Richard J Payne
Biographic Data
| ID | 109407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard J Payne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard J |
| FAMILY NAME | Payne |
| SIGNATURE | PAYNE R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3987-8243 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A multi-proxy reconstruction of peatland development and regional vegetation changes in subarctic NE Fennoscandia (the Republic of Karelia, Russia) during the Holocene
A better understanding of past long-term environmental changes in the subarctic region is crucial for mitigation of the possible negative effects of climate warming in this vulnerable region. This study provides a new multi-proxy reconstruction of regional vegetation changes and peatland development for north-eastern Fennoscandia (Russia) during most of the Holocene. To that purpose, we performed plant macrofossil, pollen, testate amoebae, peat h…
Key periods of peatland development and environmental changes in the middle taiga zone of Western Siberia during the Holocene
From Climatic to Anthropogenic Drivers
A 4 m core was extracted from the center of a peatland located in the Drugeon valley (France). Thirteen radiocarbon dates were used to build a robust age model. Testate amoebae were used for reconstructing mire surface wetness. High-resolution pollen analysis of the sequence reconstructed 9 millennia of development of the peatland and its surrounding vegetation. During the early/middle Holocene (9500 to 5800 cal BP), warm conditions led to high e…
Using palaeoecological techniques to understand the impacts of past volcanic eruptions
Forest history, peatland development and mid- to late Holocene environmental change in the southern taiga forest of central European Russia
Understanding the long-term ecological dynamics of boreal forests is essential for assessment of the possible responses and feedbacks of forest ecosystems to climate change. New data on past forest dynamics and peatland development were obtained from a peat sequence in the southern Valdai Hills (European Russia) based on pollen, plant macrofossil, micro-charcoal, peat humification, and testate amoeba analyses. The results demonstrate a dominance …
Vegetation dynamics and fire history at the southern boundary of the forest vegetation zone in European Russia during the middle and late Holocene
Climate and human activity affected significantly the Eurasian on the forest vegetation zone through the Holocene. This paper presents new multi-proxy records of environmental changes at the southern boundary of the mixed coniferous broadleaved forest zone in the east-central part of the East European Plain during the middle and late Holocene. Palaeoecological analyses of a peat core for pollen, charcoal, peat humification, plant macrofossils and…
Contemporary carbon fluxes do not reflect the long-term carbon balance for an Atlantic blanket bog
Peatlands are one of the largest terrestrial stores of carbon. Carbon exchange in peatlands is often assessed solely by measurement of contemporary fluxes; however, these fluxes frequently indicate a much stronger sink strength than that measured by the rate of C accumulation in the peat profile over longer timescales. Here we compare profile-based measurements of C accumulation with the published net ecosystem C balance for the largest peatland …
A Modest Addendum to the English Sediment Core Meta-Database
Compilations of previous studies provide researchers with a source of valuable secondary data for re-analysis, an access route to identify relevant literature and an opportunity to systematically evaluate the research which is conducted and published. Recently Suggitt et al. (2015 Veg Hist Archbot 24, 743–747) presented a valuable compilation of core records for England. Here we present an extended version of this English Sediment Core Meta-datab…
The Holocene paleoenvironmental history of central European Russia reconstructed from pollen, plant macrofossil, and testate amoeba analyses of the Klukva Peatland, Tula Region
Holocene climatic variability and human impact on vegetation are reconstructed from a region in central European Russia, which lies at an important ecotone between broadleaf forest and steppe. For the first time in this region we adopt a multi-proxy approach that combines analysis of local mire conditions from plant macrofossil and testate amoeba analyses with pollen-based quantitative climate reconstruction. The proxies indicate a long-term warm…
Late-Holocene climate dynamics recorded in the peat bogs of Tierra del Fuego, South America
The ombrotrophic peat bogs of Tierra del Fuego are located within the southern westerly wind belt (SWWB), which dominates climate variability in this region. We have reconstructed late-Holocene water-table depths from three peat bogs and aimed to relate these records to shifts in regional climate. Water-table depths were quantified by the analysis of testate amoeba assemblages, and a regional transfer function was used to infer past water-table d…
A multi-proxy record of Holocene environmental change, peatland development and carbon accumulation from Staroselsky Moch peatland, Russia
