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Walter Finsinger is a researcher affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France. Their work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus that includes several specialized subfields.

Finsinger's main subfields of study encompass Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. The topics of their research explore diverse areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Fire effects on ecosystems, Tree-ring climate responses, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Landslides and related hazards, Aeolian processes and effects, and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Recent publications by Walter Finsinger demonstrate a focus on paleoclimate reconstruction and environmental dynamics. Notable papers include:

  • Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies (2020) published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records (2020) published in Scientific Data
  • Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe (2020) published in Biogeosciences
  • The Eurasian Modern Pollen Database (EMPD), version 2 (2020) published in Earth System Science Data
  • Assessing changes in global fire regimes (2024) published in Fire Ecology

Walter Finsinger frequently collaborates with other researchers. The most common co-authors are Angelica Feurdean, Heikki Seppä, Vachel A. Carter, Thomas Brussel, and Eleonora Cagliero, reflecting sustained research partnerships across multiple studies.

The scientist's work appears regularly in several academic journals, with multiple publications in venues such as Scientific Data, The Holocene, Biogeosciences, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, and the Journal of Paleolimnology.

Best Publications

  • Changes in Fire Regimes Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Assessment Based on a Global Synthesis and Analysis of Charcoal Data

    Mitch J. Power;J. Marlon;N. Ortiz;P. J. Bartlein

  • Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies

    Manuel Chevalier;Basil A. S. Davis;Oliver Heiri;Heikki Seppä

  • Minimum count sums for charcoal concentration estimates in pollen slides: accuracy and potential errors

    Walter Finsinger;Willy Tinner

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

    Darrell Kaufman;Nicholas McKay;Cody Routson;Michael Erb

  • Circum-Mediterranean fire activity and climate changes during the mid-Holocene environmental transition (8500-2500 cal. BP)

    Boris Vannière;Mitchell Power;Neil Roberts;Willy Tinner

  • Patterns and dynamics of European vegetation change over the last 15,000 years

    Thomas Giesecke;Simon Brewer;Walter Finsinger;Michelle Leydet

  • Interactions between climate and vegetation during the Lateglacial period as recorded by lake and mire sediment archives in Northern Italy and Southern Switzerland

    Elisa Vescovi;Cesare Ravazzi;Enrico Arpenti;Walter Finsinger;Walter Finsinger

  • The European Pollen Database: past efforts and current activities

    Ralph M. Fyfe;Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu;Heather Binney;Richard H. W. Bradshaw

  • The expansion of hazel (Corylus avellana L.) in the southern Alps: a key for understanding its early Holocene history in Europe?

    Walter Finsinger;Walter Finsinger;Willy Tinner;W.O. van der Knaap;Brigitta Ammann

  • Towards mapping the late Quaternary vegetation change of Europe

    Thomas Giesecke;Basil Davis;Simon Brewer;Walter Finsinger

  • Migration and population expansion of Abies, Fagus, Picea, and Quercus since 15000 years in and across the Alps, based on pollen-percentage threshold values

    W.O. van der Knaap;Jacqueline F.N. van Leeuwen;Walter Finsinger;Erika Gobet

  • The pace of Holocene vegetation change : testing for synchronous developments

    Thomas Giesecke;K.D. Bennett;K.D. Bennett;H. John B. Birks;Anne E. Bjune

  • Evidence of changing intrinsic water-use efficiency under rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations in Boreal Fennoscandia from subfossil leaves and tree ring δ13C ratios

    Mary Gagen;Walter Finsinger;Walter Finsinger;Friederike Wagner-Cremer;Danny Mccarroll

  • Effect of increased fire activity on global warming in the boreal forest

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  • Late-glacial chironomid-based temperature reconstructions for Lago Piccolo di Avigliana in the southwestern Alps (Italy)

    Isabelle Larocque;Walter Finsinger;Walter Finsinger

  • Long-term man–environment interactions in the Bolivian Amazon: 8000 years of vegetation dynamics

    Sandra Olivia Brügger;Sandra Olivia Brügger;Erika Gobet;Jacqueline van Leeuwen;Marie-Pierre Ledru

  • Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe

    Angelica Feurdean;Angelica Feurdean;Boris Vannière;Walter Finsinger;Dan Warren

  • A regional tephrostratigraphic framework for central and southern European climate archives during the Last Glacial to Interglacial transition: comparisons north and south of the Alps

    Christine Lane;Simon Blockley;André Lotter;Walter Finsinger

  • Wildfire history and fire ecology of the Swiss National Park (Central Alps): new evidence from charcoal, pollen and plant macrofossils

    Markus Stähli;Walter Finsinger;Willy Tinner;Britta Allgöwer

  • Late-glacial and Holocene European pollen data

    Simon Brewer;Thomas Giesecke;Basil A. S. Davis;Walter Finsinger

  • A guide to screening charcoal peaks in macrocharcoal-area records for fire-episode reconstructions

    Walter Finsinger;Ryan Kelly;Jordan Fevre;Enikő K Magyari

  • Human impact during the Bronze Age on the vegetation at Lago Lucone (northern Italy)

    Verushka Valsecchi;Verushka Valsecchi;Willy Tinner;Walter Finsinger;Walter Finsinger;Brigitta Ammann

Frequent Co-Authors

Willy Tinner
Willy Tinner University of Bern
Simon Brewer
Simon Brewer University of Utah
André F. Lotter
André F. Lotter University of Bern
Richard H. W. Bradshaw
Richard H. W. Bradshaw University of Liverpool
Angelica Feurdean
Angelica Feurdean Goethe University Frankfurt
Ralph Fyfe
Ralph Fyfe Plymouth University
Shonil A. Bhagwat
Shonil A. Bhagwat The Open University
Brigitta Ammann
Brigitta Ammann University of Bern
Maarten Blaauw
Maarten Blaauw Queen's University Belfast
Christopher Carcaillet
Christopher Carcaillet École Pratique des Hautes Études

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