover in Central Europe: Insights from tree rings and pollen. The Science of the total environment 922, p. 171157. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171157

  • Wang, B.; Costa, M. L.; Valente, G.; Santos, P.; Behling, H. (2024): Holocene vegetation dynamics, carbon deposition, sea level changes, and human impact inferred from the Lagoa da Fazenda core in the Baía de Caxiuanã region, Northern Brazil. Quaternary Science Reviews 327, p. 108520. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108520

  • 2023

  • Barhoumi, C.; Ménot, G.; Joannin, S.; Ali, A. A.; Ansanay-Alex, S.; Golubeva, Y. et al. (2023): Temperature and fire controls on vegetation dynamics in Northern Ural (Russia) boreal forests during the Holocene based on brGDGT and pollen data. Quaternary Science Reviews 305, p. 108014. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108014

  • Montes Condori, Rayner H.; Ribas, Lucas C.; Biagioni, Siria; Behling, Hermann; Bruno, Odemir (2023): Accurate and Efficient Pollen Grain Localization and Identification with Convolutional Neural Networks.
    This is a preprint article, it offers immediate access but has not been peer reviewed. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4496794

  • Bodor, Z.; Benedek, C.; Behling, H.; Kovacs, Z. (2023): Fusion of electronic tongue and NIRS for the detection of heat treatment of honey. LWT, p. 115219. DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2023.115219

  • Herzschuh U., Böhmer T., Li C., Chevalier M., Hebert R., Dallmeyer A., Cao X., Bigelow N.H., Nazarova L., Novenko E.Y., Park J., Peyron O., Rudaya N.A., Schlütz F., Shumilovskikh L.S., Tarasov P.E., Wang Y., Wen R., Qinghai, Zheng Z. (2023): LegacyClimate 1.0: a dataset of pollen-based climate reconstructions from 2594 Northern Hemisphere sites covering the last 30 kyr and beyond. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 15 (6), pp. 2235–2258. DOI: 10.5194/essd-15-2235-2023

  • Homami Totmaj, L.; Rasi, A.; Neumann, K.; Pirouzi, S.; Alizadeh, K.; Behling, H. (2022): Representation of the Hyrcanian Forest (Northern Iran) in Modern Pollen Rain Revealed by Palynological and Metabarcoding Data. Acta Palaeobotanica 63 (1), pp. 100–117. DOI: 10.35535/acpa-2023-0007

  • Kasianova, A.; Schmidt, M.; Radyush, O.; Lukanina, E.; Schneeweiß, J.; Schlütz, F.; Shumilovskikh, L. (2023): 1100-years history of transformation of the East European forest-steppe into arable land: Case study from Kursk region (Russia). Anthropocene 42, p. 100385. DOI: 10.1016/j.ancene.2023.100385

  • Lukanina, E.; Lyubichev, M.; Schneeweiss, J.; Schultze, E.; Myzgin, K.; Shumilovskikh, L. (2023): Did Holocene climate drive subsistence economies in the East-European forest-steppe? Case study Omelchenki, Kharkiv region, Ukraine. Quaternary Science Reviews 305, p. 108004. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108004

  • Nguyen, C. H.; Hapsari, K. A.; Saad, A.; Sabiham, S.; Behling, H. (2023): Late Holocene riparian vegetation dynamics, environmental changes, and human impact in the Harapan forest of Sumatra, Indonesia. Front. Ecol. Evol. 11. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1224160

  • Pan, Y.; Mu, G.; Gao, C.; Behling, H.; Liu, D.; Wu, G. (2023): Charcoal in Kunlun Mountains loess: Implications for environment change and human activity during the middle Holocene. Front. Earth Sci. 10:1030224. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2022.1030224

  • Polgar, I. S.; Zolitschka, B.; Behling, H. (2023): Human impact on vegetation at Lago di Vedana (Dolomites, Northern Italy) during the last seven centuries. Anthropocene 44, p. 100401. DOI: 10.1016/j.ancene.2023.100401

  • Serge, M.; Mazier, F.; Fyfe, R.; Gaillard, M.-J.; Klein, T.; Lagnoux, A. et al. (2023): Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation. Land 12 (5), p. 986. DOI: 10.3390/land12050986

  • Shumilovskikh, L.; Djamali, M.; Beaulieu, J.-L. de; Ponel, P.; Nokandeh, J.; Omrani Rekavandi, H.; Sauer, E. (2023): Woodland use in treeless landscapes? A compilation of botanical data from NE Iran during the Sasanian Empire. Quaternary International. Volume 659, 20 June 2023, Pages 34-44. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2023.02.013

  • Silva, R. C.; Corrêa, G. R.; Arruda, D. M.; Veloso, G. V.; Filho, E. I.; Cândido, H. G. et al. (2023): The Brazilian semiarid region over the past 21,000 years: Vegetation dynamics in small pulses of higher humidity. Ecological Informatics, p. 102259. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102259

