• An experiment to improve scientific communication skills amongst Norwegian students 

      Birks, Hilary H. (UPED-skrift nr. 1/2006, Working paper, 2006)
      Hilary Birks summerer opp 15 års erfaring med en student-/stipendiat-/postdoc-/ kollegagruppe på Botanisk institutt. Hver 3. uke har de hatt lunsjmøter med faglige presentasjoner og livlige diskusjoner på engelsk. Hun viser ...
    • High resolution Late-glacial and early-Holocene summer air temperature records from Scotland inferred from Chironomid assemblages 

      Brooks, Stephen J.; Matthews, Ian P.; Birks, Hilary H.; Birks, Harry John Betteley (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-05-18)
      Lateglacial and early-Holocene mean July air temperatures have been reconstructed, using a chironomid-based inference model, from lake-sediment sequences from Abernethy Forest, in the eastern Highlands of Scotland, and ...
    • Identifying the driving factors behind observed elevational range shifts on European mountains 

      Grytnes, John-Arvid; Kapfer, Jutta; Jurasinski, Gerald; Birks, Hilary H.; Henriksen, Hanne; Klanderud, Kari; Odland, Arvid; Ohlson, Mikael; Wipf, Sonja; Birks, Harry John Betteley (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-04-13)
      Aim In recent decades species ranges have shifted upwards in elevation and northwards in latitude. These shifts are commonly interpreted as a response to recent climate warming. However, several alternative hypotheses have ...
    • The importance of plant macrofossils in the reconstruction of Lateglacial vegetation and climate: examples from Scotland, western Norway, and Minnesota, USA 

      Birks, Hilary H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2003-03)
      Lateglacial and early Holocene (ca 14–9000 14C yr BP; 15–10,000 cal yr BP) pollen records are used to make vegetation and climate reconstructions that are the basis for inferring mechanisms of past climate change and for ...
    • Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology 

      Seddon, Alistair; Mackay, Anson W.; Baker, Ambroise G.; Birks, Harry John Betteley; Breman, Elinor; Buck, C. E.; Ellis, Erle C.; Froyd, Cynthia A.; Gill, Jacquelyn L.; Gillson, Lindsey; Johnson, Edward A.; Jones, Vivienne J.; Juggins, Stephen; Macias-Fauria, Marc; Mills, Keely; Morris, Jesse L.; Nogués-Bravo, David; Punyasena, Surangi W.; Roland, Thomas P.; Tanentzap, Andrew; Willis, Katherine Jane; Aberhan, Martin; van Asperen, Eline N.; Austin, William E. N.; Battarbee, Richard W.; Bhagwat, Shonil; Belanger, Christina L.; Bennett, Keith D.; Birks, Hilary H.; Ramsey, Christopher Bronk; Brooks, Stephen J.; de Bruyn, Mark; Butler, Paul G.; Chambers, F. M.; Clarke, Stewart J.; Davies, Althea L.; Dearing, John A.; Ezard, Thomas H. G.; Feurdean, Angelica; Flower, Roger J.; Gell, Peter; Hausmann, Sonja; Hogan, Erika J.; Hopkins, Melanie J.; Jeffers, Elizabeth S.; Korhola, Atte; Marchant, Robert; Kiefer, Thorsten; Lamentowicz, Mariusz; Larocque-Tobler, Isabelle; López-Merino, Lourdes; Liow, Lee Hsiang; McGowan, Suzanne; Miller, Joshua H.; Montoya, Encarni; Morton, Oliver; Nogué, Sandra; Onoufriou, Chloe; Boush, Lisa P.; Rodriguez-Sanchez, F; Rose, Neil L.; Sayer, Carl D.; Shaw, Helen E.; Payne, Richard; Simpson, Gavin; Sohar, Kadri; Whitehouse, Nicki J.; Williams, John W.; Witkowski, Andrzej (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)
    • Multi-proxy studies in palaeolimnology 

      Birks, Hilary H.; Birks, Harry John Betteley (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2006)
      Multi-proxy studies are becoming increasingly common in palaeolimnology. Eight basic requirements and challenges for a multi-proxy study are outlined in this essay – definition of research questions, leadership, site ...
    • North African wetland lakes: characterization of nine sites included in the CASSARINA Project 

