Dr. Thomas Giesecke

Vening Meineszgebouw A
Princetonlaan 8a
Kamer 4.22
3584 CB Utrecht

Dr. Thomas Giesecke

Associate Professor
Palaeoecology
+31 30 253 1034
t.giesecke@uu.nl

Publications

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108040
de Wolf, I. K., Donders, T. H., Hoek, W. Z., Gouw-Bouman, M. T. I. J., & Giesecke, T. (2023). Unlocking the wealth of Dutch pollen data for future research and education. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00951-z

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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-021-00841-2
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107291

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. https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.30.2.130
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). https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.30.1.24

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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-021-00828-z
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. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg1685
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110276
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110481
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: Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years (Science DOI: 10.1126/science.abg1685). Science, 373(6551), Article eabk222. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abk2221
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. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-4511-2021
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. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1b59
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110618
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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-021-00831-4
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107204

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. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2423-2020
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. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-1213-2020
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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683620913918
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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683620913920

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. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15354
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. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0218
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. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13233-y
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. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619846981
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. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13134

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. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12585
Giesecke, T., Kuneš, P., & Reitalu, T. (2018). Millennial to centennial vegetation change. Journal of Vegetation Science, 29(3), 357-359. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12650
Giesecke, T., & Brewer, S. (2018). Notes on the postglacial spread of abundant European tree taxa. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 27(2), 337-349. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-017-0640-0
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.005
Rull, V., Montoya, E., Giesecke, T., & Morris, J. L. (2018). Editorial: Palynology and vegetation history. Frontiers in Earth Science, 6, Article 186. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2018.00186
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. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2017.105