  • Wang, B.; Horna, V.; Heckmann, M.; Hapsari, K. A.; Zimmermann, R.; Behling, H. (2023): Holocene environmental changes inferred from an oxbow lake in a Mauritia palm swamp (aguajal) in the Madre de Dios region, southeastern Peru. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 312, p. 104863. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.104863

  • Wang, J.; Zhou, X.; Wang, S.; Xu, H.; Behling, H.; Ye, J. et al. (2023): C4 expansion of Central Asia in the middle Miocene linked to the strengthening Indian monsoon. Global and Planetary Change 224, p. 104096. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104096

  • Zemp, D.C., Guerrero-Ramirez, N., Brambach, F. et al. Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes. Nature (2023).
    DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06086-5



    2022


  • Álvarez-Barra, V.; Giesecke, T.; Fontana, S. L. (2022): Holocene changes in forest composition in northern Patagonia responded to climate with little impact of disturbance. Quaternary Science Reviews 276, p. 107291. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107291

  • Behling, H.; Dupont, L. M.; Jahns, S.; Schlütz, F.; Christiansen, J.; Bittmann, F. (2022): In memoriam Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Beug, 18th January 1932 to 5th March 2022. Veget Hist Archaebot. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-022-00883-0

  • Brehm, N.; Christl, M.; Knowles, T. D.; Casanova, E.; Evershed, R. P.; Adolphi, F. et al. (2022): Tree-rings reveal two strong solar proton events in 7176 and 5259 BCE. Nature communications 13 (1), p. 1196. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28804-9

  • Carneiro de Melo Moura, C.; Setyaningsih, C. A.; Li, K.; Merk, M. S.; Schulze, S.; Raffiudin, R. et al. (2022): Biomonitoring via DNA metabarcoding and light microscopy of bee pollen in rainforest transformation landscapes of Sumatra. BMC ecology and evolution 22 (1), p. 51. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-022-02004-x

  • Cole, L. E.; Åkesson, C. M.; Hapsari, K. A.; Hawthorne, D.; Roucoux, K. H.; Girkin, N. T. et al. (2022): Tropical peatlands in the anthropocene: Lessons from the past. Anthropocene 37, p. 100324. DOI: /10.1016/j.ancene.2022.100324

  • Gu, F.; Alizadeh, K.; Behling, H. (2022): Late Holocene Vegetation and Environmental Changes of Coastal Lowlands in Northern Iran: Possible Role of Climate, Human Impact and Caspian Sea Level Fluctuations. Wetlands 42 (5). DOI: 10.1007/s13157-022-01555-5

  • Hapsari, K. A.; Jennerjahn, T.; Nugroho, S. H.; Yulianto, E.; Behling, H. (2022): Sea level rise and climate change acting as interactive stressors on development and dynamics of tropical peatlands in coastal Sumatra and South Borneo since the Last Glacial Maximum. Global Change Biology 28 (10), pp. 3459–3479. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16131

  • Hapsari, K. A.; Jennerjahn, T. C.; Behling, H. (2022): The future of the past: Applications of paleoecological findings in peatland restoration in Indonesia. PAGES Mag 30 (1), pp. 14–15. DOI: 10.22498/pages.30.1.14

  • Homami Totmaj, L.; Alizadeh, K.; Behling, H. (2022): Late Holocene paleoenvironmental changes inferred from multi-proxy studies of the Kholasht-Kouh Lake sediments in the Gilan mountains, northern Iran. J Paleolimnol. DOI: 10.1007/s10933-022-00252-x

  • Lerch, M.; Unkelbach, J.; Schneider, F.; Zech, M.; Klinge, M. (2022): Holocene vegetation reconstruction in the forest–steppe of Mongolia based on leaf waxes and macro-charcoals in soils. E&G Quaternary Sci. J. 71 (1), pp. 91–110. DOI: 10.5194/egqsj-71-91-2022

  • Ljungqvist, F. C.; et al. (Leuschner, H.H.)(2022): Regional Patterns of Late Medieval and Early Modern European Building Activity Revealed by Felling Dates. Front. Ecol. Evol. 9. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.825751

  • Lukanina, E.; Shumilovskikh, L.; Novenko, E. (2022): Vegetation and fire history of the East-European forest-steppe over the last 14,800 years: A case study from Zamostye, Kursk region, Russia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 605, p. 111218. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111218

  • Martins, G. S.; Cordeiro, R. C.; Turcq, B.; Meyers, P. A.; Mendez-Millan, M.; Moreira, L. S. et al. (2022): Late quaternary hydrological changes in the southeastern amazon basin from n-alkane molecular and isotopic records in sediments of Saci lake, Pará state (Brazil). Global and Planetary Change, p. 103833. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103833

  • Mendes, Lais Aguiar da Silveira; Meneses, Maria Ecilene Nunes da Silva; Behling, H.; da Costa, M. L. (2021): Modern and fossil pollen record from region of the middle Araguaia River floodplain, Tocantins State (Brazil). PESQUI GEOCIENC 48 (4). DOI: 10.22456/1807-9806.111397

