Frank Oldfield's immense contribution to palaeoenvironmental science is summarized in relation to: pollen analysis, vegetation history and peat stratigraphy; palaeolimnology and 210Pb dating; environmental magnetism, catchment—lake relationships and soil erosional history; multiproxy approaches; PAGES; and editing The Holocene. The tribute includes an introduction to the 14 other papers in this Special Issue, which were inspired in diverse ways by this remarkable scientist.
Alverson, K.D., Oldfield, F. and Bradley, R.S., editors 2000: Past global changes and their significance for the future . Quaternary Science Reviews19, 1—480.
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Alverson, K.D., Bradley, R.S. and Pederson, T.F., editors 2003: Paleoclimate, global change and the future. Springer-Verlag, 220 pp. Appleby, P. and Oldfield, F.1978: The calculation of lead-210 dates assuming a constant rate of supply of unsupported lead-210 to the sediment. Catena5, 1—8.
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Appleby, P.G., Oldfield, F., Thompson, R., Huttunen, P. and Tolonen, K.1979: Pb-210 dating of annually laminated lake-sediments from Finland. Nature280, 53—55.
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Ariztegui, D., Asioli, A., Lowe, J.J., Trincardi, F., Vigliotti, L., Tamburini, F., Chondrogianni, C., Accorsi, C.A., Mazzanti, M.B., Mercuri, A.M., Van der Kaars, S., McKenzie, J.A. and Oldfield, F.2000: Palaeoclimate and the formation of sapropel S1: inferences from Late Quaternary lacustrine and marine sequences in the central Mediterranean region. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology158, 215—40.
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Asioli, A., Trincardi, F., Lowe, J.J. and Oldfield, F.1999: Short-term climate changes during the Last Glacial—Holocene transition: comparison between Mediterranean records and the GRIP event stratigraphy. Journal ofQuaternary Science14, 373—81.
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Barber, K.E.1981: Peat stratigraphy and climatic change. A.A. Balkema.
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—— 2006: Peatland records of Holocene climate change. In Elias, S., editor, Encyclopedia of Quaternary science. Elsevier, 1884—95.
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Barber, K.E., Battarbee, R.W., Brooks, S.J., Eglinton, G., Haworth, E.Y., Oldfield, F., Stevenson, A.C., Thompson, R., Appleby, P.G., Austin, W.E.N., Cameron, N.G., Ficken, K.J., Golding, P., Harkness, D.D., Holmes, J.A., Hutchinson, R., Lishman, J.P., Maddy, D., Pinder, L.C.V., Rose, N.L. and Stoneman, R.E.1999: Proxy records of climate change in the UK over the last two millennia: documented change and sedimentary records from lakes and bogs. Journal of theGeological Society156, 369—80.
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Battarbee, R.W.1973: Preliminary studies of Lough Neagh sediments II. Diatom analysis from the uppermost sediment. In Birks, H.J.B. and West, R.G., editors, Quaternary plant ecology. Blackwell, 279—88.
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—— 1978: Observations on the recent history of Lough Neagh and its drainage basin. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London B 281, 303—45.
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Battarbee, R.W. and Binney, H., editors 2008: Global warming and natural climate variability: a Holocene perspective. Blackwell , in press.
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Battarbee, R.W., Monteith, D.T., Juggins, S., Simpson, G.L., Shilland, E.W., Flower, R.J. and Kreiser, A.M.2008: Assessing the accuracy of diatom-based transfer functions in defining reference pH conditions for acidified lakes in the United Kingdom . The Holocene18, 57—67 (this issue).
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Birks, H.H. and Birks H.J.B.2006: Multi-proxy studies in palaeolimnology. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany15, 235—51.
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Birks, H.J.B., Line, J.M., Juggins, S., Stevenson, A.C. and ter Braak, C.J.F.1990: Diatoms and pH reconstruction . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 327, 263—78.
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Boyle, J.F.2007a: Simulating long-term weathering loss of primary silicate minerals from soil using ALLOGEN: comparison with soil chronosequence, lake sediment, and river solution flux data. Geomorphology83, 121—35.
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—— 2007b: Loss of apatite caused irreversible early Holocene lake acidification. The Holocene17, 539—40.
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Bradley, R.S., Duplessy, J.-C., Dodson, J., Gasse, F., Liu, T.-S. and Markgraf, V.1995: PANASH science and implementation plan. In Paleoclimates of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: the PANASH project: the pole-equator-pole transects. PAGES Series 95-1, IGBP /PAGES, 1—19.
