Outputs (62)

The transformation of the forest steppe in the lower Danube Plain of south-eastern Europe : 6000 years of vegetation and land use dynamics (2021)
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Feurdean, A., Grindean, R., Florescu, G., Tanţău, I., Niedermeyer, E., Diaconu, A.-C., …Hickler, T. (2021). The transformation of the forest steppe in the lower Danube Plain of south-eastern Europe : 6000 years of vegetation and land use dynamics. Biogeosciences, 18(3), 1081-1103. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-1081-2021

Forest steppes are dynamic ecosystems, highly susceptible to changes in climate and land use. Here we examine the Holocene history of the European forest steppe ecotone in the Lower Danube Plain to better understand its sensitivity to climate fluctua... Read More about The transformation of the forest steppe in the lower Danube Plain of south-eastern Europe : 6000 years of vegetation and land use dynamics.

Towards a microbial process-based understanding of the resilience of peatland ecosystem service provisioning – a research agenda (2020)
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Ritson, J., Alderson, D., Robinson, C., Burkitt, A., Heinemeyer, A., Stimson, A., …Evans, M. (2021). Towards a microbial process-based understanding of the resilience of peatland ecosystem service provisioning – a research agenda. Science of the Total Environment, 759, 143467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143467

Peatlands are wetland ecosystems with great significance as natural habitats and as major global carbon stores. They have been subject to widespread exploitation and degradation with resulting losses in characteristic biota and ecosystem functions su... Read More about Towards a microbial process-based understanding of the resilience of peatland ecosystem service provisioning – a research agenda.

Climate and land-use as the main drivers of recent environmental change in a mid-altitude mountain lake, Romanian Carpathians (2020)
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Haliuc, A., Buczkó, K., Hutchinson, S., Ács, É., Magyari, E., Korponai, J., …Veres, D. (2020). Climate and land-use as the main drivers of recent environmental change in a mid-altitude mountain lake, Romanian Carpathians. PLoS ONE, 15(10), e0239209. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239209

Recent decades have been marked by unprecendented environmental changes which threaten the integrity of freshwater systems and their ecological value. Although most of these changes can be attributed to human activities, disentagling natural and anth... Read More about Climate and land-use as the main drivers of recent environmental change in a mid-altitude mountain lake, Romanian Carpathians.

Recent fire regime in the southern boreal forests of western Siberia is unprecedented in the last five millennia (2020)
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Feurdean, A., Florescu, G., Tanţău, I., Vannière, B., Diaconu, A., Pfeiffer, M., …Kirpotin, S. (2020). Recent fire regime in the southern boreal forests of western Siberia is unprecedented in the last five millennia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 244, 106495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106495

Wildfires in Siberia are documented to have increased in frequency and severity over recent decades. However, in the absence of long-term records, it is unclear how far and why this trend deviates from centennial to millennial scale variability. Here... Read More about Recent fire regime in the southern boreal forests of western Siberia is unprecedented in the last five millennia.

2000 years of variability in hydroclimate and carbon accumulation in western Siberia and the relationship with large-scale atmospheric circulation : a multi-proxy peat record (2019)
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Feurdean, A., Galka, M., Florescu, G., Diaconu, A., Tantau, I., Kirpotin, S., & Hutchinson, S. (2019). 2000 years of variability in hydroclimate and carbon accumulation in western Siberia and the relationship with large-scale atmospheric circulation : a multi-proxy peat record. Quaternary Science Reviews, 226, 105948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105948

The climate of Siberia is primarily influenced by the Siberian High (SH), although other large-scale atmospheric circulation systems, in particular North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) storm tracks, play an important role. How variability in the relative... Read More about 2000 years of variability in hydroclimate and carbon accumulation in western Siberia and the relationship with large-scale atmospheric circulation : a multi-proxy peat record.

Disentangling dust and sand deposition using a peat record in CE Europe (northern Romania): a novel multiproxy analysis (2019)
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Panait, A., Tantau, I., Hutchinson, S., Feurdean, A., & Diaconu, A. (2019). Disentangling dust and sand deposition using a peat record in CE Europe (northern Romania): a novel multiproxy analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 532, 109257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109257

Aeolian sediments play an important role in the global climatic system and occur in the atmosphere due to soil and bedrock erosion. Here, we applied three different methods: geochemical (XRF), manual and laser-based particle size analysis to an ombro... Read More about Disentangling dust and sand deposition using a peat record in CE Europe (northern Romania): a novel multiproxy analysis.

Refining the late-Holocene coastline and delta development of the northern Yangtze River delta : combining historical archives and OSL dating (2019)
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Wang, F., Zhang, W., Nian, X., Can, G., Zhao, X., Cheng, Q., …Hutchinson, S. (2019). Refining the late-Holocene coastline and delta development of the northern Yangtze River delta : combining historical archives and OSL dating. Holocene, 29(9), 1439-1449. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619854522

Historical documents provide a general chronological overview of the environmental evolution of the Yangtze River delta (YRD) during the last ca. 2000 years; however, absolute dating of the region’s late Holocene sediment is relatively rare. Opticall... Read More about Refining the late-Holocene coastline and delta development of the northern Yangtze River delta : combining historical archives and OSL dating.

Biodiversity-rich European grasslands : ancient, forgotten ecosystems (2018)
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Feurdean, A., Ruprecht, E., Molnár, Z., Hutchinson, S., & Hickler, T. (2018). Biodiversity-rich European grasslands : ancient, forgotten ecosystems. Biological Conservation, 228, 224-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.09.022

Worldwide reforestation has been recommended as a landscape restoration strategy to mitigate climate change in areas where the climate can sustain forest. This approach may threaten grassland ecosystems of unique biodiversity as such policies are bas... Read More about Biodiversity-rich European grasslands : ancient, forgotten ecosystems.

Impacts of forest loss in the eastern Carpathian Mountains : linking remote sensing and sediment changes in a mid-altitude catchment (Red Lake) (2018)
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Haliuc, A., Feurdean, A., Mîndrescu, M., Frantiuc, A., & Hutchinson, S. (2018). Impacts of forest loss in the eastern Carpathian Mountains : linking remote sensing and sediment changes in a mid-altitude catchment (Red Lake). Regional Environmental Change, 19(2), 461-475. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-018-1416-5

Worldwide accelerated forest loss and the associated environmental impacts are important environmental concerns. In this study we integrate evidence from historical maps and a Landsat-derived time series of catchment scale forest cover changes with a... Read More about Impacts of forest loss in the eastern Carpathian Mountains : linking remote sensing and sediment changes in a mid-altitude catchment (Red Lake).

Response of a spring-fed fen ecosystem in Central Eastern Europe (NW Romania) to climate changes during the last 4000 years : a high resolution multi-proxy reconstruction (2018)
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Galka, M., Feurdean, A., Hutchinson, S., Krystyna, M., Tantau, I., & Apolinarska, K. (2018). Response of a spring-fed fen ecosystem in Central Eastern Europe (NW Romania) to climate changes during the last 4000 years : a high resolution multi-proxy reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 504, 170-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.05.027

We document the long-term development of a spring-fed fen assessing its sensivity to climate changes over the last ca. 4000 years. Our investigation is based on high-resolution, continuous plant macrofossil remains and mollusc records, complemented b... Read More about Response of a spring-fed fen ecosystem in Central Eastern Europe (NW Romania) to climate changes during the last 4000 years : a high resolution multi-proxy reconstruction.