  • Moraes, C. A. de; da Costa, M. L.; Navarro, A. G.; Negrão, L. B.; Da Silva Valente, G. J.; Pöllmann, H.; Behling, H. (2022): Holocene vegetation, climate, sea-level oscillation, and human impact inferred from the archaeological site Cabeludo in Maranhão State, NE Brazil. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 608, p. 111292. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111292

  • Nguyen, C. H.; Setyaningsih, C. A.; Jahnk, S. L.; Saad, A.; Sabiham, S.; Behling, H. (2022): Forest Dynamics and Agroforestry History since AD 200 in the Highland of Sumatra, Indonesia. Forests 13 (9), p. 1473. DOI: 10.3390/f13091473

  • Papadopoulou, M.; Tsiripidis, I.; Panajiotidis, S.; Fotiadis, G.; Veres, D.; Magyari, E. et al. (2022): Testing the potential of pollen assemblages to capture composition, diversity and ecological gradients of surrounding vegetation in two biogeographical regions of southeastern Europe. Veget Hist Archaebot. 31 (1), pp 1-15. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-021-00831-4

  • Piacsek, P.; Behling, H.; Stríkis, N. M.; Ballalai, J. M.; Venancio, I. M.; Da Rodrigues, A. M.; Albuquerque, A. L. (2022): Response of vegetation to hydroclimate changes in northeast Brazil over the last 130 kyrs. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, p. 111232. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111232

  • Piraquive-Bermúdez, D. and Behling, H. (2022): Holocene Paleoecology in the Neotropical Savannas of Northern South America (Llanos of the Orinoquia Ecoregion, Colombia and Venezuela): What Do We Know and on What Should We Focus in the Future? Front. Ecol. Evol. 10:824873. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.824873

  • Piraquive Bermúdez, D.; Theuerkauf, M.; Giesecke, T. (2022): Towards quantifying changes in forest cover in the Araucaria forest-grassland mosaic in southern Brazil. Veget Hist Archaebot. 31, pages107–122 DOI: 10.1007/s00334-021-00841-2

  • Ramadani, R.F.; Raffiudin, R.; Sri Ariyanti, N.; Biagioni, S.; Treanore, E.; Behling, H. (2021): Stingless bee foraging behavior and pollen resource use in oil palm and rubber plantations in Sumatra. J Entomol Indones 18 (2), pp. 81–92. DOI: 10.5994/jei.18.2.81

  • Reinhardt, A. L.; Kasper, T.; Lochner, M.; Bliedtner, M.; Krahn, K. J.; Haberzettl, T. et al. (2022): Rain Forest Fragmentation and Environmental Dynamics on Nosy Be Island (NW Madagascar) at 1300 cal BP Is Attributable to Intensified Human Impact. Front. Ecol. Evol. 9. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.783770

  • Schmidt, A. R.; Steuernagel, L.; Behling, H.; Seyfullah, L. J.; Beimforde, C.; Sadowski, E.-M. et al. (2022): Fossil evidence of lichen grazing from Palaeogene amber. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 302, p. 104664. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104664

  • Unkelbach, J.; Behling, H. (2022): The reconstruction of Holocene northwestern Mongolian fire history based on high-resolution multi-site macro-charcoal analyses. Front. Earth Sci. 10. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2022.959914

  • Wang, B.; Hapsari, K. A.; Horna, V.; Zimmermann, R.; Behling, H. (2022): Late Holocene peatland palm swamp (aguajal) development, carbon deposition and environment changes in the Madre de Dios region, southeastern Peru. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 594, p. 110955. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110955

  • Willkomm, N.; Setyaningsih, C. A.; Saad, A.; Sabiham, S.; Sauer, D.; Behling, H. (2022): Late Holocene volcanic and human impacts on the mountain vegetation in central Sumatra, Indonesia. Quaternary International. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2022.02.016

  • Yang, S.; Gu, F.; Song, B.; Ye, S.; Yuan, Y.; He, L. et al. (2022): Holocene vegetation history and responses to climate and sea-level change in the Liaohe Delta, northeast China. CATENA 217, p. 106438. DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2022.106438

  • Zolitschka, B.; Polgar, I. S.; Behling, H. (2022): Created by the Monte Peron rock avalanche: Lago di Vedana (Dolomites, Italy) and its sediment record of landscape evolution after a mass wasting event. Landslides 19, 297-311. DOI: 10.1007/s10346-021-01787-2

  • 2021


  • Alves de Moraes, C.; Da Lima Costa, M.; Guida Navarro, A.; Da Nunes Silva Meneses, M. E.; Boiadeiro Ayres Negrão, L.; Pöllmann, H.; Behling, H. (2021): Holocene coastal environmental changes inferred by multi-proxy analysis from Lago Formoso sediments in Maranhão State, northeastern Brazil. Quaternary Science Reviews 273, p. 107234. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107234

