Publications
2025
Scholarly publications
Grimm, E. C., Bradshaw, R. H. W., Brewer, S., Flantua, S. G. A., Giesecke, T., Goring, S., Lézine, A.-M., Takahara, H., & Williams, J. W. (2025). Databases and their application. In S. A. Elias (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (3 ed., pp. 376-386). Elsevier. [DOI]
Giesecke, T. (2025). Changing plant distributions and abundances. In Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (3 ed., pp. 315-325). Elsevier. [DOI]
Professional publications
Jahns, S., Brande, A., Giesecke, T., & Wolters, S. (2025). Märkisches Gebiet außerhalb der baltischen Endmoräne. In I. Feeser, W. Dörfler, M. Rösch, S. Jahns, S. Wolters, & F. Bittmann (Eds.), Vegetationsgeschichte der Landschaften in Deutschland (pp. 555-565). Springer. [DOI]
Giesecke, T., & Voigt, R. (2025). Harz. In I. Feeser, W. Dörfler, M. Rösch, S. Jahns, S. Wolters, & F. Bittmann (Eds.), Vegetationsgeschichte der Landschaften in Deutschland (pp. 355-366). Springer. [DOI]
2024
Scholarly publications
Hiebenga, M., Orlova, E., Pereskokov, M. L., Abdulmanova, I. F., Sannikov, P., Batalova, V., Novikova, E., Mekhonoshina, E., Giesecke, T., & Shumilovskikh, L. S. (2024). Holocene history of the Kungur forest-steppe (cis-Urals, European Russia): case study Uinskoe mire. Quaternary Science Reviews, 337, Article 108792. [DOI] [Portal]
Piraquive-Bermúdez, D., Behling, H., Zolitschka, B., & Giesecke, T. (2024). Late Quaternary Araucaria forest and Campos (grasslands) vegetation dynamics inferred from a high-resolution pollen record from Lagoa Dourada in southern Brazil. Quaternary Science Reviews, 333, 1-14. Article 108685. [DOI] [Repository]
de Wolf, I. K., Donders, T. H., Hoek, W. Z., Gouw-Bouman, M. T. I. J., & Giesecke, T. (2024). Unlocking the wealth of Dutch pollen data for future research and education. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 33(2), 313–322. [DOI] [Repository]
2023
Scholarly publications
Bianchi, M. M., Giaché, Y., Irurzún, A., Gogorza, C., Fontana, S., & Giesecke, T. (2023). The effects of climate, natural disturbances, and human occupation on the rainforest boundary at the eastern foothills of Northern Patagonian Andes since the Late Glacial period. Quaternary Science Reviews, 306, Article 108040. [DOI] [Repository]
2022
Scholarly publications
Piraquive Bermúdez, D., Theuerkauf, M., & Giesecke, T. (2022). Towards quantifying changes in forest cover in the Araucaria forest-grassland mosaic in southern Brazil. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 31(2), 107–122. [DOI] [Repository]
Álvarez-Barra, V., Giesecke, T., & Fontana, S. L. (2022). Holocene changes in forest composition in northern Patagonia responded to climate with little impact of disturbance. Quaternary Science Reviews, 276, 1-17. Article 107291. [DOI] [Repository]
Popularising publications
Gil-Romera, G, & Kunes, Petr (2022). The European Pollen Database in Neotoma: Expanding horizons to new proxy communities. Past Global Changes Magazine, 30(2), 130. [DOI] [Repository]
Giesecke, T., Kunes, Petr, & Shumilovskikh, LS (2022). Millennial-scale perspective on biodiversity conservation of the forest-steppe ecotone in Europe. Past Global Changes Magazine, 30(1). [DOI] [Repository]
2021
Scholarly publications
Bradshaw, R. H. W., Styles, B., Giesecke, T., Flantua, S. G. A., Bittmann, F., & Williams, J. W. (2021). Eric C. Grimm 1951–2020. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 30(3), 305-312. [DOI] [Repository]
Mottl, O., Flantua, S. G. A., Bhatta, K. P., Felde, V. A., Giesecke, T., Simon Goring, G., Grimm, E. C., Haberle, S., Hooghiemstra, H., Ivory, S., Kuneš, P., Wolters, S., Seddon, A. W. R., & Williams, J. W. (2021). Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years. Science, 372(6544), 860-864. [DOI] [Repository]
