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Volker Mosbrugger is affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, particularly focusing on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Atmospheric Science, with additional work in Paleontology, Soil Science, and Anthropology.

The main topics of Mosbrugger's research 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

Frequent publication venues for Mosbrugger's work include:

  • Geological Journal
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Some of the 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

Frequent coauthors associated with Mosbrugger's work are:

  • Torsten Utescher
  • Svetlana Popova
  • Anna Averyanova
  • В.Ф. Тарасевич
  • 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

  • Evolution and Function of Leaf Venation Architecture: A Review

    Anita Roth-Nebelsick;Dieter Uhl;Volker Mosbrugger;Hans Kerp

  • 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

  • Leaf venation density as a climate and environmental proxy: a critical review and new data

    D Uhl;V Mosbrugger

  • Environmental signals from leaves--a physiognomic analysis of European vegetation.

    Christopher Traiser;Stefan Klotz;Dieter Uhl;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

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

    Angelica Feurdean;Stefan Klotz;Volker Mosbrugger;Barbara Wohlfarth

  • Do protected areas in urban and rural landscapes differ in species diversity

    Sonja Knapp;Sonja Knapp;Ingolf Kühn;Volker Mosbrugger;Volker Mosbrugger;Stefan Klotz

  • Tree diversity in the Miocene forests of Western Eurasia

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

  • Three-dimensional reconstruction of an in-situ Miocene peat forest from the Lower Rhine Embayment, northwestern Germany—new methods in palaeovegetation analysis

    V. Mosbrugger;C.T. Gee;G. Belz;A.R. Ashraf

  • Present-day climatic equivalents of European Cenozoic climates

    Torsten Utescher;Volker Mosbrugger;Dimiter Ivanov;David L. Dilcher

Frequent Co-Authors

Torsten Utescher
Torsten Utescher University of Bonn
David L. Dilcher
David L. Dilcher Indiana University
Dieter Uhl
Dieter Uhl University of Tübingen
Stefan Klotz
Stefan Klotz Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Angelica Feurdean
Angelica Feurdean Goethe University Frankfurt
Sonja Knapp
Sonja Knapp Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jussi T. Eronen
Jussi T. Eronen University of Helsinki
Timothy Peter Jones
Timothy Peter Jones Cardiff University
Karsten Wesche
Karsten Wesche Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz
Xingliang Xu
Xingliang Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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