Despite their huge extent, the peatlands of Russia are an under-exploited source of data on palaeoenvironmental change. We investigated the Holocene history of Staroselsky Moch, an ombrotrophic peatland in the Tver Region of European Russia by analysis of testate amoebae, peat physical properties, plant macrofossils and pollen. The peatland developed through a classic hydroseral succession in the early Holocene with a sharp decline in mineral inp…
Age and impacts of the caldera-forming Aniakchak II eruption in western Alaska
The mid-Holocene eruption of Aniakchak volcano (Aniakchak II) in southwest Alaska was among the largest eruptions globally in the last 10,000 years (VEI-6). Despite evidence for possible impacts on global climate, the precise age of the eruption is not well-constrained and little is known about regional environmental impacts. A closely spaced sequence of radiocarbon dates at a peatland site over 1000 km from the volcano show that peat accumulatio…
The performance of single- and multi-proxy transfer functions (testate amoebae, bryophytes, vascular plants) for reconstructing mire surface wetness and pH
Peatlands are widely exploited archives of paleoenvironmental change. We developed and compared multiple transfer functions to infer peatland depth to the water table (DWT) and pH based on testate amoeba (percentages, or presence/absence), bryophyte presence/absence, and vascular plant presence/absence data from sub-alpine peatlands in the SE Swiss Alps in order to 1) compare the performance of single-proxy vs. multi-proxy models and 2) assess th…
Volcanic impacts on the Holocene vegetation history of Britain and Ireland? A review and meta-analysis of the pollen evidence
Towards quantitative reconstruction of peatland nutrient status from fens
In rich fens, unlike bogs, the key drivers structuring testate amoeba communities are related to nutrient status, suggesting the potential for transfer functions to quantitatively reconstruct changing nutrient status from palaeoecological records. Such records could be useful tools to investigate the long-term impacts of pollution and landscape change. Here, we derive and test transfer functions for pH, water-table depth, conductivity and Ca and …
Can pollution bias peatland paleoclimate reconstruction?
Peatland testate amoebae are widely used to reconstruct paleohydrological/climatic changes, but many species are also known to respond to pollutants. Peatlands around the world have been exposed to anthropogenic and intermittent natural pollution through the late Holocene. This raises the question: can pollution lead to changes in the testate amoeba paleoecological record that could be erroneously interpreted as a climatic change? To address this…
Volcanic impacts on peatland microbial communities
Testing peatland testate amoeba transfer functions
Transfer functions are widely used in palaeoecology to infer past environmental conditions from fossil remains of many groups of organisms. In contrast to traditional training-set design with one observation per site, some training-sets, including those for peatland testate amoeba-hydrology transfer functions, have a clustered structure with many observations from each site. Here we show that this clustered design causes standard performance stat…
Extending the Late Holocene Tephrochronology of the Central Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Tephrochronology, the reconstruction of past volcanic ash deposition, provides a valuable method for dating sediments and determining long-term volcanic history. Tephra layers are highly numerous in Alaska, but knowledge of their occurrence and distribution is incomplete. This study expands the regional tephrochronology for the Kenai Peninsula of southcentral Alaska by investigating the tephrostratigraphy of two peatland sites. We located seven v…
Using cryptotephras to extend regional tephrochronologies
Cryptotephrochronology, the use of hidden, diminutive volcanic ash layers to date sediments, has rarely been applied outside western Europe but has the potential to improve the tephrochronology of other regions of the world. Here we present the first comprehensive cryptotephra study in Alaska. Cores were extracted from five peatland sites, with cryptotephras located by ashing and microscopy and their glass geochemistry examined using electron pro…
Ecology of testate amoebae (Protista) in south-central Alaska peatlands
Testate amoebae are valuable indicators of peatland hydrology and have been used in many palaeoclimatic studies in peatlands. Because the species' ecological optima may vary around the globe, the development of transfer function models is an essential prerequisite for regional palaeoclimatic studies using testate amoebae. We investigated testate amoebae ecology in nine peatlands covering a 250-km north-south transect in south-central Alaska. Redu…
Simulating the impacts of distal volcanic products upon peatlands in northern Britain
Getting Beyond Race
Strategies for Getting Beyond Race: Reframing the Problem * Inventing Race: The Social and Scientific Construction of Reality * The Changing American Culture: Challenges to Race * The Military: A Model of Success in Race Relations * Promoting Equal Opportunity and Treatment * Immigration and Traveling Abroad: Undermining the Concept of Race * Interracial Relationships and the One-Drop Rule * Transracial Adoption: Building Bridges that Transcend R…
