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  • 2011 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Keith D. Bennett is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on anthropology, management, monitoring, policy and law, and conservation. These areas reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their work.

Bennett's publications concentrate on several main topics, including historical and cultural archaeology studies, archaeology and natural history, American environmental and regional history, and architecture, design, and social history. This range underlines an engagement with both cultural heritage and environmental contexts in their research.

Recent published works include two papers both titled "Sewn Histories: Sweetgrass Basketry, Cultural Heritage, and Community Change in the South Carolina Lowcountry," released in 2025 and appearing in the Southeastern Geographer. These studies show a detailed examination of cultural heritage through the lens of material culture and community transformation.

Publication venues favored by Bennett include:

  • Southeastern Geographer (2 publications)

Frequent co-authors are not listed, indicating that recent works may have been produced independently.

Key fields of study covered in Bennett's academic output comprise:

  • Social Sciences (3 publications)

Subfields of study include:

  • Anthropology (3 publications)
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (1 publication)
  • Conservation (1 publication)

Main academic topics addressed in Bennett's research are:

  • Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (4 publications)
  • Archaeology and Natural History (2 publications)
  • American Environmental and Regional History (2 publications)
  • Architecture, Design, and Social History (2 publications)

Bennett has been recognized as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy since 2011. This honorary distinction reflects a level of professional recognition by peers within the academic community.

Best Publications

  • Determination of the number of zones in a biostratigraphical sequence

    K. D. Bennett

  • Phylogeographic insights into cryptic glacial refugia.

    Jim Provan;Keith D. Bennett

  • QUATERNARY REFUGIA OF NORTH EUROPEAN TREES

    K. D. Bennett;P. C. Tzedakis;K. J. Willis

  • What do we mean by 'refugia'?

    Keith D. Bennett;J. Provan

  • Evolution and Ecology: The Pace of Life

    K. D. Bennett

  • Glacial Survival of Boreal Trees in Northern Scandinavia

    Laura Parducci;Laura Parducci;Tina Jørgensen;Mari Mette Tollefsrud;Ellen Elverland

  • Milankovitch cycles and their effects on species in ecological and evolutionary time

    K. D. Bennett

  • How can a knowledge of the past help to conserve the future? Biodiversity conservation and the relevance of long-term ecological studies.

    Katherine J. Willis;Miguel B. Miguel B. Araújo;Keith Bennett;Blanca Blanca Figueroa-Rangel

  • The Holocene spread of Picea abies (L.) Karst. in Fennoscandia and adjacent areas

    Thomas Giesecke;Keith Bennett

  • Ancient plant DNA in lake sediments

    Laura Parducci;Keith D. Bennett;Keith D. Bennett;Gentile Francesco Ficetola;Gentile Francesco Ficetola;Inger Greve Alsos

  • Looking forward through the past: Identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

    Alistair W. R. Seddon;Alistair W. R. Seddon;Anson W. Mackay;Ambroise G. Baker;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • The post-glacial history of Pinus sylvestris in the British Isles

    K.D. Bennett

  • Holocene History of Environment, Vegetation and Human Settlement on Catta Ness, Lunnasting, Shetland

    K. D. Bennett;S. Boreham;M. J. Sharp;V. R. Switsur

  • Crossing forest thresholds: inertia and collapse in a Holocene sequence from south-central Spain

    José S. Carrión;Antonia Andrade;Keith D. Bennett;Cristina Navarro

  • Confidence intervals for age estimates and deposition times in late-Quaternary sediment sequences

    K.D. Bennett

  • Double the dates and go for Bayes — Impacts of model choice, dating density and quality on chronologies

    Maarten Blaauw;J. Andrés Christen;K.D. Bennett;K.D. Bennett;Paula J. Reimer

  • The spread of Fagus grandifolia across eastern North America during the last 18 000 years

    K. D. Bennett

  • Quaternary pollen analysis: recent progress in palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology

    Heikki Seppä;K.D. Bennett

  • The rate of spread and population increase of forest trees during the postglacial

    K. D. Bennett

  • Postglacial population expansion of forest trees in Norfolk, UK

    K. D. Bennett

  • The power of movement in plants.

    K.D Bennett

Frequent Co-Authors

Katherine J. Willis
Katherine J. Willis University of Oxford
Maarten Blaauw
Maarten Blaauw Queen's University Belfast
Simon G. Haberle
Simon G. Haberle Australian National University
Dmitri Mauquoy
Dmitri Mauquoy University of Aberdeen
Yoshihisa Suyama
Yoshihisa Suyama Tohoku University
Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen
Kurt H. Kjær
Kurt H. Kjær University of Copenhagen
Andrei Andreev
Andrei Andreev Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Nicolaj K. Larsen
Nicolaj K. Larsen University of Copenhagen
James Haile
James Haile Murdoch University

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