Dr W.D. (William) Gosling
Associate Professor
Faculty of Science
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics
Visiting address
- Science Park 904
- Room number:C4.219
Postal address
- Postbus 94240
1090 GE Amsterdam
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About me
William is an Associate Professor in Palaeoecology at the University of Amsterdam, and Head of the Department of Ecosystem & Landscape Dynamics within the Institute of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED). He has is interested in how ecosystems have functioned in the past and co-ordinates the "Ecology of the past" blog; where details of his current research and teaching activity can be found.
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Research & education
Throughout his research and education William seeks to place current concerns related to on-going, and projected, climate change into a longer term context by examining multiple aspects of the sedimentary record of past environmental change. He is an expert in tropical pollen and environmental change during the Quaternary (last 2.6 million years). He works closely with other researchers to gain insights into past ecosystem function through the examination of many different lines of evidence, including: fossil charcoal (fire history), phytoliths (local vegetation change), and organic geochemistry (plant response to environmental change).
William has active research projects in the Andes, Amazon, West Africa, and the Netherlands with a particular interests in vegetation-human-climate interactions and biogeography. His teaching is focused on two courses at the University of Amsterdam:
Both courses are taught in English, include a strong practical element (laboratory, field and computer), and are suitable for students with biology, Earth science, physical geography, or archaeology backgrounds.
With his personl research William supports a number of BSc, MSc, PhD and post-doctoral projects. If you are intereted in joining the team please get in contact.
Research and education project updates can be found on the Ecology of the past blog.
Publication list on ORCID.
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External appointments
- Chair of Education and Careers Committee (elected 2014-present)
- Ordinary Member of Council (elected 2010-2014)
- Secretary of Tropical Ecology Special Interest Group (2006-2009)
- Associate Editor (2018-present)
- Subject Editor "Global Change & Vegetation Dynamics" (2019-present)
Vegetation History & Archaeobotany
- Associate Editor (2017-present)
Natural Environmental Research Council
- Peer review college member (2010-present)
Palynologische Kring (Dutch palynological society)
- Secretary (2019-present)
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Short CV
Qualifications
- PhD in Characterization of Neotropical forest and savannah ecosystems by their modern pollen spectra (2000-2004)
Department of Geography, University of Leicester - MPhil in Quaternary Science (1998-1999)
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Queens' College - BSc (Hons) in Physical Geography (1995-1998)
Department of Geography, University of Hull - Certificate in British Archaeology (1996-1998)
Centre for Life Long Learning, University of Hull
Appointments
- Head of Department of Ecosystem & Landscape Dynamics (2017-present)
Head of Research Group of Palaeoecology & Landscape Ecology (2014-2017)
Associate Professor in Palaeoecology (2014-present)
Institute of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam - Senior Lecturer in Earth Science (2013-2014)
Lecturer in Earth Science (2010-2013)
Research Councils UK Academic Fellow in Ecosystem Science (2005-2010)
Department of Environment, Earth & Ecosystems, The Open University - Post-doctoral Research Scholar High resolution trans-glacial cycles of the tropical Andes (2003-2005)
Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology - Technician General/Teaching (1999-2000)
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
Publications
- Full publication list on ORCID.
