Holocene climate, fire and vegetation dynamics at the treeline in the Northwestern Swiss Alps

IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0–50,000 Years cal BP

(2016) P J Reimer et al.   RADIOCARBON

Archaeological Discoveries on Schnidejoch and at Other Ice Sites in the European Alps

(2014) Albert Hafner   ARCTIC

Changes in biodiversity and vegetation composition in the central Swiss Alps during the transition from pristine forest to first farming

(2012) Daniele Colombaroli et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Are fossil assemblages in a single sediment core from a small lake representative of total deposition of mite, chironomid, and plant macrofossil remains?

(2012) Marianne Presthus Heggen et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Calibrating biogeochemical and physical climate proxies from non-varved lake sediments with meteorological data: methods and case studies

(2012) Lucien von Gunten et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Global characterization of the Holocene Thermal Maximum

(2012) H. Renssen et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe's Mountain Summits

(2012) H. Pauli et al.   SCIENCE

Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

(2012) Michael Gottfried et al.   Nature Climate Change

Growth limitation of mountain birch caused by sheep browsing at the altitudinal treeline

(2011) James D.M. Speed et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Late-Holocene land-use history and environmental changes at the high altitudes of St Antönien (Switzerland, Northern Alps): Combined evidence from pollen, soil and tree-ring analyses

(2011) Astrid Röpke et al.   HOLOCENE

Did soil development limit spruce (Picea abies) expansion in the Central Alps during the Holocene? Testing a palaeobotanical hypothesis with a dynamic landscape model

(2011) Paul D. Henne et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Orbital imprint on Holocene palaeohydrological variations in west-central Europe as reflected by lake-level changes at Cerin (Jura Mountains, eastern France)

(2011) Michel Magny et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Lateglacial and early Holocene summer temperatures in the southern Swiss Alps reconstructed using fossil chironomids

(2011) Stéphanie Samartin et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Impact of Holocene climate changes on alpine and treeline vegetation at Sanetsch Pass, Bernese Alps, Switzerland

(2011) Nadine Berthel et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Climate Warming and the Recent Treeline Shift in the European Alps: The Role of Geomorphological Factors in High-Altitude Sites

(2010) Giovanni Leonelli et al.   AMBIO

Expansion of green alder (Alnus alnobetula [Ehrh] K. Koch) in the northern French Alps: A palaeoecological point of view

(2010) Fernand David   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

Experimental evidence for herbivore limitation of the treeline

(2010) James D. M. Speed et al.   ECOLOGY

Late-Holocene vegetation and land-use dynamics in the Southern Alps (Switzerland) as a basis for nature protection and forest management

(2010) Verushka Valsecchi et al.   HOLOCENE

Species responses to fire, climate and human impact at tree line in the Alps as evidenced by palaeo-environmental records and a dynamic simulation model

(2010) Daniele Colombaroli et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Scanning reflectance spectroscopy (380–730 nm): a novel method for quantitative high-resolution climate reconstructions from minerogenic lake sediments

(2010) M. Trachsel et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Vegetation responses to climatic variability in the Swiss Southern Alps during the Misox event at the early-mid Holocene transition

(2010) Verushka Valsecchi et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Fire, Fuel Composition and Resilience Threshold in Subalpine Ecosystem

(2010) Olivier Blarquez et al.   PLoS One

Methods and code for ‘classical’ age-modelling of radiocarbon sequences

(2010) Maarten Blaauw   Quaternary Geochronology

Can we detect a west Norwegian tree line from modern samples of plant remains and pollen? Results from the DOORMAT project

(2010) Hilary H. Birks et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Modern and fossil non-pollen palynomorphs from the Basque mountains (western Pyrenees, France): the use of coprophilous fungi to reconstruct pastoral activity

(2010) Carole Cugny et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Are treelines advancing? A global meta-analysis of treeline response to climate warming

(2009) Melanie A. Harsch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A quantitative high-resolution summer temperature reconstruction based on sedimentary pigments from Laguna Aculeo, central Chile, back to AD 850

(2009) Lucien von Gunten et al.   HOLOCENE

Trees in the subalpine belt since 11 700 cal. BP: origin, expansion and alteration of the modern forest

(2009) Olivier Blarquez et al.   HOLOCENE

Late Glacial and Holocene temperature changes at Egelsee, Switzerland, reconstructed using subfossil chironomids

(2009) Isabelle Larocque-Tobler et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Reconstructing past fire regimes: methods, applications, and relevance to fire management and conservation

(2009) Marco Conedera et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A 700-YEAR PALEOECOLOGICAL RECORD OF BOREAL ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES TO CLIMATIC VARIATION FROM ALASKA

(2008) Willy Tinner et al.   ECOLOGY

Evidence for Late-Mesolithic agriculture? A reply to Karl-Ernst Behre

(2008) Willy Tinner et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A role for palaeoecology in anticipating future change in mountain regions?

(2007) William D. Gosling et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Holocene treeline in the northern Andes (Ecuador): First evidence from soil charcoal

(2007) Gaetano Di Pasquale et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY