2023
Suzanne McGowan, Do Thu Nga, Trinh Anh Duc, Virginia Panizzo, Jorge Salgado, Lucy Roberts, Melanie Leng, Andi Smith, Christopher Vane (2023). Water quality in rivers of the Red River Delta. Research summary.
Pearson, J, Evans, J, Lamb, A, Baird, D, Hodder, I, Marciniak, A, Spencer Larsen, C, Knüsel, C, Haddow, S, Marin, S, Bogaard, A, Fairbairn, A, Plug, J, Mazzucato, C, Mustafaoğlu, G, Feldman, M, Somel, M, and Fernández-Domínguez, E. 2023. Mobility and kinship in the world’s first village societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120 (4) e2209480119.
2022
Lacey, J H, Sloane, H J, Leng, M J, and Crowley, S F. 2022. Improving the routine analysis of siderite for δ13C and δ18O in environmental change research. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. e9456.
Wagner, B, Tauber, P, Francke, A, Leicher, N, Binnie, S A, Cvetkoska, A, Jovanovska, E, Just, J, Lacey, J H, Levkov, Z, Lindhorst, K, Kouli, K, Krastel, S, Panagiotopoulos, K, Ulfers, A, Zaova, D, Donders, T H, Grazhdani, A, Koutsodendris, A, Leng, M J, Sadori, L, Scheinert, M, Vogel, H, Wonik, T, Zanchetta, G, and Wilke, T. 2022. The geodynamic and limnological evolution of Balkan Lake Ohrid, possibly the oldest extant lake in Europe. Boreas.
Karlović, I, Marković, T, Smith, A C, and Kanduč, T. 2022. Data on stable isotopic composition of δ18O and δ15N in nitrate in groundwater, and δ15N in solid matter in the Varaždin area, NW Croatia. Data in Brief, 108686.
Baker, J C A, Cintra, B B L, Gloor, M, Boom, A, Neill, D, Clerici, S, Leng, M J, Helle, G, and Brienen, R J W. 2022. The Changing Amazon Hydrological Cycle – Inferences from over 200 years of tree-ring oxygen isotope data. JGR Biosciences, 127.
Salgado, J, Trinh Anh Duc, Do Thu Nga, Panizzo, V N, Bass, A M, Ying Zheng, Taylor, S, Roberts, L R, Lacey, J H, Leng, M J, and McGowan, S. 2022. Urbanization and seasonality strengthens the CO2 capacity of the Red River Delta, Vietnam. Environment Research Letters, 17.
Marković, T, Karlović, I, Orlić, S, Kajan, K, and Smith, A C. 2022. Tracking the nitrogen cycle in a vulnerable alluvial system using a multi proxy approach: Case study Varaždin alluvial aquifer, Croatia. Science of The Total Environment (853),158632.
Roberts, L R, Do, N T, Panizzo, V, N, Taylor, S, Watts, M, Hamilton, E, McGowan, S, Trinh, D A, Leng, M J, and Salgado, J. 2022. In flux: Annual transport and deposition of suspended heavy metals and trace elements in the urbanised, tropical Red River Delta, Vietnam. Water Research, 224.
Jianxun, S, Smith, A C, Barnett, M J, Morgan, A, and Wynn, P M. 2022. Distinct Microbial Communities in the Soils, Waters, and Speleothems of a Hyperalkaline Cave System. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127 (9).
Roberts, L R, Holmes, J A, Horne D J, Leng M J, Sayer, C D, Timms R G O, Flowers, K, Blockley, S P M, and Kelly, A. 2022. Reconstruction of short-term storm surge-driven increases 1 in shallow coastal lake salinity using ostracod shell chemistry. Natural hazards.
Snelling, A M, Swann, G A, Pashley, V, Lacey, J H, Horstwood, M S A, and Leng, M J. 2022. Nutrient availability in the North Pacific region not primarily driven by climate through the Quaternary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
Asrat, A, Baker, A, Duan, W, Leng, M J, Boomer, I, Akter, R, Mariethoz, G, Adleri, L, Jex, C N, Yadeta, M, and Wang, L. 2022. Stalagmite evidence for Early Holocene multidecadal hydroclimate variability in Ethiopia. Quaternary Research. doi:10.1017/qua.2022.29.