- PhD in Characterization of Neotropical forest and savannah ecosystems by their modern pollen spectra (2000-2004)
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Publications
2021
Houngnon, A., Adomou, A. C., Gosling, W. D., & Adeonipekun, P. A. (2021). A checklist of vascular plants of Ewe-Adakplame Relic Forest in Benin, West Africa. PhytoKeys, 175, 151-174. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.175.61467 [details]- Jardine, P. E., Hoorn, C., Beer, M. A. M., Barbolini, N., Woutersen, A., Bogota-Angel, G., Gosling, W. D., Fraser, W. T., Lomax, B. H., Huang, H., Sciumbata, M., He, H., & Dupont-Nivet, G. (2021). Sporopollenin chemistry and its durability in the geological record: an integration of extant and fossil chemical data across the seed plants. Palaeontology, 64(2), 285-305. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12523 [details]
- McMichael, C. N. H., Heijink, B. M., Bush, M. B., & Gosling, W. D. (2021). On the scaling and standardization of charcoal data in paleofire reconstructions. Frontiers of Biogeography, 13(1), [e49431]. https://doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG49431 [details]
- McMichael, C. N. H., Witteveen, N. H., Scholz, S., Zwier, M., Prins, M. A., Lougheed, B. C., Mothes, P., & Gosling, W. D. (2021). 30,000 years of landscape and vegetation dynamics in a mid-elevation Andean valley. Quaternary Science Reviews, 258, [106866]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106866 [details]
- van der Sande, M. T., Bush, M. B., Urrego, D. H., Silman, M., Farfan-Rios, W., García Cabrera, K., Shenkin, A., Malhi, Y., McMichael, C. H., & Gosling, W. (2021). Modern pollen rain predicts shifts in plant trait composition but not plant diversity along the Andes–Amazon elevational gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32(1), [e12925]. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12925 [details]
2020
- Calderón-Loor, M., Cuesta, F., Pinto, E., & Gosling, W. D. (2020). Carbon sequestration rates indicate ecosystem recovery following human disturbance in the equatorial Andes. PLoS ONE, 15(3), [e0230612]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230612 [details]
- Castilla-Beltrán, A., Hooghiemstra, H., Hoogland, M. L. P., Pagán-Jiménez, J., van Geel, B., Field, M. H., ... Hofman, C. L. (2020). Columbus' footprint: Land-use change before and after European incursion in Hispaniola. PAGES Magazine, 28(1), 24-25. https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.28.1.24 [details]
- Cuesta, F., Tovar, C., Llambí, L. D., Gosling, W. D., Halloy, S., Carilla, J., ... Pauli, H. (2020). Thermal niche traits of high alpine plant species and communities across the tropical Andes and their vulnerability to global warming. Journal of Biogeography, 47(2), 408-420. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13759 [details]
- Gomes, V. H. F., Mayle, F. E., Gosling, W. D., Vieira, I. C. G., Salomão, R. P., & ter Steege, H. (2020). Modelling the distribution of Amazonian tree species in response to long-term climate change during the Mid-Late Holocene. Journal of Biogeography, 47(7), 1530-1540. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13833 [details]
- Gosling, W. D., Sear, D. A., Hassall, J. D., Langdon, P. G., Bönnen, M. N. T., Driessen, T. D., ... McMichael, C. N. H. (2020). Human occupation and ecosystem change on Upolu (Samoa) during the Holocene. Journal of Biogeography, 47(3), 600-614. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13783 [details]
- Jardine, P. E., Fraser, W. T., Gosling, W. D., Roberts, C. N., Eastwood, W. J., & Lomax, B. H. (2020). Proxy reconstruction of ultraviolet-B irradiance at the Earth's surface, and its relationship with solar activity and ozone thickness. Holocene, 30(1), 155-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683619875798 [details]
- Teunissen van Manen, M. L., Jansen, B., Cuesta, F., León-Yánez, S., & Gosling, W. D. (2020). From leaf to soil: N-alkane signal preservation, despite degradation along an environmental gradient in the tropical Andes. Biogeosciences, 17(21), 5465-5487. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5465-2020 [details]
