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Overview

Antony G. Brown is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway in Norway. Their research primarily spans fields such as Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Soil Science, and Archaeology.

The main topics of Antony G. Brown's work encompass a range of specialized areas:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Recent publications by Antony G. Brown illustrate a focus on sedimentary ancient DNA and environmental conditions related to past biodiversity and climate:

  • Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations, 2021, Quaternary
  • High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Postglacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia, 2022, Science Advances
  • Last Glacial Maximum environmental conditions at Andøya, northern Norway; evidence for a northern ice-edge ecological "hotspot", 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Sedimentary ancient DNA shows terrestrial plant richness continuously increased over the Holocene in northern Fennoscandia, 2021, Science Advances

Antony G. Brown frequently publishes in venues such as Quaternary Science Reviews, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), World Archaeology, Quaternary, and Nature Communications.

Collaborations form an important aspect of their research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Inger Greve Alsos
  • Peter D. Heintzman
  • Dilli P. Rijal
  • Daniel Fallu
  • Ben Pears

Best Publications

  • Alluvial Geoarchaeology: Floodplain Archaeology and Environmental Change

    A. G. Brown

  • Natural vs anthropogenic streams in Europe: History, ecology and implications for restoration, river-rewilding and riverine ecosystem services

    Antony G. Brown;Laurent Lespez;David A. Sear;Jean-Jacques Macaire

  • The Geomorphology of The Anthropocene: Emergence, Status and Implications

    Antony G. Brown;Stephen Tooth;Joanna E. Bullard;David S. G. Thomas

  • Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity : Overview and Recommendations

    Eric Capo;Charline Giguet-Covex;Alexandra Rouillard;Kevin Nota

  • Human impact on fluvial regimes and sediment flux during the Holocene: review and future research agenda

    T. Hoffmann;V.R. Thorndycraft;A.G. Brown;T.J. Coulthard

  • The fluvial evolution of the Holocene Nile Delta.

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  • Fluvial Processes and Environmental Change

    A. G. Brown;T. A. Quine

  • Sedimentary ancient DNA from Lake Skartjørna, Svalbard: Assessing the resilience of arctic flora to Holocene climate change

    Inger Greve Alsos;Per Sjögren;Mary E Edwards;Mary E Edwards;Jon Y Landvik

  • The use of forensic botany and geology in war crimes investigations in NE Bosnia.

    A.G. Brown

  • Learning from the past: palaeohydrology and palaeoecology

    A. G. Brown

  • Monitoring fluvial pollen transport, its relationship to catchment vegetation and implications for palaeoenvironmental studies

    A.G. Brown;R.G. Carpenter;D.E. Walling

  • Fluvial Processes in a Forested Anastomosing River: Flood Partitioning and Changing Flow Patterns.

    K. Harwood;A. G. Brown

  • Mid- to late-Holocene vegetation history of Greater Exmoor, UK: estimating the spatial extent of human-induced vegetation change

    Ralph Fyfe;A.G Brown;Stephen Rippon

  • Geomorphology of the Anthropocene: time-transgressive discontinuities of human-induced alluviation

    Antony Brown;Phil Toms;Christopher Carey;Eddie Rhodes

  • The palaeoecology of Alnus (alder) and the Postglacial history of floodplain vegetation. Pollen percentage and influx data from the West Midlands, United Kingdom

    A. G. Brown

  • High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change

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  • Postglacial species arrival and diversity buildup of northern ecosystems took millennia

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  • Geoarchaeology, the four dimensional (4D) fluvial matrix and climatic causality

    A.G. Brown

  • Beyond Villages and Open Fields: The Origins and Development of a Historic Landscape Characterised by Dispersed Settlement in South-West England

    Stephen Rippon;Ralph Fyfe;A.G Brown

  • The combined use of pollen and soil analyses in a search and subsequent murder investigation.

    Antony G Brown;Andrew Smith;Orlando Elmhurst

  • The Anthropocene: is there a geomorphological case?

    Antony G. Brown;Stephen Tooth;Richard C. Chiverrell;James Rose

  • Late Holocene paleoecology and sedimentary history of a small lowland catchment in central England

    Antony G. Brown;Keith E. Barber

  • The potential use of pollen in the identification of suspended sediment sources

    A. G. Brown

  • FLOODPLAIN EVOLUTION IN THE EAST MIDLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM : THE LATEGLACIAL AND FLANDRIAN ALLUVIAL RECORD FROM THE SOAR AND NENE VALLEYS

    A. G. Brown;M. K. Keough;R. J. Rice

Frequent Co-Authors

Inger Greve Alsos
Inger Greve Alsos University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Paolo Tarolli
Paolo Tarolli University of Padua
Mary E. Edwards
Mary E. Edwards University of Southampton
Kristof Van Oost
Kristof Van Oost Université Catholique de Louvain
Eric Coissac
Eric Coissac Grenoble Alpes University
Andreas Lang
Andreas Lang University of Salzburg
Peter G. Langdon
Peter G. Langdon University of Southampton
Ludovic Gielly
Ludovic Gielly Grenoble Alpes University
Karin F. Helmens
Karin F. Helmens Stockholm University
Jostein Bakke
Jostein Bakke University of Bergen

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