Sear, D A, Langdon, P G, Leng, M J, Edwards, M E, Heaton, T H E, Langdon, C T, and Leyland, J. 2022. Climate and human exploitation have regulated Atlantic salmon populations in the River Spey, Scotland, over the last 2000 years. The Holocene.
Johnson, A L A, Valentine, A M, Schone, B R, Leng, M J, and Goolaerts, S. 2022. Sclerochronological evidence of pronounced seasonality from the late Pliocene of the southern North Sea basin and its implications. Climate of the Past, 18, 1203-1229.
Wells, N S, Gooddy, D C, Reshid, M Y, Williams, P J, Smith, A C, and Eyre, B D. 2022. δ18O as a tracer of PO43− losses from agricultural landscapes. Journal of Environmental Management, 317.
Branscombe, T, Lee-Thorp, J, Schulting, R, and Leng, M J. 2022. Micromilling vs hand drilling in stable isotope analyses of incremental carbonates: The potential for δ13C contamination by embedding resin. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 36.
Worne, S, Swann, G E A, Kender, S, Lacey, J H, and Leng, M J. 2022. Silicic acid cycling in the Bering Sea during the Mid-Pleistocene transition. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37, e2021PA004284.
Broadman, E, Kaufman, D, Anderson, R, Bogle, S, Ford, M, Fortin, D, Henderson, A C G, Lacey, J H, Leng, M J, McKay, N P, and Muñoz, S E. 2022. Reconstructing postglacial hydrologic and environmental change in the eastern Kenai Peninsula lowlands using proxy data and mass balance modelling. Quaternary Research, 1-26.
Reyes, D M, Hoogakker, B, Martínez﹣Méndez, G, Llanillo, P J, Grasse, P, Mohtadi, M, Mix, A, Leng, M J, Struck, U, McCorkle, D C, Troncoso, M, Gayo, E M, Lange, C B, Farias, L, Carhuapoma, W, Graco, M, Cornejo-D’Ottone, M, De Pol Holz, R, Fernandez, C, Narvaez, D, Vargas, C A, García-Araya, F, and Hebbeln, D. 2022. Isotopic characterization of water masses in the Southeast Pacific region: Paleoceanographic implications. JGR Oceans.
Cañadas, F, Papineau, D, Leng, M J, and Li, C. 2022. Extensive primary production promoted the recovery of the Ediacaran Shuram excursion. Nature Communications, 13:148.
Katrina Nilsson-Kerr, Pallavi Anand, Philip F. Sexton, Melanie J. Leng, Pothuri Diwakar Naidu (2022). [1]Indian Summer Monsoon variability 140–70 thousand years ago based on multi-proxy records from the Bay of Bengal. Quaternary Science Reviews, 279, 107403.
2021
Felder, S, Sagawa, T Greaves, M, Leng, M J, Ikehara, K Kimoto, K, Hasegawa, S, Wagner, T, and Henderson, A C G. 2021. Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea across the mid-Pleistocene transition: Insights from IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004236.
Smith, A C, Welsh, S, Atkinson, H, Harris, D, and Leng, M J. 2021. A new automated method for high-throughput carbon and hydrogen isotope analysis of gaseous and dissolved methane at atmospheric concentrations. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom, 35(11):e9086.
Brown, S R, Cartier, R, Schiller, CM, Zahajská, P, Fritz, S C, Morgan, L A, Whitlock, C, Conley, D J, Lacey, J H, Leng, M J, and Shanks, W C P. 2021. Multi-proxy record of Holocene paleoenvironmental conditions from Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews, 274, 107275.
Jacobson, M J, Flohr, P, Gascoigne, A, Leng, M J, Sadekov, A, Cheng, H, Edwards, R L, Tüysüz, O, and Fleitmann, D. 2021. Heterogenous late Holocene climate in the Eastern Mediterranean – the Kocain Cave record from SW Turkey. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL094733.
Beasley, C, Kender, S, Giosan, L, Bolton, C T, Anand, P, and Leng, M J, et al. 2021. Evidence of a South Asian proto-monsoon during the Oligocene-Miocene transition. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36, e2021PA004278.
Branscombe, T, Schulting, R, Lee-Thorp, J, and Leng, M J. 2021. The potential of marine bivalve Spisula sachalinensis as a marine temperature record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 582, 110634.
Monz, M E, Hudleston, P J Cook, S J, Zimmerman, T, and Leng, M J. 2021. Thrust faulting in glaciers? Re-examination of debris bands near the margin of Storglaciären, Sweden. Boreas.