- Zhang, Y., van Geel, B., Gosling, W. D., Sun, G., Qin, L., & Wu, X. (2020). Typha as a wetland food resource: evidence from the Tianluoshan site, Lower Yangtze Region, China. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 29(1), 51-60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-019-00735-4 [details]
- van Geel, B., Brinkkemper, O., van Reenen, G. B. A., Van der Putten, N. N. L., Sybenga, J. E., Soonius, C., ... Gosling, W. D. (2020). Multicore Study of Upper Holocene Mire Development in West-Frisia, Northern Netherlands: Ecological and Archaeological Aspects. Quaternary, 3(2), [12]. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat3020012 [details]
2019
- Cuesta Camacho, F., Llambí, L. D., Huggel, C., Drenkhan, F., Gosling, W. D., Muriel, P., ... Tovar, C. (2019). New land in the Neotropics: a review of biotic community, ecosystem, and landscape transformations in the face of climate and glacier change. Regional environmental change, 19(6), 1623–1642. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-019-01499-3 [details]
- Cárdenes-Sandí, G. M., Shadik, C. R., Correa-Metrio, A., Gosling, W. D., Cheddadi, R., & Bush, M. B. (2019). Central American climate and microrefugia: A view from the last interglacial. Quaternary Science Reviews, 205, 224-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.12.021 [details]
- Duchicela, S. A., Cuesta, F., Pinto, E., Gosling, W. D., & Young, K. R. (2019). Indicators for assessing tropical alpine rehabilitation practices. Ecosphere, 10(2), [e02595]. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2595 [details]
- Gosling, W. D., Cornelissen, H. L., & McMichael, C. N. H. (2019). Reconstructing past fire temperatures from ancient charcoal material. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 520, 128-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.01.029 [details]
- Hagemans, K., Tóth, C-D., Ormaza, M., Gosling, W. D., Urrego, D. H., León-Yánez, S., ... Donders, T. H. (2019). Modern pollen-vegetation relationships along a steep temperature gradient in the Tropical Andes of Ecuador. Quaternary Research, 92(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2019.4 [details]
- Jardine, P. E., Gosling, W. D., Lomax, B. H., Julier, A. C. M., & Fraser, W. T. (2019). Chemotaxonomy of domesticated grasses: a pathway to understanding the origins of agriculture. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 38(1), 83-95. https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-38-83-2019 [details]
- Julier, A. C. M., Jardine, P. E., Adu-Bredu, S., Coe, A. L., Fraser, W. T., Lomax, B. H., ... Gosling, W. D. (2019). Variability in modern pollen rain from moist and wet tropical forest plots in Ghana, West Africa. Grana, 58(1), 45-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2018.1510027 [details]
- Teunissen van Manen, M. L., Jansen, B., Cuesta Camacho, F., León‐Yánez, S., & Gosling, W. D. (2019). Leaf wax n‐alkane patterns of six tropical montane tree species show species‐specific environmental response. Ecology and Evolution, 9(16), 9120-9128. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5458 [details]
- Zhang, J., Xu, H., Gosling, W. D., Lan, J., Dodson, J., Lu, F., ... Liu, B. (2019). Vegetation and climate evolution during the Last Glaciation at Tengchong in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 514, 441-452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.11.008 [details]
- Zhang, Y., van Geel, B., Gosling, W. D., McMichael, C. N. H., Jansen, B., Absalah, S., ... Wu, X. (2019). Local vegetation patterns of a Neolithic environment at the site of Tianluoshan, China, based on coprolite analysis. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 271, [104101]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2019.104101 [details]
- van der Sande, M. T., Gosling, W., Correa-Metrio, A., Prado-Junior, J., Poorter, L., Oliveira, R. S., ... Bush, M. B. (2019). A 7000-year history of changing plant trait composition in an Amazonian landscape; the role of humans and climate. Ecology Letters, 22(6), 925-935. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13251 [details]
2018
- Bush, M. B., & Gosling, W. D. (2018). In search of the ice age tropics, a tribute to Prof. Daniel Livingstone and Prof. Paul Colinvaux. Quaternary Research, 89(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2017.109 [details]
