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Richard Bindler

Richard Bindler

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Earth Science

D-Index
52
Citations
8369
World Ranking
3102
National Ranking
28

Overview

Richard Bindler is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Paleontology, and Environmental Chemistry. The main topics of their work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Bindler's recent publications include:

  • Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations, 2021, Quaternary
  • Inorganic geochemistry of lake sediments: A review of analytical techniques and guidelines for data interpretation, 2023, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Organic carbon burial in a large, deep alpine lake (southwest China) in response to changes in climate, land use and nutrient supply over the past ~100 years, 2021, CATENA
  • Spatial variation of organic carbon sequestration in large lakes and implications for carbon stock quantification, 2021, CATENA
  • 9000 years of changes in peat organic matter composition in Store Mosse (Sweden) traced using FTIR-ATR, 2021, Boreas

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Antonio Martínez Cortizas
  • Malin E. Kylander
  • Johan Rydberg
  • Christian Bigler
  • Jenny Sjöström

Bindler has published multiple papers in the following venues:

  • CATENA
  • Chemical Geology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Quaternary
  • Earth-Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • The Medieval Metal Industry Was the Cradle of Modern Large-Scale Atmospheric Lead Pollution in Northern Europe

    Maja-Lena Brännvall;Richard Bindler;Ingemar Renberg;Ove Emteryd

  • Using the historical atmospheric lead-deposition record as a chronological marker in sediment deposits in Europe:

    Ingemar Renberg;Richard Bindler;Maja-Lena Brännvall

  • Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids

    B. D. A. Naafs;G. N. Inglis;Y. Zheng;M. J. Amesbury

  • Modeling the Past Atmospheric Deposition of Mercury Using Natural Archives

    Harald Biester;Richard Bindler;§ and Antonio Martinez-Cortizas;Daniel R. Engstrom

  • Stable lead isotopes and lake sediments--a useful combination for the study of atmospheric lead pollution history.

    I. Renberg;M.-L. Brännvall;R. Bindler;O. Emteryd

  • Four thousand years of atmospheric lead pollution in northern Europe: a summary from Swedish lake sediments

    M.-L. Bränvall;R. Bindler;O. Emteryd;I. Renberg

  • Carbon and nitrogen loss rates during aging of lake sediment: Changes over 27 years studied in varved lake sediment

    Veronika Gälman;Johan Rydberg;Sara Sjöstedt de-Luna;Richard Bindler

  • Evaluation of conservative lithogenic elements (Ti, Zr, Al, and Rb) to study anthropogenic element enrichments in lake sediments

    Xavier Boes;Johan Rydberg;A. Martinez-Cortizas;Richard Bindler

  • Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity : Overview and Recommendations

    Eric Capo;Charline Giguet-Covex;Alexandra Rouillard;Kevin Nota

  • Atmospheric lead pollution history during four millennia (2000 BC to 2000 AD) in Sweden.

    Ingemar Renberg;Maja-Lena Brännvall;Richard Bindler;Ove Emteryd

  • Mercury Accumulation Rates and Spatial Patterns in Lake Sediments from West Greenland: A Coast to Ice Margin Transect

    Bindler R;Renberg I;Appleby Pg;Anderson Nj

  • Stable Isotope and Concentration Records of Atmospheric Lead Pollution in Peat and Lake Sediments in Sweden

    M.-L. Brännvall;R. Bindler;O. Emteryd;M. Nilsson

  • Climate driven release of carbon and mercury from permafrost mires increases mercury loading to sub-arctic lakes

    Johan Rydberg;Jonatan Klaminder;Peter Rosén;Richard Bindler

  • Natural Lead Concentrations in Pristine Boreal Forest Soils and Past Pollution Trends: A Reference for Critical Load Models

    Richard Bindler;Maja-Lena Brännvall;Ingemar Renberg;Ove Emteryd

  • Pb isotope ratios of lake sediments in West Greenland: inferences on pollution sources

    Richard Bindler;Ingemar Renberg;N. John Anderson;Peter G. Appleby

  • Tree rings as Pb pollution archives? A comparison of 206Pb/207Pb isotope ratios in pine and other environmental media.

    Richard Bindler;Ingemar Renberg;Jonatan Klaminder;Ove Emteryd

  • Environmental archives of atmospheric Hg deposition – A review

    Colin A. Cooke;Colin A. Cooke;Antonio Martínez-Cortizas;Richard Bindler;Mae Sexauer Gustin

  • Atmospheric Lead Pollution History during Four Millennia (2000 BC to 2000 AD) in Sweden

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  • Mired in the past — looking to the future: Geochemistry of peat and the analysis of past environmental changes

    Richard Bindler

  • Estimating the natural background atmospheric deposition rate of mercury utilizing ombrotrophic bogs in southern Sweden.

    R. Bindler

  • Does within-bog spatial variability of mercury and lead constrain reconstructions of absolute deposition rates from single peat records? The example of Store Mosse, Sweden

    Richard Bindler;Malin Klarqvist;Jonatan Klaminder;Johannes Förster

  • Uptake and recycling of lead by boreal forest plants: Quantitative estimates from a site in northern Sweden

    Jonatan Klaminder;Richard Bindler;Ove Emteryd;Ingemar Renberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Ingemar Renberg
Ingemar Renberg Umeå University
Jonatan Klaminder
Jonatan Klaminder Umeå University
Harald Biester
Harald Biester Technische Universität Braunschweig
Sherilyn C. Fritz
Sherilyn C. Fritz University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Peter G. Appleby
Peter G. Appleby University of Liverpool
N. John Anderson
N. John Anderson Loughborough University
Carl-Magnus Mörth
Carl-Magnus Mörth Stockholm University
Dominik J. Weiss
Dominik J. Weiss Imperial College London
Kerry Gallagher
Kerry Gallagher University of Rennes
Nadine Mattielli
Nadine Mattielli Université Libre de Bruxelles

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