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Pavel E. Tarasov is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Their research spans multiple domains within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Social Sciences, with a notable focus on Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Anthropology, Geography, Planning and Development, and Archeology as subfields of study.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Towards quantification of Holocene anthropogenic land-cover change in temperate China: A review in the light of pollen-based REVEALS reconstructions of regional plant cover, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • The spread of rice to Japan: Insights from Bayesian analysis of direct radiocarbon dates and population dynamics in East Asia, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • The spatio-temporal structure of the Lateglacial to early Holocene transition reconstructed from the pollen record of Lake Suigetsu and its precise correlation with other key global archives: Implications for palaeoclimatology and archaeology, 2021, Global and Planetary Change
  • LegacyClimate 1.0: a dataset of pollen-based climate reconstructions from 2594 Northern Hemisphere sites covering the last 30 kyr and beyond, 2023, Earth system science data
  • Holocene vegetation and climate history in Baikal Siberia reconstructed from pollen records and its implications for archaeology, 2020, Archaeological Research in Asia

Frequent co-authors working alongside Pavel E. Tarasov include:

  • Christian Leipe
  • Mayke Wagner
  • Tengwen Long
  • Franziska Kobe
  • E. V. Bezrukova

The scientist often publishes in the following venues:

  • Quaternary International
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Archaeological Research in Asia
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global and Planetary Change

Best Publications

  • Mid- to Late Holocene climate change: an overview

    Heinz Wanner;Jürg Beer;Jonathan Bütikofer;Thomas J. Crowley

  • Climatic Reconstruction in Europe for 18,000 YR B.P. from Pollen Data

    Odile Peyron;Joël Guiot;Rachid Cheddadi;Pavel Tarasov;Pavel Tarasov

  • 2.8 Million Years of Arctic Climate Change from Lake El’gygytgyn, NE Russia

    Martin Melles;Julie Brigham-Grette;Pavel S. Minyuk;Norbert R. Nowaczyk

  • 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

  • Last glacial maximum biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from northern Eurasia

    P. E. Tarasov;P. E. Tarasov;V. S. Volkova;T. Webb;J. Guiot

  • Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics of NE China based on the pollen record from Sihailongwan Maar Lake

    Martina Stebich;Kira Rehfeld;Frank Schlütz;Pavel E. Tarasov

  • Present-day and mid-Holocene biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from the former Soviet Union and Mongolia

    P. E. Tarasov;P. E. Tarasov;T. Webb Iii;A. A. Andreev;N. B. Afanas'eva

  • Quantifying the role of biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks in climate change: coupled model simulations for 6000 years BP and comparison with palaeodata for northern Eurasia and northern Africa

    D. Texier;N. De Noblet;S. P. Harrison;A. Haxeltine

  • Holocene environments and climate in the Mongolian Altai reconstructed from the Hoton-Nur pollen and diatom records: a step towards better understanding climate dynamics in Central Asia

    Natalia Rudaya;Pavel Tarasov;Nadezhda Dorofeyuk;Nadia Solovieva

  • A complete terrestrial radiocarbon record for 11.2 to 52.8 kyr B.P

    Christopher Bronk Ramsey;Richard A. Staff;Charlotte L. Bryant;Fiona Brock

  • Holocene vegetation and climate of the Alashan Plateau, NW China, reconstructed from pollen data

    Ulrike Herzschuh;Pavel Tarasov;Bernd Wünnemann;Kai Hartmann

  • Late Quaternary Lake-Level Record from Northern Eurasia

    Sandy P. Harrison;Ge Yu;Pavel E. Tarasov;Pavel E. Tarasov

  • Pliocene Warmth, Polar Amplification, and Stepped Pleistocene Cooling Recorded in NE Arctic Russia

    Julie Brigham-Grette;Martin Melles;Pavel Minyuk;Andrei Andreev

  • Quantitative pollen-based climate reconstruction in central Japan: application to surface and Late Quaternary spectra

    Takeshi Nakagawa;Pavel E. Tarasov;Pavel E. Tarasov;Kotoba Nishida;Katsuya Gotanda

  • Vegetation dynamics of Mongolia.

    Peter D. Gunin;Elizabeth A. Vostokova;Nadezhda I. Dorofeyuk;Pavel E. Tarasov

  • Annual precipitation since 515 BC reconstructed from living and fossil juniper growth of northeastern Qinghai Province, China

    P. R. Sheppard;Pavel E. Tarasov;L. J. Graumlich;L. J. Graumlich;K. U. Heussner

  • Late glacial and Holocene vegetation, Indian monsoon and westerly circulation in the Trans-Himalaya recorded in the lacustrine pollen sequence from Tso Kar, Ladakh, NW India

    Dieter Demske;Pavel E. Tarasov;Bernd Wünnemann;Frank Riedel

  • Vegetation and climate dynamics during the Holocene and Eemian interglacials derived from Lake Baikal pollen records

    Pavel Tarasov;Elena Bezrukova;Eugene Karabanov;Eugene Karabanov;Takeshi Nakagawa

  • A Holocene pollen record from the northwestern Himalayan lake Tso Moriri: Implications for palaeoclimatic and archaeological research

    Christian Leipe;Dieter Demske;Pavel E. Tarasov

  • Spatiotemporal distribution patterns of archaeological sites in China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age: An overview:

    Dominic Hosner;Mayke Wagner;Pavel E Tarasov;Xiaocheng Chen

  • Hydrological evolution during the last 15 kyr in the Tso Kar lake basin (Ladakh, India), derived from geomorphological, sedimentological and palynological records

    Bernd Wünnemann;Bernd Wünnemann;Dieter Demske;Pavel Tarasov;Bahadur S. Kotlia

  • Late glacial and Holocene vegetation and regional climate variability evidenced in high-resolution pollen records from Lake Baikal

    Dieter Demske;Georg Heumann;Wojciech Granoszewski;Małgorzata Nita

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrei Andreev
Andrei Andreev Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Martin Melles
Martin Melles University of Cologne
Takeshi Nakagawa
Takeshi Nakagawa Ritsumeikan University
Bernhard Diekmann
Bernhard Diekmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Volker Wennrich
Volker Wennrich University of Cologne
Julie Brigham-Grette
Julie Brigham-Grette University of Massachusetts Amherst
Robert M. DeConto
Robert M. DeConto University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lutz Schirrmeister
Lutz Schirrmeister Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Bernd Wünnemann
Bernd Wünnemann Freie Universität Berlin
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam

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