- Castilla-Beltrán, A., Hooghiemstra, H., Hoogland, M. L. P., Pagán-Jiménez, J., van Geel, B., Field, M. H., ... Hofman, C. L. (2018). Columbus’ footprint in Hispaniola: a paleoenvironmental record of Indigenous and Colonial impacts on the landscape of the central Cibao Valley, northern Dominican Republic. Anthropocene, 22, 66-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2018.05.003 [details]
- Gosling, W. D., Julier, A. C. M., Adu-Bredu, S., Djagbletey, G. D., Fraser, W. T., Jardine, P. E., ... Moore, S. (2018). Pollen-vegetation richness and diversity relationships in the tropics. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 27(2), 411-418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-017-0642-y [details]
- Hooghiemstra, H., Olijhoek, T., Hoogland, M., Prins, M., van Geel, B., Donders, T., ... Hofman, C. (2018). Columbus’ environmental impact in the New World: Land use change in the Yaque River valley, Dominican Republic. Holocene, 28(11), 1818-1835. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683618788732 [details]
- Julier, A. C. M., Jardine, P. E., Adu-Bredu, S., Coe, A. L., Duah-Gyamfi, A., Fraser, W. T., ... Gosling, W. D. (2018). The modern pollen–vegetation relationships of a tropical forest–savannah mosaic landscape, Ghana, West Africa. Palynology, 42(3), 324-338. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2017.1356392 [details]
- Loughlin, N. J. D., Gosling, W. D., & Montoya, E. (2018). Identifying environmental drivers of fungal non-pollen palynomorphs in the montane forest of the eastern Andean flank, Ecuador. Quaternary Research, 89(1), 119-133. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2017.73 [details]
- Loughlin, N. J. D., Gosling, W. D., Coe, A. L., Gulliver, P., Mothes, P., & Montoya, E. (2018). Landscape-scale drivers of glacial ecosystem change in the montane forests of the eastern Andean flank, Ecuador. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 489, 198-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.10.011 [details]
- Loughlin, N. J. D., Gosling, W. D., Mothes, P., & Montoya, E. (2018). Ecological consequences of post-Columbian indigenous depopulation in the Andean–Amazonian corridor. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(8), 1233-1236. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0602-7 [details]
- Montoya, E., Keen, H., Luzuriaga, C. X., & Gosling, W. D. (2018). Long-term vegetation dynamics in a megadiverse hotspot: The ice-age record of a pre-montane forest of central Ecuador. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9, [196]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.00196 [details]
- Nolan, C., Overpeck, J. T., Allen, J. R. M., Anderson, P. M., Betancourt, J. L., Binney, H. A., ... Jackson, S. T. (2018). Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change. Science, 361(6405), 920-923. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan5360 [details]
- Rangel, T. F., Edwards, N. R., Holden, P. B., Diniz-Filho, J. A. F., Gosling, W. D., Coelho, M. T. P., ... Colwell, R. K. (2018). Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves. Science, 361(6399), [eaar5452]. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar5452 [details]
- Valencia, B. G., Bush, M. B., Coe, A. L., Orren, E., & Gosling, W. D. (2018). Polylepis woodland dynamics during the last 20,000 years. Journal of Biogeography, 45(5), 1019-1030. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13209 [details]
- Woutersen, A., Jardine, P. E., Bogotá-Angel, R. G., Zhang, H-X., Silvestro, D., Antonelli, A., ... Hoorn, C. (2018). A novel approach to study the morphology and chemistry of pollen in a phylogenetic context, applied to the halophytic taxon Nitraria L. (Nitrariaceae). PeerJ, 6, [e5055]. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5055 [details]
2017
- Cuesta, F., Muriel, P., Llambí, L. D., Halloy, S., Aguirre, N., Beck, S., ... Gosling, W. D. (2017). Latitudinal and altitudinal patterns of plant community diversity on mountain summits across the tropical Andes. Ecography, 40(12), 1381-1394. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.02567 [details]
