Article
Geography, Physical
Jessica McCoy, Tabitha Barrass-Barker, Emma P. Hocking, Jennifer M. K. O'Keefe, James B. Riding, Matthew J. Pound
Summary: In this study, palynological assemblages from the Middle Miocene Kenslow Member of the Brassington Formation in the UK were analyzed to infer vegetation types and paleoclimate implications. The results suggest a predominantly warm-temperate and mixed mesophytic forest biome, indicating a warm-temperate to subtropical paleoclimate. The study also suggests that local environmental changes played a significant role in shaping the wetland ecosystem, rather than major climate shifts.
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Geography, Physical
Bing Song, Zhen Li, Limi Mao, Yoshiki Saito, Xiangdong Yang, Shixiong Yang
Summary: This study presents vegetation succession and climate change during 9.2-8.0 cal kyr BP based on sub-decennial scale pollen data, revealing two cold and dry events at 8.5 ka and 8.2 ka.
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Geography, Physical
Yunkai Deng, Chunmei Ma, Ming Huang, Lin Zhao, Guangchun Shang, Lingyu Tang, Huayu Lu
Summary: Through palynological investigation of the Ganchi peatland, this study provides insights into the vegetation and climate changes in southwest China since the Last Glacial Maximum. The results indicate that vegetation change was primarily controlled by climate, and there is no obvious evidence of anthropogenic disturbance until the last 1 cal kyrs BP.
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Geography, Physical
Dael Sassoon, Vincent Lebreton, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout, Odile Peyron, Marie-Helene Moncel
Summary: This study presents a high-temporal resolution pollen record from the Alboran Sea to explore the vegetation response during the transition from MIS 12 to MIS 10. The results reveal the sensitivity of the region to millennial-scale climatic variation during MIS 11.
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Baohui Mu, Xiang Zhao, Jiacheng Zhao, Naijing Liu, Longping Si, Qian Wang, Na Sun, Mengmeng Sun, Yinkun Guo, Siqing Zhao
Summary: According to the study, China's major cities experienced an overall increase in vegetation cover from 2001 to 2018, although certain cities in the core area and expansion area showed a decrease. The expansion of urbanization, climate factors, and CO2 were identified as the main contributors to vegetation changes, with climate factors and CO2 having the largest contributions.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Patricia L. Fall, Peter J. van Hengstum, Lisa Lavold-Foote, Jeffrey P. Donnelly, Nancy A. Albury, Anne E. Tamalavage
Summary: The study confirms the arrival of Lucayans on Great Abaco Island through proxy data, marking a transition in landscape dynamics with increased burning and conversion to pine forests. The landscape on the island underwent significant changes following the arrival of the Lucayans, leading to a decline in pine forests between 1500 and 1670 CE. Any future intensification of hurricane activity in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean poses a threat to the sustainability of modern pine forests in the northern Bahamas.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Baohui Mu, Xiang Zhao, Donghai Wu, Xinyan Wang, Jiacheng Zhao, Haoyu Wang, Qian Zhou, Xiaozheng Du, Naijing Liu
Summary: This study analyzed the vegetation cover change trends in China from 2001 to 2018 and found that CO2, climate-related factors, and land cover change played significant roles in driving these changes. CO2 was identified as the primary driving factor for vegetation cover changes, indicating its importance in vegetation growth research.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Wenchao Zhang, Haibin Wu, Jun Cheng, Junyan Geng, Qin Li, Yong Sun, Yanyan Yu, Huayu Lu, Zhengtang Guo
Summary: The study presents an extensive dataset of Holocene seasonal temperatures reconstructed using pollen records in the Northern Hemisphere. The results show that both summer and winter temperatures warmed in the early to mid-Holocene and cooled thereafter, with variations across different regions. The early Holocene warming trend is consistent with model simulations, but the cooling in winter season is not well reproduced by climate models.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Paul J. Beggs
Summary: Climate change has a significant impact on aeroallergens and allergic respiratory diseases, with research in this field rapidly advancing in recent years. The importance of addressing the impacts of climate change on environmental monitoring and exposure through the concept of the aeroexposome is increasingly recognized. Further research is needed to fill knowledge gaps and explore the effects of climate change on indoor aeroallergens.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Anne Dallmeyer, Thomas Kleinen, Martin Claussen, Nils Weitzel, Xianyong Cao, Ulrike Herzschuh
