Key publications

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-Seppä, H., Birks, H.J.B., Giesecke, T., Hammarlund, D., Alenius, T., Antonsson, K., Bjune, A.E., Heikkilä M. , MacDonald, G.M., Ojala, A.E.K., Telford, R.J. and Veski, S. (2007). Spatial structure of the 8200 cal yr BP event in northern Europe. Climate of the Past 3, 225-236. [pdf]

-Helmens, K.F., Bos, J.A.A., Engels, S., Van Meerbeeck, C.J., Bohncke, S.J.P.), Renssen, H., Heiri, O., Brooks, S.J., Seppä, H., Birks, H.J.B., Wohlfarth, B. (2007). Present-day temperatures in northern Scandinavia during the last glaciation. Geology 35, 987-990. [pdf]

-Heikkilä, M., Fontana, S. and Seppä, H. (2009). Rapid late-glacial tree population dynamics and ecosystem changes in the eastern Baltic region. Journal of Quaternary Science 24, 802-815. [pdf]

-Seppä, H., Alenius, T., Giesecke, T., Bradshaw, R.H.W., Heikkilä, M. and Muukkonen, P. (2009). Invasion of Norway spruce (Picea abies) and the rise of the Boreal ecosystem in Fennoscandia. Journal of Ecology 97, 629-640. [pdf]

-Renssen, H., Seppä, H., Heiri, O., Fichefet, T., Goosse, H. & Roche, D.M. (2009). The spatial and temporal complexity of the Holocene thermal maximum. Nature Geoscience 2, 411-414.[pdf]

-Kaufman, D.S., Schneider, D.P., McKay, N.P., Ammann, C.M., Bradley, R.S. Briffa, K.R., Miller, G.H., Otto Bliesner, P.L., Overpeck, J.T. & Arctic Lakes 2k Project Members (Abbott, M., Axford, Y., Bird, B., Birks, H.J.B., Bjune, A.E., Briner, J., Cook, T., Chipman, M., Gajewski, K., Geirsdottir, A., Hu, F.S., Kutchko, B., Lamoureux, S., Loso, M., MacDonald, G.M., Peros, M., Porinchu, D., Schiff, C., Seppä, H. & Thomas, E. (2009). Recent warming reverses long-term Arctic cooling. Science 325, 1236-1239.[pdf]

-Korhola, A., Ruppel, M., Seppä, H., Väliranta, M, Virtanen, T. & Weckström, J. The role of peatland expansion in the late-Holocene rise of atmospheric methane. Quaternary Science Reviews (in press)[pdf]

List of recent publications

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SUBMITTED:

-Arppe, L., Karhu, J.A. Oxygen isotope values of precipitation and the thermal climate in Europe during the middle to late Weichselian ice age. (submitted)

-Heikkilä, M., Edwards, T.W.D., Seppä, H. and Sonninen, E. Sediment isotope tracers from Lake Saarikko, Finland, and implications to Holocene hydroclimatology. (submitted)

-Luoto, T.P. The relationship between water quality and chironomid distribution in Finland - a new assemblage-based tool for assessments of long-term nutrient dynamics. (submitted)

-Luoto, T.P. The potential of enhancing paleohydrological transfer functions through merging multi- and intralake datasets - a new training set design. (submitted).

-Luoto, T.P. & Helama, S. Palaeoclimatological and palaeolimnological records from fossil midges and tree-rings: the role of the North Atlantic Oscillation in eastern Finland through the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age. (submitted)

-Luoto, T.P. & Nevalainen, L. Inferring reference conditions of hypolimnetic oxygen for deteriorated Lake Mallusjärvi in the cultural landscape of Mallusjoki, southern Finland using fossil midge assemblages. (submitted)

-Luoto, T.P., Kultti, S., Nevalainen, L. & Sarmaja-Korjonen K. Temperature and effective moisture variability in southern Finland during the Holocene quantified with midge-based calibration models. (submitted)

-Nevalainen, L. & Luoto, T.P. Can past presence of fish be reconstructed using invertebrate death assemblages? (submitted)

-Nevalainen, L., Sarmaja-Korjonen, K., Luoto, T.P. & Kultti, S. Dissolved oxygen as a regulator of sexual reproduction in Alonella nana (Anomopoda, Chydoridae): ecological and palaeoecological evidence. (submitted)

IN PRESS :