- Gosling, W. D., de Kruif, J., Norder, S. J., de Boer, E. J., Hooghiemstra, H., Rijsdijk, K. F., & McMichael, C. N. H. (2017). Mauritius on fire: Tracking historical human impacts on biodiversity loss. Biotropica, 49(6), 778-783. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12490 [details]
- Jardine, P. E., Abernethy, F. A. J., Lomax, B. H., Gosling, W. D., & Fraser, W. T. (2017). Shedding light on sporopollenin chemistry, with reference to UV reconstructions. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 238, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.11.014 [details]
- Matthews-Bird, F., Brooks, S. J., Gosling, W. D., Gulliver, P., Mothes, P., & Montoya, E. (2017). Aquatic community response to volcanic eruptions on the Ecuadorian Andean flank: evidence from the palaeoecological record. Journal of Paleolimnology, 58(4), 437-453. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-017-0001-0 [details]
- Sánchez Goñi, M. F., Desprat, S., Daniau, A-L., Bassinot, F. C., Polanco-Martínez, J. M., Harrison, S. P., ... Yamamoto, M. (2017). The ACER pollen and charcoal database: a global resource to document vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period. Earth System Science Data, 9(2), 679-695. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-679-2017 [details]
2016
- Flantua, S. G. A., Hooghiemstra, H., Vuille, M., Behling, H., Carson, J. F., Gosling, W. D., ... González-Arango, C. (2016). Climate variability and human impact in South America during the last 2000 years: synthesis and perspectives from pollen records. Climate of the Past, 12(2), 483-523. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-483-2016 [details]
- Hoogakker, B. A. A., Smith, R. S., Singarayer, J. S., Marchant, R., Prentice, I. C., Allen, J. R. M., ... Tzedakis, C. (2016). Terrestrial biosphere change over the last 120 kyr. Climate of the Past, 12(1), 51-73. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-51-2016 [details]
- Jardine, P. E., Fraser, W. T., Lomax, B. H., Sephton, M. A., Shanahan, T. M., Miller, C. S., & Gosling, W. D. (2016). Pollen and spores as biological recorders of past ultraviolet irradiance. Scientific Reports, 6, [39269]. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep39269 [details]
- Julier, A. C. M., Jardine, P. E., Coe, A. L., Gosling, W. D., Lomax, B. H., & Fraser, W. T. (2016). Chemotaxonomy as a tool for interpreting the cryptic diversity of Poaceae pollen. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 235, 140-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.08.004 [details]
- Matthews-Bird, F., Brooks, S. J., Holden, P. B., Montoya, E., & Gosling, W. D. (2016). Inferring late-Holocene climate in the Ecuadorian Andes using a chironomid-based temperature inference model. Climate of the Past, 12(5), 1263-1280. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-1263-2016 [details]
- Matthews-Bird, F., Gosling, W. D., Coe, A. L., Bush, M., Mayle, F. E., Axford, Y., & Brooks, S. J. (2016). Environmental controls on the distribution and diversity of lentic Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) across an altitudinal gradient in tropical South America. Ecology and Evolution, 6(1), 91-112. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1833 [details]
- Miller, C. S., Gosling, W. D., Kemp, D. B., Coe, A. L., & Gilmour, I. (2016). Drivers of ecosystem and climate change in tropical West Africa over the past ~540 000 years. Journal of Quaternary Science, 31(7), 671-677. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2893 [details]
- Shanahan, T. M., Hughen, K. A., McKay, N. P., Overpeck, J. T., Scholtz, C. A., Gosling, W. D., ... Heil, C. W. (2016). CO2 and fire influence tropical ecosystem stability in response to climate change. Scientific Reports, 6, [29587]. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep29587 [details]
- Valencia, B. G., Matthews-Bird, F., Urrego, D. H., Williams, J. J., Gosling, W. D., & Bush, M. (2016). Andean microrefugia: Testing the Holocene to predict the Anthropocene. New Phytologist, 212(2), 510–522. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14042 [details]
2015
- Flantua, S. G. A., Hooghiemstra, H., Grimm, E. C., Behling, H., Bush, M. B., González-Arrango, C., ... van Boxel, J. H. (2015). Updated site compilation of the Latin American Pollen Database. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 233, 104-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.09.008 [details]