Moreno-Gonzalez, R., Giesecke, T., & Fontana, S. L. (2021). Fire and vegetation dynamics of endangered Araucaria araucana communities in the forest-steppe ecotone of northern Patagonia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 567, 1-13. Article 110276. [DOI] [Repository]
Cleal, C., Pardoe, H. S., Berry, C. M., Cascales-Miñana, B., Davis, B. A. S., Diez, J. B., Filipova-Marinova, M. V., Giesecke, T., Hilton, J., Ivanov, D., Kustatscher, E., Leroy, S. A. G., McElwain, J. C., Opluštil, S., Seyfullah, L. J., Stolle, E., Thomas, B. A., & Uhl, D. (2021). Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 1: How well can we identify past plant diversity in the fossil record? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 576, 1-20. Article 110481. [DOI] [Repository]
Mottl, O., Flantua, S. G. A., Bhatta, K. P., Felde, V. A., Giesecke, T., Goring, S., Grimm, E. C., Haberle, S., Hooghiemstra, H., Ivory, S., Kuneš, P., Wolters, S., Seddon, A. W. R., & Williams, J. W. (2021). Erratum for the Report “Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years,” by O. Mottl, S. G. A. Flantua, K. P. Bhatta,V. A. Felde, T. Giesecke, S. Goring, E. C. Grimm, S. Haberle, H. Hooghiemstra, S. Ivory, P. Kuneš, S. Wolters, A. W. R. Seddon, J. W. Williams. Science, 373(6551), Article eabk222. [DOI]
Abraham, V., Hicks, S., Svobodová-Svitavská, H., Bozilova, E., Panajiotidis, S., Filipova-Marinova, M., Jensen, C. E., Tonkov, S., Pidek, I. A., Å wiȩta-Musznicka, J., Zimny, M., Kvavadze, E., Filbrandt-Czaja, A., Hättestrand, M., Karlloğlu Klllç, N., Kosenko, J., Nosova, M., Severova, E., Volkova, O., ... Giesecke, T. (2021). Patterns in recent and Holocene pollen accumulation rates across Europe - The Pollen Monitoring Programme Database as a tool for vegetation reconstruction. Biogeosciences, 18(15), 4511-4534. [DOI] [Repository]
Nieto-Lugilde, D., Blois, J. L., Bonet-García, F. J., Giesecke, T., Gil-Romera, G., & Seddon, A. (2021). Time to better integrate paleoecological research infrastructures with neoecology to improve understanding of biodiversity long-term dynamics and to inform future conservation. Environmental Research Letters, 16(9), 1-13. Article 095005. [DOI] [Repository]
Pardoe, H. S., Cleal, C. J., Berry, C. M., Cascales-Miñana, B., Davis, B. A. S., Diez, J. B., Filipova-Marinova, M. V., Giesecke, T., Hilton, J., Ivanov, D., Kustatscher, E., Leroy, S. A. G., McElwain, J. C., Opluštil, S., Popa, M. E., Seyfullah, L. J., Stolle, E., Thomas, B. A., & Uhl, D. (2021). Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 2: How to measure and analyse past plant biodiversity. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 580, 1-26. Article 110618. [DOI] [Repository]
Papadopoulou, M., Tsiripidis, I., Panajiotidis, S., Fotiadis, G., Veres, D., Magyari, E., Bormann, M., Fontana, S., Shumilovskikh, L., Panagiotopoulos, K., Schäbitz, F., & Giesecke, T. (2021). Testing the potential of pollen assemblages to capture composition, diversity and ecological gradients of surrounding vegetation in two biogeographical regions of southeastern Europe. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 31(1), 1-15. [DOI] [Repository]
Zolitschka, B., Lee, A. S., Bermúdez, D. P., & Giesecke, T. (2021). Environmental variability at the margin of the South American monsoon system recorded by a high-resolution sediment record from Lagoa Dourada (South Brazil). Quaternary Science Reviews, 272, 1-20. Article 107204. [DOI] [Repository]
2020
Scholarly publications
Davis, B. A. S., Chevalier, M., Sommer, P., Carter, V. A., Finsinger, W., Mauri, A., Phelps, L. N., Zanon, M., Abegglen, R., Åkesson, C. M., Alba-sánchez, F., Anderson, R. S., Antipina, T. G., Atanassova, J. R., Beer, R., Belyanina, N. I., Blyakharchuk, T. A., Borisova, O. K., Bozilova, E., ... Zimny, M. (2020). The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2. Earth System Science Data, 12(4), 2423-2445. [DOI] [Portal]
