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Roland Zech is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany and has concentrated their work primarily within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research has a strong focus on Atmospheric Science, contributing the majority of their publications in this subfield, followed by work in Anthropology, Paleontology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Ecology.

The main topics Roland Zech has explored include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geological Studies and Exploration

Zech has published multiple research papers in various scientific journals. Among recent publications are:

  • "A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago" (2021), published in Science
  • "Leaf wax n-alkane patterns and compound-specific δ 13C of plants and topsoils from semi-arid and arid Mongolia" (2020), published in Biogeosciences
  • "The potential of δ2H-alkanes and δ18Osugar for paleoclimate reconstruction - A regional calibration study for South Africa" (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Reconstructing Late Quaternary precipitation and its source on the southern Cape coast of South Africa: A multi-proxy paleoenvironmental record from Vankervelsvlei" (2022), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "The spatial distribution of sedimentary compounds and their environmental implications in surface sediments of Lake Khar Nuur (Mongolian Altai)" (2020), published in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

The main venues where Roland Zech frequently publishes include:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Science
  • Biogeosciences
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

Roland Zech has collaborated extensively with several researchers, reflecting a significant network of academic partnerships. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Marcel Bliedtner (40 joint publications)
  • Paul Strobel (35 joint publications)
  • Julian Struck (30 joint publications)
  • Sönke Szidat (25 joint publications)
  • Michael Zech (23 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Pleistocene glaciations of Central Asia: results from 10Be surface exposure ages of erratic boulders from the Pamir (Tajikistan), and the Alay–Turkestan range (Kyrgyzstan)

    Uwe Abramowski;Arne Bergau;Dominik Seebach;Roland Zech

  • Late Quaternary glacial and climate history of the Pamir Mountains derived from cosmogenic 10Be exposure ages

    Roland Zech;Uwe Abramowski;Bruno Glaser;Pjotr Sosin

  • Timing of the late Quaternary glaciation in the Andes from ∼15 to 40° S†

    Roland Zech;Jan-Hendrik May;Christoph Kull;Jana Ilgner

  • Humid glacials, arid interglacials?: Critical thoughts on pedogenesis and paleoclimate based on multi-proxy analyses of the loess-paleosol sequence Crvenka, Northern Serbia

    Roland Zech;Michael Zech;Slobodan Marković;Ulrich Hambach

  • Deglaciation and landscape history around Annapurna, Nepal, based on 10Be surface exposure dating

    Roland Zech;Michael Zech;Peter W. Kubik;Krishna Kharki

  • Approaches and challenges to the study of loess - Introduction to the LoessFest Special Issue

    Randall J. Schaetzl;E. Arthur Bettis;Onn Crouvi;Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons

  • The importance of solar insolation on the temperature variations for the past 110 kyr on the Chinese Loess Plateau

    Li Gao;Junsheng Nie;Steven Clemens;Weiguo Liu

  • A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago

    Alan Cooper;Chris S. M. Turney;Jonathan Palmer;Alan Hogg

  • Evidence for long-lasting landform surface instability on hummocky moraines in the Pamir Mountains (Tajikistan) from 10Be surface exposure dating

    Roland Zech;Bruno Glaser;Pjotr Sosin;Peter W. Kubik

  • Late Pleistocene glaciation in the Central Andes: Temperature versus humidity control — A case study from the eastern Bolivian Andes (17°S) and regional synthesis

    Christoph Kull;Samuel Imhof;Martin Grosjean;Roland Zech

  • Leaf waxes in litter and topsoils along a European transect

    Imke Kathrin Schäfer;Verena Lanny;Jörg Franke;Timothy I. Eglinton

  • A late pleistocene glacial chronology from the Kitschi-Kurumdu Valley, Tien Shan (Kyrgyzstan), based on 10Be surface exposure dating

    Roland Zech

  • Quaternary vegetation changes derived from a loess-like permafrost palaeosol sequence in northeast Siberia using alkane biomarker and pollen analyses

    Michael Zech;Andrei A. Andreev;Roland Zech;Stefanie-Katharina Müller

  • Exposure dating of Late Glacial and pre-LGM moraines in the Cordon de Doña Rosa, Northern/Central Chile (~31° S)

    Roland Zech;Christoph Kull;Peter Kubik;Heinz Veit

  • Characterisation and palaeoclimate of a loess-like permafrost palaeosol sequence in NE Siberia

    Michael Zech;Roland Zech;Wolfgang Zech;Bruno Glaser

  • Late Quaternary environmental changes in Misiones, subtropical NE Argentina, deduced from multi-proxy geochemical analyses in a palaeosol-sediment sequence

    Michael Zech;Roland Zech;Héctor Morrás;Lucas Moretti

  • Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in Pleistocene loess-paleosol sequences: Three case studies

    R. Zech;L. Gao;R. Tarozo;Y. Huang

  • A 240,000-year stable carbon and nitrogen isotope record from a loess-like palaeosol sequence in the Tumara Valley, Northeast Siberia

    Michael Zech;Roland Zech;Bruno Glaser

  • Climate deteriorations and Neanderthal demise in interior Iberia.

    D. Wolf;T. Kolb;M. Alcaraz-Castaño;S. Heinrich

  • Leaf wax n-alkanes in modern plants and topsoils from eastern Georgia (Caucasus) – implications for reconstructing regional paleovegetation

    Marcel Bliedtner;Marcel Bliedtner;Imke Kathrin Schäfer;Roland Zech;Roland Zech;Hans von Suchodoletz

  • LGM and Late Glacial glacier advances in the Cordillera Real and Cochabamba (Bolivia) deduced from 10 Be surface exposure dating

    Roland Zech;Christoph Kull;Peter Kubik;Heinz Veit

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Glaser
Bruno Glaser Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Wolfgang Zech
Wolfgang Zech University of Bayreuth
Heinz Veit
Heinz Veit University of Bern
Sönke Szidat
Sönke Szidat University of Bern
Peter W. Kubik
Peter W. Kubik ETH Zurich
Kazimierz Rozanski
Kazimierz Rozanski AGH University of Science and Technology
Andrew S. Carr
Andrew S. Carr University of Leicester
Yongsong Huang
Yongsong Huang Brown University
Marcus Christl
Marcus Christl ETH Zurich

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