- Jardine, P. E., Fraser, W. T., Lomax, B. H., & Gosling, W. D. (2015). The impact of oxidation on spore and pollen chemistry. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 34(2), 139-149. https://doi.org/10.1144/jmpaleo2014-022 [details]
2014
- Bush, M. B., De Oliveira, P. E., Raczka, M. F., Gosling, W. D., Mayle, F. E., McMichael, C. H., & Urrego, D. H. (2014). Paleoclimates of Amazonia: An ice-age view. In I. de Souza Carvalho, M. J. Garcia, C. Cunha Lana, & O. Strohschoen Jr. (Eds.), Paleontologia: Cenários de Vida - Paleoclimas (Vol. 5, pp. 353-367). Editora Interciência Ltda.. [details]
- Cárdenas, M. L., Gosling, W. D., Pennington, R. T., Poole, I., Sherlock, S. C., & Mothes, P. (2014). Forests of the tropical eastern Andean flank during the middle Pleistocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 393, 76-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.10.009 [details]
- Fraser, W. T., Lomax, B. H., Jardine, P. E., Gosling, W. D., & Sephton, M. A. (2014). Pollen and spores as a passive monitor of ultraviolet radiation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2, [12]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2014.00012 [details]
- Fraser, W. T., Watson, J. S., Sephton, M. A., Lomax, B. H., Harrington, G., Gosling, W. D., & Self, S. (2014). Changes in spore chemistry and appearance with increasing maturity. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 201, 41-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.11.001 [details]
- Keen, H. F., Gosling, W. D., Hanke, F., Miller, C. S., Montoya, E., Valencia, B. G., & Williams, J. J. (2014). A statistical sub-sampling tool for extracting vegetation community and diversity information from pollen assemblage data. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 408, 48-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.05.001 [details]
- Miller, C. S., & Gosling, W. D. (2014). Quaternary forest associations in lowland tropical West Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews, 84, 7-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.027 [details]
- Sayer, E. J., Featherstone, H. C., & Gosling, W. D. (2014). Sex & Bugs & Rock ‘n Roll - Getting creative about public engagement. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 29(2), 65-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2013.12.008 [details]
2013
- Gosling, W. D., & Williams, J. J. (2013). Ecosystem service provision sets the pace for pre-Hispanic societal development in the central Andes. Holocene, 23, 1617-1622. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683613496296
- Gosling, W. D., Miller, C. S., & Livingstone, D. A. (2013). Atlas of the tropical West African pollen flora. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 199, 1-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.01.003
- Roucoux, K. H., Lawson, I. T., Jones, T. D., Baker, T. R., Coronado, E. N. H., Gosling, W. D., & Lahteenoja, O. (2013). Complex vegetation succession in an Amazonian peatland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 374, 242-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.01.023
2012
- Bush, M. B., & Gosling, W. D. (2012). Environmental change in the humid tropics and monsoonal regions. In J. A. Matthews (Ed.), The Handbook of Environmental Change (Volume 1) (pp. 113-140). London: Sage.
- Mosblech, N. A. S., Bush, M. B., Gosling, W. D., Hodell, D. A., Thomas, L., van Calsteren, P., ... van Woesik, R. (2012). North Atlantic forcing of Amazonian precipitation during the last ice age. Nature Geoscience, 5, 817-820. https://doi.org/10.1038/NGEO1588
- Williams, J. J., Brooks, S. J., & Gosling, W. D. (2012). Response of chironomids to late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental change in the eastern Bolivian Andes. Journal of Paleolimnology, 48(3), 485-501. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-012-9626-1
2011
- Bush, M. B., Gosling, W. D., & Colinvaux, P. A. (2011). Climate and vegetation change in the lowlands of the Amazon Basin. In M. B. Bush, J. R. Flenley, & W. D. Gosling (Eds.), Tropical rainforests responses to climatic changes (2nd edition) (pp. 61-84). Chichester: Springer.