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Carter, C.E.1977: The recent history of the chironomid fauna of Lough Neagh, from the analysis of remains in sediment cores. Freshwater Biology7, 415—23.
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Chondrogianni, C., Ariztegui, D., Rolph, T., Juggins, S., Shemesh, A., Rietti-Shati, M., Niessen, F., Guilizzoni, P., Lami, A., McKenzie, J.A. and Oldfield, F.2004: Millennial to interannual climate variability in the Mediterranean during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary International122, 31—41.
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Clymo, R.S., Oldfield, F., Appleby, P.G., Pearson, G.W., Ratnesar, P. and Richardson, N.1990: The record of atmospheric deposition on a rainwater-dependent peatland. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B — Biological Sciences327, 331—38.
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Dearing, J.D. and Battarbee, R.W.2007: Focus 4: past human— climate—ecosystem interactions (PHAROS). PAGES News,15, 8—10.
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Deevey, E.1969: Coaxing history to conduct experiments. BioScience19, 40—43.
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Fisher, E., Oldfield, F., Wake, R., Boyle, J., Appleby, P. and Wolff, G.A.2003: Molecular marker records of land use change. Organic Geochemistry34, 105—19.
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Guilizzoni, P. and Oldfield, F., editors 1996: Palaeoenvironmental analysis of Italian crater lake and Adriatic sediments (PALICLAS). Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia55, 1—357.
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Guilizzoni, P., Marchetto, A., Lami, A., Oldfield, F., Manca, M., Belis, C.A., Nocentini, A.M., Comoli, P., Jones, V.J., Juggins, S., Chondrogianni, C., Ariztegui, D., Lowe, J.J., Ryves, D.B., Battarbee, R.W., Rolph, T.C. and Massaferro, J.2000: Evidence for short-lived oscillations in the biological records from the sediments of Lago Albano (Central Italy) spanning the period ca. 28 to 17 k yr BP. Journal of Paleolimnology23, 117—27.
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Huckerby, E. and Oldfield, F.1976: Quaternary vegetational history of French Pays Basque. 2. Plant macro-fossils and additional pollen analytical data. New Phytologist77, 499—526.
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Huckerby, E., Oldfield, F. and Marchant, R.1972: Identification of fossil seeds of Erica and Calluna by scanning electron-microscopy. New Phytologist71, 387—89.
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Jones, R.T., Marshall, J.D., Crowley, S.F., Bedford, A., Richardson, N., Bloemendal, J. and Oldfield, F.2002: A high resolution, multiproxy Late-glacial record of climate change and intrasystem responses in northwest England. Journal ofQuaternary Science17, 329—40.
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Krishnaswamy, S., Lal, D., Martin, J.M. and Maybeck, M.1971: Geochronology of lake sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters11, 407—14.
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Mackereth, F.J.H.1969: A short core-sampler for sub-aqueous deposits. Limnology and Oceanography14, 145—51.
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—— 1971: On the variation in direction of the horizontal component of remanent magnetisation in lake sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters12, 332—38.
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Manley, G.1974: Central England temperatures: monthly means 1659 to 1973 . Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society100, 389—405.
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Marshall, J.D., Jones, R.T., Crowley, S.F., Oldfield, F., Nash, S. and Bedford, A.2002: A high resolution Late-Glacial isotopic record from Hawes Water, Northwest England climatic oscillations: calibration and comparison of palaeotemperature proxies. Palaeogeography PalaeoclimatologyPalaeoecology185, 25—40.
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Molyneux, L., Thompson, R., Oldfield, F. and McCallan, M.E.1972: Rapid measurement of remanent magnetization of long cores of sediment. Nature-Physical Science237, 42—47.
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Nijampurkar, V.N., Rao, D.K., Oldfield, F. and Renberg, I.1998: The half-life of Si-32: a new estimate based on varved lake sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters163, 191—96.
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Oldfield, F.1958: Appendix on pollen analytical data. In Gresswell, R.K., The post glacial raised beach of Furness and Lyth. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers25, 79.
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—— 1960a: Late Quaternary changes in climate, vegetation and sea-level in Lowland Lonsdale. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers28, 99—107.
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—— 1960b: Studies in the post-glacial history of British vegetation: Lowland Lonsdale. New Phytologist59, 192—217.
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—— 1960c: The coastal mud-bed at Mouligna, Bidart, and the age of the Asturian industry in the Pays Basque. Pollen et Spores2, 57—70.
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—— 1960d: Three pollen analyses from an interglacial mud-bed on the foreshore near Biarritz, South West France. Bulletin Centre Etude Recherche Scientifique, Biarritz3, 53—62.
