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André F. Lotter

André F. Lotter

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
82
Citations
24721
World Ranking
881
National Ranking
30

Overview

André F. Lotter is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and focuses their research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans a number of subfields including Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Oceanography, Archeology, and Ecology.

Their research topics cover diverse areas such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by André F. Lotter include:

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records, 2020, published in Scientific Data
  • The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2, 2020, published in Earth system science data
  • Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records, 2020, published in Scientific Data
  • Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records, 2020, published in Scientific Data
  • The nexus among long-term changes in lake primary productivity, deep-water anoxia, and internal phosphorus loading, explored through analysis of a 15,000-year varved sediment record, 2021, published in Global and Planetary Change

Frequent co-authors working with Lotter include:

  • Willy Tinner
  • César Morales-Molino
  • Albert Hafner
  • Martín Grosjean
  • Oliver Heiri

Their publications are often found in the following venues:

  • Scientific Data
  • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
  • Earth system science data
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports

André F. Lotter has contributed to book publications as well, including a title published by the Open Access CRIS of the University of Bern:

  • Festschrift Gerhard Lang. Beiträge zur Systematik und Evolution, Floristik und Geobotanik, Vegetationsgeschichte und Paläoökologie, 2025

Best Publications

  • Loss on ignition as a method for estimating organic and carbonate content in sediments: reproducibility and comparability of results.

    Oliver Heiri;André F. Lotter;André F. Lotter;Gerry Lemcke

  • Modern diatom, cladocera, chironomid, and chrysophyte cyst assemblages as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in the Alps. II. Nutrients

    André F. Lotter;H. John B. Birks;Wolfgang Hofmann;Aldo Marchetto

  • Central European vegetation response to abrupt climate change at 8.2 ka

    Willy Tinner;André F. Lotter

  • Episodic fresh surface waters in the Eocene Arctic Ocean

    Henk Brinkhuis;Stefan Schouten;Margaret E Collinson;Appy Sluijs

  • The relationship between air and water temperatures in lakes of the Swiss Plateau: a case study with palæolimnological implications

    David M. Livingstone;André F. Lotter;André F. Lotter

  • Do diatoms in the Swiss Alps reflect the length of ice-cover?

    André F. Lotter;Christian Bigler

  • 9000 years of geochemical evolution of lithogenic major and trace elements in the sediment of an alpine lake – the role of climate, vegetation, and land-use history

    Karin A. Koinig;William Shotyk;William Shotyk;André F. Lotter;André F. Lotter;Christian Ohlendorf

  • Effect of low count sums on quantitative environmental reconstructions: an example using subfossil chironomids

    Oliver Heiri;André F. Lotter

  • Late‐Glacial radiocarbon‐ and palynostratigraphy on the Swiss Plateau

    Brigitta Ammann;Andre F. Lotter

  • A chironomid-based Holocene summer air temperature reconstruction from the Swiss Alps

    Oliver Heiri;André F. Lotter;Sonja Hausmann;Felix Kienast

  • Synchronisation of palaeoenvironmental records over the last 60,000 years, and an extended INTIMATE event stratigraphy to 48,000 b2k

    Simon P.E. Blockley;Christine S. Lane;Mark Hardiman;Sune Olander Rasmussen

  • Holocene expansions of Fagus silvatica and Abies alba in Central Europe: where are we after eight decades of debate?

    Willy Tinner;André F. Lotter

  • Global CO2 rise leads to reduced maximum stomatal conductance in Florida vegetation

    Emmy I. Lammertsma;Hugo Jan de Boer;Stefan C. Dekker;David L. Dilcher

  • Lake eutrophication and its implications for organic carbon sequestration in Europe

    Nicholas John Anderson;Helen Bennion;André F. Lotter

  • Fire ecology north and south of the Alps since the last ice age

    Willy Tinner;Marco Conedera;Brigitta Ammann;Andre F. Lotter

  • Younger Dryas and Allerød summer temperatures at Gerzensee (Switzerland) inferred from fossil pollen and cladoceran assemblages

    André F. Lotter;André F. Lotter;H.J.B Birks;H.J.B Birks;U Eicher;W Hofmann

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

    Darrell Kaufman;Nicholas McKay;Cody Routson;Michael Erb

  • Climatic change and contemporaneous land-use phases north and south of the Alps 2300 BC to 800 AD

    Willy Tinner;André F. Lotter;Brigitta Ammann;Marco Conedera

  • The past ecology of Abies alba provides new perspectives on future responses of silver fir forests to global warming

    Willy Tinner;Willy Tinner;Willy Tinner;Danielle Colombaroli;Danielle Colombaroli;Olivier Heiri;Olivier Heiri;Paul D. Henne;Paul D. Henne;Paul D. Henne

  • Eustatic variations during the Paleocene-Eocene greenhouse world

    Appy Sluijs;Henk Brinkhuis;Erica M. Crouch;Cédric M. John;Cédric M. John

  • An expanded surface-water palaeotemperature inference model for use with fossil midges from eastern Canada

    Ian R. Walker;André J. Levesque;Les C. Cwynar;André F. Lotter

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver Heiri
Oliver Heiri University of Basel
Willy Tinner
Willy Tinner University of Bern
Walter Finsinger
Walter Finsinger University of Montpellier
Brigitta Ammann
Brigitta Ammann University of Bern
Gert-Jan Reichart
Gert-Jan Reichart Utrecht University
Henk Brinkhuis
Henk Brinkhuis Utrecht University
H. J. B. Birks
H. J. B. Birks University of Bergen
Michael Sturm
Michael Sturm Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Giovanni Zanchetta
Giovanni Zanchetta University of Pisa

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