-Giesecke, T., Miller, P.A., Sykes, MT., Ojala, A.E.K., Seppä, H. & Bradshaw, R.H.W. (2010). The effect of past changes in inter-annual temperature variability on tree distribution limits. Journal of Biogeography (in press)

-Heikkilä, M. and Seppä, H. (2010). Holocene climate dynamics in Latvia, eastern Baltic region: a pollen-based summer temperature reconstruction and regional comparison. Boreas (in press)

-Korhola, A., Ruppel, M., Seppä, H., Väliranta, M, Virtanen, T. & Weckström, J. (2010). The role of peatland expansion in the late-Holocene rise of atmospheric methane. Quaternary Science Reviews (in press)

-Luoto, T.P. (2010). Hydrological change in lakes inferred from midge assemblages through use of an intralake calibration set. Ecological Monographs (in press)

-Luoto, T.P. and Salonen, V.-P. (2010). Fossil midge larvae (Diptera: Chironomidae) as quantitative indicators of late-winter hypolimnetic oxygen in southern Finland - A calibration model, cases studies and potentialities. Boreal Environmental Research (in press).

-Nevalainen, L. & Luoto, T.P. (2010). Temperature sensitivity of gamogenesis in littoral cladocerans and its ecological implications. Journal of Limnology 69: DOI:10.3274/JL10-69-1-11.

2009:

-Arppe, L., Karhu, J.A. and Vartanyan, S (2009). Bioapatite ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr of the last woolly mammoths - implications for the isolation of Wrangel Island. Geology 37, 347-350.

-Bjune, A.E., Seppä, H. and Birks, H.J.B. (2009). Quantitative summer-temperature reconstructions for the last 2000 years based on pollen-stratigraphical data from northern Fennoscandia. Journal of Paleolimnology 41, 43-56.

-Bos, J.A.A, Helmens, K.F., Bohncke, S.J.P., Seppä, H. and Birks, H.J.B. (2009). Flora, vegetation, and climate at Sokli, north-eastern Fennoscandia, during the Middle-Weichselian Pleniglacial (MIS 3) Boreas 38, 335-348.

-Heikkilä, M., Fontana, S. and Seppä, H.(2009). Rapid late-glacial tree population dynamics and ecosystem changes in the eastern Baltic region. Journal of Quaternary Science 24, 802-815.

-Kaufman, D.S., Schneider, D.P., McKay, N.P., Ammann, C.M., Bradley, R.S. Briffa, K.R., Miller, G.H., Otto Bliesner, P.L., Overpeck, J.T. & Arctic Lakes 2k Project Members (Abbott, M., Axford, Y., Bird, B., Birks, H.J.B., Bjune, A.E., Briner, J., Cook, T., Chipman, M., Gajewski, K., Geirsdottir, A., Hu, F.S., Kutchko, B., Lamoureux, S., Loso, M., MacDonald, G.M., Peros, M., Porinchu, D., Schiff, C., Seppä, H. & Thomas, E. (2009). Recent warming reverses long-term Arctic cooling. Science 325, 1236-1239.

-Luoto, T.P. (2009). An assessment of lentic ceratopogonids, ephemeropterans, trichopterans and oribatid mites as indicators of past environmental change in Finland. Annales Zoologici Fennici 46, 259-270.

-Luoto, T.P. (2009). Subfossil Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) along a latitudinal gradient in Finland: development of a new temperature inference model. Journal of Quaternary Science 24, 150-58.

-Luoto, T.P. (2009). A Finnish chironomid- and chaoborid-based inference model for reconstructing past lake levels. Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 1481-1489.

-Luoto, T.P., Sarmaja-Korjonen, K., Nevalainen, L. & Kauppila, T. (2009). A 700 year record of temperature and nutrient changes in a small eutrophied lake in southern Finland. The Holocene 19: 1063-1072.

-Renssen, H., Seppä, H., Heiri, O., Fichefet, T., Goosse, H. & Roche, D.M. (2009). The spatial and temporal complexity of the Holocene thermal maximum. Nature Geoscience 2, 411-414.

-Seppä, H., Bjune, A.E, Telford, R.J., Birks, H.J.B. & Veski, S. (2009). Last nine-thousand years of temperature variability in northern Europe. Climate of the Past 5, 523-535.

-Seppä, H. (2009). Palaeoecology. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester [Doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0003232]

-Seppä, H., Alenius, T., Bradshaw, R., Giesecke, T., Heikkilä, M. and Muukkonen, P. (2009). The invasion of Norway spruce (Picea abies) and the rise of the boreal ecosystem in Fennoscandia. Journal of Ecology 97, 629-640.

