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Overview

Dan J. Charman is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as ecology, atmospheric science, global and planetary change, earth-surface processes, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The main topics covered in their work include peatlands and wetlands ecology, geology and paleoclimatology research, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, climate change and permafrost, fire effects on ecosystems, cryospheric studies and observations, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

Charman has contributed to a range of scientific publications. Recent papers include:

  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Large historical carbon emissions from cultivated northern peatlands, 2021, Science Advances
  • Divergent responses of permafrost peatlands to recent climate change, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • A strong mitigation scenario maintains climate neutrality of northern peatlands, 2022, One Earth
  • Latitude, Elevation, and Mean Annual Temperature Predict Peat Organic Matter Chemistry at a Global Scale, 2022, Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Frequent co-authors in Charman's research include:

  • Angela Gallego-Sala (18 collaborations)
  • Graeme T. Swindles (9 collaborations)
  • Matthew J. Amesbury (8 collaborations)
  • Thomas P. Roland (7 collaborations)
  • Susan Page (6 collaborations)

The main venues where Charman's work appears are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 3 publications
  • Nature Climate Change with 2 publications
  • Science Advances with 2 publications
  • Environmental Research Letters with 2 publications
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research) with 2 publications

Best Publications

  • Peatlands and Environmental Change

    Dan Charman

  • A Database and Synthesis of Northern Peatland Soil Properties and Holocene Carbon and Nitrogen Accumulation

    Julie Loisel;Zicheng Yu;David W. Beilman;Philip Camill

  • Testate amoebae analysis in ecological and paleoecological studies of wetlands: past, present and future

    Edward A. D. Mitchell;Daniel J. Charman;Barry G. Warner

  • Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

    D. J. Charman;D. W. Beilman;M. Blaauw;R. K. Booth

  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

    J. Loisel;A. V. Gallego-Sala;Matthew J. Amesbury;Matthew J. Amesbury;G. Magnan

  • Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere surface climate

    Julie M. Jones;Sarah T. Gille;Hugues Goosse;Nerilie J. Abram

  • Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming

    Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Daniel J. Charman;Simon Brewer;Susan E. Page

  • Biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental applications of testate amoebae

    Dan J Charman

  • Compilation of non-annually resolved Holocene proxy climate records: stacked Holocene peatland palaeo-water table reconstructions from northern Britain

    Dan J. Charman;Antony Blundell;Richard C. Chiverrell;Dawn Hendon

  • The Flow Country: The peatlands of Caithness and Sutherland

    Richard Lindsay;D.J. Charman;F. Everingham;R.M. O'Reilly

  • Quantitative estimates of water tables and soil moisture in Holocene peatlands from testate amoebae

    Wendy A. Woodland;Dan J. Charman;Peter C. Sims

  • Peatlands and Their Role in the Global Carbon Cycle

    Zicheng Yu;D W Beilman;Steve Frolking;Glenn M MacDonald

  • The preparation of testate amoebae (Protozoa: Rhizopoda) samples from peat

    Dawn Hendon;Daniel J. Charman

  • 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

  • A new European testate amoebae transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction on ombrotrophic peatlands

    Dan J. Charman;Antony Blundell;Jukka Alm;Sue Bartlett

  • Foraminifera, testate amoebae and diatoms as sea-level indicators in UK saltmarshes: a quantitative multiproxy approach

    W. Roland Gehrels;Helen M. Roe;Dan J. Charman

  • Carbon balance of UK peatlands: current state of knowledge and future research challenges

    M. F. Billett;D. J. Charman;J. M. Clark;C. D. Evans

  • Preparation and analysis of testate amoebae in peatland palaeoenvironmental studies

    R. K. Booth;M. Lamentowicz;D. J. Charman

  • The influence of vegetation and soil characteristics on active‐layer thickness of permafrost soils in boreal forest

    James P. Fisher;Cristian Estop‐Aragonés;Aaron Thierry;Dan J. Charman

  • Climate drivers for peatland palaeoclimate records

    Dan J. Charman;Keith E. Barber;Maarten Blaauw;Pete G. Langdon

  • Summer water deficit variability controls on peatland water-table changes: implications for Holocene palaeoclimate reconstructions

    Dan J. Charman

  • Ecology of Testate Amoebae (Protozoa: Rhizopoda) on Peatlands in Western Russia with Special Attention to Niche Separation in Closely Related Taxa

    Anatoly A. Bobrov;Dan J. Charman;Barry G. Warner

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela V. Gallego-Sala
Angela V. Gallego-Sala University of Exeter
Graeme T. Swindles
Graeme T. Swindles Queen's University Belfast
Dmitri Mauquoy
Dmitri Mauquoy University of Aberdeen
Robert K. Booth
Robert K. Booth Lehigh University
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
Richard J. Payne
Richard J. Payne University of York
W. Roland Gehrels
W. Roland Gehrels University of York
Mariusz Lamentowicz
Mariusz Lamentowicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Minna Väliranta
Minna Väliranta University of Helsinki
Michelle Garneau
Michelle Garneau University of Quebec at Montreal

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