Summary: The speed at which the Northern Hemisphere forest biome responds to warming climates is largely unknown. Recent research reveals a significant time lag between model simulations and pollen-based reconstructions of deglacial forest expansion in the Northern Hemisphere extra-tropics. This mismatch suggests a multi-millennial disequilibrium of the forest biome's response to climate signals, and challenges the accuracy of time-slice simulations with pollen records in rapidly changing climates.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Geography, Physical
Anhelina Zapolska, Maria Antonia Serge, Florence Mazier, Aurelien Quiquet, Hans Renssen, Mathieu Vrac, Ralph Fyfe, Didier M. Roche
Summary: This study aims to evaluate the human impact on European land-cover over the past 6000 years by comparing two independent datasets. The results suggest that human activity has gradually increased the impact on land-cover, especially during 1200-1700 BP, with a significant increase in agriculture-related land-cover modifications. Furthermore, early human activities have also had a significant impact on land-cover.
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Jelka Pleadin, Jovana Kos, Bojana Radic, Ana Vulic, Nina Kudumija, Radmila Radovic, Elizabet Janic Hajnal, Anamarija Mandic, Mislav Anic
Summary: Aflatoxins (AFs) are a crucial mycotoxin group that has significant global health and economic impacts when present in food and feed. The occurrence of AFs in maize is a pressing issue worldwide, particularly due to droughts. Recent climate changes and warming trends in Serbia and Croatia prompted this study to estimate the influence of weather on AFs occurrence in maize from 2018 to 2021. The findings reveal that the hot and dry weather in 2021 resulted in the highest prevalence of AFs in maize samples from both Serbia (84%) and Croatia (40%). In the maize harvested from 2018 to 2020, AFs occurred in less than 10% of Serbian samples and around 20% of Croatian samples. To comprehensively investigate the implications of climate change on AFs occurrence in maize grown in these two countries, the available studies conducted over the past thirteen years were searched for and discussed.
Article
Agronomy
Maurizio Iovane, Aurora Cirillo, Luigi Gennaro Izzo, Claudio Di Vaio, Giovanna Aronne
Summary: This study evaluated the time-course response of pollen viability in olive cultivars to different combinations of temperature and humidity. The results showed that high humidity and high temperature had a drastic negative impact on pollen viability. Screening olive cultivars based on pollen thermotolerance is crucial in the current climate change scenario.
Article
Plant Sciences
Valenti Rull, Arnau Blasco, Miguel angel Calero, Maarten Blaauw, Teresa Vegas-Vilarrubia, Luca Giupponi, Annamaria Giorgi
Summary: This study presents the first continuous pollen record for the Iberian Pyrenees during the Late Glacial-Early Holocene period. The aims of the study were to establish a chronostratigraphic correlation framework, understand the relationships between vegetation shifts, climatic changes, and fire, and obtain a regional picture of the vegetation during this period. The results revealed four vegetation types and showed wetter climates during the Younger Dryas, challenging previous assumptions of arid conditions. The study also found an increase in fire incidence during the Early Holocene. The findings were compared with other pollen records in the Pyrenean range and surrounding lowlands.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Natalie Iwanycki Ahlstrand, Hannah M. Elvery, Richard B. Primack
Summary: The grass family is responsible for most pollen allergies. Climate change is expected to increase the severity of pollen-based asthma and allergies. Current pollen monitoring techniques have limitations in identifying grass species, resulting in grouping them all together. To address this issue, researchers used phenological data from herbarium specimens and pollen monitoring data to determine the response of flowering time to climate change for 12 allergenic grass species. They found that pollen season duration is lasting longer and starting earlier, and the maximum pollen loads are occurring earlier in response to climate warming.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Geography, Physical
N. Andric-Tomasevic, V Simic, O. Mandic, D. Zivotic, M. Suarez, E. Garcia-Romero
Summary: The sedimentological record of the Pranjani Basin in Serbia reveals tectonic and climatic variations in the Dinaridic orogen. The Mg-clay-bearing succession in the lacustrine strata demonstrates cyclical patterns driven by water availability, reflecting wet and dry intervals under semi-arid to arid climatic conditions. Longer-term fluctuations in lake level and chemistry are attributed to alternating humid and arid phases influenced by tectonic uplift and subsidence in the region.
