This list consists of recent publications, mainly by CAP members, on palynological and palaeoecological themes. To conserve space, it covers only the last two years (2012-2013). Older articles can be found in the archive section of the Library. Please send additions, updates, or corrections to this list to Alwynne B. Beaudoin.

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Allard, G., M. Roy, B. Ghaleb, P. J. H. Richard, A. C. Larouche, J. J. Veillette, and M. Parent, 2012. Constraining the age of the last interglacial-glacial transition in the Hudson Bay lowlands (Canada) using U-Th dating of buried wood. Quaternary Geochronology 7:37-47. DOI: 10.1016j.quageo.2011.09.004

Braman, D. R., and A. R Sweet, 2012. Biostratigraphically useful Late Cretaceous-Paleocene Terrestrial palynomorphs from the Canadian Western Interior Sedimentary Basin. Palynology 36, Supplement 1, pp. 8-35. DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2011.642127

Bringué, M. and A. Rochon, 2012. Late Holocene paleoceanography and climate variability over the Mackenzie Slope (Beaufort Sea, Canadian Arctic). Marine Geology 291-294:83-96.

Bunbury, Joan, Sarah A. Finkelstein and Jörg Bollmann, 2012, Holocene hydro- climatic change and effects on carbon accumulation inferred from a peat bog in the Attawapiskat River watershed, Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada. Quaternary Research 78(2):275-284. DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.05.013

Bunbury, J. and Konrad Gajewski, 2012. Climate variability of the past 2000 years inferred from lake sediments, southwest Yukon Territory, Canada. Quaternary Research 77:355-367.

Camill, P., C. E. Umbanhowar, C. Geiss, W. O. Hobbs, M. B. Edlund, A. C. Shinneman, J. A. Dorale and J. Lynch, 2012. Holocene climate change and landscape development from a low-Arctic tundra lake in the western Hudson Bay region of Manitoba, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology 48(1):175-192. DOI 10.1007/s10933-012-9619-0

Casas-Monroy O., S. Roy and A. Rochon (in press). Dinoflagellate cysts in ballast sediments: differences between Canada’s east coast, west coast and the Great Lakes. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.

Cwynar, L. C., A. B. H. Rees, C. R. Pedersen and S. Engels, 2012. Depth distribution of chironomids and an evaluation of site-specific and regional lake-depth inference models: a good model gone bad? Journal of Paleolimnology 48(3): 517-533. DOI 10.1007/s10933-012-9628-z

Durantou, L., A. Rochon, D. Ledu, G. Massé, S. Schmidt and M. Babin (in press) Quantitative reconstruction of sea-surface conditions over the last ~150 yr in the Beaufort Sea based on dinoflagellate cyst assemblages: the role of large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns. Biogeosciences Discussion 9:7257-7289, BioGeosciences (accepted).

Fortin, M-C., and Konrad Gajewski (in press) Potential problems with the use of gridded climate data in regional quantitative paleoenvironmental studies from data-poor regions. Journal of Paleolimnology. doi 10.1007/s10933- 012-9639-9.

Fritz, M., U. Herzschuh, S. Wetterich, H. Lantuit, G. P. De Pascale, W. H. Pollard and L. Schirrmeister, 2012. Late glacial and Holocene sedimentation, vegetation, and climate history from easternmost Beringia (northern Yukon Territory, Canada). Quaternary Research 78(3):549-560. DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.07.007

Gajewski, Konrad, 2012. The Evolution of Polar Desert and Tundra ecosystems. Chapter 3 in: Changing Cold Environments: A Canadian Perspective, edited by H. French and O. Slaymaker, pp. 48-65 (Chapter 3). Wiley-Blackwell. Chichester, UK.

Galloway, J. M., J. Adamczewski, D. M. Schock, T. D. Andrews, G. MacKay, V. Bowyer, T. Meulendyk, B. Moorman and S. J. Kutz, 2012. Diet and habitat of mountain woodland caribou inferred from dung preserved in 5000-year old alpine ice in the Selwyn Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada. Arctic< 65:59-79.

Galloway, J. M., D. Armstrong and D. Lavoie, 2012. Palynology of the INCO-Winisk #49204 core (54°18’30"N, 87°02’30"W, NTS 43L/6), Ontario. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7065, 51 p. doi:10.4095/290985. Available at http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/nationalatlas/download/part6/ess_pubs/290/290985/of_7065.pdf

Galloway, Jennifer M., Arthur R. Sweet, Adam Pugh, Claudia J. Schröder-Adams, Graeme T. Swindles, James W. Haggart and Ashton F. Embry, 2012. Correlating middle Cretaceous palynological records from the Canadian High Arctic based on a section from the Sverdrup Basin and samples from the Eclipse Trough. Palynology 36(2):277-302. DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2012.670411

Gao, C., J. H. McAndrews , X. Wang, J. Menzies, C. L. Turton, B. D. Wood, J. Pei and C. Kodors, 2012. Glaciation of North America in the James Bay Lowland, Canada, 3.5 Ma. Geology 40:971-974. DOI: 10.1130/G33092.1

Lewis, C. F. M., and T. W. Anderson, 2012. The sedimentary and palynological records of Serpent River Bog, and revised early Holocene lake-level changes in the Lake Huron and Georgian Bay region. Journal of Paleolimnology 47:391-410. DOI 10.1007/s10933-012-9595-4

Marrotte, R., G. L. Chmura, and P. Stone, 2012. Utility of Nymphaceae sclereids in paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 169:29-37.

May, L., and T. Lacourse, 2012. Morphological differentiation of Alnus (alder) pollen from western North America. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 180:15-24. DOI:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.04.007

Medeiros, A. S., C. E. Friel, S. A. Finkelstein and R. Quinlan, 2012. A high resolution multiproxy record of pronounced recent environmental change at Baker Lake, Nunavut. Journal of Paleolimnology 47:661-676.

