2012


  • Behling, H., 2012. Postglacial Pollen Records of South America. In: Elias, S.A., Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, 2nd edition, (accepted).

  • Birks, H.H., Giesecke, T., Hewitt, G.M. Tzedakis, P.C., Bakke, J. Birks, H.J. B., 2012. Comment on “Glacial Survival of Boreal Trees in Northern Scandinavia”.Science 338, 742-a.

  • Christiansen, J. und S. Jahns 2012. Paläoökologische Untersuchungen über die Entwicklung der Pflanzendecke zur Slawenzeit - ein Beitrag zu den Beziehungen zwischen Umwelt und Besiedlung in der westlichen Peripherie des slawischen Siedlungsraums In: Transformationen und Umbrüche des 12.-13. Jahrhunderts S. 191-196.

  • Cohen, M.C.L., Pessenda, L.C.R., Behling, H., Rossetti, D. De F., França, M.C., Guimaraes, J.T.F., Beltrão Smith, C. 2012. Holocene palaeoenvironmental history of the Amazonian mangrove belt. Quaternary Science Reviews 55, 50-58.

  • Daniau A.-L., Tinner, W., Bartlein, P.J, Harrison, S.P., Prentice, I.C., Brewer, S., Friedlingstein, P., Harrison-Prentice, T.I., Inoue, J.R., Marlon, S. Mooney, M.J. Power, J. Stevenson, M. Andric, J. Atanassova, H. Behling, K. Bennett, K. Brown, C. Carcaillet, E. Colhoun, D. Colombaroli, B. Davis, D. D’Costa, J. Dodson, L. Dupont, Z. Eshetu, D. G. Gavin, T. Gebru, N. Gerasimenko, G. Gil-Romera, S. Haberle, D. J. Hallett, S. Horn G. Hope, S. Impagliazzo, J. Kaal, F. Katamura, L. Kennedy, C. Kenyon, P. Kershaw, S. Krivonogov, C. Long, D. Magri, E. Marinova, G. M. McKenzie, N. Miyake, P. Moreno, P. Moss, F. Neumann, E. Norstrom, C. Paitre, N. Roberts, G. Robinson, N. Sasaki, L. Scott, H. Takahara, V. Terwilliger, F. Thevenon, R. Turner, V. Valsecchi, B. Vannière, M. Walsh, N. Williams, Y. Zhang, Y. Zong, 2012. Predictability of biomass burning in response to climate changes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 26, doi:10.1029/2011GB004249

  • Felauer, T., Schlütz, F., Murad, W., Mischke, S., Lehmkuhl, F., 2012. Late Quaternary climate and landscape evolution in arid Central Asia: a multiproxy study of lake archive Bayan Tohomin Nuur, Gobi desert, southern Mongolia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 48, 125-135. [DOI]

  • Fontana, S.L. and Bennett, K.D., 2012. Postglacial vegetation dynamics of western Tierra del Fuego. The Holocene, April 26, 2012: [DOI]

  • Fontana, S.L., Bianchi, M.M. and Bennett, K.D., (accepted). Palaeoenvironmental changes since the Last Glacial Maximum: patterns, timing and dynamics throughout South America. The Holocene

  • Guimaraes, J.T.F., Cohen, M.C.L., Franca, M.C., Alves, I.C.C., Beltrão Smith, C., Pessenda, L.C.R.; Behling, H., 2012. An integrated approach to relate Holocene climatic, hydrological, morphological and vegetation changes in the southeastern Amazon region. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, (accepted, online).

  • Haberzettl, T., St-Onge, G., H. Behling, H., Kirleis, W. 2012. Evaluating late Holocene radiocarbon-based chronologies by matching paleomagnetic secular variations to geomagnetic field models - an example from Lake Kalimpaa (Sulawesi, Indonesia). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, V.373, first published online August 14, 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP373.10.


  • Hermanowski, B., Costa, M.L., Behling, H., 2012. Environmental changes in southeastern Amazonia during the last 25,000 yr revealed from a paleoecological record. Quaternary Research 77, 138-148.

  • Hermanowski, B., Costa, M.L., Trinidade Carvalho, A., Behling, H. (online available). Palaeoenvironmental dynamics and underlying climatic changes in southeast Amazonia (Serra Sul dos Carajás, Brazil) during the late Pleistocene and Holocene.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 366, 227-246.

  • Jantz, N. and Behling, H., 2012. A Holocene environmental record reflecting vegetation, climate, and fire variability at the Páramo of Quimsacocha, southwestern Ecuadorian Andes. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 21, 169-185.

  • Jeske-Pieruschka, V., Pillar, V.D. and Behling, H., 2012. Palaeoenvironmental history of the São Francisco de Paula region in southern Brazil during the late glacial and Holocene. The Holocene 22, 1251-1562.

  • Jeske-Pieruschka, V., Pillar, V.D. and Behling, H., 2012. New insights into vegetation, climate and fire history of southern Brazil revealed by a 40,000 years-old environmental record from the State Park Serra do Tabuleiro. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, accepted.

  • Kirleis, W., Müller, J., Kortemeier, C., Behling, H. and Soegondho, S. 2012. Chapter 16: The megalithic landscape of central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Combining archaeological and palynological investigations. Dominik Bonatz, Andreas Reinecke, Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz (eds.): Crossing Borders in Southeast Asian Archaeology. Selected papers from the 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Berlin, 2010. 2 vol. Singapore, NUS Press, 199-220.

  • Meneses, M.E.N. da S., Costa, M.L. da, Behling, H. (2012). Late Holocene vegetation and fire dynamics from a savanna - forest ecotone in Roraima state, northern Brazilian Amazon. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 42, 17-26.