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Geology
Radovan Avanic, Davor Pavelic, Zoltan Pecskay, Mirjana Miknic, Darko Tibljas, Lara Wacha
Summary: The Macelj formation is an informal lithostratigraphic unit in the Hrvatsko Zagorje Basin representing a marginal zone of the Early Miocene Central Paratethys Sea. Recent studies have improved knowledge of its depositional and stratigraphic characteristics, focusing on the Vucji Jarek and Cemernica members. The sedimentological research has shown that the formation reflects tidal influences typical of the Early Miocene Central Paratethys Sea.
Article
Zoology
Mathias Harzhauser, Bernard Landau
Summary: The gastropod family Mitridae in the Miocene Paratethys Sea has been revised, reporting a total of 35 species in eight genera, with 75% of the species only known from the Paratethys Sea. Biogeographic relations with the adjacent Proto-Mediterranean Sea are moderate, with a slight South-North diversity trend observed within the Paratethyan basins, highest in the Romanian Faget Basin.
Article
Geography, Physical
Davor Pavelic, Marijan Kovacic, Darko Tibljas, Ivo Galic, Frane Markovic, Ivica Pavicic
Summary: This passage describes the evolution of a lake characterized by dolomite deposition in the North Croatian Basin, influenced by different stages and climates. The lake environment transitioned from hydrologically closed to open, reflecting changes in humid and arid climates. The depositional sequence of the lake coincides with the Miocene Climatic Optimum, featuring hot and humid climates.
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biology
Thomas A. Neubauer, Torsten Hauffe, Daniele Silvestro, Christopher R. Scotese, Bjorn Stelbrink, Christian Albrecht, Diana Delicado, Mathias Harzhauser, Thomas Wilke
Summary: Understanding the drivers of species diversification over geological time is crucial for our knowledge of long-term evolutionary processes. This study used a large fossil dataset, a multivariate birth-death model, and a comprehensive set of biotic and abiotic predictors to estimate the drivers of diversification for European freshwater gastropods over the past 100 million years. The results showed temporal heterogeneity in the factors influencing diversification rates, with diversity-dependence and topography consistently playing important roles.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Zoology
Mathias Harzhauser, Bernard Landau, Ronald Janssen
Summary: This study presents a revision of Clavatulidae gastropods from the Neogene of the Central and Eastern Paratethys seas. A total of 83 species and 17 genus-level groups were documented after revision. The presence of certain Clavatulidae genera in the Paratethys Sea suggests a biogeographic relationship with extant Clavatulidae faunas from the tropical eastern Atlantic. The high biodiversity and endemicity observed in Paratethyan assemblages indicate that the Central Paratethys was a major center of radiation for clavatulid gastropods. Clavatulidae diversity was found to be low in the Eastern Paratethys, restricted to the early Miocene Sakaraulian.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Mathias Harzhauser, Matthias Kranner, Oleg Mandic, Stjepan Coric, Wolfgang Siedl
Summary: This study presents the first detailed intra-basin correlation of Upper Miocene deposits in the Austrian part of the Vienna Basin, integrating the most important hydrocarbon fields. It uses a high resolution dataset to calculate regional differences in sedimentation rates over a time span of approximately 1.6 million years. The study reveals high lateral variability in thicknesses during the early Pannonian, which gradually decreases. The shift of high subsidence rates from the southern to the northern Vienna Basin during the middle Pannonian is documented. The still high sedimentation rates during the late Pannonian indicate persisting extensional tectonics in the Vienna Basin throughout the Late Miocene.
MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Geology
I Feichtinger, J. Pollerspoeck, M. Harzhauser, G. Auer, S. Coric, M. Kranner, G. Guinot
Summary: Extensive bulk sampling of a continuous succession in an outer neritic environment of the latest Maastrichtian reveals a deep-water fauna dominated by small squaliform sharks. The sampling provides rare evidence of diversity fluctuations before the mass extinction event, and a correlation suggests clade competition for ecological niches. The study also introduces new genus and species of squaliform sharks, highlighting the importance of bulk sampling in reconstructing elasmobranch diversity.
CRETACEOUS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Geography, Physical
Gonzalo Jimenez-Moreno, R. Scott Anderson, Vera Markgraf, Spencer E. Staley, Peter J. Fawcett
Summary: A recent study analyzed pollen from sediment cores obtained from Stoneman Lake in Arizona, revealing the paleoenvironmental history of the region over the past 130,000 years. The study identified MIS5e as the warmest period and the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) as the coldest period. The research also suggests that there may be an increase in P. edulis and Juniperus forest species in the near future. The study highlights the significant role of orbital-scale climate changes in controlling environmental changes in the area.
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Mario Matosevic, Frane Markovic, Dijana Bigunac, Sanja Suica, Kresimir Krizmanic, Adaleta Perkovic, Marijan Kovacic, Davor Pavelic
Summary: This study presents a petrographic analysis of Upper Miocene sandstones in the Sava and Drava Depressions in the North Croatian Basin. These sandstones are important reservoir rocks for oil and gas in Croatia. The sandstones have a feldspatho-litho-quartzose composition and show similar diagenetic processes in the subsurface. The study provides insights into the origin and composition of these sandstones.
GEOLOGICA CARPATHICA
(2023)
Article
Zoology
Mathias Harzhauser, Aleksandr Guzhov, Bernard Landau
Summary: This paper provides an in-depth revision of Batillariidae and Potamididae from the Oligocene to the Pliocene of the Paratethys Sea. It focuses on rare literature and evaluates the whereabouts of type material. After critical revision, only 28 out of 236 proposed names are accepted as valid species.
Article
Geography, Physical
Gonzalo Jimenez-Moreno, Oliver Heiri, Antonio Garcia-Alix, R. Scott Anderson, Francisco J. Jimenez-Espejo, Charo Lopez-Blanco, Laura Jimenez, Carmen Perez-Martinez, Marta Rodrigo-Gamiz, Alejandro Lopez-Aviles, Jon Camuera
Summary: Obtaining accurate temperature reconstructions from the past is crucial in understanding natural temperature changes and evaluating anthropogenic global warming. This study presents a detailed Holocene temperature reconstruction based on chironomid assemblages, revealing significant cooling during the Middle and Late Holocene. The current climate warming exceeds future projections, posing a threat to alpine environments and biodiversity.
QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jon Camuera, Francisco J. Jimenez-Espejo, Jose Soto-Chica, Gonzalo Jimenez-Moreno, Antonio Garcia-Alix, Maria J. Ramos-Roman, Leena Ruha, Manuel Castro-Priego
Summary: This study compiled pollen records from the western Mediterranean to understand the past climate conditions during the Muslim expansion in the 8th century. The results showed that significant droughts between the 5th and 10th centuries could have contributed to the instability of the Visigothic and Muslim reigns in Iberia. The study emphasizes the sensitivity of the agriculture-based economy and socio-political unrest to climatic variations.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Zoology
Mathias Harzhauser, Bernard Landau
Summary: The Architectonicidae and Mathildidae of the Miocene in the Central Paratethys Sea reached their peak diversity during the early Middle Miocene but experienced a significant decrease in species richness during the Miocene Climatic Transition. This turnover is likely driven by climate change, specifically a cooling period that led to a decline in food sources.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Yicheng Shen, Luke Sweeney, Mengmeng Liu, Jose Antonio Lopez Saez, Sebastian Perez-Diaz, Reyes Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, Graciela Gil-Romera, Dana Hoefer, Gonzalo Jimenez-Moreno, Heike Schneider, I. Colin Prentice, Sandy P. Harrison
Summary: This study examines the geographical patterns in changes in fire regimes using charcoal records from lake, bog, or other anoxic sediments. The authors derive quantitative estimates of burnt area from vegetation data and establish the relationship between fossil pollen assemblages and burnt area. The results show that this new method can be used to reconstruct changes in fire regimes quantitatively from pollen records.
CLIMATE OF THE PAST
(2022)
Article
Plant Sciences
Gar W. Rothwell, Ruth A. Stockey
Summary: This study utilizes anatomical analysis of fossils from Vancouver Island, Canada, to support the development of a whole plant concept for the Eocene species of Gleichenia and provide data for the first organismal concept of an extinct species of Gleichenia from the Cenozoic fossil record. The findings suggest that the characteristics of the Gleicheniaceae family were present during the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods, with modern species well-established and diversifying.
REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Plant Sciences
Kathrin Ganz, Cesar Morales-Molino, Erika Gobet, Dmytro Kiosak, Nadezhda Kotova, Jacqueline van Leeuwen, Sergey Makhortykh, Christoph Schworer, Willy Tinner
Summary: This study presents a palaeoecological reinvestigation from the Kardashynskyi mire in southern Ukraine, reconstructing the vegetation dynamics, fire history, and land use for the past 8300 years. The results show that both climate and human activities have driven the vegetation changes, and the remaining special vegetation types are severely threatened under current conditions.
REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Plant Sciences
Willem O. van der Knaap, Bas van Geel, Jacqueline F. N. van Leeuwen, Frans Roescher, Dick Mol
Summary: Pollen analysis of fossilized teeth from a giant deer found in The Netherlands provides insights into the diet, landscape, and climate of the specimen. The study suggests that the giant deer most likely lived during the early Eemian or an early Weichselian interstadial.
REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Plant Sciences
Yun Guo, Yu Zhou, Josef Psenicka, Jiri Bek, Jana Votockova Frojdova, Zhuo Feng
Summary: A new species of adpressed leptosporangiate fern, Szea yunnanensis sp. nov., is described from Yunnan Province, Southwest China. The fronds of this new species have unique characteristics such as fertile pinnules with triangular to falcate shape and abaxial sori arranged in one row on each side of the midvein.
REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Plant Sciences
Adele C. M. Julier, Glynis J. Humphrey, Caitlin Dixon, Lindsey Gillson
Summary: The relationships between woody vegetation cover and fire, climate, herbivory, and human activities in African savanna ecosystems are complex. Fire suppression policies implemented in a national park in northeast Namibia from 1888 to 2005 did not lead to noticeable decreases in fire or enhanced tree recruitment, suggesting that fire occurrence in savanna ecosystems is more closely linked to climate than management. Fire management should adapt to rainfall variability and integrate customs of early dry season burning.
REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY
(2024)
Article
Plant Sciences
Milan Libertin, Jiri Kvacek, Jiri Bek
Summary: This paper revises the genus Aberlemnia from the Early Devonian of Scotland based on its type-material A. caledonica and describes a new species, Aberlemnia krizii sp. nov, from the Silurian of Czechia. The study provides detailed diagnoses and highlights the differences between the two species. Aberlemnia is positioned on an evolutionary clade line leading to the Lycophytina.
REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY
(2024)