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—— 1963: Pollen analysis and man's role in the ecological history of the south-east Lake District. Geografiska Annaler45, 23—40.
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—— 1964: Late-Quaternary deposits at Le Moura Biarritz South-West France. New Phytologist63, 374—409.
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—— 1968: Quaternary vegetational history of French Pays Basque .I. Stratigraphy and pollen analysis. New Phytologist67, 677—731.
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—— 1969: Pollen analysis and history of land use. Advancement of Science25, 298—311.
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—— 1970a: The ecological history of Blelham Bog, National Nature Reserve. In Walker, D. and West, R.G., editors, Studies of the vegetational history of the British Isles. Cambridge University Press , 141—57.
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—— 1970b: Some aspects of scale and complexity in pollen analytically based palaeoecology. Pollen et Spores12, 163—73.
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—— 1975a: Pollen-analytical results, Part II. In Wendorf, F. and Hester, J.J., editors, Late Pleistocene environments of the Southern High Plains. Fort Burgwin Research Center, Publication9, 121—47.
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—— 1975b: Discussion of the pollen-analytical evidence In Wendorf, F. and Hester, J.J., editors, Late Pleistocene environments of the Southern High Plains. Fort Burgwin Research Center, Publication9, 149—77.
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—— 1977: Lakes and their drainage basins as units of sediment based ecological study. Progress in Physical Geography1, 460—504.
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—— 1983: Man's impact on the environment — some recent perspectives . Geography68, 245—56.
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—— 1993: Forward to the past: changing approaches to Quaternary palaeoecology. In Chambers, F.M., editor, Climate change and human impact on the landscape. Chapman and Hall, 13—19.
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—— 1996a: PALICLAS: the partnership, its perspectives and goals . Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia55, 7—16.
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—— 1996b: The PALICLAS Project: synthesis and overview. Memorie dell'Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia55, 329—57.
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—— 2004: Some personal perspectives on the role of Quaternary science in global change studies. Global and Planetary Change40, 3—9.
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—— 2005: Environmental change: key issues and alternative approaches . Cambridge University Press, 363 pp.
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—— 2008: The role of people in the Holocene. In Battarbee, R.W. and Binney, H., editors, Natural climate variability and global warming: a Holocene perspective. Blackwell Scientific Publishing , in press.
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Oldfield, F. and Appleby, P.1984: Empirical testing of 210Pb dating models for lake sediments . In Haworth, E.Y. and Lund, J.W.G., editors, Lake sediments and environmental history. University of Leicester Press , 93—124.
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Oldfield, F. and Dearing, J.A.2003: The role of human activities in past environmental change . In Alverson, K., Bradley, R.S. and Petterson, T.F., editors, Paleoclimate, global change and the future. Springer, 143—62.
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Oldfield, F. and Huckerby, E.1979: The Quaternary palaeobotany of the French Pays Basque: a summary. Pollen et Spores21, 337—60.
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Oldfield, F. and Richardson, N.1990: Lake sediment magnetism and atmospheric deposition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B — Biological Sciences327, 325—30.
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Oldfield, F. and Schoenwetter, J.1964: Late Quaternary environments and early man on the Southern High Plains. Antiquity38, 226—29.
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Oldfield, F. and Statham, D.C.1963: Pollen analytical data from Urswick Tarn and Ellerside Moss, North Lancashire. New Phytologist62, 53—66.
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Oldfield, F., Appleby, P.G. and Battarbee, R.W.1978a: Alternative Pb-210 dating — results from New Guinea Highlands and Lough Erne. Nature271, 339—42.
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Oldfield, F., Dearing, J.A., Thompson, R. and Garret-Jones, S.1978b: Some magnetic properties of lake sediments and their possible links with erosion rates. Polskie Archiwum Hydrobiologii25, 321—31.
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Oldfield, F., Rummery, T.A., Thompson, R. and Walling, D.E.1979: Identification of suspended sediment sources by means of magnetic measurements — some preliminary results. Water Resources Research15, 211—18.
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Oldfield, F., Appleby, P.G. and Thompson, R.1980: Palaeoecological studies of lakes in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. 1. The chronology of sedimentation. Journal of Ecology68, 457—77.
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Oldfield, F., Tolonen, K. and Thompson, R.1981: History of particulate atmospheric pollution from magnetic measurements in dated Finnish peat profiles. Ambio10, 185—88.
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Oldfield, F., Richardson, N., Appleby, P.G. and Yu, L.1993: Am-241 and Cs-137 activity in fine-grained salt-marsh sediments from parts of the NE Irish Sea shoreline. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity19, 1—24.
