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William D. Gosling is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with particular attention to several subfields including Atmospheric Science, History, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Geography, Planning and Development, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work covers a range of main topics that include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Cassava research and cyanide

William D. Gosling has published extensively in several venues. Frequent publication outlets comprise:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Quaternary International
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Quaternary

A selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Gosling includes:

  • "Paleo-ENSO influence on African environments and early modern humans," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "A stronger role for long-term moisture change than for CO 2 in determining tropical woody vegetation change," 2022, Science
  • "A palaeoecological perspective on the transformation of the tropical Andes by early human activity," 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "On the Use of Spores of Coprophilous Fungi Preserved in Sediments to Indicate Past Herbivore Presence," 2022, Quaternary
  • "A modern analogue matching approach to characterize fire temperatures and plant species from charcoal," 2021, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

The researcher often collaborates with various frequent co-authors including:

  • Crystal N. H. McMichael
  • Mark B. Bush
  • S. Yoshi Maezumi
  • Majoi N. Nascimento
  • Stefanie Kaboth-Bahr

Best Publications

  • Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

    Connor Nolan;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Judy R.M. Allen;Patricia M. Anderson

  • Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves

    Thiago F. Rangel;Neil R. Edwards;Philip B. Holden;José Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho

  • Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric carbon dioxide changes since the last glacial maximum

    Francis E. Mayle;David J. Beerling;William D. Gosling;William D. Gosling;Mark B. Bush

  • Differentiation between neotropical rainforest, dry forest, and savannah ecosystems by their modern pollen spectra and implications for the fossil pollen record.

    William D. Gosling;Francis E. Mayle;Nicholas J. Tate;Timothy J. Killeen

  • Atlas of the tropical West African pollen flora

    William D. Gosling;Charlotte S. Miller;Daniel A. Livingstone

  • Holocene fire and occupation in Amazonia: records from two lake districts.

    Mark B Bush;Miles R Silman;Mauro B de Toledo;Claudia Listopad

  • North Atlantic forcing of Amazonian precipitation during the last ice age

    Nicole A. S. Mosblech;Mark B. Bush;William D. Gosling;David Hodell

  • Climate variability and human impact in South America during the last 2000 years: synthesis and perspectives from pollen records

    Suzette Flantua;H. Hooghiemstra;Mathias Vuille;H. Behling

  • Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change

    Mark B. Bush;John Flenley;William D. Gosling

  • A 17 000‐year history of Andean climate and vegetation change from Laguna de Chochos, Peru

    Mark B. Bush;Barbara C.S. Hansen;Donald T. Rodbell;Geoffrey O. Seltzer

  • Latitudinal and altitudinal patterns of plant community diversity on mountain summits across the tropical Andes

    Francisco Cuesta;Francisco Cuesta;Priscilla Muriel;Luis Daniel Llambí;Stephan Halloy

  • Pollen-based biome reconstructions for Latin America at 0, 6000 and 18 000 radiocarbon years ago

    R. Marchant;A. Cleef;S. P. Harrison;H. Hooghiemstra

  • Vegetation development in an Amazonian peatland

    K.H. Roucoux;I.T. Lawson;T.D. Jones;T.R. Baker

  • Long-term drivers of change in Polylepis woodland distribution in the central Andes

    William D. Gosling;William D. Gosling;Jennifer A. Hanselman;Jennifer A. Hanselman;Christopher Knox;Bryan G. Valencia

  • Updated site compilation of the Latin American Pollen Database

    Suzette G.A. Flantua;Henry Hooghiemstra;Eric C. Grimm;Hermann Behling

  • Modern pollen-rain characteristics of tall terra firme moist evergreen forest, southern Amazonia

    William D. Gosling;Francis E. Mayle;Nicholas J. Tate;Timothy J. Killeen

  • Ecological consequences of post-Columbian indigenous depopulation in the Andean-Amazonian corridor.

    Nicholas J. D. Loughlin;Nicholas J. D. Loughlin;William D. Gosling;William D. Gosling;Patricia Mothes;Encarni Montoya;Encarni Montoya

  • Glacial-Interglacial changes in moisture balance and the impact on vegetation in the southern hemisphere tropical Andes (Bolivia/Peru)

    William D. Gosling;William D. Gosling;Mark B. Bush;Jennifer A. Hanselman;Alex Chepstow-Lusty;Alex Chepstow-Lusty

  • Quaternary forest associations in lowland tropical West Africa

    Charlotte S. Miller;William D. Gosling

  • A stronger role for long-term moisture change than for CO2 in determining tropical woody vegetation change

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  • The response of vegetation on the Andean flank in western Amazonia to Pleistocene climate change.

    Macarena L. Cárdenas;William D. Gosling;Sarah C. Sherlock;Imogen Poole

  • Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric carbon dioxide changes since the last glacial maximum: One contribution of 17 to a Theme Issue 'Tropical forests and global atmospheric change'

    Francis E. Mayle;David J. Beerling;William D. Gosling;Mark B. Bush

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark B. Bush
Mark B. Bush Florida Institute of Technology
Francis E. Mayle
Francis E. Mayle University of Reading
Angela L. Coe
Angela L. Coe The Open University
Hermann Behling
Hermann Behling University of Göttingen
Henry Hooghiemstra
Henry Hooghiemstra University of Amsterdam
Crystal N. H. McMichael
Crystal N. H. McMichael University of Amsterdam
Stephen J. Brooks
Stephen J. Brooks Natural History Museum
Sandy P. Harrison
Sandy P. Harrison University of Reading
Patricia Mothes
Patricia Mothes National Polytechnic School
Eric C. Grimm
Eric C. Grimm University of Minnesota

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