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Anneli Poska is affiliated with Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, and Anthropology.

They have contributed extensively to research topics such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Throughout their career, Anneli Poska has published in various scientific venues, frequently appearing in:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Earth system science data
  • Land
  • Climate of the past
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent publications include:

  • "Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe," 2020, Biogeosciences
  • "Human impacts and their interactions in the Baltic Sea region," 2022, Earth System Dynamics
  • "European pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for the Holocene: methodology, mapping and potentials," 2022, Earth system science data
  • "Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic," 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Mid-Holocene European climate revisited: New high-resolution regional climate model simulations using pollen-based land-cover," 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Siim Veski, Jüri Vassiljev, Ralph Fyfe, Marie-José Gaillard, and Angelica Feurdean.

Best Publications

  • Pollen productivity estimates of key European plant taxa for quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation: a review

    Anna Broström;Anne Birgitte Nielsen;Marie-José Gaillard;Kari Hjelle

  • Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks

    M. J Gaillard;S. Sugita;F. Mazier;F. Mazier;A. K Trondman

  • A modern pollen–climate calibration set from northern Europe: developing and testing a tool for palaeoclimatological reconstructions

    Heikki Seppä;H. J. B. Birks;Arvid Odland;Anneli Poska

  • Pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene regional vegetation cover (plant-functional types and land-cover types) in Europe suitable for climate modelling.

    Anna-Kari Trondman;M.J. Gaillard;Florence Mazier;S. Sugita

  • The use of modelling and simulation approach in reconstructing past landscapes from fossil pollen data: a review and results from the POLLANDCAL network.

    Marie-José Gaillard;Shinya Sugita;M. Jane Bunting;Richard Middleton

  • Reflections of pre- and early-agrarian human impact in the pollen diagrams of Estonia

    A Poska;L Saarse;S Veski

  • Holocene annual mean temperature changes in Estonia and their relationship to solar insolation and atmospheric circulation patterns

    Heiikki Seppä;Anneli Poska

  • Holocene changes in vegetation composition in northern Europe: why quantitative pollen-based vegetation reconstructions matter

    Laurent Marquer;Laurent Marquer;Marie José Gaillard;Shinya Sugita;Anna Kari Trondman

  • Quantifying the effects of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in Europe

    Laurent Marquer;Laurent Marquer;Marie-Jose Gaillard;Shinya Sugita;Anneli Poska

  • Plant macrofossil evidence for an early onset of the Holocene summer thermal maximum in northernmost Europe

    M. Valiranta;J. S. Salonen;M. Heikkila;L. Amon

  • 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

  • Regional climate model simulations for Europe at 6 and 0.2 k BP: sensitivity to changes in anthropogenic deforestation

    G. Strandberg;E. Kjellstrom;Anneli Poska;S. Wagner

  • Integrated palaeoecological and historical data in the service of fine-resolution land use and ecological change assessment during the last 1000 years in Rõuge, southern Estonia

    Siim Veski;Kalev Koppel;Anneli Poska

  • Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic

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  • Early Holocene coastal settlements and palaeoenvironment on the shore of the Baltic Sea at Párnu, southwestern Estonia

    Siim Veski;Atko Heinsalu;Veiko Klassen;Aivar Kriiska

  • Pollen dispersal and deposition characteristics of Abies alba , Fagus sylvatica and Pinus sylvestris , Roztocze region (SE Poland)

    Anneli Poska;Anneli Poska;Irena Agnieszka Pidek

  • 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

  • Palynological richness and pollen sample evenness in relation to local floristic diversity in southern Estonia

    Vivika Meltsov;Anneli Poska;Bent Vad Odgaard;Marek Sammul

  • Relative pollen productivity estimates of major anemophilous taxa and relevant source area of pollen in a cultural landscape of the hemi-boreal forest zone (Estonia)

    Anneli Poska;Anneli Poska;Vivika Meltsov;Shinya Sugita;Jueri Vassiljev

  • Mid-Holocene European climate revisited: New high-resolution regional climate model simulations using pollen-based land-cover

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  • Long-term drivers of forest composition in a boreonemoral region: the relative importance of climate and human impact.

    Triin Reitalu;Heikki Seppa;Shinya Sugita;Mihkel Kangur

  • Using quantitative pollen-based land-cover estimations and a spatial CA_Markov model to reconstruct the development of cultural landscape at Rouge, South Estonia

    Anneli Poska;Anneli Poska;Edgar Sepp;Siim Veski;Kalev Koppel

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie-José Gaillard
Marie-José Gaillard Linnaeus University
Florence Mazier
Florence Mazier Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Ralph Fyfe
Ralph Fyfe Plymouth University
Shinya Sugita
Shinya Sugita Tallinn University
Heikki Seppä
Heikki Seppä University of Helsinki
Jed O. Kaplan
Jed O. Kaplan University of Calgary
Anne E. Bjune
Anne E. Bjune Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Erik Kjellström
Erik Kjellström Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Bent Vad Odgaard
Bent Vad Odgaard Aarhus University
John Dodson
John Dodson Chinese Academy of Sciences

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