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Mariusz Gałka is affiliated with Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans a variety of subfields including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics of their scientific work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Climate change and permafrost

Mariusz Gałka has authored and co-authored numerous research papers published in prominent scientific journals. Some recent publications include:

  • "Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink", 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe", 2020, Biogeosciences
  • "Recent fire regime in the southern boreal forests of western Siberia is unprecedented in the last five millennia", 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Environmental drivers of Sphagnum growth in peatlands across the Holarctic region", 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • "The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2", 2020, Earth system science data

Their work is frequently published in scientific venues that include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • The Holocene
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Biogeosciences

Collaboration is a key aspect of Gałka's research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Mariusz Lamentowicz
  • Piotr Kołaczek
  • Angelica Feurdean
  • Klaus-Holger Knorr
  • Graeme T. Swindles

Best Publications

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

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

  • 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

  • Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids

    B. D. A. Naafs;G. N. Inglis;Y. Zheng;M. J. Amesbury

  • Climate Variability and Associated Vegetation Response throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) between 60 and 8 ka

    A. Feurdean;A. Perşoiu;I. Tanţău;T. Stevens

  • 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

  • Last millennium palaeoenvironmental changes from a Baltic bog (Poland) inferred from stable isotopes, pollen, plant macrofossils and testate amoebae

    Mariucz Lamentowicz;A. Cedro;M. Gałka;T. Goslar

  • The sedimentary and remote-sensing reflection of biomass burning in Europe

    Carole Adolf;Stefan Wunderle;Daniele Colombaroli;Daniele Colombaroli;Helga Weber

  • Postglacial history of vegetation, human activity and lake-level changes at Jezioro Linówek in northeast Poland, based on multi-proxy data

    Mariusz Gałka;Kazimierz Tobolski;Edyta Zawisza;Edyta Zawisza;Tomasz Goslar

  • Reconstructing climate change and ombrotrophic bog development during the last 4000 years in northern Poland using biotic proxies, stable isotopes and trait-based approach

    M. Lamentowicz;M. Gałka;Ł. Lamentowicz;M. Obremska

  • The Medieval Climate Anomaly in South America

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  • Palaeohydrology, fires and vegetation succession in the southern Baltic during the last 7500 years reconstructed from a raised bog based on multi-proxy data.

    Mariusz Gałka;Grażyna Miotk-Szpiganowicz;Tomasz Goslar;Marcin Jęśko

  • Unveiling exceptional Baltic bog ecohydrology, autogenic succession and climate change during the last 2000 years in CE Europe using replicate cores, multi-proxy data and functional traits of testate amoebae

    Mariusz Gałka;Kazimierz Tobolski;Łukasz Lamentowicz;Vasile Ersek

  • Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe

    Angelica Feurdean;Angelica Feurdean;Boris Vannière;Walter Finsinger;Dan Warren

  • Holocene centennial to millennial shifts in North-Atlantic storminess and ocean dynamics

    Jérôme Goslin;Mikkel Fruergaard;Lasse Sander;Mariusz Gałka

  • Palaeoenvironmental changes in Central Europe (NE Poland) during the last 6200 years reconstructed from a high-resolution multi-proxy peat archive

    Mariusz Gałka;Grażyna Miotk-Szpiganowicz;Miriam Marczewska;Jan Barabach

  • Fire has been an important driver of forest dynamics in the Carpathian Mountains during the Holocene

    Angelica Feurdean;Gabriela Florescu;Boris Vannière;Ioan Tanţău

  • Last Millennium hydro-climate variability in Central–Eastern Europe (Northern Carpathians, Romania)

    Angelica Feurdean;Mariusz Galka;Eliza Kuske;Ioan Tantau

  • The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2

    Basil A. S. Davis;Manuel Chevalier;Philipp Sommer;Vachel A. Carter

  • Environmental drivers of Sphagnum growth in peatlands across the Holarctic region

    Fia Bengtsson;Håkan Rydin;Jennifer L. Baltzer;Luca Bragazza;Luca Bragazza

  • Climate change, vegetation development, and lake level fluctuations in Lake Purwin (NE Poland) during the last 8600 cal. BP based on a high-resolution plant macrofossil record and stable isotope data (δ13C and δ18O)

    Mariusz Gałka;Karina Apolinarska

  • Recent fire regime in the southern boreal forests of western Siberia is unprecedented in the last five millennia

    Angelica Feurdean;Gabriela Florescu;Ioan Tanţău;Boris Vannière

  • A novel testate amoebae trait-based approach to infer environmental disturbance in Sphagnum peatlands

    Katarzyna Marcisz;Daniele Colombaroli;Vincent E. J. Jassey;Willy Tinner

Frequent Co-Authors

Mariusz Lamentowicz
Mariusz Lamentowicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Graeme T. Swindles
Graeme T. Swindles Queen's University Belfast
Angelica Feurdean
Angelica Feurdean Goethe University Frankfurt
Angela V. Gallego-Sala
Angela V. Gallego-Sala University of Exeter
Dan J. Charman
Dan J. Charman University of Exeter
Richard J. Payne
Richard J. Payne University of York
Tomasz Goslar
Tomasz Goslar Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Paul J. Morris
Paul J. Morris University of Leeds
Boris Vannière
Boris Vannière Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Luca Bragazza
Luca Bragazza Agroscope

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