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Oliver Heiri is a scientist affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland, specializing primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Anthropology, Paleontology, and Oceanography.

The core focus of their scientific work includes the study of Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, investigations of Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Tree-ring climate responses, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity, and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies.

Oliver Heiri has published extensively across several respected venues. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Scientific Data
  • The Holocene
  • Boreas
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as Willy Tinner, Colin J. Courtney Mustaphi, Fabian Rey, Martín Grosjean, and Erika Gobet.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Oliver Heiri include:

  • Holocene global mean surface temperature, a multi-method reconstruction approach (2020, Scientific Data)
  • Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records (2020, Scientific Data)
  • High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records (2020, Scientific Data)

Best Publications

  • Loss on ignition as a method for estimating organic and carbonate content in sediments: reproducibility and comparability of results.

    Oliver Heiri;André F. Lotter;André F. Lotter;Gerry Lemcke

  • The identification and use of palaearctic chironomidae larvae in palaeoecology

    Stephen J. Brooks;Peter G. Langdon;Oliver Heiri

  • The spatial and temporal complexity of the Holocene thermal maximum

    Hans Renssen;H. Sëppa;O. Heiri;Didier Roche

  • Tetraether membrane lipid distributions in water-column particulate matter and sediments: a study of 47 European lakes along a north-south transect

    Cornelia Iulia Blaga;Gert-Jan Reichart;Oliver Heiri;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Strengths and Weaknesses of Quantitative Climate Reconstructions Based on Late-Quaternary Biological Proxies

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  • Holocene global mean surface temperature, a multi-method reconstruction approach

    Darrell Scott Kaufman;Nicholas Paul McKay;Cody C Routson;Michael Erb

  • Effect of low count sums on quantitative environmental reconstructions: an example using subfossil chironomids

    Oliver Heiri;André F. Lotter

  • A chironomid-based Holocene summer air temperature reconstruction from the Swiss Alps

    Oliver Heiri;André F. Lotter;Sonja Hausmann;Felix Kienast

  • Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies

    Manuel Chevalier;Basil A. S. Davis;Oliver Heiri;Heikki Seppä

  • The chironomid-temperature relationship: expression in nature and palaeoenvironmental implications.

    Hilde Eggermont;Hilde Eggermont;Oliver Heiri;Oliver Heiri

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

    Darrell Kaufman;Nicholas McKay;Cody Routson;Michael Erb

  • Global change revealed by palaeolimnological records from remote lakes : a review

    Jordi Catalan;Sergi Pla-Rabés;Alexander P. Wolfe;John P. Smol

  • A 274-lake calibration data-set and inference model for chironomid-based summer air temperature reconstruction in Europe

    Oliver Heiri;Oliver Heiri;Stephen J. Brooks;H. John B. Birks;André F. Lotter

  • Validation of climate model-inferred regional temperature change for late-glacial Europe

    Oliver Heiri;Stephen J. Brooks;Hans Renssen;Alan Bedford

  • Palaeoclimate records 60–8 ka in the Austrian and Swiss Alps and their forelands

    Oliver Heiri;Karin A. Koinig;Christoph Spötl;Sam Barrett

  • Distribution of diatoms, chironomids and cladocera in surface sediments of thirty mountain lakes in south-eastern Switzerland

    Christian Bigler;Christian Bigler;Oliver Heiri;Renata Krskova;André F. Lotter

  • A compilation of Western European terrestrial records 60–8 ka BP: towards an understanding of latitudinal climatic gradients

    Ana Moreno;Anders Svensson;Stephen J. Brooks;Simon Connor

  • The Larvae of Chironomidae of the Holarctic Region – Keys and diagnoses

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  • Reconstruction of Late Glacial summer temperatures from chironomid assemblages in Lac Lautrey (Jura, France)

    Oliver Heiri;Laurent Millet

  • Late-Glacial climatic changes in Eastern France (Lake Lautrey) from pollen, lake-levels, and chironomids

    O. Peyron;C. Bégeot;S. Brewer;O. Heiri

  • Evidence for cooler European summers during periods of changing meltwater flux to the North Atlantic

    Oliver Heiri;Willy Tinner;André F. Lotter

  • Early-Holocene climatic oscillations recorded by lake-level fluctuations in west-central Europe and in central Italy

    Michel Magny;Boris Vannière;Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu;Carole Bégeot

Frequent Co-Authors

André F. Lotter
André F. Lotter University of Bern
Willy Tinner
Willy Tinner University of Bern
Stephen J. Brooks
Stephen J. Brooks Natural History Museum
David Bastviken
David Bastviken Linköping University
Heikki Seppä
Heikki Seppä University of Helsinki
Michel Magny
Michel Magny Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Daniele Colombaroli
Daniele Colombaroli Royal Holloway University of London
Matthew J. Wooller
Matthew J. Wooller University of Alaska Fairbanks
Martin Grosjean
Martin Grosjean University of Bern

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