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Graeme T. Swindles is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with extensive focus in subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, and Geology.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Marine and environmental studies

Swindles has contributed to a range of scientific journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Nature Climate Change
  • European Journal of Protistology
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers authored by Swindles and colleagues include:

  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Imminent loss of climate space for permafrost peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Divergent responses of permafrost peatlands to recent climate change, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Drivers of Holocene palsa distribution in North America, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Swindles include:

  • Mariusz Gałka
  • Thomas P. Roland
  • Richard E. Fewster
  • Angela Gallego-Sala
  • Matthew J. Amesbury

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Development of a new pan-European testate amoeba transfer function for reconstructing peatland palaeohydrology

    Matthew J. Amesbury;Graeme T. Swindles;Anatoly Bobrov;Dan J. Charman

  • Coring and sub-sampling of peatlands for palaeoenvironmental research

    F. de Vleeschouwer;F. M. Chambers;G. T. Swindles

  • The long-term fate of permafrost peatlands under rapid climate warming

    Graeme T. Swindles;Paul J. Morris;Donal Mullan;Elizabeth J. Watson

  • Global peatland initiation driven by regionally asynchronous warming.

    Paul J Morris;Graeme T Swindles;Paul J Valdes;Ruza F Ivanovic

  • A 4500-year proxy climate record from peatlands in the North of Ireland: the identification of widespread summer ‘drought phases’?

    G.T. Swindles;A. Blundell;H.M. Roe;V.A. Hall

  • Imminent loss of climate space for permafrost peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia

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  • Ecohydrological feedbacks confound peat-based climate reconstructions

    Graeme T. Swindles;Paul J. Morris;Andy J. Baird;Maarten Blaauw

  • A delayed climatic response to solar forcing at 2800 cal. BP: multiproxy evidence from three Irish peatlands:

    Graeme T. Swindles;Gill Plunkett;Helen M. Roe

  • Widespread global peatland establishment and persistence over the last 130,000 y

    Claire C. Treat;Claire C. Treat;Thomas Kleinen;Nils Broothaerts;April S. Dalton

  • Centennial-scale climate change in Ireland during the Holocene

    Graeme T. Swindles;Ian T. Lawson;Ian P. Matthews;Maarten Blaauw

  • Latest Cretaceous-earliest Paleogene vegetation and climate change at the high southern latitudes: Palynological evidence from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula

    Vanessa C. Bowman;Jane E. Francis;Rosemary A. Askin;James B. Riding

  • Environmental controls on peatland testate amoebae (Protozoa: Rhizopoda) in the North of Ireland: Implications for Holocene palaeoclimate studies

    G.T. Swindles;D.J. Charman;Helen Roe;P.A. Sansum

  • Controls on the contemporary distribution of lake thecamoebians (testate amoebae) within the Greater Toronto Area and their potential as water quality indicators

    Helen M. Roe;R. Timothy Patterson;Graeme T. Swindles

  • Rapid climate change did not cause population collapse at the end of the European Bronze Age

    Ian Armit;Graeme T. Swindles;Katharina Becker;Gill Plunkett

  • The spatial distribution of Holocene cryptotephras in north-west Europe since 7 ka: implications for understanding ash fall events from Icelandic eruptions

    Ian T. Lawson;Graeme T. Swindles;Gill Plunkett;David Greenberg

  • A 7000 yr Perspective on Volcanic Ash Clouds Affecting Northern Europe

    Graeme T. Swindles;Ian T. Lawson;Ivan P. Savov;Charles B. Connor

  • Examining the dissolution characteristics of testate amoebae (Protozoa: Rhizopoda) in low pH conditions: implications for peatland palaeoclimate studies.

    Graeme T. Swindles;Helen M. Roe

  • Misinterpreting carbon accumulation rates in records from near-surface peat

    Dylan M. Young;Dylan M. Young;Andy J. Baird;Dan J. Charman;Chris D. Evans

  • Spheroidal carbonaceous particles are a defining stratigraphic marker for the Anthropocene

    Graeme T. Swindles;Elizabeth Watson;T. Edward Turner;Jennifer M. Galloway

Frequent Co-Authors

Helen Roe
Helen Roe Queen's University Belfast
Dan J. Charman
Dan J. Charman University of Exeter
Paul J. Morris
Paul J. Morris University of Leeds
R. Timothy Patterson
R. Timothy Patterson Carleton University
Richard J. Payne
Richard J. Payne University of York
Andrew Baird
Andrew Baird University of California, San Diego
Angela V. Gallego-Sala
Angela V. Gallego-Sala University of Exeter
Mariusz Lamentowicz
Mariusz Lamentowicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Mariusz Gałka
Mariusz Gałka Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University

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