Mertens, Kenneth Neil, Andrea Michelle Price and Vera Pospelova, 2012. Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments II: Further tests of the Lycopodium marker-grain method. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 184: 74-81. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.06.012

Mudie, Peta J., and Michelle A. Lelièvre (in press) Palynological study of a Mi’kmaw shell midden, Northeast Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Archaeological Science, on-line. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.10.004,

Noble, Paula J., Alfred C. Lenz, Chris Holmden, Monika Masiak, Matthew K. Zimmerman, Simon R. Poulson and Anna Kozlowska. 2012. Isotope Geochemistry and Plankton Response to the Ireviken (Earliest Wenlock) and Cyrtograptus lundgreni Extinction Events, Cape Phillips Formation, Arctic Canada. In: Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time, edited by John A. Talent, pp. 631-652. Springer Netherlands.

Pendea, I. F., and G. L. Chmura, 2012. Calibration of pollen assemblages and carbonnitrogen ratios to discriminate boreal wetland types. Review of Palaebotany and Palynology 174:48-56.

Pendea, I. F. and G. L. Chmura, 2012. High resolution record of carbon accumulation rates during boreal peatland initiation. Biogeosciences Discussions 9:1115-1128.

Peros, M. 2012. Vegetation change and the Younger Dryas: a continental-scale perspective. Quaternary International 279-280:375-376.

Pisaric, M. 2012. Vegetation controls on the fire regime in the southern Yukon Territory, Canada during the past 1200 years. Quaternary International 279-280:382-383.

Price, Andrea M., and Vera Pospelova, 2011. High-resolution sediment trap study of organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst production and biogenic silica flux in Saanich Inlet (BC, Canada). Marine Micropaleontology 80(1-2):18-43. DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2011.03.003

Radi, Taoufik, Sophie Bonnet, Marc-André Cormier, Anne de Vernal, Lise Durantou, Étienne Faubert, Martin J. Head , Maryse Henry, Vera Pospelova , André Rochon and Nicolas Van Nieuwenhove (in press) Operational taxonomy and (paleo-)autecology of round, brown, spiny dinoflagellate cysts from the Quaternary of high northern latitudes. Marine Micropaleontology, online version. DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2012.11.001

Richerol, Thomas, Reinhard Pienitz and André Rochon, 2012. Modern dinoflagellate cyst assemblages in surface sediments of Nunatsiavut fjords (Labrador, Canada). Marine Micropaleontology 88-89:54-64. DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2012.03.002

Roy, Natasha, Najat Bhiry and James Woollett, 2012. Environmental Change and Terrestrial Resource Use by the Thule and Inuit of Labrador, Canada. Geoarchaeology 27(1):18-33. DOI: 10.1002/gea.21391

Scheibner, C., C. Hartkopf-Fröder, D. Blomeier and H. Forke, 2012. The Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) in northeast Spitsbergen (Svalbard) and a re-evaluation of the Billefjorden Group. Zeitschrift der deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 163:293-308.

Schreck, Michael, Jens Matthiessen and Martin J. Head, 2012. A magnetostratigraphic calibration of Middle Miocene through Pliocene dinoflagellate cyst and acritarch events in the Iceland Sea (Ocean Drilling Program Hole 907A). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 187: 66-94. DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.08.006

Soliman, A., S. Coric, M. J. Head, W. Piller, and S. Y. El Beialy, 2012. Lower and Middle Miocene biostratigraphy, Gulf of Suez, Egypt based on dinoflagellate cysts and calcareous nannofossils. Palynology 36(1):1-42.

Swindles, G. T., R. T. Patterson, H. M. Roe and J. M. Galloway, 2012. Evaluating periodicities in peat-based climate proxy records. Quaternary Science Reviews 41:94-103.

Vavrek, M. J., D. C. Evans, D. R. Braman, N. E. Campione, and G. D. Zazula, 2012. A Paleogene flora from the upper Bonnet Plume Formation of northeast Yukon Territory, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49(3):547-558. DOI: 10.1139/e11- 0732520-2533.

Warny, Sophie, David M. Jarzen, Amanda Evans, Patrick Hesp and Philip Bart, 2012. Environmental significance of abundant and diverse hornwort spores in a potential submerged Paleoindian site in the Gulf of Mexico. Palynology 36(2): 234-253. DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2012.666507

Watchorn, Melissa A., Paul B. Hamilton and R. Timothy Patterson. 2012. The paleolimnology of Haynes Lake, Oak Ridges Moraine, Ontario, Canada: documenting anthropogenic and climatic disturbances. Environmental Earth Sciences. On-line version. DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1870-1

Weston, Janice F., R. Andrew MacRae, Piero Ascoli, M. Kevin E. Cooper, Robert A. Fensome , David Shaw and Graham L. Williams, 2012. A revised biostratigraphic and well-log sequence-stratigraphic framework for the Scotian Margin, offshore eastern Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49(12):1417-1462. DOI: 10.1139/e2012-070

White, C. E., T. Palacios, S. Jensen and S. M. Barr (in press) Cambrian-Ordovician acritarchs in the Meguma terrane, Nova Scotia, Canada: Resolution of early Paleozoic stratigraphy and implications for paleogeography. Geological Society of America Bulletin, online version. DOI: 10.1130/B30638.1

Yansa, Catherine H., and Kristin M. Adams, 2012. Mastodons and Mammoths in the Great Lakes Region, USA and Canada: New Insights into their Diets as they Neared Extinction. Geography Compass 6(4): 175-188. DOI: 0.1111/j.1749-8198.2012.00483.x