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81
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23185
World Ranking
800
National Ranking
290

Overview

Mark B. Bush is affiliated with the Florida Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research focuses extensively on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, reflecting a broad engagement with changes in natural environments over time.

The scientist has contributed significantly to several subfields of study, including atmospheric science, history, ecology, paleontology, and global and planetary change. These areas of inquiry support interdisciplinary approaches to understanding environmental shifts and their historical contexts.

Several main topics characterize their work, notably:

  • Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Cassava research and cyanide
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Mark B. Bush has authored and contributed to a range of recent papers, reflecting their active engagement in current scientific discourse. Selected recent publications include:

  • "How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity," 2021, Nature
  • "Evaluating global temperature calibrations for lacustrine branched GDGTs: Seasonal variability, paleoclimate implications, and future directions," 2023, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Neogene precipitation, vegetation, and elevation history of the Central Andean Plateau," 2020, Science Advances
  • "A palaeoecological perspective on the transformation of the tropical Andes by early human activity," 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Long-term ecological legacies in western Amazonia," 2020, Journal of Ecology

The scientist collaborates regularly with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Crystal N. H. McMichael, Majoi N. Nascimento, William D. Gosling, Marco F. Raczka, and Britte M. Heijink.

Mark B. Bush's research has been disseminated through multiple venues, with repeated publications in:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • ASVIDE
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Frontiers of Biogeography
  • Journal of Biogeography

Best Publications

  • Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Douglas W. Schemske;Howard V. Cornell;Andrew P. Allen

  • Changes in Fire Regimes Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Assessment Based on a Global Synthesis and Analysis of Charcoal Data

    Mitch J. Power;J. Marlon;N. Ortiz;P. J. Bartlein

  • A Long Pollen Record from Lowland Amazonia: Forest and Cooling in Glacial Times

    P. A. Colinvaux;P. E. De Oliveira;J. E. Moreno;M. C. Miller

  • Amazonian and neotropical plant communities on glacial time-scales: The failure of the aridity and refuge hypotheses

    P.A. Colinvaux;P.E. De Oliveira;P.E. De Oliveira;M.B. Bush

  • Conservation of Biodiversity in a Changing Climate

    L. Hannah;G. F. Midgley;T. Lovejoy;W. J. Bond

  • Amazonian speciation: a necessarily complex model

    Mark B. Bush

  • Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

    Connor Nolan;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Judy R.M. Allen;Patricia M. Anderson

  • Upslope migration of Andean trees

    Kenneth J. Feeley;Kenneth J. Feeley;Miles R. Silman;Mark B. Bush;William Farfan

  • Brazilian montane rainforest expansion induced by Heinrich Stadial 1 event

    Jorge L. D. Pinaya;Francisco W. Cruz;Gregorio C. T. Ceccantini;Pedro L. P. Correa

  • 48,000 years of climate and forest change in a biodiversity hot spot.

    Mark B. Bush;Miles R. Silman;Dunia H. Urrego

  • Tropical climates at the Last Glacial Maximum: a new synthesis of terrestrial palaeoclimate data. I. Vegetation, lake-levels and geochemistry

    I. Farrera;S. P. Harrison;I. C. Prentice;G. Ramstein

  • Plant Recolonization and Vegetation Succession on the Krakatau Islands, Indonesia

    R. J. Whittaker;M. B. Bush;K. Richards

  • Introduction: Elevation gradients in the tropics: laboratories for ecosystem ecology and global change research

    Yadvinder Malhi;Miles R Silman;N Salinas;M Bush

  • Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric carbon dioxide changes since the last glacial maximum

    Francis E. Mayle;David J. Beerling;William D. Gosling;William D. Gosling;Mark B. Bush

  • A 14 300-YR PALEOECOLOGICAL PROFILE OF A LOWLAND TROPICAL LAKE IN PANAMA'

    Mark B. Bush;Dolores R. Piperno;Paul A. Colinvaux;Paulo E. De Oliveira

  • An 85-ka record of climate change in lowland Central America

    David A. Hodell;Flavio S. Anselmetti;Daniel Ariztegui;Mark Brenner

  • Late pleistocene temperature depression and vegetation change in Ecuadorian Amazonia

    Mark B. Bush;Paul A. Colinvaux;Michael C. Wiemann;Dolores R. Piperno

  • Sparse pre-Columbian human habitation in western Amazonia.

    C. H. McMichael;D. R. Piperno;M. B. Bush;M. R. Silman

  • A 6,000 year history of Amazonian maize cultivation

    Mark B. Bush;Piperno, Dolores, R.;Paul A. Colinvaux

  • Distribution and ecology of parent taxa of pollen lodged within the Latin American Pollen Database

    Robert Marchant;Lucia Almeida;Hermann Behling;Juan Carlos Berrio

  • Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric carbon dioxide changes since the last glacial maximum: One contribution of 17 to a Theme Issue 'Tropical forests and global atmospheric change'

    Francis E. Mayle;David J. Beerling;William D. Gosling;Mark B. Bush

Frequent Co-Authors

William D. Gosling
William D. Gosling University of Amsterdam
Crystal N. H. McMichael
Crystal N. H. McMichael University of Amsterdam
Miles R. Silman
Miles R. Silman Wake Forest University
Dolores R. Piperno
Dolores R. Piperno National Museum of Natural History
Robert J. Whittaker
Robert J. Whittaker University of Oxford
Hermann Behling
Hermann Behling University of Göttingen
Jonathan T. Overpeck
Jonathan T. Overpeck University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Henry Hooghiemstra
Henry Hooghiemstra University of Amsterdam
Robert van Woesik
Robert van Woesik Florida Institute of Technology
Francis E. Mayle
Francis E. Mayle University of Reading

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