China's Post-Cold War African Policy
Research Article| September 01 1998 China's Post-Cold War African Policy Richard J. Payne, Richard J. Payne Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Cassandra R. Veney Cassandra R. Veney Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1998) 38 (9): 867–879. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645623 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer …
International Relations and Politics
A multi-proxy record of Holocene environmental change, peatland development and carbon accumulation from Staroselsky Moch peatland, Russia
Despite their huge extent, the peatlands of Russia are an under-exploited source of data on palaeoenvironmental change. We investigated the Holocene history of Staroselsky Moch, an ombrotrophic peatland in the Tver Region of European Russia by analysis of testate amoebae, peat physical properties, plant macrofossils and pollen. The peatland developed through a classic hydroseral succession in the early Holocene with a sharp decline in mineral inp…
Ecology of testate amoebae (Protista) in south-central Alaska peatlands
Testate amoebae are valuable indicators of peatland hydrology and have been used in many palaeoclimatic studies in peatlands. Because the species' ecological optima may vary around the globe, the development of transfer function models is an essential prerequisite for regional palaeoclimatic studies using testate amoebae. We investigated testate amoebae ecology in nine peatlands covering a 250-km north-south transect in south-central Alaska. Redu…
Japan's South Africa Policy
Journal Article JAPAN'S SOUTH AFRICA POLICY: POLITICAL RHETORIC AND ECONOMIC REALITIES Get access RICHARD J. PAYNE RICHARD J. PAYNE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 343, April 1987, Pages 167–178, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097885 Published: 01 April 1987
Mining the Deep Seabed
Key periods of peatland development and environmental changes in the middle taiga zone of Western Siberia during the Holocene
Contemporary carbon fluxes do not reflect the long-term carbon balance for an Atlantic blanket bog
Peatlands are one of the largest terrestrial stores of carbon. Carbon exchange in peatlands is often assessed solely by measurement of contemporary fluxes; however, these fluxes frequently indicate a much stronger sink strength than that measured by the rate of C accumulation in the peat profile over longer timescales. Here we compare profile-based measurements of C accumulation with the published net ecosystem C balance for the largest peatland …
Late-Holocene climate dynamics recorded in the peat bogs of Tierra del Fuego, South America
The ombrotrophic peat bogs of Tierra del Fuego are located within the southern westerly wind belt (SWWB), which dominates climate variability in this region. We have reconstructed late-Holocene water-table depths from three peat bogs and aimed to relate these records to shifts in regional climate. Water-table depths were quantified by the analysis of testate amoeba assemblages, and a regional transfer function was used to infer past water-table d…
Towards quantitative reconstruction of peatland nutrient status from fens
In rich fens, unlike bogs, the key drivers structuring testate amoeba communities are related to nutrient status, suggesting the potential for transfer functions to quantitatively reconstruct changing nutrient status from palaeoecological records. Such records could be useful tools to investigate the long-term impacts of pollution and landscape change. Here, we derive and test transfer functions for pH, water-table depth, conductivity and Ca and …
A multi-proxy reconstruction of peatland development and regional vegetation changes in subarctic NE Fennoscandia (the Republic of Karelia, Russia) during the Holocene
A better understanding of past long-term environmental changes in the subarctic region is crucial for mitigation of the possible negative effects of climate warming in this vulnerable region. This study provides a new multi-proxy reconstruction of regional vegetation changes and peatland development for north-eastern Fennoscandia (Russia) during most of the Holocene. To that purpose, we performed plant macrofossil, pollen, testate amoebae, peat h…
Vegetation dynamics and fire history at the southern boundary of the forest vegetation zone in European Russia during the middle and late Holocene
Climate and human activity affected significantly the Eurasian on the forest vegetation zone through the Holocene. This paper presents new multi-proxy records of environmental changes at the southern boundary of the mixed coniferous broadleaved forest zone in the east-central part of the East European Plain during the middle and late Holocene. Palaeoecological analyses of a peat core for pollen, charcoal, peat humification, plant macrofossils and…
Testing peatland testate amoeba transfer functions
Transfer functions are widely used in palaeoecology to infer past environmental conditions from fossil remains of many groups of organisms. In contrast to traditional training-set design with one observation per site, some training-sets, including those for peatland testate amoeba-hydrology transfer functions, have a clustered structure with many observations from each site. Here we show that this clustered design causes standard performance stat…