  • Bodor, Z.; Kovacs, Z.; Benedek, C.; Hitka, G.; Behling, H. (2021): Origin Identification of Hungarian Honey Using Melissopalynology, Physicochemical Analysis, and Near Infrared Spectroscopy. Molecules 26 (23), p. 7274. DOI: 10.3390/molecules26237274

  • Bush, M. B.; Nascimento, M. N.; Åkesson, C. M.; Cárdenes-Sandí, G. M.; Maezumi, S. Y.; Behling, H. et al. (2021): Widespread reforestation before European influence on Amazonia. Science (New York, N.Y.) 372 (6541), pp. 484–487. DOI: 10.1126/science.abf3870

  • Díaz, I. A.; Godoy-Güinao, J.; Mellado-Mansilla, D.; Moreno-González, R.; Cuq, E.; Ortega-Solís, G.; Armesto, J. J. (2021): Advanced canopy regeneration: an unrecognized mechanism of forest dynamics. Ecology 102 (1), e03222. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3222

  • Dugerdil, L.; Joannin, S.; Peyron, O.; Jouffroy-Bapicot, I.; Vannière, B.; Boldgiv, B., Bazartseren, B., Unkelbach, J., Behling, H., Ménot., G., (2021): Climate reconstructions based on GDGT and pollen surface datasets from Mongolia and Baikal area: calibrations and applicability to extremely cold–dry environments over the Late Holocene. Clim. Past 17 (3), pp. 1199–1226. DOI: 10.5194/cp-17-1199-2021

  • Elschner, A.; Scheder, J.; Bungenstock, F.; Bartholomä, A.; Becker, T. M.; Capperucci, R. M. et al. (Frank Schlütz)(2021): Microfauna- and sedimentology-based facies analysis for palaeolandscape reconstruction in the back-barrier area of Norderney (NW Germany). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 100. DOI: 10.1017/njg.2020.16

  • Enters, D.; Haynert, K.; Wehrmann, A.; Freund, H.; Schlütz, F. (2021): A new ΔR value for the southern North Sea and its application in coastal research. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 100. DOI: 10.1017/njg.2020.19

  • Gu, F.; Ramezani, E.; Alizadeh, K.; Behling, H. (2021): Vegetation Dynamics, Environmental Changes, and Anthropogenic Impacts on the Coastal Hyrcanian Forests in Northern Iran. Journal of Coastal Research 37, 611-619. DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-20-00033.1

  • Hapsari, K. A.; Biagioni, S.; Jennerjahn, T. C.; Saad, A.; Sabiham, S.; Corre, M. D. et al. (2021): Late Holocene ENSO-related fire impact on vegetation, nutrient status and carbon accumulation of peatlands in Jambi, Sumatra, Indonesia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 293, p. 104482. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104482

  • Homami Totmaj, L.; Alizadeh, K.; Giahchi, P.; Darvishi Khatooni, J.; Behling, H. (2021): Late Holocene Hyrcanian forest and environmental dynamics in the mid-elevated highland of the Alborz Mountains, northern Iran. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 295, p. 104507. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104507

  • Homami Totmaj, L.; Ramezani, E.; Alizadeh, K.; Behling, H. (2021): Four millennia of vegetation and environmental history above the Hyrcanian forest, northern Iran. Veget Hist Archaebot. 30/5, 611-621 DOI: 10.1007/s00334-020-00813-y

  • Julier, A. C.; et al. (Schüler, L (2021): Chapter 21: Modern pollen studies from tropical Africa and their use in palaeoecology. In: Jürgen Runge, William D. Gosling, Anne-Marie Lézine, Louis Scott (Eds.): Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics – The African Pollen Database. London: CRC Press.

  • Klinge, M.; Schlütz, F.; Zander, A.; Hülle, D.; Batkhishig, O.; Lehmkuhl, F. (2021): Late Pleistocene lake level, glaciation and climate change in the Mongolian Altai deduced from sedimentological and palynological archives. Quat. res. 99, pp. 168–189. DOI: 10.1017/qua.2020.67

  • May, S. M.; Norpoth, M.; Pint, A.; Shumilovskikh, L.; Raith, K.; Brill, D. et al. (2021): Mid‐ to late Holocene environmental changes and human‐environment interactions in the surroundings of La Silla del Papa, SW Spain. Geoarchaeology 36 (4), pp. 573–600. DOI: 10.1002/gea.21846

  • Mendes, Lais Aguiar da Silveira; Meneses, Maria Ecilene Nunes da Silva; Behling, H.; da Costa, M. L. (2021): Modern and fossil pollen record from region of the middle Araguaia River floodplain, Tocantins State (Brazil). PESQUI GEOCIENC 48 (4). DOI: 10.22456/1807-9806.111397

