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Overview

Chris Caseldine is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and works primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several specialized subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

The scientist's work focuses on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Marine and environmental studies, Tree-ring climate responses, and Lichen and fungal ecology. These areas reflect a diverse engagement with environmental and earth system sciences.

Caseldine has contributed to peer-reviewed literature with notable publications including:

  • Holocene history of landscape instability in Iceland: Can we deconvolve the impacts of climate, volcanism and human activity? (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation (2023, Land)

Collaboration forms a part of Caseldine's research approach, with frequent co-authors including Áslaug Geirsdóttir, David J. Harning, Gifford H. Miller, John T. Andrews, and Yafang Zhong. These collaborations likely contribute to the interdisciplinary nature of the research outputs.

The primary publication venues for Caseldine's work include Quaternary Science Reviews and Land, each reflecting the focus on environmental and earth sciences.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Holocene palaeoclimatic reconstruction in northern Iceland: approaches and results

    J. Stötter;M. Wastl;C. Caseldine;T. Häberle

  • The Holocene vegetation cover of Britain and Ireland : overcoming problems of scale and discerning patterns of openness

    Ralph M. Fyfe;Claire L. Twiddle;Shinya Sugita;Marie-José Gaillard

  • Environmental Change in Iceland: Past and Present

    Judith K. Maizels;Chris Caseldine

  • Early Holocene climate variability and the timing and extent of the Holocene thermal maximum (HTM) in northern Iceland

    Chris J Caseldine;Peter G Langdon;Naomi Holmes

  • A comparative study of optical properties of NaOH peat extracts: implications for humi®cation studies

    Chris J. Caseldine;Andy Baker;Dan J. Charman;Dawn Hendon

  • Paleohydrological Records from Peat Profiles and Speleothems in Sutherland, Northwest Scotland

    Dan J. Charman;Chris Caseldine;Andy Baker;Ben Gearey

  • Was there a ‘4.2 ka event’ in Great Britain and Ireland? Evidence from the peatland record

    T.P. Roland;T.P. Roland;C.J. Caseldine;D.J. Charman;C.S.M. Turney

  • Towards rapid assay of cryptotephra in peat cores: Review and evaluation of various methods

    Maria J. Gehrels;Rewi M. Newnham;David J. Lowe;Shirley Wynne

  • Efstadalsvatn – a multi-proxy study of a Holocene lacustrine sequence from NW Iceland

    Chris Caseldine;Áslaug Geirsdóttir;Peter Langdon

  • Surface Pollen Studies Across Bankhead Moss, Fife, Scotland

    C. J. Caseldine

  • Environmental controls on modern chironomid faunas from NW Iceland and implications for reconstructing climate change

    Peter G. Langdon;Naomi Holmes;Chris J. Caseldine

  • 14. The Holocene vegetation history of Iceland, state-of-the-art and future research

    Margrét Hallsdóttir;Chris J. Caseldine

  • The bigger picture: towards integrating palaeoclimate and environmental data with a history of societal change

    C. J. Caseldine;C. Turney

  • Evidence for an extreme climatic event on Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland around 5200–5100 cal. yr BP

    C. Caseldine;G. Thompson;C. Langdon;D. Hendon

  • Late Holocene (ca. 4 ka) marine and terrestrial environmental change in Reykjarfjördur, north Iceland: climate and/or settlement?

    John T. Andrews;John T. Andrews;Chris Caseldine;Nancy J. Weiner;Jackie Hatton

  • Changes in Betula in the Holocene record from Iceland—a palaeoclimatic record or evidence for early Holocene hybridisation?

    Chris Caseldine

  • The 5.2 ka climate event: Evidence from stable isotope and multi-proxy palaeoecological peatland records in Ireland

    T.P. Roland;T.J. Daley;C.J. Caseldine;D.J. Charman

  • A late Middle Pleistocene temperate–periglacial–temperate sequence (Oxygen Isotope Stages 7–5e) near Marsworth, Buckinghamshire, UK

    J.B. Murton;A. Baker;D.Q. Bowen;C.J. Caseldine

  • Stalagmite luminescence and peat humification records of palaeomoisture for the last 2500 years

    Andy Baker;Christopher J Caseldine;Mabs A Gilmour;Dan Charman

  • Iceland: modern processes and past environments

    CJ Caseldine;AJ Russell;Ó Knudsen;J Harðardóttir

  • Anthropogenic indicators in pollen diagrams: Edited by Karl-Ernst Behre, 1986, 246 pp., figures, plates, tables and 22 enclosures. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema. £21. ISBN-90-6191-673-9

    Chris Caseldine

  • Climatic trends and anomalies in Europe 1676–1715

    Chris Caseldine

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter G. Langdon
Peter G. Langdon University of Southampton
Andy Baker
Andy Baker University of New South Wales
Chris S. M. Turney
Chris S. M. Turney Heriot-Watt University
Ralph Fyfe
Ralph Fyfe Plymouth University
Dan J. Charman
Dan J. Charman University of Exeter
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Kevin J. Edwards
Kevin J. Edwards University of Aberdeen
Shinya Sugita
Shinya Sugita Tallinn University
John A. Matthews
John A. Matthews Swansea University
Marie-José Gaillard
Marie-José Gaillard Linnaeus University

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