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Angelica Feurdean is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main topics Angelica Feurdean has worked on include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Fire effects on ecosystems, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Marine and environmental studies, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Landslides and related hazards, and Tree-ring climate responses.

Feurdean has published multiple recent papers that reflect their research interests and collaborations. Notable publications include:

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records (2020, Scientific Data)
  • Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe (2020, Biogeosciences)
  • Recent fire regime in the southern boreal forests of western Siberia is unprecedented in the last five millennia (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • European pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for the Holocene: methodology, mapping and potentials (2022, Earth system science data)
  • The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2 (2020, Earth system science data)

Their frequent co-authors include Mariusz Gałka, Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu, Walter Finsinger, Ioan Tanţău, and Vachel A. Carter.

Angelica Feurdean publishes mainly in journals such as Biogeosciences, Scientific Data, Quaternary Science Reviews, Earth system science data, and Global and Planetary Change.

Best Publications

  • The Impact of Rapid Climate Change on Prehistoric Societies during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Bernhard Weninger;Lee Clare;Eelco Rohling;Ofer Bar-Yosef

  • Looking forward through the past: Identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

    Alistair W. R. Seddon;Alistair W. R. Seddon;Anson W. Mackay;Ambroise G. Baker;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

    Darrell Kaufman;Nicholas McKay;Cody Routson;Michael Erb

  • Climate Variability and Associated Vegetation Response throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) between 60 and 8 ka

    A. Feurdean;A. Perşoiu;I. Tanţău;T. Stevens

  • Widespread drying of European peatlands in recent centuries

    Graeme T. Swindles;Graeme T. Swindles;Graeme T. Swindles;Paul J. Morris;Donal J. Mullan;Richard J. Payne

  • Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment-charcoal records to improve data–model comparisons

    Jennifer R. Marlon;Ryan Kelly;Anne-Laure Daniau;Boris Vannière

  • Biodiversity-rich European grasslands: ancient, forgotten ecosystems

    Angelica Feurdean;Eszter Ruprecht;Zsolt Molnár;Simon M. Hutchinson

  • Tree migration-rates: narrowing the gap between inferred post-glacial rates and projected rates

    Angelica Feurdean;Shonil A. Bhagwat;Katherine J. Willis;Katherine J. Willis;H. John B Birks;H. John B Birks;H. John B Birks

  • Pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene climate variability in NW Romania

    Angelica Feurdean;Stefan Klotz;Volker Mosbrugger;Barbara Wohlfarth

  • 12,000-Years of fire regime drivers in the lowlands of Transylvania (Central-Eastern Europe): a data-model approach

    A. Feurdean;J. Liakka;B. Vannière;E. Marinova

  • Origin of the forest steppe and exceptional grassland diversity in Transylvania (central-eastern Europe)

    Angelica Feurdean;Elena Marinova;Anne Birgitte Nielsen;Johan Liakka

  • The pace of Holocene vegetation change : testing for synchronous developments

    Thomas Giesecke;K.D. Bennett;K.D. Bennett;H. John B. Birks;Anne E. Bjune

  • Holocene fire activity during low-natural flammability periods reveals scale-dependent cultural human-fire relationships in Europe

    Elisabeth Dietze;Martin Theuerkauf;Karolina Bloom;Achim Brauer

  • The influence of refugial population on Lateglacial and early Holocene vegetational changes in Romania

    Angelica Feurdean;Barbara Wohlfarth;Leif Björkman;Ioan Tantau

  • 7000-year human legacy of elevation-dependent European fire regimes

    Boris Vannière;Olivier Blarquez;Damien Rius;Élise Doyen

  • Late-Glacial and Holocene forest dynamics at Steregoiu in the Gutaiului Mountains, Northwest Romania

    Leif Björkman;Angelica Feurdean;Barbara Wohlfarth

  • Holocene forest dynamics in northwestern Romnania

    Angelica Feurdean

  • Trends in biomass burning in the Carpathian region over the last 15,000 years

    Angelica Feurdean;Angelica Feurdean;Allan Spessa;Enikö K. Magyari;Katherine J. Willis;Katherine J. Willis

  • Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe

    Angelica Feurdean;Angelica Feurdean;Boris Vannière;Walter Finsinger;Dan Warren

  • Lateglacial and early Holocene vegetation development in the Gutaiului Mountains, northwestern Romania.

    Leif Björkman;Angelica Feurdean;Kajsa Cinthio;Barbara Wohlfarth

  • Broadleaf deciduous forest counterbalanced the direct effect of climate on Holocene fire regime in hemiboreal/boreal region (NE Europe)

    Angelica Feurdean;Siim Veski;Gabriela Florescu;Boris Vannière

  • Holocene vegetation history in the upper forest belt of the Eastern Romanian Carpathians

    Ioan Tanţău;Angelica Feurdean;Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu;Maurice Reille

  • Recent fire regime in the southern boreal forests of western Siberia is unprecedented in the last five millennia

    Angelica Feurdean;Gabriela Florescu;Ioan Tanţău;Boris Vannière

Frequent Co-Authors

Mariusz Gałka
Mariusz Gałka Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Thomas Hickler
Thomas Hickler Goethe University Frankfurt
Katherine J. Willis
Katherine J. Willis University of Oxford
Boris Vannière
Boris Vannière Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Elena Marinova
Elena Marinova University of Tübingen
Mariusz Lamentowicz
Mariusz Lamentowicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Barbara Wohlfarth
Barbara Wohlfarth Stockholm University
Sergey N. Kirpotin
Sergey N. Kirpotin National Research Tomsk State University
Walter Finsinger
Walter Finsinger University of Montpellier
Elena Novenko
Elena Novenko Lomonosov Moscow State University

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