Resilience and tipping points of terrestrial vegetation: analysing long term system change across continents

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Thomas Giesecke
• Subject Area: Palaeontology ; Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems ; Physical Geography
• Term: from 2015 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 264297577

• Final Report Year: 2022

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Publications

• Holocene dynamics of vegetation change in southern and southeastern Brazil is consistent with climate forcing. Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 146. 2016, pp. 54-65.
  Rodrigues, J. M., Behling, H., Giesecke, T.
  
• Emergence patterns of novelty in European vegetation assemblages over the past 15000 years. Ecology Letters, Vol. 20. 2017, Issue 3, pp. 336-346.
  Finsinger, W., Giesecke, T., Brewer, S., & Leydet, M.
  
• Late-glacial and Holocene European pollen data. Journal of Maps, Vol. 13. 2017, Issue 2, pp. 921-928.
  Brewer, S., Giesecke, T., Davis, B. A. S., Finsinger, W., Wolters, S., Binney, H., . . . Bradshaw, R.H.
  
• Patterns and dynamics of European vegetation change over the last 15,000 years. Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 44. 2017, Issue 7, pp. 1441-1456.
  Giesecke, T., Brewer, S., Finsinger, W., Leydet, M., & Bradshaw, R. H. W.
  
• Long-term dynamics of the East European forest-steppe ecotone. Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 29. 2018, Issue 3, pp. 416-426.
  Shumilovskikh, L. S., Novenko, E., & Giesecke, T.
  
• Notes on the postglacial spread of abundant European tree taxa. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Vol. 27. 2018, pp. 337–349.
  Giesecke, T., & Brewer, S.
  
• A new modern pollen dataset describing the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. The Holocene, Vol. 29. 2019, Issue 8, pp. 1253-1262.
  Montade, V., Ledru, M.-P., Giesecke, T., Flantua, S. G., Behling, H. & Peyron, O.
  
• Postglacial change of the floristic diversity gradient in Europe. Nature Communications, Vol. 10. 2019, Article number: 5422.
  Giesecke, T., Wolters, S., van Leeuwen, J. F. N., van der Knaap, P. W. O., Leydet, M., & Brewer, S.
  
• Fire and vegetation dynamics of endangered Araucaria araucana communities in the forest-steppe ecotone of northern Patagonia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 567. 2021, 110276.
  Moreno-Gonzalez, R., Giesecke, T. & Fontana, S. L.
  
• Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years. Science, Vol 372. 2021, Issue 6544, pp. 860-864.
  Mottl, O., Flantua, S. G. A., Bhatta, K. P., Felde, V. A., Giesecke, T., Goring, S., . . . Williams, J.W.