Kender, S, Bogus, K, Pedersen, G K, Dybkjær, K, Mather, T A, Mariani, E, Ridgwell, A, Riding, J B, Wagner, T, Hesselbo, S P, and Leng, M J. 2021. Paleocene/Eocene carbon feedbacks triggered by volcanic activity. Nature Communications, 12, 5186.
Fox, L R, Wade, B S, Holbourn, A, Leng, M J, and Bhatia, R. 2021. Temperature gradients across the Pacific Ocean during the middle Miocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36, e2020PA003924.
Schaebitz, F, Asrat, A, and Lamb, H F, et al. 2021. Hydroclimate changes in eastern Africa over the past 200,000 years may have influenced early human dispersal. Commun Earth Environ, 2, 123.
Worne, S, Lacey, J H, Barr, C, Schulz, C, and Leng, M J. 2021. Assessment of bias in carbon isotope composition of organic leaf matter due to pre-analysis milling methods. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. e9134
Meredith, M P, Stammerjohn, S E, Ducklow, H W, Leng, M J, Arrowsmith, C, Brearley, J A, Venables, H J, Barham, M, Melchior van Wessem, J, Schofield, O, and Waite, N. 2021. Local- and large-scale drivers of variability in the coastal freshwater budget of the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, e2021JC017172.
Stevenson, M A, McGowan, S, Pearson, E J, Swann, G E A, Leng, M J, Jones, V J, Bailey, J J, Huang, X, and Whiteford, E. 2021. Anthropocene climate warming enhances autochthonous carbon cycling in an upland Arctic lake, Disko Island, West Greenland. Biogeosciences, 18, 2465–2485.
Worne, S, Stroynowski, Z, Kender, S, Swann, G E A. 2021. Sea-ice response to climate change in the Bering Sea during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 259, 106918.
Zhang, Y, Zhang, J, McGowan, S, Metcalfe, S, Jones, M, Leng, M, and Hou, J. 2021. Climatic and environmental change in the western Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene, recorded by lake sediments from Aweng Co. Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 259, 106889.
Nilsson-Kerr, K, Anand, P, Holden, P B, Clemens, S C, and Leng, M J. 2021. Dipole patterns in tropical precipitation were pervasive across landmasses throughout Marine Isotope Stage 5. Commun Earth Environ, 2, 64. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00133-7
Akhoudas, C H, Sallée, J B, Haumann, F A, Meredith, M P, Naveira Garabato, A, Reverdin, G, Jullion, L, Aloisi, G, Benetti, M, Leng, M J, and Arrowsmith, C. 2021. Ventilation of the abyss in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Sci Rep, 11, 6760. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86043-2
Bennett, C E, Kearsey, T I, Davies, S J, Leng, M J, Millward, D, Smithson, T R, Brand, P J, Browne, M A E, Carpenter, D K, Marshall, J E A, Dulson, H, and Curry, L. 2021. Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironment of Mississippian coastal lakes and marshes during the early terrestrialisation of tetrapods. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 564, 110194. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110194
McCarron, A P, Bigg, G R, Brooks, H, Leng, M J, Marshall, J D, Ponomareva, V, Portnyagin, M, Reimer, P J, Rogerson, M. 2021. Northwest Pacific ice-rafted debris at 38°N reveals episodic ice-sheet change in late Quaternary Northeast Siberia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 553, 116650. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116650
Smith, A C, Pfahler, V, Tamburini, F, Blackwell, M S, Granger, A, and Steven J. 2021. A review of phosphate oxygen isotope values in global bedrocks: Characterising a critical endmember to the soil phosphorus system. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Vol. 184(1), 25–34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.202000513
2020
Alsos, I, Sjögren, P, Brown, A, Gielly L, Merkel, M, Paus, A, Lammers, Y, Edwards, M, Alm, T, Leng, M, Goslar, T, Langdon, C, Bakke, J, and van der Bilt, W. 2020. Last Glacial Maximum environmental conditions at Andøya, northern Norway; evidence for a northern ice-edge ecological “hotspot”. Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 239, 106364. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106364
Briddon, C L, McGowan, S, Metcalfe, S E, Panizzo, V, Lacey, J, Engels, S, Leng, M, Mills, K, Shafiq, M, and Idris, M. 2020. Diatoms in a sediment core from a flood pulse wetland in Malaysia record strong responses to human impacts and hydro–climate over the past 150 years. Geo: Geography and Environment, Vol. 7(1), e00090. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.90
