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Ralph Fyfe is affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Paleontology, Anthropology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their main research topics include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Tree-ring climate responses, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

Ralph Fyfe has published multiple papers in notable scientific journals. Some recent papers include:

  • European pollen-based REVEALS land-cover reconstructions for the Holocene: methodology, mapping and potentials (2022), published in Earth System Science Data
  • The spatiotemporal spread of human migrations during the European Holocene (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Palaeoecological data indicates land-use changes across Europe linked to spatial heterogeneity in mortality during the Black Death pandemic (2022), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Mid-Holocene European climate revisited: New high-resolution regional climate model simulations using pollen-based land-cover (2022), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo sapiens (2023), published in Science Advances

Frequent co-authors in Fyfe's work include:

  • Jessie Woodbridge
  • Florence Mazier
  • Elena A. Pearce
  • Jens-Christian Svenning
  • Maria Antonia Serge

They commonly publish in the following venues:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Science Advances
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Climate of the Past

Best Publications

  • Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

    Lucas Stephens;Dorian Fuller;Nicole Boivin;Torben Rick

  • Pollen productivity estimates of key European plant taxa for quantitative reconstruction of past vegetation: a review

    Anna Broström;Anne Birgitte Nielsen;Marie-José Gaillard;Kari Hjelle

  • Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks

    M. J Gaillard;S. Sugita;F. Mazier;F. Mazier;A. K Trondman

  • Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate.

    Andrew Bevan;Sue Colledge;Dorian Fuller;Ralph Fyfe

  • Europe's lost forests : a pollen-based synthesis for the last 11,000 years

    Neil Roberts;Ralph M. Fyfe;Jessie Woodbridge;Marie-José Gaillard

  • Late Holocene climate: Natural or anthropogenic?

    W. F. Ruddiman;D. Q. Fuller;J. E. Kutzbach;P. C. Tzedakis

  • Pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene regional vegetation cover (plant-functional types and land-cover types) in Europe suitable for climate modelling.

    Anna-Kari Trondman;M.J. Gaillard;Florence Mazier;S. Sugita

  • From forest to farmland: pollen-inferred land cover change across Europe using the pseudobiomization approach.

    Ralph M. Fyfe;Jessie Woodbridge;Neil Roberts

  • The impact of the Neolithic agricultural transition in Britain: a comparison of pollen-based land-cover and archaeological 14C date-inferred population change

    Jessie Woodbridge;Ralph M. Fyfe;Neil Roberts;Sean Downey

  • Holocene changes in vegetation composition in northern Europe: why quantitative pollen-based vegetation reconstructions matter

    Laurent Marquer;Laurent Marquer;Marie José Gaillard;Shinya Sugita;Anna Kari Trondman

  • The European Pollen Database: past efforts and current activities

    Ralph M. Fyfe;Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu;Heather Binney;Richard H. W. Bradshaw

  • The Holocene vegetation cover of Britain and Ireland : overcoming problems of scale and discerning patterns of openness

    Ralph M. Fyfe;Claire L. Twiddle;Shinya Sugita;Marie-José Gaillard

  • Quantifying the effects of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in Europe

    Laurent Marquer;Laurent Marquer;Marie-Jose Gaillard;Shinya Sugita;Anneli Poska

  • The first 100 years of pollen analysis

    Kevin J. Edwards;Ralph M. Fyfe;Stephen T. Jackson

  • Towards mapping the late Quaternary vegetation change of Europe

    Thomas Giesecke;Basil Davis;Simon Brewer;Walter Finsinger

  • Mediterranean landscape change during the Holocene: synthesis, comparison and regional trends in population, land cover and climate.

    C Neil Roberts;Jessie Woodbridge;Jessie Woodbridge;Alessio Palmisano;Andrew Bevan

  • The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

    Basil A S Davis;Marco Zanon;Pamella Collins;Achille Mauri

  • Mid- to late-Holocene vegetation history of Greater Exmoor, UK: estimating the spatial extent of human-induced vegetation change

    Ralph Fyfe;A.G Brown;Stephen Rippon

  • Regional climate model simulations for Europe at 6 and 0.2 k BP: sensitivity to changes in anthropogenic deforestation

    G. Strandberg;E. Kjellstrom;Anneli Poska;S. Wagner

  • Constraining the deforestation history of Europe: Evaluation of historical land use scenarios with pollen-based land cover reconstructions

    Jed O. Kaplan;Kristen M. Krumhardt;Marie José Gaillard;Shinya Sugita

  • GIS and the application of a model of pollen deposition and dispersal : a new approach to testing landscape hypotheses using the POLLANDCAL models

    Ralph Fyfe

Frequent Co-Authors

Jessie Woodbridge
Jessie Woodbridge Plymouth University
Florence Mazier
Florence Mazier Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Marie-José Gaillard
Marie-José Gaillard Linnaeus University
Anneli Poska
Anneli Poska Tallinn University of Technology
Shinya Sugita
Shinya Sugita Tallinn University
Neil Roberts
Neil Roberts Plymouth University
Jed O. Kaplan
Jed O. Kaplan University of Calgary
Stephen Shennan
Stephen Shennan University College London
Anne E. Bjune
Anne E. Bjune Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
Heikki Seppä
Heikki Seppä University of Helsinki

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