      Ramdani, Mohammed; Flower, Roger J.; Elkhiati, Najat; Kraïem, Mohammed M.; Fathi, Adel A.; Birks, Hilary H.; Patrick, Simon T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2001)
      Exploitation of land and water resources has increased rapidly in North Africa during the 20th century, paralleling regional population growth. As part of the CASSARINA Project (see Flower, 2001), the environmental status ...
    • Open water zooplankton communities in North African wetland lakes: the CASSARINA Project 

      Ramdani, Mohammed; Elkhiati, Najat; Flower, Roger J.; Birks, Hilary H.; Kraïem, Mejdidine M.; Fathi, Adel A.; Patrick, Simon T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2001)
      Zooplankton (Copepoda, Cladocera, Ostracoda, Rotifera and Diptera larvae) in nine North African lakes was collected from open water areas over twenty months during 1997/99. The results were used to monitor changes in the ...
    • Palaeolimnological responses of nine North African lakes in the CASSARINA Project to recent environmental changes and human impact detected by plant macrofossil, pollen, and faunal analyses 

      Birks, Hilary H.; Peglar, Sylvia M.; Boomer, Ian; Flower, Roger J.; Ramdani, Mohammed; Appleby, P. G.; Bjune, Anne Elisabeth; Patrick, Simon T.; Kraïem, Mohammed M.; Fathi, Adel A.; Abdelzaher, H. M. A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2001)
      This paper presents multi-proxy palaeolimnological analyses from recent sediments in the nine CASSARINA lakes in northernmost Africa, three from each of Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt. The lakes are diverse, ranging from ...
    • Plant macrofossil evidence for an early onset of the Holocene summer thermal maximum in northernmost Europe 

      Väliranta, Minna; Salonen, J. Sakari; Heikkilä, Maija; Amon, Leeli; Helmens, Karin; Klimaschewski, Andrea; Kuhry, P.; Kultti, Seija; Poska, Anneli; Shala, Shyhrete; Veski, Siim; Birks, Hilary H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-04-10)
      Holocene summer temperature reconstructions from northern Europe based on sedimentary pollen records suggest an onset of peak summer warmth around 9,000 years ago. However, pollen-based temperature reconstructions are ...
    • Radiometrically determined dates and sedimentation rates for recent sediments in nine North African wetland lakes (the CASSARINA Project) 

      Appleby, P. G.; Birks, Hilary H.; Flower, Roger J.; Rose, Neil L.; Peglar, Sylvia M.; Ramdani, Mohammed; Kraïem, Mohammed M.; Fathi, Adel A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2001)
      Sediment cores were collected from nine wetland lakes in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt for the CASSARINA project investigating environmental change in Northern African wetlands. The cores were dated radiometrically by using ...
    • Recent ecosystem dynamics in nine North African lakes in the CASSARINA Project 

      Birks, Hilary H.; Flower, Roger J.; Peglar, Sylvia M.; Ramdani, Mohammed (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2001)
      An integrated multi-disciplinary study of nine North African lakes (CASSARINA) aims to establish ecological baselines and to explore responses to 20th century human impacts on their ecosystems. Water chemistry measurements ...
    • The rise and fall of forests 

      Birks, Hilary H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2004)
    • Terrestrial pollen record of recent land-use changes around nine North African lakes in the CASSARINA Project 

      Birks, Hilary H.; Birks, Harry John Betteley; Appleby, P. G.; Fathi, Adel A.; Flower, Roger J.; Kraïem, Mohammed M.; Patrick, Simon T.; Ramdani, Mohammed (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2001)
      Pollen analyses and related plant macrofossil records are presented from short cores from nine North African lakes in the EU-funded CASSARINA project. Terrestrial pollen reflects human impact on the vegetation and landscape ...
    • Zooplankton (Cladocera, Ostracoda), Chironomidae and other benthic faunal remains in sediment cores from nine North African wetland lakes: the CASSARINA Project 

      Ramdani, Mohammed; Flower, Roger J.; Elkhiati, Najat; Birks, Hilary H.; Kraïem, Mohammed M.; Fathi, Adel A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2001)
      Palaeolimnological studies were carried out on sediment cores from nine North African wetland lakes. The lakes represented a variety of habitats ranging from freshwater to mixohaline conditions and with and without direct ...