Broadman, E, Kaufman, D S, Henderson, A C E, Berg, E E, Anderson, S, Leng, M J, Stahnke, S A, and Muñoz, S E. 2020. Multi-proxy evidence for millennial-scale changes in North Pacific Holocene hydroclimate from the Kenai Peninsula lowlands, south-central Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 241, 106420. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106420
Cadd, H R, Tyler, J, Tibby, J, Baldock, J, Hawke, B, Barr, C, and Leng, M.J. 2020. The potential for rapid determination of charcoal from wetland sediments using infrared spectroscopy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 542, 109562. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109562
Carey, S, Sparks, R S J, Tucker, M E, Li, T, Robinson, L, Watt, S F L, Gee, M, Hastie, A, Barfod, D N, Stinton, A, Leng, M, Raineault, N, and Ballard, R.D. 2020. The polygenetic Kahouanne Seamounts in the northern Lesser Antilles island arc: Evidence for large-scale volcanic island subsidence. Marine Geology, Vol. 419, 106046. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.106046
Darby, S E Langdon, P G, Best, J L, Leyland, J, Hackney, C R Marti, M, Morgan, P R, Ben, S, Aalto, R, Parsons, D R, Nicholas, A P, and Leng, M J. 2020. Drainage and erosion of Cambodia’s great lake in the middle-late Holocene: The combined role of climatic drying, base-level fall and river capture. Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 236, 106265. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106265
Duc, T A, Nga, D T, Panizzo, V N, McGowan, S, and Leng, M J. 2020. Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily‐regulated, tropical lowland river basin. Hydrological Processes, Vol. 34(22), 4239–4250. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13878
Francke, A, Holtvoeth, J, Codilean, A, Lacey, J H, Bayon, G, and Dosseto, A. 2020. Geochemical methods to infer landscape response to Quaternary climate change and land use in depositional archives: A review. Earth-Science Reviews, Vol. 207, 103218. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103218
Gosling, W D, Sear, D A, Hassall, J D, Langdon, P G, Bönnen, M N T, Driessen, T D, van Kemenade, Z R, Noort, K, Leng, M J, Croudace, I W, Bourne, A J, and McMichael, C N H. 2020. Human occupation and ecosystem change on Upolu (Samoa) during the Holocene. Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 47(3), 600–614. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13783
Hollyman, P R, Leng, M J, Chenery, S R N, Sloane, H J, and Richardson, C A. 2020. Calibration of shell δ18O from the common whelk Buccinum undatum highlights potential for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 560, 109995. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109995
Johnson, A L A, Valentine, A-M M, Schöne, B R, Leng, M J, Sloane, H J, and Janekoviće, I. 2020. Growth-increment characteristics and isotopic (δ18O) temperature record of sub-thermocline Aequipecten opercularis (Mollusca:Bivalvia): Evidence from modern Adriatic forms and an application to early Pliocene examples from eastern England. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 561, 110046. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110046
Panagiotopoulos, K, Holtvoeth, J, Kouli, K, Marinova, E, Francke, A, Cvetkoska, A, Jovanovska, E, Lacey, J, Lyons, E, Buckel, C, Bertini, A, Donders, T, Just, J, Leicher, N, Leng, M, Melles, M, Pancost, R, Sadori, L, Tauber, P, Vogel, H, Wagner, B, and Wilke, T 2020. Insights into the evolution of the young Lake Ohrid ecosystem and vegetation succession from a southern European refugium during the Early Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 227, 106044. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106044
Pfahler, V, Macdonald, A, Mead, A, Smith, A C, and Tamburini, F. 2020. Changes of oxygen isotope values of soil P pools associated with changes in soil pH. Scientific Reports, Vol. 10, 2065. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59103-2
Pienkowski, G, Hesselbo, S P, Barbacka, M, and Leng, M J. 2020. Non-marine carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in the Polish Basin and its relationships to organic carbon preservation, pCO2 and palaeotemperature. Earth Science Reviews, Vol. 210, 103383. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103383