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Oldfield, F., Thompson, R., Crooks, P.R.J., Gedye, S.J., Hall, V.A., Harkness, D.D., Housley, R.A., McCormac, F.G., Newton, A.J., Pilcher, J.R., Renberg, I. and Richardson, N.1997: Radiocarbon dating of a recent high-latitude peat profile: Stor Amyran, northern Sweden. The Holocene7, 283—90.
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Oldfield, F., Dearing, J., Gaillard, M.J. and Bugmann, H.2000: Ecosystem processes and human dimensions the scope and future of HITE (Human Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems). PAGES Newsletter8, 21—23.
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Oldfield, F., Asioli, A., Accorsi, C.A., Mercuri, A.M., Juggins, S., Langone, L., Rolph, T., Trincardi, F., Wolff, G., Gibbs, Z., Vigliotti, L., Frignani, M., van der Post, K. and Branch, N.2003a: A high resolution late Holocene palaeo environmental record from the central Adriatic Sea. Quaternary Science Reviews22, 319—42.
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Oldfield, F., Wake, R., Boyle, J., Jones, R., Nolan, S., Gibbs, Z., Appleby, P., Fisher, E. and Wolff, G.2003b: The late-Holocene history of Gormire Lake (NE England) and its catchment: a multiproxy reconstruction of past human impact. The Holocene13, 677—90.
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O'Sullivan, P.1973: Pollen analysis of mor humus layers from a native Scots pine ecosystem, interpreted with surface samples. Oikos24, 259—72.
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—— 1974: Two Flandrian pollen diagrams from the east-central Highlands of Scotland. Pollen et Spores26, 33—57.
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—— 1975: Early and Middle-Flandrian pollen zonation in the Eastern Highlands of Scotland. Boreas4, 197—207.
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O'Sullivan, P.E., Oldfield, F. and Battarbee, R.W.1973: Preliminary studies of Lough Neagh sediments. I. Stratigraphy, chronology and pollen analysis. In Birks, H.J.B. and West, R.G., editors, Quaternary plant ecology. Blackwell Scientific Publications , 267—79.
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Pennington, W. and Bonny, A.P.1970: Absolute pollen diagram from the British late-glacial . Nature226, 871—73.
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Pennington, W. and Lishman, J.P.1971: Iodine in lake sediments in Northern England and Scotland . Biological Reviews46, 279—313.
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Pennington, W., Cambray, R.S., Eakins, J.D. and Harkness, D.D.1976: Radionuclide dating of the recent sediments of Blelham Tarn. Freshwater Biology6, 317—31.
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Potter, L.D., Schoenwetter, J. and Oldfield, F.1975: Pollen-analytical procedures and methods of preservation . In Wendorf, F. and Hester, J.J., editors, Late Pleistocene environments of the Southern High Plains. Fort Burgwin Research Center, Publication9, 97—102.
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Robbins, J.A.1978: Geochemical and geophysical applications of radioactive lead. In Nriagu, J.O., editor, Biogeochemistry of lead in the environment. Elsevier, 285—393.
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Steffen, W., Tyson, P., Jager, J., Matson, P., Moore, B., Oldfield, F., Richardson, K., Schellnhuber, J., Turner, B. and Wasson, R.2001: Earth system science — an integrated approach. Environment43, 21—27.
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Sugita, S.2007a: Theory of quantitative reconstruction of vegetation I: Pollen from large sites REVEALS regional vegetation composition. The Holocene17, 229—41.
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—— 2007b: Theory of quantitative reconstruction of vegetation II: all you need is LOVE. The Holocene17, 243—57.
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Thompson, R. and Oldfield, F.1986: Environmental magnetism. Allen and Unwin, 227 pp.
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Thompson, R., Battarbee, R.W., O'Sullivan, P.E. and Oldfield, F.1975: Magnetic susceptibility of lake sediments. Limnology and Oceanography20, 687—98.
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Tooley, M.J.1978: Sea-level fluctuations in North-West England during the Flandrian Stage. Clarendon Press.
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Willis, K.J. and Birks, H.J.B.2006: What is natural? The need for a long-term perspective in biodiversity conservation. Science314, 1261—65.
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Wood, R.B. and Smith, R.V., editors 1993: Lough Neagh: the ecology of a multipurpose water resource. Kluwer Academic Publishers , 529 pp.
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Worsley, A.T. and Oldfield, F.1988: Palaeoecological studies of 3 lakes in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. 2. Vegetational history over the last 1600 years. Journal of Ecology76, 1—18.
