Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics

PhD defense:

Holocene climate changes, sea-level oscillations and humans impact in northeastern Brazil was on Thursday 21st of July at 1:00 pm.
Caio did it, congratulations.

Obituary:

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

Most recent papers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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