-Seppä, H., Alenius, T., Muukkonen, P., Giesecke, T., Miller, P.A. & Ojala, A.E.K.. Calibrated pollen accumulation rates as a basis for quantitative tree biomass reconstructions. The Holocene 19, 209-220.

-Sillasoo, U., Poska, A., Seppä, H., Chambers, F. & Blaauw, M. (2009). Linking prehistoric cultural developments to palaeoenvironmental changes in Estonia. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 18, 315-327.

-Tonello, M., Mancini, V. & Seppä, H.. Quantitative reconstruction of Holocene precipitation changes in southern Patagonia. Quaternary Research 72, 410-420.

2008:

-Antonsson, K., Chen, D. and Seppä, H. (2008). Anticyclonic atmospheric circulation as an analogue for the warm and dry mid-Holocene summer climate in central Scandinavia. Climate of the Past 4, 215-224.

-Giesecke, T., Bjune, A.E., Chiverrell, R.C., Seppä, H., Ojala, A.E.K. and Birks, H.J.B. (2008). Exploring Holocene continentality changes in Fennoscandia using present and past tree distributions. Quaternary Science Reviews 27, 1296-1308.

-Luoto, T.P., Nevalainen, L. and Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. (2008). Multiproxy evidence for the 'Little Ice Age' from Lake Hamptrask, southern Finland. Journal of Paleolimnology 40, 1097-1113.

-Miller, P.A., Giesecke, T., Hickler, T., Bradshaw, R.H.W., Smith, B., Seppä H., Valdes, P.J. and Sykes, M.T (2008). Exploring climatic and biotic controls on Holocene vegetation change in Fennoscandia. Journal of Ecology 96, 247-259.

-Nevalainen, L. (2008). Parthenogenesis and gamogenesis in seasonal succession of chydorids (Crustacea, Chydoridae) in three low-productive lakes as observed with activity traps. Polish Journal of Ecology 56, 85-97.

-Nevalainen, L., Luoto, T.P. & Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. (2008). Late Holocene water-level changes in Lake Iso Lehmälampi, southern Finland, reflected in subfossil cladocerans and chironomids. Studia Quaternaria 25, 33-42.

-Nevalainen, L. and Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. (2008). Intensity of autumnal gamogenesis in chydorid (Cladocera, Chydoridae) communities in southern Finland, with a focus on Alonella nana (Baird). Aquatic Ecology 42, 151-163.

-Ojala, A.E.K., Alenius, T., Seppä, H. and Giesecke, T. (2008). Integrated varve and pollen-based temperature reconstruction from Finland: evidence for Holocene seasonal temperature patterns at high latitudes. Holocene 18, 529-538

-Seppä, H. , MacDonald, G.M., Birks, H.J.B., Gervais, B.R. and Snyder, J.A. (2008). Late-Quaternary summer temperature changes in the northern-European tree-line region. Quaternary Research 69, 404-412.

2007:

-Antonsson, K., Seppä, H. (2007). Holocene temperaturesin Bohuslän, southwest Sweden - a quantitative reconstruction. Boreas 36, 400-410.

-Charman, D., Blundell, A. and ACCROTELM-members (Sue Bartlett, Carole Begeot, Maarten Blaauw, Antony Blundell, Frank Chambers, Dan Charman, John Daniell, Richard Evershed, Edgar Karofeld, Atte Korhola, Hansjörg Kuester, Jukka Laine, Michel Magny, Dmitri Mauquoy, Erin McClymont, Fraser Mitchell, Pirita Oksanen, Richard Pancost, Kaarina Sarmaja-Korjonen, Heikki Seppä, Ülle Sillasoo, Bettina Steffanini, Mareike Steffens, Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, Minna Väliranta, Johannes van der Plicht, Bas van Geel, Dan Yeloff). 2006. A new European testate amoebae transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction on ombrotrophic peatlands. Journal of Quaternary Science 22, 209-221.

-Helmens, K.F., Bos, J.A.A., Engels, S., Van Meerbeeck, C.J., Bohncke, S.J.P.), Renssen, H., Heiri, O., Brooks, S.J., Seppä, H., Birks, H.J.B., Wohlfarth, B. (2007). Present-day temperatures in northern Scandinavia during the last glaciation. Geology 35, 987-990.

