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Peter G. Langdon is a researcher affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their work focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant publications contributing to related subfields such as Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Geography, Planning and Development, Ecological Modeling, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research spans various main topics that include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations

Peter G. Langdon has published in several scientific venues with a notable frequency in:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Scientific Data
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • ePrints Soton (University of Southampton)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Among recent publications are the following papers:

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Human settlement of East Polynesia earlier, incremental, and coincident with prolonged South Pacific drought, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Temperature-body size responses in insects: a case study of British Odonata, 2020, Ecological Entomology
  • Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Insect body size changes under future warming projections: a case study of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera), 2021, Hydrobiologia

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Stephen J. Brooks
  • David Sear
  • Enlou Zhang
  • Ian W. Croudace
  • Melanie J. Leng

Best Publications

  • The identification and use of palaearctic chironomidae larvae in palaeoecology

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

  • Flickering gives early warning signals of a critical transition to a eutrophic lake state

    Rong Wang;John A. Dearing;Peter G. Langdon;Enlou Zhang

  • Safe and just operating spaces for regional social-ecological systems

    John A. Dearing;Rong Wang;Ke Zhang;James G. Dyke

  • Mire-development pathways and palaeoclimatic records from a full Holocene peat archive at Walton Moss, Cumbria, England:

    Paul Dm Hughes;Dmitri Mauquoy;K E Barber;Peter G Langdon

  • Compilation of non-annually resolved Holocene proxy climate records: stacked Holocene peatland palaeo-water table reconstructions from northern Britain

    Dan J. Charman;Antony Blundell;Richard C. Chiverrell;Dawn Hendon

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

    Darrell Kaufman;Nicholas McKay;Cody Routson;Michael Erb

  • 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

  • Extending the timescale and range of ecosystem services through paleoenvironmental analyses, exemplified in the lower Yangtze basin

    John A. Dearing;Xiangdong Yang;Xuhui Dong;Enlou Zhang

  • A 7500-year peat-based palaeoclimatic reconstruction and evidence for an 1100-year cyclicity in bog surface wetness from Temple Hill Moss, Pentland Hills, southeast Scotland

    P.G. Langdon;K.E. Barber;P.D.M. Hughes

  • Climate drivers for peatland palaeoclimate records

    Dan J. Charman;Keith E. Barber;Maarten Blaauw;Pete G. Langdon

  • Assessing lake eutrophication using chironomids: understanding the nature of community response in different lake types

    Peter G. Langdon;Zoe Ruiz;Klaus P. Brodersen;Ian D. L. Foster

  • First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world

    Nathalie Dubois;Nathalie Dubois;Émilie Saulnier-Talbot;Keely Mills;Peter Gell

  • Ecological influences on larval chironomid communities in shallow lakes: implications for palaeolimnological interpretations

    Peter G. Langdon;Zoe Ruiz;Shirley Wynne;Carl D. Sayer

  • Combining contemporary ecology and palaeolimnology to understand shallow lake ecosystem change.

    Carl D. Sayer;Thomas A. Davidson;John Iwan Jones;Peter G. Langdon

  • Early Holocene climate variability and the timing and extent of the Holocene thermal maximum (HTM) in northern Iceland

    Chris J Caseldine;Peter G Langdon;Naomi Holmes

  • Centennial-scale climate change in Ireland during the Holocene

    Graeme T. Swindles;Ian T. Lawson;Ian P. Matthews;Maarten Blaauw

  • The climate of Scotland over the last 5000 years inferred from multiproxy peatland records: inter‐site correlations and regional variability

    Peter G. Langdon;Keith E. Barber

  • Social-ecological systems in the Anthropocene: The need for integrating social and biophysical records at regional scales

    JA Dearing;B Acma;S Bub;FM Chambers

  • What drives the peat-based palaeoclimate record? A critical test using multi-proxy climate records from northern Britain

    Keith E. Barber;Peter G. Langdon

  • Holocene high-resolution quantitative summer temperature reconstruction based on subfossil chironomids from the southeast margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Enlou Zhang;Jie Chang;Jie Chang;Yanmin Cao;Weiwei Sun

  • First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems

    Nathalie Dubois;Emilie Saulnier-Talbot;Keely Mills;Peter Gell

Frequent Co-Authors

Enlou Zhang
Enlou Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chris Caseldine
Chris Caseldine University of Exeter
Keith Barber
Keith Barber University of Southampton
Xiangdong Yang
Xiangdong Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
John A. Dearing
John A. Dearing University of Southampton
Stephen J. Brooks
Stephen J. Brooks Natural History Museum
Ian W. Croudace
Ian W. Croudace University of Southampton
Ji Shen
Ji Shen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Yarrow Axford
Yarrow Axford Northwestern University

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