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Rolf W. Mathewes

Rolf W. Mathewes

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Earth Science

D-Index
57
Citations
7986
World Ranking
2339
National Ranking
112

Overview

Rolf W. Mathewes is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada and has a research focus primarily spanning Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work engages deeply with subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science, Genetics, Ecology, and General Health Professions.

Their research topics cover a broad range of areas, particularly highlighting Fossil Insects in Amber, Plant and Animal Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Indigenous Studies and Ecology, Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology, and Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy.

Frequent collaborators include:

  • S. Bruce Archibald
  • Robert A. Cannings
  • Vladimir N. Makarkin
  • Arvid Aase
  • Alistair Monteath

Their publications often appear in established scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Zootaxa
  • The Canadian Entomologist
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Some notable recent papers include:

  • "The Cephalozygoptera, a new, extinct suborder of Odonata with new taxa from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America", 2021, Zootaxa
  • "Eocene giant ants, Arctic intercontinental dispersal, and hyperthermals revisited: discovery of fossil Titanomyrma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formiciinae) in the cool uplands of British Columbia, Canada", 2023, The Canadian Entomologist
  • "Relict permafrost preserves megafauna, insects, pollen, soils and pore-ice isotopes of the mammoth steppe and its collapse in central Yukon", 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Evidence of a significant marine plant diet in a Pleistocene caribou from Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, through compound-specific stable isotope analysis", 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • "Tips and identification of early Eocene Fraxinus L. samaras from the Quilchena locality, Okanagan Highlands, British Columbia, Canada", 2021, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Best Publications

  • Late Quaternary paleoenvironments of Northwestern North America: implications for inland versus coastal migration routes

    Carole A.S Mandryk;Heiner Josenhans;Daryl W Fedje;Rolf W Mathewes

  • Radiocarbon Dating of Pollen by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

    Thomas A. Brown;D. Erle Nelson;Rolf W. Mathewes;John S. Vogel

  • Ice-free conditions on the queen charlotte islands, british columbia, at the height of late wisconsin glaciation.

    Barry G. Warner;Rolf W. Mathewes;John J. Clague

  • A northwest North American training set: distribution of freshwater midges in relation to air temperature and lake depth

    Erin M. Barley;Ian R. Walker;Joshua Kurek;Les C. Cwynar

  • Fossil biotas from the Okanagan Highlands, southern British Columbia and northeastern Washington State: climates and ecosystems across an Eocene landscape

    David R. Greenwood;S. Bruce Archibald;Rolf W. Mathewes;Patrick T. Moss

  • Time of maximum late Wisconsin glaciation, west coast of Canada

    Bertrand Blaise;John J. Clague;Rolf W. Mathewes

  • 11 000 years of fire history and climate in the mountain hemlock rain forests of southwestern British Columbia based on sedimentary charcoal

    Douglas J Hallett;Dana S Lepofsky;Rolf W Mathewes;Ken P Lertzman

  • Holocene history of cedar and native Indian cultures of the north american pacific coast.

    Richard J. Hebda;Rolf W. Mathewes

  • A 12 000 year palynological record of temperature and precipitation trends in southwestern British Columbia

    Rolf W. Mathewes;Linda E. Heusser

  • A palynological study of postglacial vegetation changes in the University Research Forest, southwestern British Columbia

    Rolf W. Mathewes

  • Evidence for a Younger Dryas-like cooling event on the British Columbia coast

    Rolf W. Mathewes;Linda E. Heusser;R. Timothy Patterson

  • Studies IN THE VEGETATIONAL HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. V. LATE DEVENSIAN AND EARLY FLANDRIAN POLLEN AND MACROFOSSIL STRATIGRAPHY AT ABERNETHY FOREST, INVERNESS-SHIRE

    Hilary H. Birks;Rolf W. Mathewes

  • Evidence for Younger Dryas-age cooling on the North Pacific coast of America

    Rolf W. Mathewes

  • Palaeobotany: Ice-age steppe vegetation in east Beringia

    Grant D. Zazula;Duane G. Froese;Charles E. Schweger;Rolf W. Mathewes

  • Chironomidae (Diptera) remains in surficial lake sediments from the Canadian Cordillera: analysis of the fauna across an altitudinal gradient

    Ian R. Walker;Rolf W. Mathewes

  • Climate Change and Culture Change on the Southern Coast of British Columbia 2400-1200 Cal. B.P.: An Hypothesis

    Dana Lepofsky;Ken Lertzman;Douglas Hallett;Rolf Mathewes

  • Pre-Younger Dryas resurgence of the southwestern margin of the Cordilleran ice sheet, British Columbia, Canada

    John J. Clague;R. W. Mathewes;J.-P. Guilbault;I. Hutchinson

  • High-resolution Holocene vegetation history and climate from Hole 1034B, ODP leg 169S, Saanich Inlet, Canada

    M.G. Pellatt;R.J. Hebda;R.J. Hebda;R.W. Mathewes

  • Long-Term Fire Regime Estimated from Soil Charcoal in Coastal Temperate Rainforests

    Ken Lertzman;Daniel Gavin;Douglas Hallett;Linda Brubaker

  • 7000 year record of lake-level change on the northern Great Plains: A high-resolution proxy of past climate

    R. E. Vance;R. W. Mathewes;J. J. Clague

  • Haida Gwaii : human history and environment from the time of loon to the time of the iron people

    Daryl W. Fedje;Rolf W. Mathewes

Frequent Co-Authors

John J. Clague
John J. Clague Simon Fraser University
Ian R. Walker
Ian R. Walker University of British Columbia
David R. Greenwood
David R. Greenwood Brandon University
Grant D. Zazula
Grant D. Zazula Simon Fraser University
Duane G. Froese
Duane G. Froese University of Alberta
John A. Westgate
John A. Westgate University of Toronto
Scott A. Elias
Scott A. Elias Royal Holloway University of London
Brian D. Bornhold
Brian D. Bornhold Geological Survey of Canada
Linda E. Heusser
Linda E. Heusser Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Les C. Cwynar
Les C. Cwynar University of New Brunswick

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