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Neil J. Loader is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable emphasis on subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

The scientist's main topics of study include tree-ring climate responses, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, climate variability and models, forest ecology and management, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Loader has contributed to a range of scholarly journals, frequently publishing in Dendrochronologia and Vernacular Architecture. Other notable venues where their work appears include Nature Geoscience, The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, and Nature Climate Change.

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability," 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • "Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years," 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • "Enhanced woody biomass production in a mature temperate forest under elevated CO2," 2024, Nature Climate Change
  • "Summer precipitation for the England and Wales region, 1201-2000 ce, from stable oxygen isotopes in oak tree rings," 2020, Journal of Quaternary Science
  • "The unknown third - Hydrogen isotopes in tree-ring cellulose across Europe," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Loader include Danny McCarroll, D. E. Davies, Giles Young, Roderick J. Bale, and D. H. Miles, with collaboration counts ranging from 7 to 17 joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Stable isotopes in tree rings.

    Danny McCarroll;Neil J. Loader

  • An improved technique for the batch processing of small wholewood samples to α-cellulose

    N.J. Loader;I. Robertson;A.C. Barker;V.R. Switsur

  • Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

    D. C. Frank;B. Poulter;M. Saurer;J. Esper

  • Comparison of stable carbon isotope ratios in the whole wood, cellulose and lignin of oak tree-rings

    N.J. Loader;I. Robertson;I. Robertson;D. McCarroll

  • Correction of tree ring stable carbon isotope chronologies for changes in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere

    Danny McCarroll;Mary H. Gagen;Neil J. Loader;Iain Robertson

  • Exorcising the `segment length curse': summer temperature reconstruction since AD 1640 using non-detrended stable carbon isotope ratios from pine trees in northern Finland

    Mary Gagen;Danny McCarroll;Neil J. Loader;Iain Robertson

  • Spatial variability and temporal trends in water-use efficiency of European forests

    Matthias Saurer;Renato Spahni;Renato Spahni;David C. Frank;Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos

  • Signal strength and climate calibration of a European tree-ring isotope network

    K. Treydte;D. Frank;J. Esper;L. Andreu

  • Wood Cellulose Preparation Methods and Mass Spectrometric Analyses of δ13C, δ18O, and Nonexchangeable δ2H Values in Cellulose, Sugar, and Starch: An Interlaboratory Comparison

    Tatjana Boettger;Marika Haupt;Kay Knöller;Stephan M. Weise

  • Recent summer precipitation trends in the Greater Horn of Africa and the emerging role of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature

    A. Park Williams;A. Park Williams;Christopher C. Funk;Christopher C. Funk;Joel Michaelsen;Sara A. Rauscher

  • Impact of pre-Columbian "geoglyph" builders on Amazonian forests.

    Jennifer Watling;Jennifer Watling;José Iriarte;Francis E. Mayle;Denise Schaan

  • Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Anthropocene Series: Where and how to look for potential candidates

    Colin N. Waters;Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin Summerhayes;Ian J. Fairchild

  • Northern European trees show a progressively diminishing response to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations

    John S. Waterhouse;V.R. Switsur;V.R. Switsur;A.C. Barker;A.H.C. Carter;A.H.C. Carter

  • Blue intensity for dendroclimatology : Should we have the blues? Experiments from Scotland

    Miloš Rydval;Lars-Åke Larsson;Laura McGlynn;Björn E. Gunnarson

  • Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE.

    Ulf Büntgen;Lukas Wacker;J. Diego Galván;Stephanie Arnold

  • A 1200-year multiproxy record of tree growth and summer temperature at the northern pine forest limit of Europe

    Danny McCarroll;Neil J. Loader;Risto Jalkanen;Mary H. Gagen

  • Multiple stable isotopes from oak trees in southwestern Scotland and the potential for stable isotope dendroclimatology in maritime climatic regions

    N.J. Loader;P.M. Santillo;J.P. Woodman-Ralph;J.E. Rolfe

  • Blue intensity in Pinus sylvestris tree-rings : developing a new palaeoclimate proxy

    Rochelle Campbell;Danny McCarroll;Neil J. Loader;Håkan Grudd

  • Scientific merits and analytical challenges of tree-ring densitometry

    J. Björklund;J. Björklund;J. Björklund;G. von Arx;D. Nievergelt;R. Wilson;R. Wilson

  • On the purification of α-cellulose from resinous wood for stable isotope (H, C and O) analysis

    K.T. Rinne;T. Boettger;Neil J. Loader;I. Robertson

  • Stable carbon isotopes from Torneträsk, northern Sweden provide a millennial length reconstruction of summer sunshine and its relationship to Arctic circulation

    N. J. Loader;G. H. F. Young;Håkan Grudd;D. McCarroll

Frequent Co-Authors

Danny McCarroll
Danny McCarroll Swansea University
Iain Robertson
Iain Robertson Swansea University
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson University of St Andrews
F. Alayne Street-Perrott
F. Alayne Street-Perrott Swansea University
Dan J. Charman
Dan J. Charman University of Exeter
Dmitri Mauquoy
Dmitri Mauquoy University of Aberdeen
Keith Barber
Keith Barber University of Southampton
Matthias Saurer
Matthias Saurer Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Alexander V. Kirdyanov
Alexander V. Kirdyanov University of Cambridge
Hans W. Linderholm
Hans W. Linderholm University of Gothenburg

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