Roberts, L R, Holmes, J A, Sloane, H J, Arrowsmith, C, Leng, M J, and Horne, D J. 2020. δ18O and δ13C of Cyprideis torosa from coastal lakes: Modern systematics and down-core interpretation. Marine Micropaleontology, Vol. 160, 101907. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2020.101907
Russell, J M, Barker, P, Cohen, A, Ivory, S, Kimirei, I, Lane, C, Leng, M, Maganza, N, McGlue, M, Msaky, E, Noren, A, Park Boush, L, Salzburger, W, Scholz, C, Tiedemann, R, Nuru, S, and the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project (TSDP) Consortium. 2020. ICDP workshop on the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project: a late Miocene–present record of climate, rifting, and ecosystem evolution from the world’s oldest tropical lake, Scientific Drilling, Vol. 27, 53–60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-27-53-2020
Ryves, D B, Leng, M J, Barker, P A, Snelling, A M, Sloane, H J, Arrowsmith, C, Tyler, J J, Scott, D R, Radbourne, A D, and Anderson, N J. 2020. Understanding the transfer of contemporary temperature signals into lake sediments via paired oxygen isotope ratios in carbonates and diatom silica: Problems and potential, Chemical Geology, Vol. 552, 119705. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119705
Samperiz, A, Robinson, L F, Stewart, J A, Strawson, I, Leng, M J, Rosenheim, B E, Ciscato, E R, Hendry, K R, and Santodomingo, N. 2020. Stylasterid corals: A new paleotemperature archive. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 545, 116407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116407
Sear, D A, Allen, M S, Hassall, J D, Maloney, A E, Langdon, P G, Morrison, A E, Henderson, A C G, Mackay, H, Croudace, I W, Clarke, C, Sachs, J, Macdonald, G, Chiverrell, R, Leng, M, Cisneros-Dozal, L, and Fonville, T. 2020. Human settlement of East Polynesia earlier, incremental, and coincident with prolonged South Pacific drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, 8813–8819. DOI; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920975117
Shen, J, Smith, A C, Claire, M W, and Zerkle, A L. Unraveling biogeochemical phosphorus dynamics in hyperarid Mars‐analogue soils using stable oxygen isotopes in phosphate. Geobiology, Vol. 18(6), 760–779. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12408
Stewart, J A, Robinson, L F, Day, R D, Strawson, I, Burke, A, Rae, J W B, Spooner, P T, Samperiz, A, Etnoyer, P J, Williams, B, Paytan, A, Leng, M J, Häussermann, V, Wickes, L N, Bratt, R, and Pryer, H. 2020. Refining trace metal temperature proxies in cold-water scleractinian and stylasterid corals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 545, 116412. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116412
Storm, M S, Hesselbo, S P Jenkyns, H C, Ruhl, M, Ullmann, C V, Xu, W, Leng, M J, Riding, J B, and Gorbanenko, O. 2020. Orbital pacing and secular evolution of the Early Jurassic carbon cycle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117(8), 3974–3982. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1912094117
Wilke, T, Hauffe, T, Jovanovska, E, Cvetkoska, A, Donders, T, Ekschmitt, K, Francke, A, Lacey, J H, Levkov, Z, Marshall, C R, Neubauer, T A, Silvestro, D, Stelbrink, B, Vogel, H, Albrecht, C, Holtvoeth, J, Krastel, S, Leicher, N, Leng, M J, Lindhorst, K, Masi, A, Ognjanova-Rumenova, N, Panagiotopoulos, K, Reed, J M, Sadori, L, Tofilovska, S, Van Bocxlaer, B, Wagner-Cremer, F, Wesselingh, F P, Wolters, V, Zanchetta, G, Zhang, X, and Wagner, B. 2020. Deep drilling reveals massive shifts in evolutionary dynamics after formation of ancient ecosystem. Science Advances, Vol. 6(40), eabb2943. DOI: https://doi.org10.1126/sciadv.abb2943
Wilson, G P, Frogley, M R, Hughes, P D, Roucoux, K H, Margari, V, Jones, T D, Leng, M J, and Tzedakis, P C. 2020. Persistent millennial-scale climate variability in Southern Europe during Marine Isotope Stage 6. Quaternary Science Advances, Vol. 3, 100016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2020.100016
Worne, S, Kender, S, Swann, G E A Leng, M J, and Ravelo, A C. 2020. Reduced upwelling of nutrient and carbon-rich water in the subarctic Pacific during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 555, 109845. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109845
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