  • Moreno-Gonzalez, R.; Giesecke, T.; Fontana, S. L. (2021): Fire and vegetation dynamics of endangered Araucaria araucana communities in the forest-steppe ecotone of northern Patagonia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 567, p. 110276. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110276

  • O'Keefe, J. M.; Marret, F.; Osterloff, P.; Pound, M. J.; Shumilovskikh, L. (2021): Why a new volume on non-pollen palynomorphs? Geological Society, London, Special Publications 511 (1), pp. 1–11. DOI: 10.1144/SP511-2021-83

  • Piacsek, P.; Behling, H.; Ballalai, J. M.; Nogueira, J.; Venancio, I. M.; Albuquerque, A. L. (2021): Reconstruction of vegetation and low latitude ocean-atmosphere dynamics of the past 130 kyr, based on South American montane pollen types. Global and Planetary Change 201, p. 103477. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103477

  • Piacsek, P.; Behling, H.; Gu, F.; Venancio, I. M.; Lessa, D. V.; Belem, A.; Albuquerque, A. L. (2021): Changes in sea surface hydrography and productivity in the western equatorial Atlantic since the last interglacial. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 562, p. 109952. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109952

  • van der Plas, G.W., Rucina, S.M., Hemp, A., Marchant, R.A., Hooghiemstra, H., Schüler, L. and Verschuren, D., 2020. Climate-human-landscape interaction in the eastern foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro (equatorial East Africa) during the last two millennia. The Holocene, Volume: 31 issue: 4, page(s): 556-569 DOI: doi.org/10.1177/0959683620981694

  • Ramadani, R.F.; Raffiudin, R.; Sri Ariyanti, N.; Biagioni, S.; Treanore, E.; Behling, H. (2021): Stingless bee foraging behavior and pollen resource use in oil palm and rubber plantations in Sumatra. J Entomol Indones 18 (2), pp. 81–92. DOI: 10.5994/jei.18.2.81

  • Ramezani, E., Talebi, T., Alizadeh, K., Shirvany, A. Behnam Hamzeh’ee, B., Behling, H., 2021. Long-term persistence of steppe vegetation in the highlands of Arasbaran Protected Area, northwestern Iran as inferred from a pollen record. Palynology, 45, 15-26,. DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2019.1702117

  • Shumilovskikh, L. S.; Abdulmanova, I. F.; Efimik, E. G. (2021): Does season matter for moss surface sample collection? A case study from Kungur forest-steppe, pre-Urals, Russia. Palynology, Volume 45, Issue 2 pp. 191–199. DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2020.1776780

  • Shumilovskikh, L.; O'Keefe, J. M.; Marret, F. (2021): An overview of the taxonomic groups of non-pollen palynomorphs. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 511 (1), pp. 13–61. DOI: 10.1144/SP511-2020-65

  • Teixeira, H.; Montade, V.; Salmona, J.; Metzger, J.; Bremond, L.; Kasper, T. et al. (2021): Past environmental changes affected lemur population dynamics prior to human impact in Madagascar. Communications biology 4 (1), p. 1084. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02620-1

  • Tserendorj, G.; Marinova, E.; Lechterbeck, J.; Behling, H.; Wick, L.; Fischer, E. et al. (2021): Intensification of agriculture in southwestern Germany between the Bronze Age and Medieval period, based on archaeobotanical data from Baden-Württemberg. Veget Hist Archaebot 30 (1), pp. 35–46. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-020-00814-x

  • Unkelbach, J., Dulamsuren, Ch., Behling, H., 2021. Late Holocene climate and land-use history in the Mongolian Altai Mountains: combined evidence from palynological, macro-charcoal and tree-ring analyses. Trees, Forests and People, Available online 18 February 2021, 100073 DOI: 10.1016/j.tfp.2021.100073

  • Unkelbach, J.; Dulamsuren, C.; Klinge, M.; Behling, H. (2021): Holocene high-resolution forest-steppe and environmental dynamics in the Tarvagatai Mountains, north-central Mongolia, over the last 9570 cal yr BP. Quaternary Science Reviews 266, p. 107076. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107076


  • 2020


  • Adolf, C.; Tovar, C.; Kühn, N.; Behling, H.; Berrío, J. C.; Dominguez-Vázquez, G. et al. (2020): Identifying drivers of forest resilience in long-term records from the Neotropics. Biology letters 16 (4), p. 20200005. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0005

  • Álvarez-Barra, V. (2020): Chapter 11: Phytolith Analysis from Coprolites of Pilauco. In: Mario Pino, Giselle A. Astorga (Eds.): Pilauco. A Late Pleistocene Archaeo-paleontological Site. Cham: Springer International Publishing (The Latin American Studies Book Series), pp. 183–193. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23918-3

  • Álvarez-Barra, V.; Giesecke, T.; Fontana, S. L. (2020): Late-Holocene vegetation dynamics and disturbance regimes in north Patagonia Argentina (40°S). The Holocene 24 (2), 095968362091392. DOI: 10.1177/0959683620913920

  • Behling, H.; Jantz, N.; Safford, H. D. (2020): Mid- and late Holocene vegetation, climate and fire dynamics in the Serra do Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro State, southeastern Brazil. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 274, 104-152. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.104152

  • Dan, A.; Basaran, S.; Brückner, H.; Erkul E.; Pint, A.; Rabbel, W.; Shumilovskikh L., Wilken D., Wunderlich T. (2020): Ainos in Thrace: research perspectives in historical geography and geoarchaeology. In: Deniz Genceolu, Martin Godon (Eds.): Anatolia antiqua. Eski anadolu. Vol. 27, pp. 127–144.

