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Dr Simon Hutchinson's Outputs (66)

Characteristics of iron-containing magnetic particles in household dust from an urban area : a case study in the megacity of Shanghai (2021)
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Chen, Y., Zhang, W., Dong, C., Hutchinson, S., & Feng, H. (2022). Characteristics of iron-containing magnetic particles in household dust from an urban area : a case study in the megacity of Shanghai. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 424(Part A), 127212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127212

In order to characterize the magnetic properties and trace sources of household dust particles, magnetic measurements, geochemical and SEM/TEM analyses were performed on vacuum dust from 40 homes in Shanghai, China. Iron-containing magnetic particles... Read More about Characteristics of iron-containing magnetic particles in household dust from an urban area : a case study in the megacity of Shanghai.

Greigite as an Indicator for Salinity and Sedimentation Rate Change: Evidence From the Yangtze River Delta, China (2021)
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Ferrimagnetic greigite (Fe3S4) is widespread in the sedimentary environment. Despite abundant reports of greigite occurrence in marine and lacustrine deposits, its formation mechanisms in deltaic deposits remain poorly studied. Here we investigate gr... Read More about Greigite as an Indicator for Salinity and Sedimentation Rate Change: Evidence From the Yangtze River Delta, China.

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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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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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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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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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.

A geochemical peat record from the Great Vasyugan Mire, Tomsk, Siberia evidencing a regionally coherent pattern of human impact over the last five centuries. (2020)
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Interest in peatland environments, especially in terms of their carbon storage, has increased markedly in response to the heightened awareness of future, global climatic conditions. However, significant gaps remain in the spatial coverage of our know... Read More about A geochemical peat record from the Great Vasyugan Mire, Tomsk, Siberia evidencing a regionally coherent pattern of human impact over the last five centuries..

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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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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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.

Peat bog and alluvial deposits reveal land degradation during 16th and 17th century colonisation of the western Carpathians (Czech Republic) (2018)
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Wallachian (shepherd) colonisation of the upper parts of Carpathians, the second largest mountain range in Europe, provides a unique opportunity to study human-induced ecological changes and subsequent sediment mobilisation within slope and fluvial s... Read More about Peat bog and alluvial deposits reveal land degradation during 16th and 17th century colonisation of the western Carpathians (Czech Republic).

Recent applications of mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies : a review (2018)
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Zhang, W., Dong, C., Hutchinson, S., Ge, C., Wang, F., & Feng, H. (2018). Recent applications of mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies : a review. Current Pollution Reports, 4(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40726-018-0075-y

This paper reviews recent progress in applying mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies. Such applications include its use as a dating marker, as a proxy for heavy metal concentrations and to trace metal pollutant dispersal. The mineral... Read More about Recent applications of mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies : a review.

Recent applications of mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies: a review (2018)
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Zhang, W., Dong, C., Hutchinson, S., Ge, C., Wang, F., & Feng, H. (2018). Recent applications of mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies: a review. Current Pollution Reports, 4(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40726-018-0075-y

This paper reviews recent progress in applying mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies. Such applicationsinclude its use as a dating marker, as a proxy for heavy metal concentrations and to trace metal pollutant dispersal. The mineralm... Read More about Recent applications of mineral magnetic methods in sediment pollution studies: a review.

The chronology of a sediment core from incised valley of the Yangtze River delta : comparative OSL and AMS 14C dating (2017)
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Nian, X., Zhang, W., Wang, Z., Sun, Q., Chen, Z., & Hutchinson, S. (2017). The chronology of a sediment core from incised valley of the Yangtze River delta : comparative OSL and AMS 14C dating. Marine Geology, 395, 320-330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2017.11.008

Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating has gained increased use in dating deltatic deposits, however, its application can be hindered by the problem of incomplete bleaching. To address this limitation, we test the single-grain OSL method for... Read More about The chronology of a sediment core from incised valley of the Yangtze River delta : comparative OSL and AMS 14C dating.

Palaeohydrological changes during the mid and late Holocene in the Carpathian area, central-eastern Europe (2017)
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Multi-proxy, high-resolution analyses (lithological, geochemical, environmental magnetism) anchored by 22 14C dates, of a 5.53 m long sediment core from Lake Ighiel (Romanian Carpathians, central-eastern Europe) allowed the reconstruction of key loca... Read More about Palaeohydrological changes during the mid and late Holocene in the Carpathian area, central-eastern Europe.