- Cárdenas, M. C., Gosling, W. D., Sherlock, S. C., Poole, I., Pennington, R. T., & Mothes, P. (2011). The response of vegetation on the Andean flank in western Amazonia to Pleistocene climate change. Science, 331, 1055-1058. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1197947
- Gosling, W. D., & Holden, P. B. (2011). Precessional forcing of tropical vegetation carbon storage. Journal of Quaternary Science, 26(5), 463-467. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1514
- Hanselman, J. A., Bush, M. B., Gosling, W. D., Collins, A., Knox, C., Baker, P. A., & Fritz, S. C. (2011). 370,000-year record of vegetation and fire history around Lake Titicaca (Bolivia/Peru). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 305, 201-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.03.002
- Williams, J. J., Gosling, W. D., Brooks, S. J., Coe, A. L., & Xu, S. (2011). Vegetation, climate and fire in the eastern Andes (Bolivia) during the last 18,000 years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 312(1-2), 115-126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.10.001
- Williams, J. J., Gosling, W. D., Coe, A. L., Brooks, S. J., & Gulliver, P. (2011). Four thousand years of environmental change and human activity in the Cochabamba Basin, Bolivia. Quaternary Research, 76, 58-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2011.03.004
2010
- Bush, M. B., Hanselman, J. A., & Gosling, W. D. (2010). Non-linear climate change and Andean feedbacks: An imminent turning point? Global Change Biology, 16(12), 3223-3232. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02203.x
2009
- Gosling, W. D., Hanselman, J. A., Knox, C., Valencia, B. G., & Bush, M. B. (2009). Long term drivers of change in Polylepis woodland distribution in the central Andes. Journal of Vegetation Science, 20, 1041-1052. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2009.01102.x
- Gosling, W. D., Mayle, F. E., Tate, N. J., & Killeen, T. J. (2009). Differentiation between Neotropical rainforest, dry forest, and savannah ecosystems by their modern pollen spectra and implications for the fossil pollen record. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 153(1-2), 70-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.06.007
- Marchant, R., Cleef, A., Harrison, S. P., Hooghiemstra, H., Markgraf, V., van Boxel, J., ... Wille, M. (2009). Pollen-based biome reconstructions for Latin America at 0, 6000 and 18 000 radiocarbon years ago. Climate of the Past, 5(4), 725-767. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-5-725-2009 [details]
2008
- Gosling, W. D., & Bunting, M. J. (2008). A role for palaeoecology in anticipating future change in mountain regions? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 259(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.10.017
- Gosling, W. D., Bush, M. B., Hanselman, J. A., & Chepstow-Lusty, A. (2008). Glacial-interglacial changes in moisture balance and the impact on vegetation in the southern hemisphere tropical Andes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 259(1), 35-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.02.050
2015
- Flantua, S. G. A., Hooghiemstra, H., Vuillle, M., Behling, H., Carson, J. F., Gosling, W. D., ... González-Arango, C. (2015). Climate variability and human impact on the environment in South America during the last 2000 years: synthesis and perspectives. Climate of the Past Discussions, 11(4), 3475-3565. https://doi.org/10.5194/cpd-11-3475-2015 [details]
2011
- Bush, M. B., Flenley, J. R., & Gosling, W. D. (2011). Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change. -2nd edition. (Springer-Praxis books in environmental sciences). Berlin: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05383-2
- Cárdenas, M. C., Gosling, W. D., Sherlock, S. C., Poole, I., Pennington, R. T., & Mothes, P. (2011). Response to comment on "The response of vegetation on the Andean flank in western Amazonia to Pleistocene climate change". Science, 333, 1825. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1207888
2009
- Marchant, R., Harrison, S. P., Hooghiemstra, H., Markgraf, V., van Boxel, J. H., Ager, T., ... Wille, M. (2009). Pollen-based biome reconstructions for Latin America at 0, 6000 and 18 000 radiocarbon years. Climate of the Past Discussions, 5(1), 369-461. https://doi.org/10.5194/cpd-5-369-2009 [details]
2019
- Hooghiemstra, H., Castilla Beltrán, A., Hoogland, M., Pagan Jiménez, J., van Geel, B., Field, M., ... Hofman, C. (2019). Columbus’ footprint; Verandering in landgebruik na de Europese kolonisatie van de Nieuwe Wereld. Geografie, 28(6), 38-40.
2010
- Gosling, W. D. (2010). Evolutions Atlas. In J. A. Silvertown (Ed.), Fragile Web: What's next for nature? (pp. 31-41). Natural History Museum & University of Chicago Press.
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Houngnon, A., Adomou, A. C., Gosling, W. D., & Adeonipekun, P. A. (2021). A checklist of vascular plants of Ewe-Adakplame Relic Forest in Benin, West Africa. PhytoKeys, 175, 151-174.