  • Fuentes Molina, O.; Alizadeh, K.; Bucarey, S. A.; Castaneza Zúñiga, E.; Vásquez-Quitral, P. (2020): Analysis of organic molecules, physicochemical parameters, and pollen as indicators for authenticity, botanical origin, type and quality of honey samples examined. International Journal of Food Properties 23 (1), pp. 2242–2256. DOI: 10.1080/10942912.2020.1850775

  • Gu, F.; Pätzold, J.; Behling, H. (2020): Evidence of cooling in the tropical South Atlantic off southeastern Brazil during the last 50 kyr. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 272, online DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.104128

  • Hapsari, K.A., Jennerjahn T.C., Lukas, M., Karius, V., Behling, H., (2020). Intertwined effects of climate and land use change on environmental dynamics and carbon accumulation in a mangrove-fringed coastal lagoon in Java, Indonesia. Global Change Biology, 26, p. 1414-1431. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14926

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  • Krashevska, V.; Tsyganov, A. N.; Esaulov, A. S.; Mazei, Y. A.; Hapsari, K. A.; Saad, A. et al. (2020): Testate Amoeba Species- and Trait-Based Transfer Functions for Reconstruction of Hydrological Regime in Tropical Peatland of Central Sumatra, Indonesia. Front. Ecol. Evol. 8. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00225

  • Li, J.-F.; Xie, G.; Yang, J.; Ferguson, D. K.; Liu, X.-D.; Liu, H.; Wang, Y.-F. (2020): Asian Summer Monsoon changes the pollen flow on the Tibetan Plateau. Earth-Science Reviews 202, p. 103114. DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103114

  • Martin, C.; Ménot, G.; Thouveny, N.; Peyron, O.; Andrieu-Ponel, V.; Montade, V. et al. (2020): Early Holocene Thermal Maximum recorded by branched tetraethers and pollen in Western Europe (Massif Central, France). Quaternary Science Reviews 228, p. 106109. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106109

  • Messal, S.; Karle, M.; Kuiter, R.; Mulsow, R.; Heinrich, D.; Schlütz, F.; Bittmann, F. (2020): Der frühmittelalterliche Seehandelsplatz von Rostock-Dierkow im Spiegel der Forschungen des SPP „Häfen“. Siedlungs- und Küstenforschung im südlichen Nordseegebiet (SKN) (43), pp. 257–308.

  • Meyer, M. C.; Gliganic, L. A.; May, J.-H.; Merchel, S.; Rugel, G.; Schlütz, F. et al. (2020): Landscape dynamics and human-environment interactions in the northern foothills of Cho Oyu and Mount Everest (southern Tibet) during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 229, p. 106127. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106127

  • Moraes, C. A. de; Oliveira, M. A.T. de; Behling, H. (2020): Late Holocene climate dynamics and human impact inferred from vegetation and fire history of the Caatinga, in Northeast Brazil. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 282, p. 104299. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104299

  • Moreno-Gonzalez, R.; Giesecke, T.; Fontana, S. L. (2020): The impact of recent land-use change in the Araucaria araucana forest in northern Patagonia. The Holocene, 095968362091391. DOI: 10.1177/0959683620913918

  • Piacsek, P.; Behling, H.; Fang, G.; Venancio, I. M.; Lessa, D. V.O.; Belem, A.; Albuquerque, A. L. (2020): Changes in sea surface hydrography and productivity in the western equatorial Atlantic since the last interglacial. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, p. 109952. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109952

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  • Ramezani, E.; Talebi, T.; Alizadeh, K.; Shirvany, A.; Hamzeh’ee, B.; Behling, H. (2020): Long-term persistence of steppe vegetation in the highlands of Arasbaran protected area, northwestern Iran, as inferred from a pollen record. Palynology 4 (2), pp. 1–12. DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2019.1702117

  • Saindovdon, D.; Unkelbach, J.; Dulamsuren, C.; Punsalpaamuu, G.; Beket, U.; Behling, H. (2020): Modern Pollen Rain Studies at the Forest Steppe Ecotone in the Lake Dayan Region, Mongolian Altai. Mong. J. Biol. Sci. 18 (1), pp. 3–11. DOI: 10.22353/mjbs.2020.18.01

  • Schlütz, F. (2020): Archäobotanische Untersuchungen zu den frühmittelalterlichen Siedlungen Witsum LA 146 und Nieblum Goting LA 151. Studien zur Landschafts- und Siedlungsgeschichte im südlichen Nordseegebiet, 11: 323–339.