-Luoto, T.P. (2007). Subfossil chironomids from 18 lakes in southern and northern Finland. Chironomus Newsletter on Chironomidae Research 20, 16-23.

-Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. and Seppä, H. (2007). Abrupt and consistent responses of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems to the 8200 cal yr BP cold event - a lacustrine record from Lake Arapisto, Finland. Holocene 17, 457-467.

-Seppä, H., Birks, H.J.B., Giesecke, T., Hammarlund, D., Alenius, T., Antonsson, K., Bjune, A.E., Heikkilä M. , MacDonald, G.M., Ojala, A.E.K., Telford, R.J. and Veski, S. (2007). Spatial structure of the 8200 cal yr BP event in northern Europe. Climate of the Past 3, 225-236.

-Tuittila, E-S., Väliranta, M. Laine, J. & Korhola, A. 2007. Quantifying controls and patterns of mire vegetation succession in a southern boreal bog in Finland using partial ordination. Journal of Vegetation Science 18, 891-902.

-Ukkonen, P., Arppe, L., Houmark-Nielsen, M., Kjaer, K.H., Karhu, J.A. (2007). MIS 3 mammoth remains from Sweden - implications for faunal history, palaeoclimate and glaciation chronology. Quaternary Science Reviews 26, 3081-3098.

- Väliranta, M., Korhola, A., Sarmaja-Korjonen, K., Seppä, H. Tuittila, E.-S., Laine, J. and Alm, J. (2007). High-resolution reconstruction of wetness dynamics in a southern boreal raised bog, Finland, during the late Holocene: a quantitative approach. Holocene 17, 1093-1107

-Väliranta, M. and Weckström, J. Applying principal components analysis (PCA) for separating wingless birch fruits - a palaeoecological case study from northern Norway. Annales botanici Fennici 44, 213-218.

2006:

-Antonsson, K., Brooks, S.J., Seppä, H., Telford, R.J. and Birks, H.J.B. Quantitative palaeotemperature records inferred from fossil chironomid and pollen assemblages from Lake Gilltjärnen, North central Sweden. Journal of Quaternary Science 21, 831-841.

-Arppe, L. and Karhu, J.A. (2006). Implications for the Late Pleistocene climate in Finland and adjacent areas from the isotopic composition of mammoth skeletal remains. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 231, 322-330.

-Kultti, S., Mikkola, K., Virtanen, T., Timonen, M., and Eronen, M. Past changes in the Scots pine forest line and climate in Finnish - a study based on megafossils, lake sediments, and GIS-based vegetation and climate data. Holocene 16, 381-391.

- Oksanen, P. and Väliranta, M. (2006). Palsasuoprofiilien historialliset kasviyhdyskunnat muuttuvien ympäristöolojen ilmentäjinä (in Finnish). Suo - Mires and Peat 57,2, 33-43 (English abstract).

-Sarmaja-Korjonen, K., Nyman, M., Kultti, S. and Väliranta, M. (2006). Palaeolimnological development of Lake Njargajavri, northern Finnish Lapland, in a changing Holocene climate and environment. Journal of Palaeolimnology 35, 65-81.

-Sarmaja-Korjonen, K., Seppänen, A. and Bennike, O. (2006). Pediastrum algae from the classic late glacial Bølling Sø site, Denmark: Response of aquatic biota to climate change. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 138, 95-107.

-Seppä, H. (2006). Principles of Pollen Analysis. In Elias, S. (ed.): Encyclopedia of Quaternary Sciences. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

-Seppä, H. and Hicks, S. Using modern and past pollen accumulation rate (PAR) records to reconstruct and map past tree-line patterns: a method for more precise vegetation reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews 25, 1501-1516.

-Väliranta, M. (2006). Long-term changes in aquatic plant species composition in north-eastern European Russia and Finnish Lapland, as evidenced by plant macrofossil analysis. Aquatic Botany 85, 224-232.

-Väliranta, M., Kultti, S. and Seppä, H. (2006). Vegetation dynamics during the Younger Dryas - Holocene transition in the extreme northern taiga zone, north-eastern European Russia. Boreas 35, 1-11.

-Seppä, H. and Tikkanen, M. (2006). Isostatic uplift-driven shift of the outlet of Lake Ähtärinjärvi, western Finland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland 78, 5-18.