Feurdean, A., Vannière, B., Finsinger, W., Warren, D., Connor, S. C., Forrest, M., Liakka, J., Panait, A., Werner, C., Andrič, M., Bobek, P., Carter, V. A., Davis, B., Diaconu, A. C., Dietze, E., Feeser, I., Florescu, G., Gałka, M., Giesecke, T., ... Hickler, T. (2020). Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe. Biogeosciences, 17(5), 1213-1230. [DOI] [Repository]
Moreno-Gonzalez, R., Giesecke, T., & Fontana, S. L. (2020). The impact of recent land-use change in the Araucaria araucana forest in northern Patagonia. Holocene, 30(8), 1101-1114. [DOI] [Repository]
Álvarez-Barra, V., Giesecke, T., & Fontana, S. L. (2020). Late-Holocene vegetation dynamics and disturbance regimes in north Patagonia Argentina (40°S). Holocene, 30(8), 1115-1128. [DOI] [Repository]
2019
Scholarly publications
Finsinger, W., Schwörer, C., Heiri, O., Morales-Molino, C., Ribolini, A., Giesecke, T., Haas, J. N., Kaltenrieder, P., Magyari, E. K., Ravazzi, C., Rubiales, J. M., & Tinner, W. (2019). Fire on ice and frozen trees? Inappropriate radiocarbon dating leads to unrealistic reconstructions. New Phytologist, 222(2), 657-662. [DOI] [Repository]
Burke, K. D., Williams, J. W., Brewer, S., Finsinger, W., Giesecke, T., Lorenz, D. J., & Ordonez, A. (2019). Differing climatic mechanisms control transient and accumulated vegetation novelty in Europe and eastern North America. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1788), Article 20190218. [DOI] [Repository]
Giesecke, T., Wolters, S., van Leeuwen, J. F. N., van der Knaap, P. W. O., Leydet, M., & Brewer, S. (2019). Postglacial change of the floristic diversity gradient in Europe. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 5422. [DOI] [Repository]
Montade, V., Ledru, M. P., Giesecke, T., Flantua, S. G. A., Behling, H., & Peyron, O. (2019). A new modern pollen dataset describing the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Holocene, 29(8), 1253-1262. [DOI] [Repository]
Reitalu, T., Bjune, A. E., Blaus, A., Giesecke, T., Helm, A., Matthias, I., Peglar, S. M., Salonen, J. S., Seppä, H., Väli, V., & Birks, H. J. B. (2019). Patterns of modern pollen and plant richness across northern Europe. Journal of Ecology, 107(4), 1662-1677. [DOI] [Repository]
2018
Scholarly publications
Shumilovskikh, L. S., Novenko, E., & Giesecke, T. (2018). Long-term dynamics of the East European forest-steppe ecotone. Journal of Vegetation Science, 29(3), 416-426. [DOI]
Giesecke, T., Kuneš, P., & Reitalu, T. (2018). Millennial to centennial vegetation change. Journal of Vegetation Science, 29(3), 357-359. [DOI]
Giesecke, T., & Brewer, S. (2018). Notes on the postglacial spread of abundant European tree taxa. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 27(2), 337-349. [DOI]
Dietze, E., Theuerkauf, M., Bloom, K., Brauer, A., Dörfler, W., Feeser, I., Feurdean, A., Gedminienė, L., Giesecke, T., Jahns, S., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Lamentowicz, M., Latałowa, M., Marcisz, K., Obremska, M., Pędziszewska, A., Poska, A., Rehfeld, K., ... Słowiński, M. (2018). Holocene fire activity during low-natural flammability periods reveals scale-dependent cultural human-fire relationships in Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews, 201, 44-56. [DOI]
Rull, V., Montoya, E., Giesecke, T., & Morris, J. L. (2018). Editorial: Palynology and vegetation history. Frontiers in Earth Science, 6, Article 186. [DOI] [Repository]
Williams, J. W., Grimm, E. C., Blois, J. L., Charles, D. F., Davis, E. B., Goring, S. J., Graham, R. W., Smith, A. J., Anderson, M., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Ashworth, A. C., Betancourt, J. L., Bills, B. W., Booth, R. K., Buckland, P. I., Curry, B. B., Giesecke, T., Jackson, S. T., Latorre, C., ... Takahara, H. (2018). The Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a multiproxy, international, community-curated data resource. Quaternary Research (United States), 89(1), 156-177. [DOI] [Repository]