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  • Shumilovskikh, L. S.; van Geel, B. (2020): Non-Pollen Palynomorphs. In Amanda G. Henry (Ed.): Handbook for the Analysis of Micro-Particles in Archaeological Samples. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 65–96. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42622-4

  • Shumilovskikh, L. S.; Poole, I. (2020): Plant Remains. In Eberhard W. Sauer (Ed.): Dariali. The 'Caspian Gates' in the Caucasus from antiquity to the age of the Huns and the Middle Ages : the joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge excavations and surveys, 2013-2016. Oxford: Oxbow Books (The British Institute of Persian Studies archaeological monographs. Series V), pp. 699–829.

  • Shumilovskikh, L. S.; Schmidt, M.; Pereskokov, M.; Sannikov, P. (2020): Postglacial history of East European boreal forests in the mid‐Kama region, pre‐Urals, Russia. Boreas 49/3, p. 526-543. DOI: 10.1111/bor.12436

  • Unkelbach, J.; Kashima, K.; Punsalpaamuu, G.; Shumilovskikh, L.; Behling, H. (2020): Decadal high-resolution multi-proxy analysis to reconstruct natural and human-induced environmental changes over the last 1350 cal. yr BP in the Altai Tavan Bogd National Park, western Mongolia. The Holocene 257 (1), 095968362090866. DOI: 10.1177/0959683620908662

  • Wang, J.; Xinying, Z.; Xu, H.; Junchi, L.; Qingjiang, Y.; Zhao, C. et al. (2020): Relationship between C 4 biomass and C 4 agriculture during the Holocene and its implications for millet domestication in Northeast China. Geophys Res Lett, pp. 1–20. DOI: 10.1029/2020GL089566

  • Zaky, A. S.; Kashima, K.; Frontalini, F.; Ibrahim, M. I.A.; Khalifa, M. M.; Fukumoto, Y., Gad, D., Behling, H., (2020): Mid-to Late Holocene paleoclimatic changes and paleoenvironmental shifts inferred from pollen and diatom assemblages at Lake Hamra, Wadi El Natrun (Western Nile Delta, North Western Desert, Egypt). Quaternary International. 542, pp. 109–120. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.03.024

  • 2019


  • Andreev, A. A.; Shumilovskikh, L. S.; Savelieva, L. A.; Gromig, R.; Fedorov, G. B.; Ludikova, A. et al. (2019): Environmental conditions in northwestern Russia during MIS 5 inferred from the pollen stratigraphy in a sediment core from Lake Ladoga. Boreas 48(2), 377-386. DOI: 10.1111/bor.12382

  • Brugger, S. O.; Gobet, E.; Osmont, D.; Behling, H.; Fontana, S. L.; Hooghiemstra, H. et al. (2019): Tropical Andean glacier reveals colonial legacy in modern mountain ecosystems. Quaternary Science Reviews 220, pp. 1–13. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.032

  • Daniau, A.-L., Desprat S., Aleman J. C., Bremond L., Davis B., Fletcher W., Marlon J, Marquer L, Montade V, del Molino C M, Naughton F, Rius D, Urrego D H, (2019): Terrestrial plant microfossils in palaeoenvironmental studies, pollen, microcharcoal and phytolith. Towards a comprehensive understanding of vegetation, fire and climate changes over the past one million years. Revue de Micropaléontologie. Vol. 63: 1-35 DOI: 10.1016/j.revmic.2019.02.001

  • Finsinger, W.; Schwörer, C.; Heiri, O.; Morales-Molino, C.; Ribolini, A.; Giesecke, T. et al. (2019): Fire on ice and frozen trees? Inappropriate radiocarbon dating leads to unrealistic reconstructions. The New phytologist 222 (2), pp. 657–662. DOI: 10.1111/nph.15354

  • Giesecke, T.; Wolters, S.; van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F. N.; van der Knaap, P. W.; Leydet, M.; Brewer, S. (2019): Postglacial change of the floristic diversity gradient in Europe. Nature communications 10 (1), p. 5925. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13233-y

  • Gu, F.; Chiessi, C. M.; Zonneveld, K. A.F.; Behling, H. (2019): Shifts of the Brazil-Falklands/Malvinas Confluence in the western South Atlantic during the latest Pleistocene–Holocene inferred from dinoflagellate cysts. Palynology Vol. 43, 483-493. DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2018.1470116

  • Hait, A., and Behling, H., (2019) Responses of the mangrove ecosystem to Holocene environmental change in the Sundarban biosphere reserve, India. Acta Palaeobotanica, 59 (2), pp. 391–409. DOI: 10.2478/acpa-2019-0013

