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Overview

Robert K. Booth is affiliated with Lehigh University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Environmental Sciences, with a focus on topics related to geology, paleoclimatology, and ecosystem dynamics.

The main fields of study associated with their work include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

The subfields within these areas are:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Key topics covered in Booth's research are:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience

Booth has published in a variety of scientific venues, including but not limited to:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • BioScience
  • Climate of the past
  • Ecological Applications

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Britta J.L. Jensen
  • Alistair Monteath
  • Paul Hughes
  • Lauren J. Davies
  • Helen Mackay

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Booth are:

  • "Paleoecology provides context for conserving culturally and ecologically important pine forest and barrens communities", 2023, Ecological Applications
  • "Drought as an emergent driver of ecological transformation in the twenty-first century", 2024, BioScience
  • "Increasing Tephra Deposition in Northeastern North America Points to Atmospheric Circulation Changes at the Early Mid Holocene Transition", 2025, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill eruption: examining the potential climatic and societal impacts and the timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic region", 2022, Climate of the past
  • "A latest Pleistocene and Holocene composite tephrostratigraphic framework for northeastern North America", 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • Ecology and the ratchet of events: climate variability, niche dimensions, and species distributions.

    Stephen T. Jackson;Julio L. Betancourt;Robert K. Booth;Stephen T. Gray

  • A severe centennial-scale drought in midcontinental North America 4200 years ago and apparent global linkages

    Robert K. Booth;Stephen T. Jackson;Steven L. Forman;John E. Kutzbach

  • The Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a multiproxy, international, community-curated data resource

    John W. Williams;Eric C. Grimm;Jessica L. Blois;Donald F. Charles

  • Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

    D. J. Charman;D. W. Beilman;M. Blaauw;R. K. Booth

  • Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming

    Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Daniel J. Charman;Simon Brewer;Susan E. Page

  • Paleohydrologic reconstruction based on n-alkane distributions in ombrotrophic peat

    Jonathan E. Nichols;Robert K. Booth;Stephen T. Jackson;Elise G. Pendall

  • Preparation and analysis of testate amoebae in peatland palaeoenvironmental studies

    R. K. Booth;M. Lamentowicz;D. J. Charman

  • Testate amoebae as paleoindicators of surface-moisture changes on Michigan peatlands: modern ecology and hydrological calibration

    Robert K. Booth

  • Development and refinement of proxy-climate indicators from peats

    Frank M. Chambers;Robert K. Booth;Francois De Vleeschouwer;Mariusz Lamentowicz

  • A high-resolution record of late-Holocene moisture variability from a Michigan raised bog, USA

    Robert K. Booth;Stephen T. Jackson

  • Testate amoebae as proxies for mean annual water‐table depth in Sphagnum‐dominated peatlands of North America

    Robert K. Booth

  • Widespread drought episodes in the western Great Lakes region during the past 2000 years: Geographic extent and potential mechanisms

    Robert K. Booth;Michael Notaro;Stephen T. Jackson;John E. Kutzbach

  • Ecology of testate amoebae (protozoa) in two Lake Superior coastal wetlands: Implications for paleoecology and environmental monitoring

    Robert K. Booth

  • Paleoecology and high-resolution paleohydrology of a kettle peatland in upper Michigan

    Robert K. Booth;Stephen T. Jackson;Catherine E.D. Gray

  • Assessing long‐term hydrological and ecological responses to drainage in a raised bog using paleoecology and a hydrosequence

    J. Talbot;P.J.H. Richard;P.J.H. Richard;N.T. Roulet;R.K. Booth

  • Deposition times in the northeastern United States during the Holocene: establishing valid priors for Bayesian age models

    S. Goring;J.W. Williams;J.L. Blois;S.T. Jackson

  • Multi-decadal drought and amplified moisture variability drove rapid forest community change in a humid region.

    Robert K. Booth;Stephen T. Jackson;Valerie A. Sousa;Maura E. Sullivan

  • The Potential Influence of Short-term Environmental Variability on the Composition of Testate Amoeba Communities in Sphagnum Peatlands

    Maura E. Sullivan;Robert K. Booth

  • Differential hydrogen isotopic ratios of Sphagnum and vascular plant biomarkers in ombrotrophic peatlands as a quantitative proxy for precipitation—evaporation balance

    Jonathan Nichols;Robert K. Booth;Stephen T. Jackson;Elise G. Pendall

  • Biogeography and comparative ecology of testate amoebae inhabiting Sphagnum‐dominated peatlands in the Great Lakes and Rocky Mountain regions of North America

    Robert K. Booth;Jennifer R. Zygmunt

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen T. Jackson
Stephen T. Jackson United States Geological Survey
Dan J. Charman
Dan J. Charman University of Exeter
Graeme T. Swindles
Graeme T. Swindles Queen's University Belfast
Michelle Garneau
Michelle Garneau University of Quebec at Montreal
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
Mariusz Lamentowicz
Mariusz Lamentowicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Richard J. Payne
Richard J. Payne University of York
Simon Brewer
Simon Brewer University of Utah
Angela V. Gallego-Sala
Angela V. Gallego-Sala University of Exeter
Yongsong Huang
Yongsong Huang Brown University

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