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Volker Mosbrugger is affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Key subfields of study include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Soil Science, and Anthropology.

The scientist's work covers a broad spectrum of topics. These include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
  • Cryospheric Studies and Observations
  • Soil and Environmental Studies
  • Climate Change and Permafrost
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies

Publications by Volker Mosbrugger have appeared in frequent venues such as the Geological Journal, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Earth-Science Reviews, PLoS ONE, and the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

Recent papers include:

  • Past, present, and future geo-biosphere interactions on the Tibetan Plateau and implications for permafrost (2022, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • Oligocene vegetation of Europe and western Asia-Diversity change and continental patterns reflected by plant functional types (2020, Geological Journal)
  • The ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD): A large-scale research database serves as an indispensable tool for human evolutionary studies (2023, PLoS ONE)
  • Diversity patterns in microfloras recovered from Miocene brown coals of the lower Rhine Basin reveal distinct coupling of the structure of the peat-forming vegetation and continental climate variability (2020, Geological Journal)
  • Phenology and Climatic Regime Inferred from Airborne Pollen on the Northern Slope of the Qomolangma (Everest) Region (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)

Collaborations have involved several frequent co-authors, including Torsten Utescher, Svetlana Popova, Anna Averyanova, В.Ф. Тарасевич, and Tandong Yao.

Best Publications

  • Recent Third Pole’s Rapid Warming Accompanies Cryospheric Melt and Water Cycle Intensification and Interactions between Monsoon and Environment: Multidisciplinary Approach with Observations, Modeling, and Analysis

    Tandong Yao;Yongkang Xue;Deliang Chen;Fahu Chen

  • Third Pole Environment (TPE)

    Tandong Yao;Lonnie G. Thompson;Volker Mosbrugger;Fan Zhang

  • The coexistence approach — a method for quantitative reconstructions of Tertiary terrestrial palaeoclimate data using plant fossils

    Volker Mosbrugger;Torsten Utescher

  • Cenozoic continental climatic evolution of Central Europe

    Volker Mosbrugger;Torsten Utescher;David L. Dilcher

  • Terrestrial Climate Evolution in Northwest Germany Over the Last 25 Million Years

    Torsten Utescher;Volker Mosbrugger;Abdul R. Ashraf

  • The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands – Origin, functioning and degradation of the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem: Kobresia pastures of Tibet

    Georg Miehe;Per Marten Schleuss;Elke Seeber;Wolfgang Babel

  • The Coexistence Approach—Theoretical background and practical considerations of using plant fossils for climate quantification

    T. Utescher;A. A. Bruch;B. Erdei;Louis François

  • Biodiversity from mountain building

    Carina Hoorn;Volker Mosbrugger;Andreas Mulch;Alexandre Antonelli

  • Miocene climate in Europe — Patterns and evolution

    Angela A. Bruch;Dieter Uhl;Volker Mosbrugger

  • Plio-Quaternary stepwise drying of Asia: Evidence from a 3-Ma pollen record from the Chinese Loess Plateau

    Fuli Wu;Fuli Wu;Xiaomin Fang;Xiaomin Fang;Yuzhen Ma;Mark Herrmann

  • Palynological evidence for Miocene climate change in the Forecarpathian Basin (Central Paratethys, NW Bulgaria)

    D. Ivanov;A.R. Ashraf;V. Mosbrugger;E. Palamarev

  • Precipitation patterns in the Miocene of Central Europe and the development of continentality

    Angela A. Bruch;Torsten Utescher;Volker Mosbrugger

  • Early to Middle Jurassic vegetation and climatic events in the Qaidam Basin, Northwest China

    Yongdong Wang;Yongdong Wang;Volker Mosbrugger;Hong Zhang

  • Miocene vegetation and climate dynamics in Eastern and Central Paratethys (Southeastern Europe)

    Dimiter Ivanov;Torsten Utescher;Volker Mosbrugger;Svetlana Syabryaj

  • Continental European Eemian and early Würmian climate evolution: comparing signals using different quantitative reconstruction approaches based on pollen

    Stefan Klotz;Joel Guiot;Volker Mosbrugger

  • Eocene vegetation patterns reconstructed from plant diversity - A global perspective

    T. Utescher;V. Mosbrugger

  • A review of charcoal analysis as a tool for assessing Quaternary and Tertiary environments: achievements and limits

    Isabel Figueiral;Volker Mosbrugger

  • Late Miocene climate in the circum-Alpine realm—a quantitative analysis of terrestrial palaeofloras

    A.A. Bruch;T. Utescher;V. Mosbrugger;I. Gabrielyan

  • Pollen-based quantitative reconstructions of Holocene climate variability in NW Romania

    Angelica Feurdean;Stefan Klotz;Volker Mosbrugger;Barbara Wohlfarth

  • Palaeoclimate and vegetation change in Serbia during the last 30 Ma

    T. Utescher;D. Djordjevic-Milutinovic;A. Bruch;V. Mosbrugger

  • A Late Miocene climate model simulation with ECHAM4/ML and its quantitative validation with terrestrial proxy data

    Arne Micheels;Angela A. Bruch;Dieter Uhl;Dieter Uhl;Torsten Utescher

  • Tree diversity in the Miocene forests of Western Eurasia

    T. Utescher;B. Erdei;Louis François;V. Mosbrugger

  • Climatic reconstruction at the Miocene Shanwang basin, China, using leaf margin analysis, CLAMP, coexistence approach, and overlapping distribution analysis

    Jian Yang;Yu-Fei Wang;Robert A. Spicer;Volker Mosbrugger

Frequent Co-Authors

Torsten Utescher
Torsten Utescher University of Bonn
Dieter Uhl
Dieter Uhl University of Tübingen
Louis François
Louis François University of Liège
Tandong Yao
Tandong Yao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Robert A. Spicer
Robert A. Spicer The Open University
Yaoming Ma
Yaoming Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Liping Zhu
Liping Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jussi T. Eronen
Jussi T. Eronen University of Helsinki
Mikael Fortelius
Mikael Fortelius University of Helsinki
Sandy P. Harrison
Sandy P. Harrison University of Reading

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