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  1. Millennial-scale fire and climate dynamics in the world's largest tropical wetland show emerging fire threat to flooded ecosystems

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, January 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  2. Forest change in the northern Yucatan lowlands (Mexico) during Maya cultural periods: Insights from a paired lake reconstruction

    Article • The Holocene, November 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  3. A tropical Sphagnum peatland ecosystem in lowland Belize

    Article • Current Biology, September 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  4. Ecohydrological Response of a Tropical Peatland to Rainfall Changes Driven by Intertropical Convergence Zone Variability

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, December 2024, Wiley

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  5. Culture, climate, and landscape shape the savanna and wetland mosaic of the Bolivian Amazon

    Article • Frontiers in Water, September 2024, Frontiers

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  6. Pre-Columbian fire management and control of climate-driven floodwaters over 3,500 years in southwestern Amazonia

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  7. Insights into past land-use and vegetation change in the Llanos de Moxos (Bolivia) using fungal non-pollen palynomorphs

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, June 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  8. Island resource exploitation by the ancient Maya during periods of climate stress, Ambergris Caye, Belize

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, June 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  9. A Tale of Maize, Palm, and Pine: Changing Socio-Ecological Interactions from Pre-Classic Maya to the Present Day in Belize

    Article • Quaternary, October 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  10. Identifying drivers of forest resilience in long-term records from the Neotropics

    Article • Biology Letters, April 2020, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  11. Paleoecological potential of phytoliths from lake sediment records from the tropical lowlands of Bolivia

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  12. Physical, ecological and human dimensions of environmental change in Brazil's Pantanal wetland: Synthesis and research agenda

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  13. Ecosystem turnover in palaeoecological records: The sensitivity of pollen and phytolith proxies to detecting vegetation change in southwestern Amazonia

    Article • The Holocene, July 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  14. Climate change and cultural resilience in late pre-Columbian Amazonia

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  15. Publisher Correction: Evidence for mid-Holocene rice domestication in the Americas

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  16. Constraining pollen-based estimates of forest cover in the Amazon: A simulation approach

    Article • The Holocene, November 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  17. Reassessing climate and pre-Columbian drivers of paleofire activity in the Bolivian Amazon

    Article • Quaternary International, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  18. Ecosystem state shifts during long-term development of an Amazonian peatland

    Article • Global Change Biology, December 2017, Wiley

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  19. Evidence for mid-Holocene rice domestication in the Americas

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  20. Legacies of Pre-Columbian land use on Latin American ecosystem composition and diversity: A case for paleoecology

    Article • Past Global Change Magazine, August 2017, Past Global Changes (PAGES)

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  21. Out of Amazonia: Late-Holocene climate change and the Tupi–Guarani trans-continental expansion

    Article • The Holocene, November 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  22. Fire, climate and vegetation linkages in the Bolivian Chiquitano seasonally dry tropical forest

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, June 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  23. Pre‐Columbian ring ditch construction and land use on a ‘chocolate forest island’ in the Bolivian Amazon

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, May 2016, Wiley

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  24. Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions II: Southwestern Amazonian forests

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  25. Late Quaternary environmental change in the interior South American tropics: new insight from leaf wax stable isotopes

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

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

    Article • Climate of the Past, February 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  27. Pre-Columbian land use in the ring-ditch region of the Bolivian Amazon

    Article • The Holocene, May 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  28. Reply to Silva: Dynamic human–vegetation–climate interactions at forest ecotones during the late-Holocene in lowland South America

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  29. Pre-Columbian earthwork construction predates the southern Amazon rainforest

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2014, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  30. Hydrology and climatology at Laguna La Gaiba, lowland Bolivia: complex responses to climatic forcings over the last 25 000 years

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, April 2014, Wiley

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  31. Isopropyl alcohol: A replacement for tertiary-butyl alcohol in pollen preparations

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  32. Pre-Columbian raised-field agriculture and land use in the Bolivian Amazon

    Article • The Holocene, January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  33. Pre-Columbian landscape impact and agriculture in the Monumental Mound region of the Llanos de Moxos, lowland Bolivia

    Article • Quaternary Research, September 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  34. Differentiation of neotropical ecosystems by modern soil phytolith assemblages and its implications for palaeoenvironmental and archaeological reconstructions

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, June 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  35. Sensitivity of Bolivian seasonally-dry tropical forest to precipitation and temperature changes over glacial–interglacial timescales

    Article • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Michael J Burn, Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  36. A late-Holocene vegetation history from the Maya lowlands, Lamanai, Northern Belize

    Article • The Holocene, December 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  37. Distal deposition of tephra from the Eyjafjallajökull 2010 summit eruption

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, June 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  38. Fire-free land use in pre-1492 Amazonian savannas

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  39. Pediastrum species as potential indicators of lake-level change in tropical South America

    Article • Journal of Paleolimnology, March 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  40. An improved methodology for the recovery of Zea mays and other large crop pollen, with implications for environmental archaeology in the Neotropics

    Article • The Holocene, March 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  41. Long-Term Perspectives on Tropical Forest–Savanna Dynamics in Lowland Bolivia from the Last Ice Age Until Present

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  42. A 45kyr palaeoclimate record from the lowland interior of tropical South America

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, July 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Michael J Burn, Dr Bronwen S Whitney

  43. A midge-based late-glacial temperature reconstruction from southwestern Nova Scotia

    Article • Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, November 2005, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Bronwen S Whitney