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Ulrike Herzschuh

Ulrike Herzschuh

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Earth Science

D-Index
70
Citations
16236
World Ranking
988
National Ranking
61

Overview

Ulrike Herzschuh is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany. Their research spans primarily Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant focus on Environmental Science. The subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Anthropology, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics addressed in Herzschuh's work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Herzschuh cover a range of subjects connected to past biodiversity, climate, and vegetation transitions. Notable papers include:

  • "Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations" (2021), published in Quaternary
  • "Towards quantification of Holocene anthropogenic land-cover change in temperate China: A review in the light of pollen-based REVEALS reconstructions of regional plant cover" (2020), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Human activities have reduced plant diversity in eastern China over the last two millennia" (2022), published in Global Change Biology
  • "The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2" (2020), published in Earth system science data
  • "Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2" (2021), published in Climate of the past

Frequent co-authors of Herzschuh's research include Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring, Stefan Kruse, Luidmila A. Pestryakova, Xianyong Cao, and Birgit Heim.

The preferred venues for publishing work consist of:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Earth system science data
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Climate of the past

Best Publications

  • Palaeo-moisture evolution in monsoonal Central Asia during the last 50,000 years

    Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • Asynchronous evolution of the Indian and East Asian Summer Monsoon indicated by Holocene moisture patterns in monsoonal central Asia

    Yongbo Wang;Yongbo Wang;Xingqi Liu;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • A general cooling trend on the central Tibetan Plateau throughout the Holocene recorded by the Lake Zigetang pollen spectra

    Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Katja Winter;Bernd Wünnemann;Shijie Li

  • Holocene vegetation and climate of the Alashan Plateau, NW China, reconstructed from pollen data

    Ulrike Herzschuh;Pavel Tarasov;Bernd Wünnemann;Kai Hartmann

  • Pliocene Warmth, Polar Amplification, and Stepped Pleistocene Cooling Recorded in NE Arctic Russia

    Julie Brigham-Grette;Martin Melles;Pavel Minyuk;Andrei Andreev

  • Holocene environmental and climatic changes inferred from Wulungu Lake in northern Xinjiang, China

    Xingqi Liu;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ji Shen;Qingfen Jiang

  • Influence of aquatic macrophytes on the stable carbon isotopic signatures of sedimentary organic matter in lakes on the Tibetan Plateau

    Bernhard Aichner;Ulrike Herzschuh;Heinz Wilkes

  • The deep permafrost carbon pool of the Yedoma region in Siberia and Alaska.

    Jens Strauss;Lutz Schirrmeister;Guido Grosse;Guido Grosse;Sebastian Wetterich

  • Quantitative climate and vegetation trends since the late glacial on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau deduced from Koucha Lake pollen spectra.

    Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Annette Kramer;Steffen Mischke;Chengjun Zhang

  • Late Holocene forcing of the Asian winter and summer monsoon as evidenced by proxy records from the northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

    Xingqi Liu;Hailiang Dong;Xiangdong Yang;Ulrike Herzschuh

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

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

  • Reduced early Holocene moisture availability in the Bayan Har Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, inferred from a multi-proxy lake record

    Steffen Mischke;Michael Kramer;Chengjun Zhang;Huaming Shang

  • Reliability of pollen ratios for environmental reconstructions on the Tibetan Plateau

    Ulrike Herzschuh

  • A modern pollen-climate calibration set based on lake sediments from the Tibetan Plateau and its application to a Late Quaternary pollen record from the Qilian Mountains.

    Ulrike Herzschuh;H. J. B. Birks;Steffen Mischke;Chengjun Zhang

  • Holocene treeline shifts and monsoon variability in the Hengduan Mountains (southeastern Tibetan Plateau), implications from palynological investigations

    Annette Kramer;Annette Kramer;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Steffen Mischke;Chengjun Zhang

  • δD values of n-alkanes in Tibetan lake sediments and aquatic macrophytes – A surface sediment study and application to a 16 ka record from Lake Koucha

    Bernhard Aichner;Ulrike Herzschuh;Heinz Wilkes;Andrea Vieth

  • Reconstructing climate variability on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau since the last Lateglacial a multi-proxy, dual-site approach comparing terrestrial and aquatic signals

    Juliane Wischnewski;Juliane Wischnewski;Steffen Mischke;Yongbo Wang;Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • Position and orientation of the westerly jet determined Holocene rainfall patterns in China.

    Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Xianyong Cao;Xianyong Cao;Thomas Laepple;Anne Dallmeyer

  • A late Quaternary lake record from the Qilian Mountains (NW China): evolution of the primary production and the water depth reconstructed from macrofossil, pollen, biomarker, and isotope data

    Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Chengjun Zhang;Steffen Mischke;Rainer Herzschuh

  • 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

  • Temperature variability and vertical vegetation belt shifts during the last ∼50,000 yr in the Qilian Mountains (NE margin of the Tibetan Plateau, China)

    Ulrike Herzschuh;Ulrike Herzschuh;Harald Kürschner;Steffen Mischke

  • An ostracod-conductivity transfer function for Tibetan lakes

    Steffen Mischke;Ulrike Herzschuh;Gudrun Massmann;Chengjun Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Steffen Mischke
Steffen Mischke University of Iceland
Bernhard Diekmann
Bernhard Diekmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Xianyong Cao
Xianyong Cao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jian Ni
Jian Ni Zhejiang Normal University
Andrei Andreev
Andrei Andreev Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Lutz Schirrmeister
Lutz Schirrmeister Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Hugues Lantuit
Hugues Lantuit University of Potsdam
Bernd Wünnemann
Bernd Wünnemann Freie Universität Berlin
Sebastian Wetterich
Sebastian Wetterich Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Frank Lehmkuhl
Frank Lehmkuhl RWTH Aachen University

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