  • Monserrat, A.L., Celsi, C. and Fontana, S.L.. Coastal dune vegetation of the southern Pampas (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and its value for conservation. Journal of Coastal Research 28: 23-35 (2012). [DOI] [Open Access]

  • Nielsen, A.B., Giesecke, T., Theuerkauf, M., Feeser, I., Behre, K.-E., Beug, H.-J., Chen, S.-H., Christiansen, J., Dörfler, W., Endtmann, E., Jahns, S., Klerk, P. de, Kühl, N., Latalowa, M., Odgaard, B.V., Rasmussen, P., Stockholm, J.R., Voigt, R., Wiethold, J., Wolters, S., 2012. Quantitative reconstructions of changes in regional openness in north-central Europe reveal new insights into old questions Quaternary Science Reviews. Volume 47, 30 July 2012, Pages 131–149 [DOI]

  • Oliveira, M.A.T., Porsani, J.L., Lima, G.L., Jeske-Pieruschka, V. and Behling, H., 2012. Late Pleistocene to Holocene peatland evolution in southern Brazilian highlands as depicted by radar stratigrahy, sedimentology and palynology. Quaternary Research 77, 397-407.

  • Parducci, L., Jørgensen, T., Tollefsrud, M.M., Elverland, E., Alm, T., Fontana, S.L., Bennett, K.D., Haile, J., Matetovici, I., Suyama, Y., Edwards, M.E., Andersen, K., Rasmussen, M., Boessenkool, S., Coissac, E., Brochmann, C., Taberlet, P., Houmark-Nielsen, M., Larsen, N.K., Orlando, L., Gilbert, M.T.P., Kjær, K.H., Alsos, I.G. and Willerslev, E.. Glacial survival of boreal trees in northern Scandinavia. Science 335 (6072): 1083-1086 (2012) [DOI] [Figures Only] [Supporting Online Material]

  • Parducci, L., Edwards, M.E. ,Bennett, K.D., Alm, T., Elverland,E., Tollefsrud, M.M., Jørgensen, T. Houmark-Nielsen, M., Krog Larsen, N., Kjær, K.H., Fontana, S.L., Greve Alsos, I., Willerslev, E., 2012. Response to Comment on “Glacial Survival of Boreal Trees in Northern Scandinavia”. Science 338, 242-b.

  • Pereira, N.P., Safford, H.D., and Behling, H., 2012. Holocene vegetation and fire history of the Serra do Caparaó, SE Brazil. The Holocene 22, 1243-1250.

  • Power, M.J., Mayle F.E., Bartlein, P.J. Marlon, J.R., Anderson, R.S., Behling, H., Brown, K.J., Carcaillet, C., Colombaroli, D., Gavin, D.G., Hallett, D.J., Horn , S.P., Kennedy, L.M., Lane, C., Long, C., Moreno, P.I., Paitre, C., Robinson , G., Taylor, Z., Walsh, M., 2012. Climatic control of the biomass-burning decline in the Americas after AD 1500. The Holocene, published online before print August 14, 2012, doi: 10.1177/0959683612450196.

  • Raffius, K., Möhler, H., 2012. Vegetationsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zur spätglazialen und holozänen Landschaftsdynamik, Klimaveränderungen und Siedlungsaktivitäten im Gebiet des Bullensees bei Zeven, Landkreis Rotenburg (Wümme). Archäologische Berichte des Landkreises Rotenburg (Wümme) 17, 7-21.

  • Rodríguez, F., Behling, H., 2012. Late Quaternary vegetation, climate and fire dynamics, and evidence of early to mid-Holocene Polylepis forests in the Jimbura region of the southernmost Ecuadorian Andes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 350-352, 247-257.

  • Schüler, L., Hemp, A., Zech, W., Behling, H., 2012. Late Quaternary vegetation, climate and fire-dynamics in East Africa inferred from the pollen record from Mt Kilimanjaro spanning the early last Glacial. Quaternary Science Reviews 39, 1-13.

  • Shumilovskikh, L., Marret, F., Fleitmann, D., Arz, H.W., Nowaczyk, N., Plessen, B., Behling, H. 2012. Eemian and Holocene sea-surface conditions in the southern Black Sea: organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst record from core 22-GC3. Marine Micropaleontology, in review.

  • Shumilovskikh, L., Tarasov, P., Arz, H.W., Fleitmann, D., Marret, F., Nowaczyk, N., Plessen, B., Schlütz, F., Behling, H., 2012. Vegetation and environmental dynamics in the southern Black Sea region since 18 kyr BP derived from the marine core 22-GC3. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 337-338, 177-193.

  • Stutz, S., Borel, C.M., Fontana, S.L. and Tonello, M.S. (accepted). Holocene changes in trophic states of shallow lakes from the Pampa plain of Argentina. The Holocene.

  • Stutz, S., Borel, C.M., Fontana, S.L., del Puerto, L., Inda, H., García-Rodríguez, F. and Tonello, M.S. Late Holocene climate and environmental of SE Pampa grasslands, Argentina, inferred from biological indicators in shallow, freshwater Lake Nahuel Rucá. Journal of Paleolimnology 44: 761-775 (2010):/ . [DOI] [Open Access]

  • Verrisimo, N. P., Safford, H. D., and Behling, H. 2012. Holocene vegetation and fire history of the Serra do Caparao, SE Brazil’ The Holocene, Vol. 22, No. 11, 2012.[DOI]

  • Villota, A., León-Yánez, S., Behling H., 2012. Vegetation and environmental dynamics in the Páramo of Jimbura region in southeastern Ecuadorian Andes, during the late Quaternary. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 40, 85-93.

  • Yanfang, P., Shun, Y., Behling, H., Guijin, M., 2012. Transport of airborne Picea schrenkiana pollen on the northern slope of Tianshan Mountians (Xinjiang, China) and its implication for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Aerobiologia, online first.