2005:

-Helama, S., Lindhom, M, Meriläinen, J., Timonen, M., and Eronen, M (2005). Multicentennial ring-width chronologies of Scots pine along north-south gradient across Finland. Tree-ring Research 61, 21-32.

-Helama, S., Lindholm, M., Timonen, M. and Eronen, M. (2005). Mid- and Late Holocene tree density changes in northern Fennoscandia, paleoclimate evidence derived by new method using megafossil pines and their tree-ring series. Journal of Quaternary Science 20, 567-575.

- Koff, T., Punning J.-M., Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. and Martma, T (2005). Ecosystem response to early and late Holocene lake-level changes in Lake Juusa, southern Estonia. Polish Journal of Ecology 53, 553-570.

-Nevalainen, L. and Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. (2005). Identification of subfossil remains of cladocerans Latona setifera, Diaphanosoma brachyurum and Holopedium gibberum. Studia Quaternaria 22, 41-44.

-Ogurtsov, M., Helama, S., Eronen, M. and Lindholm, M. (2005). Centennial-to- millennial fluctuations in July temperatures in North Finland as recorded by tree-rings of Scots pine, Quaternary Research 63, 182-188.

-Ogurtsov, M.G., Jungner, H., Kocharov, G.E., Lindholm, M., Eronen, M. and Nagovitsyn, Yu, A (2005). Nitrate concentration in Greenland ice: an indicator of changes in fluxes of solar and galactic high-energy particles. Solar Physics 222, 177-190 .

-Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. (2005). Subfossil remains of Camptocercus lilljeborgii (Anomopoda, Chydoridae). Studia Quaternaria 22, 37-39.

-Seppä, H., Hammarlund, D. and Antonsson, K. Low- and high-frequency changes of temperature and effective humidity during the Holocene in south central Sweden: Implications for atmospheric and oceanic forcings of climate. Climate Dynamics 25, 285-297.

-Väliranta, M., Kultti, S., Nyman, M. and Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. (2005). Holocene development of aquatic vegetation in shallow Lake Njargajavri, Finnish Lapland, with evidence of water-level fluctuations and drying. Journal of Palaeolimnology 34, 203-215.

2004:

-Bennike, O., Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. and Seppänen, A. (2004). Reinvestigation of the classical late-glacial Bølling Sø sequence: chronology, macrofossils, Cladocera and chydorid ephippia. Journal of Quaternary Science 19, 1-14.

-Birks, H.J.B. and Seppä, H. (2004). Pollen-based reconstructions of late-Quaternary climate in Europe – progress, problems, and pitfalls. Acta Palaeobotanica 44, 317-334.

-Bjune, A.E., Birks, H.J.B. and Seppä, H. (2004). Holocene vegetation and climate history on a continental -oceanic transect in northern Fennoscandia based on pollen and plant macrofossils from lakes situated at or near the present tree-line. Boreas 33, 211-223.

-Hakala, A., Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. and Miettinen, A. (2004). The origin and evolution of Lake Vähä-Pitkusta, SW Finland - a multi-proxy study of a meromictic lake. Hydrobiologia 524, 85-97.

-Helama, S., Holopainen, J., Timonen, M.., Ogurtsov, M. G., Lindholm, M., Meriläinen, J. and Eronen, M. (2004): Comparison of living.tree and subfossil ring-widths with summer temperatures from 18 th, 19 th and 20 th Centuries in northern Finland. Dendrochronologia 21, 147-154.

-Helama, S., Lindholm, M., Timonen, M. and Eronen, M. (2004). Dendrochronologically dated changes in the limit of pine during the past 7.5 millenia. Boreas 33, 250-259.

-Helama, S., Lindholm, M., Timonen, M. and Eronen, M. (2004). Detection of climatic signal in dendrochronological data analysis: a comparison of tree-ring standardization method. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 79, 239-254.

-Kultti, S., Oksanen, P. and Väliranta, M. (2004). Multiproxy record of Holocene enviromental change in the Nenets Region, East-European Russian Arctic. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 41, 1141-1158.

-Macias, M.,Timonen, M., Kirchhefer, A., Lindholm, M., Eronen, M. and Gutierrez, E. (2004). Growth variability of Scots pine along a West-East gradient across Northern Fennoscandia: a dendroclimatic approach. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine research 36: 4, 565-574.

-Miettinen, A., Haila, H., Hyvärinen, H., Rinne, K. and Eronen, M. (2004). Eemian crustal deformation in the eastern Baltic area in the light of new sites at Peski, Russia and Põhja-Uhtju, Estonia. Quaternary International 130, 31-42.

- Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. (2004). Chydorid ephippia as indicators of past environmental changes – a new method. Hydrobiologia 526 , 129-136.

-Seppä, H., Hannon, G. and Bradshaw, R.H.W. (2004). Holocene history of alpine vegetation and forestline on Pyhäkero mountain, northern Finland. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 36, 607-614.

-Seppä, H., Birks, H.J.B., Odland, A., Poska, A. and Veski, S. (2004). Modern pollen surface sample set from northern Europe: developing and testing a tool for palaeoclimatological reconstructions. Journal of Biogeography 31, 251-267.

-Seppä, H. and Poska, A. (2004). Holocene annual mean temperature changes in Estonia and their relationship to solar insolation and atmospheric circulation patterns. Quaternary Research 61, 22-31.

-Veski, S., Seppä, H. and Ojala, A.E.K. (2004). Cold event at 8200 yr B.P. recorded in annually laminated lake sediments in eastern Europe. Geology 32, 681-684.

2003:

-Heikkilä, M. and Seppä, H. (2003). A 11,000 yr palaeotemperature reconstruction from the southern boreal zone in Finland. Quaternary Science Reviews 22, 541-554.

- Kultti, S., Väliranta, M., Sarmaja-Korjonen, K., Solovieva, N., Virtanen, T., Kauppila, T. and Eronen, M. (2003). Palaeoecological evidence of changes in vegetation and climate during the Holocene in the pre-Polar Urals, northeast European Russia. Journal of Quaternary Science 18, 503-520.

-Ogurtsov, M.G., Jungner, H., Kocharov, G.E., Lindholm, M., Eronen, M. and Nagovitsyn, Yu.A. (2003). On the link between northern Fennoscandian climate and length of the quasi - eleven-year cycle in galactic cosmic-ray flux. Solar Physics 218, 345-357.

-Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. (2003). Chydorid ephippia as indicators of environmental change – biostratigraphical evidence from two lakes in southern Finland The Holocene 13, 691-700.

-Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. (2003). Contemporaneous Alnus decline and the beginning of Iron Age cultivation in pollen stratigraphies from southern Finland. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 12, 49-59.

-Sarmaja-Korjonen, K., Kultti , S., Solovieva, N. and Väliranta, M. (2003). Mid-Holocene palaeoclimatic and palaeohydrological conditions in northeastern European Russia: a multi-proxy study of Lake Vankavad. Journal of Paleolimnology 30, 415-426.

-Sarmaja-Korjonen, K., Szeroczyńska, K. and Gasiorowski, M. (2003). Subfossil chydorid taxa and assemblages from lake sediments in Poland and Finland with special reference to climate. Studia Quaternaria 20, 25-34.

-Seppä, H. and Bennett, K.D. (2003). Quaternary pollen analysis: recent progress in palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology. Progress in Physical Geography 27, 580-611.

-Seppä, H., Cwynar, L.C. and MacDonald, G.M. (2003). Post-glacial vegetation reconstruction and a possible 8200 cal yr BP event from the low arctic of continental Nunavut, Canada. Journal of Quaternary Science 18, 621-629.

-Väliranta, M., Kaakinen, A. and Kuhry, P. (2003). Holocene climate and landscape evolution East of the Pechora delta, East-European Russian arctic. Quaternary Research 59, 335-344.

2002:

-Callaghan, T, V., Crawford, R. M. M, Eronen, M., Hofgaard, A., Payette, S., Rees, W. G., Skre, O., Sveinbjörnsson, B., Vlassova, T. K. and Werkman, B. R. (2002). The dynamics of the tundra-taiga boundary: an overview and a co-ordinated and integrated approach to research. Ambio Special Report 12, 2-5.

-Eronen, M., Zetterberg, P., Briffa, K., Lindholm, M., Meriläinen, J. and Timonen, M. (2002). The supra-long Scots pine tree-ring record for Finnish Lapland - 1: chronology construction and initial inferences. Holocene 12, 673-680.

-Helama, S., Lindholm, M., Timonen, M. and Eronen, M. (2002). The supra-long Scots pine tree-ring record for Finnish Lapland - Part 2: interannual to centennial variability in summer temperatures for 7500 years. Holocene 12, 681-687.

-Miettinen, A., Rinne, K., Haila, H., Hyvärinen, H., Eronen, M., Delusina, I., Kadastik, E., Kalm, V. and Gibbard. P. (2002). The marine Eemian of the Baltic: new pollen and diatom data from Peski, Russia and Põhja-Uhtju, Estonia. Journal of Quaternary Science 17, 445-458.

-Ogurtsov, M.G., Kocharov, G.E., Lindholm, M., Eronen, M., Nagovitsyn, Yu.A. (2001). Solar activity and regional climate in northern Fennoscandia . Radiocarbon 43, 439-449.

-Ogurtsov, M., Kocharov, G. E., Lindholm, M.,Meriläinen, J.,Eronen, M. and Nagovitsyn, Yu. A. (2002). Evidence of solar variation in tree-ring-based climate reconstructions. Solar Physics 205, 403-417.

-Payette, S., Eronen, M. and Jasinski, P. (2002). Late Pleistocene and Holocene changes of the circumboreal Taiga-Tundra interface. Ambio Special Report 12, 15-22.

- Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. (2002). Multi-proxy data from Kaksoislammi Lake in Finland: dramatic changes in the late Holocene cladoceran assemblages. Journal of Paleolimnology 28, 287-296.

-Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. and Hyvärinen, H. (2002). Subfossil littoral Cladocera as indicators of brackish-water Littorina transgression of the Baltic Basin in a small lake in Finland. Boreas 31, 356-361.

-Seppä, H. (2002). Mires of Finland: regional and local controls of vegetation, landforms, and long-term dynamics. Fennia 180, 43-60.

-Seppä, H., Birks, H.H. and Birks, H.J.B. (2002). Rapid climate changes during the Greenland stadial 1 (Younger Dryas) to early Holocene transition on the Norwegian Barents Sea coast. Boreas 31, 215-225.

-Seppä, H. and Birks, H.J.B. (2002). Holocene climate reconstructions from the Fennoscandian tree-line area based on pollen data from Toskaljavri. Quaternary Research 57, 191-199.

-Seppä, H., Nyman, M., Korhola, A. and Weckström, J. (2002). Changes of tree-lines and alpine vegetation in relation to post-glacial climate dynamics in northern Fennoscandia based on pollen and chironomid records. Journal of Quaternary Science 17, 287-301.

2001:

-CAPE Project members (incl. Seppä, H.)(2001). Holocene paleoclimate data from the Arctic: testing models of global climate change. Quaternary Science Reviews 20, 1275-1287.

-Eronen, M., Glückert, G., Hatakka, L., Rantala, P., van de Plassche, O. and van der Plicht, J. (2001). Rates of isostatic uplift and relative sea-level lowering of the Baltic studied from Holocene lake sediments in southwestern Finland. Boreas 30, 17-30.

-Sarmaja-Korjonen, K. (2001). Correlation of fluctuations in cladoceran planktonic/littoral ratio between three cores from a small lake in S. Finland - Holocene water-level changes. The Holocene 11, 53-63.

-Seppä, H. and Birks, H.J.B. (2001). July mean temperature and annual precipitation trends during the Holocene in the Fennoscandian tree-line area: pollen-based climate reconstructions. The Holocene 11, 527-539.

-Tikkanen, M. and Seppä, H. (2001). Postglacial history of Lake Näsijärvi, Finland, and the origin of the Tammerkoski rapids. Fennia 179, 129-141.

2000:

-Kaakinen, A. and Eronen, M. (2000). Holocene pollen stratigraphy indicating climatic and treeline changes derived from a peat section at Ortino, in the Pechora lowland, northern Russia. The Holocene 10, 611-620.

-Lindholm, M. and Eronen, M. (2000). A reconstruction of mid-summer temperatures from ring-widths of Scots pine since AD 50 in northern Fennoscandia. Geografiska Annaler 82 A, 527-535.

-Sarmaja-Korjonen, K., Hakojärvi, M. and Korhola, A. 2000. Subfossil remains of an unknown chydorid (Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from Finland. Hydrobiologia 436, 165-169.

-Seppä, H. and Hammarlund, D. (2000). Pollen-stratigraphical evidence of Holocene hydrological change in northern Fennoscandia supported by independent isotopic data. Journal of Paleolimnology 24, 69-79.

-Seppä, H., Tikkanen, M. and Shemeikka, P. (2000). Late-Holocene shore displacement of the Finnish south coast: diatom, litho- and chemostratigraphic evidence from three isolation basins. Boreas 29, 219-231.