  • Hass, A. L.; Brachmann, L.; Batáry, P.; Clough, Y.; Behling, H.; Tscharntke, T.; Diekötter, T. (2019): Maize-dominated landscapes reduce bumblebee colony growth through pollen diversity loss. J Appl Ecol 56, p. 294-304. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13296

  • Jan, F., Schüler, L. and H. Behling (2019) Vegetation dynamics in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwestern Pakistan, inferred from the Kabal Swat pollen record during the last 3300 years. Acta Palaeobotanica, 59/1: 145-163, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.2478/acpa-2019-0001

  • Leal, A.; Gassón, R.; Behling, H.; Sánchez, F. (2019): Human-made fires and forest clearance as evidence for late Holocene landscape domestication in the Orinoco Llanos (Venezuela). Veget Hist Archaebot 28 (5), pp. 545–557. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-019-00713-w

  • Montade, V.; Ledru, M.-P.; Giesecke, T.; Flantua, S. G.; Behling, H.; Peyron, O. (2019): A new modern pollen dataset describing the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. The Holocene 29 (8): 1253–1262, DOI: 10.1177/0959683619846981

  • Montade, V.; Peyron, O.; Favier, C.; Francois, J. P.; Haberle, S. G. (2019): A pollen-climate calibration from western Patagonia for palaeoclimatic reconstructions. J. Quaternary Sci. 34 (1), pp. 76–86. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3082

  • Novenko, E.; Tarasov, P. E.; Shumilovskikh, L. (2019): Climate change and human-environment interaction from Neolithic to historical times. Quaternary International 516, pp. 1–4. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2019.06.004

  • Reitalu, T.; Bjune, A. E.; Blaus, A.; Giesecke, T.; Helm, A.; Matthias, I. et al. (2019): Patterns of modern pollen and plant richness across northern Europe. J Ecol. Vol.107, (4), pp. 1662-1677. DOI: 0.1111/1365-2745.13134

  • Ruan, Y.; Mohtadi, M.; van der Kaars, S.; Dupont, L. M.; Hebbeln, D.; Schefuß, E. (2019): Differential hydro-climatic evolution of East Javanese ecosystems over the past 22,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 218, pp. 49–60. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.06.015

  • Setyaningsih, C. A.; Behling, H.; Saad, A.; Shumilovskikh, L.; Sabiham, S.; Biagioni, S. (2019): First palaeoecological evidence of buffalo husbandry and rice cultivation in the Kerinci Seblat National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia. Veget Hist Archaebot 28 (8), pp. 591-606. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00334-019-00716-7

  • Setyaningsih, C. A.; Biagioni, S.; Saad, A.; Kashima, K.; Sabiham, S.; Behling, H. (2019): Response of Mangroves to Late Holocene Sea-Level Change. Palaeoecological Evidence from Sumatra, Indonesia. Wetlands 39: 1103-1118. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-019-01142-1

  • Shumilovskikh, L. S.; Rodinkova, V. Y.; Rodionova, A.; Troshina, A.; Ershova, E.; Novenko, E. et al. (2019): Insights into the late Holocene vegetation history of the East European forest-steppe. Case study Sudzha (Kursk region, Russia). Veget Hist Archaebot, 28, (5), pp. 513-528. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-018-00711-4

  • Shumilovskikh, L. S.; Schlütz, F.; Lorenz, M.; Tomaselli, M. B. (2019): Non-pollen palynomorphs notes. 3. Phototrophic loricate euglenoids in paleoecology and the effect of acetolysis on Trachelomonas loricae. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 270, pp. 1–7. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.06.017

  • Thornton, S. A.; Cook, S.; Astiani, D.; Hapsari, K. A.; Varkkey, H.; Cole, L. E. et al. (2019): 'Pushing the limits'. Experiences of women in tropical peatland research. Mar. Freshwater Res., 71(2): 170-178. DOI: 10.1071/MF19132

  • Unkelbach, J.; Kashima, K.; Enters, D.; Dulamsuren, C.; Punsalpaamuu, G.; Behling, H. (2019): Late Holocene (Meghalayan) palaeoenvironmental evolution inferred from multi-proxy-studies of lacustrine sediments from the Dayan Nuur region of Mongolia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 530, pp. 1-14. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.05.021

  • Yang, S.; Song, B.; Ye, S.; Laws, E. A.; He, L.; Li, J. et al. (2019): Large-scale pollen distribution in marine surface sediments from the Bohai Sea, China. Insights into pollen provenance, transport, deposition, and coastal-shelf paleoenvironment. Progress in Oceanography 178, p. 102183. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102183

  • Yu, K.; Lehmkuhl, F.; Schlütz, F.; Diekmann, B.; Mischke, S.; Grunert, J. et al. (2019): Late Quaternary environments in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. Vegetation, hydrological, and palaeoclimate evolution. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 514, pp. 77–91. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.10.004