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Dieter Uhl is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research primarily spans across Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these disciplines, their work has focused on several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Molecular Biology, and Mechanics of Materials.

The main topics of Dieter Uhl's research cover a range of areas related to paleobotany, geology, and paleoclimatology. These include:

  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Fern and Epiphyte Biology

Their frequent co-authors reflect collaborative efforts in these fields and include André Jasper, Haytham El Atfy, Yongdong Wang, Rafael Spiekermann, and Aowei Xie.

Publications by Dieter Uhl have appeared in a variety of scientific venues, notably:

  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Cretaceous Research
  • Palaeoworld

Examples of recent papers include:

  • Evidence for the repeated occurrence of wildfires in an upper Pliocene lignite deposit from Yunnan, SW China, 2022, International Journal of Coal Geology
  • Evidence of widespread wildfires in coal seams from the Middle Jurassic of Northwest China and its impact on paleoclimate, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 1: How well can we identify past plant diversity in the fossil record?, 2021, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Paleoclimate-induced wildfires in a paleomire in the Ordos Basin, Northern China during the Middle Jurassic greenhouse period, 2023, Chemical Geology
  • Palaeobotanical experiences of plant diversity in deep time. 2: How to measure and analyse past plant biodiversity, 2021, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Best Publications

  • The role of the uplift of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau for the evolution of Tibetan biotas

    Adrien Favre;Martin Päckert;Steffen U. Pauls;Sonja C. Jähnig

  • Miocene climate in Europe — Patterns and evolution

    Angela A. Bruch;Dieter Uhl;Volker Mosbrugger

  • A Late Miocene climate model simulation with ECHAM4/ML and its quantitative validation with terrestrial proxy data

    Arne Micheels;Angela A. Bruch;Dieter Uhl;Dieter Uhl;Torsten Utescher

  • The burning of Gondwana: Permian fires on the southern continent—A palaeobotanical approach

    André Jasper;Margot Guerra-Sommer;Abdalla M.B. Abu Hamad;Marion Bamford

  • Late Moscovian terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments of Variscan Euramerica

    C.J. Cleal;S. Opluštil;B.A. Thomas;Y. Tenchov

  • Reconstructing palaeotemperatures using leaf floras – case studies for a comparison of leaf margin analysis and the coexistence approach

    D Uhl;V Mosbrugger;A Bruch;T Utescher

  • Cenozoic paleotemperatures and leaf physiognomy — A European perspective

    Dieter Uhl;Dieter Uhl;Stefan Klotz;Christopher Traiser;Christine Thiel

  • Plant biodiversity changes in Carboniferous tropical wetlands

    C. J. Cleal;D. Uhl;B. Cascales-Miñana;B. A. Thomas

  • Triassic and Jurassic palaeoclimate development in the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, Northwest China—a review and additional lithological data

    A. Rahman Ashraf;Yuewu Sun;Ge Sun;Ge Sun;Dieter Uhl

  • Wildfires in the Late Palaeozoic of Central Europe - The Zechstein (Upper Permian) of NW-Hesse (Germany)

    Dieter Uhl;Hans Kerp

  • The record of Triassic charcoal and other evidence for palaeo-wildfires: Signal for atmospheric oxygen levels, taphonomic biases or lack of fuel?

    Abdallah M.B. Abu Hamad;André Jasper;Dieter Uhl

  • Wildfires in the Late Palaeozoic of Central Europe—an overview of the Rotliegend (Upper Carboniferous-Lower Permian) of the Saar-Nahe Basin (SW-Germany)

    D. Uhl;S. Lausberg;R. Noll;K.R.G. Stapf

  • Na Duong (northern Vietnam) – an exceptional window into Eocene ecosystems from Southeast Asia

    Madelaine Böhme;Manuela Aiglstorfer;Pierre-Olivier Antoine;Erwin Appel

  • Evidence for palaeo-wildfire in the Late Permian palaeotropics – charcoalified wood from the Um Irna Formation of Jordan

    D. Uhl;A. Abu Hamad;A. Abu Hamad;H. Kerp;K. Bandel

  • Seasonality intensification and long-term winter cooling as a part of the Late Pliocene climate development

    Stefan Klotz;Stefan Klotz;Séverine Fauquette;Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout;Dieter Uhl;Dieter Uhl

  • The sensitivity of ECHAM4/ML to a double CO2 scenario for the Late Miocene and the comparison to terrestrial proxy data

    Anke Steppuhn;Arne Micheels;Arne Micheels;Angela A. Bruch;Dieter Uhl;Dieter Uhl

  • Refining CLAMP — Investigations towards improving the Climate Leaf Analysis Multivariate Program

    Vasilis Teodoridis;Petr Mazouch;Robert A. Spicer;Robert A. Spicer;Dieter Uhl

  • Palaeoclimate estimates for the Middle Miocene Schrotzburg flora (S Germany): a multi-method approach

    Dieter Uhl;Dieter Uhl;Angela A. Bruch;Angela A. Bruch;Christopher Traiser;Stefan Klotz

  • The antiquity of the Rhine River: stratigraphic coverage of the dinotheriensande (eppelsheim formation) of the Mainz Basin (Germany).

    Madelaine Böhme;Manuela Aiglstorfer;Dieter Uhl;Ottmar Kullmer

  • Fires in the mire: repeated fire events in Early Permian ‘peat forming’ vegetation of India

    André Jasper;Deepa Agnihotri;Rajni Tewari;Rafael Spiekermann

  • Source rock potential and paleoenvironment of the Miocene Rudeis and Kareem formations, Gulf of Suez, Egypt: An integrated palynofacies and organic geochemical approach

    Haytham El Atfy;Haytham El Atfy;Rainer Brocke;Dieter Uhl;Dieter Uhl;Bandar Ghassal

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Klotz
Stefan Klotz Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Volker Mosbrugger
Volker Mosbrugger American Museum of Natural History
Torsten Utescher
Torsten Utescher University of Bonn
Volker Mosbrugger
Volker Mosbrugger American Museum of Natural History
Leszek Marynowski
Leszek Marynowski University of Silesia
Christopher J. Cleal
Christopher J. Cleal University of Bristol
Madelaine Böhme
Madelaine Böhme University of Tübingen
Ralf Littke
Ralf Littke RWTH Aachen University
Michael Krings
Michael Krings Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jennifer C. McElwain
Jennifer C. McElwain Trinity College Dublin

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