What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Ecology
- Statistics
- Ecosystem
Harry John Betteley Birks mainly focuses on Holocene, Climatology, Ecology, Younger Dryas and Climate change.
His Holocene research incorporates themes from Productivity, Pollen and Physical geography.
His Climatology study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Little ice age and Precipitation.
Within one scientific family, he focuses on topics pertaining to Biological dispersal under Ecology, and may sometimes address concerns connected to Taxon and Palynology.
His study in the field of Preboreal is also linked to topics like Air temperature.
His work in Climate change addresses subjects such as Ecosystem, which are connected to disciplines such as Paleoecology.
His most cited work include:
- An atlas of past and present pollen maps for Europe, 0-13,000 years ago (1202 citations)
- Diatoms and pH Reconstruction (922 citations)
- D.G. Frey and E.S. Deevey Review 1: Numerical tools in palaeolimnology – Progress, potentialities, and problems (745 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His scientific interests lie mostly in Ecology, Pollen, Physical geography, Climate change and Holocene.
His Pollen study incorporates themes from Plateau and Deciduous.
His Physical geography research includes elements of Varve and Paleontology, Quaternary, Paleoecology.
In his study, Environmental change, Oceanography, Diatom, Hydrology and Drainage basin is strongly linked to Sediment, which falls under the umbrella field of Climate change.
His study in Holocene is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Climatology, Proxy and Tree line.
Harry John Betteley Birks interconnects Glacier and Precipitation in the investigation of issues within Climatology.
He most often published in these fields:
- Ecology (66.12%)
- Pollen (39.41%)
- Physical geography (39.41%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2008-2020)?
- Holocene (44.30%)
- Ecology (66.12%)
- Climate change (44.63%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Harry John Betteley Birks mostly deals with Holocene, Ecology, Climate change, Climatology and Pollen.
Many of his research projects under Holocene are closely connected to Calibration function with Calibration function, tying the diverse disciplines of science together.
His Climate change research incorporates elements of Environmental gradient and Mean squared error, Sampling, Statistics, Maximum likelihood.
His study on Climatology also encompasses disciplines like
- Climate model and related Database, Before Present and Arctic,
- Abundance, which have a strong connection to Sediment, Taxon, Humid continental climate and Tundra.
His studies in Pollen integrate themes in fields like Plateau and Vegetation.
The Paleontology study combines topics in areas such as Training set and Physical geography.
Between 2008 and 2020, his most popular works were:
- Biodiversity baselines, thresholds and resilience: testing predictions and assumptions using palaeoecological data (227 citations)
- Biodiversity baselines, thresholds and resilience: testing predictions and assumptions using palaeoecological data (227 citations)
- Last nine-thousand years of temperature variability in Northern Europe (225 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Ecology
- Statistics
- Ecosystem
Harry John Betteley Birks spends much of his time researching Holocene, Ecology, Climate change, Climatology and Paleoecology.
His Holocene study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Atmospheric circulation, Pollen and Vegetation.
His Ecology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Elevation, Precipitation and Generalized additive model.
His Climatology research integrates issues from Glacier, Global warming and Mean radiant temperature.
His research integrates issues of Abundance and Physical geography in his study of Paleoecology.
Harry John Betteley Birks has researched Physical geography in several fields, including Environmental data and Paleontology.
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