Simulating the impacts of distal volcanic products upon peatlands in northern Britain
China's Post-Cold War African Policy
Research Article| September 01 1998 China's Post-Cold War African Policy Richard J. Payne, Richard J. Payne Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Cassandra R. Veney Cassandra R. Veney Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1998) 38 (9): 867–879. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645623 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer …
International Relations and Politics
Deep seabed mining
(1978). Deep seabed mining: implications for Zaire and Zambia. Review of African Political Economy: Vol. 5, No. 12, pp. 98-105
Mining the Deep Seabed
The Caribbean and the law of the sea
(1980). The Caribbean and the law of the sea. The Round Table: Vol. 70, No. 279, pp. 322-329
The Influence of Black Americans on Us Policy Towards Southern Africa
Journal Article THE INFLUENCE OF BLACK AMERICANS ON US POLICY TOWARDS SOUTHERN AFRICA Get access RICHARD J. PAYNE, RICHARD J. PAYNE Richard J. Payne is currently an assistant professor of political science at Illinois State University, and Eddie Ganaway is an assistant professor of history at South Carolina State College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar EDDIE GANAWAY EDDIE GANAWAY Richard J. Payne is curren…
U.S. Policy towards Caribbean economic problems
(1981). U.S. Policy towards Caribbean economic problems. The Round Table: Vol. 71, No. 284, pp. 360-372
Japan's South Africa Policy
Journal Article JAPAN'S SOUTH AFRICA POLICY: POLITICAL RHETORIC AND ECONOMIC REALITIES Get access RICHARD J. PAYNE RICHARD J. PAYNE Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 343, April 1987, Pages 167–178, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097885 Published: 01 April 1987
The Nonsuperpowers and South Africa. Implications for U. S. Policy
The Nonsuperpowers and South Africa
International Relations and Politics
The Third World and South Africa
Introduction The Third World and South Africa: Interests, Strategies, and Change Sub-Saharan Africa: Nigeria and Zambia Asia: India and Taiwan Latin America: Brazil The Middle East: The Arab States, Iran, and the PLO Post-Apartheid Challenges Selected Bibliography Index
The Nonsuperpowers and South Africa
International Relations and Politics
Kaunda and Southern Africa
International Relations and Politics
China's Post-Cold War African Policy
Research Article| September 01 1998 China's Post-Cold War African Policy Richard J. Payne, Richard J. Payne Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Cassandra R. Veney Cassandra R. Veney Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1998) 38 (9): 867–879. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645623 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer …
Getting Beyond Race
Strategies for Getting Beyond Race: Reframing the Problem * Inventing Race: The Social and Scientific Construction of Reality * The Changing American Culture: Challenges to Race * The Military: A Model of Success in Race Relations * Promoting Equal Opportunity and Treatment * Immigration and Traveling Abroad: Undermining the Concept of Race * Interracial Relationships and the One-Drop Rule * Transracial Adoption: Building Bridges that Transcend R…
Simulating the impacts of distal volcanic products upon peatlands in northern Britain
Ecology of testate amoebae (Protista) in south-central Alaska peatlands
Testate amoebae are valuable indicators of peatland hydrology and have been used in many palaeoclimatic studies in peatlands. Because the species' ecological optima may vary around the globe, the development of transfer function models is an essential prerequisite for regional palaeoclimatic studies using testate amoebae. We investigated testate amoebae ecology in nine peatlands covering a 250-km north-south transect in south-central Alaska. Redu…
Using cryptotephras to extend regional tephrochronologies
Cryptotephrochronology, the use of hidden, diminutive volcanic ash layers to date sediments, has rarely been applied outside western Europe but has the potential to improve the tephrochronology of other regions of the world. Here we present the first comprehensive cryptotephra study in Alaska. Cores were extracted from five peatland sites, with cryptotephras located by ashing and microscopy and their glass geochemistry examined using electron pro…
Extending the Late Holocene Tephrochronology of the Central Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Tephrochronology, the reconstruction of past volcanic ash deposition, provides a valuable method for dating sediments and determining long-term volcanic history. Tephra layers are highly numerous in Alaska, but knowledge of their occurrence and distribution is incomplete. This study expands the regional tephrochronology for the Kenai Peninsula of southcentral Alaska by investigating the tephrostratigraphy of two peatland sites. We located seven v…
Testing peatland testate amoeba transfer functions
Transfer functions are widely used in palaeoecology to infer past environmental conditions from fossil remains of many groups of organisms. In contrast to traditional training-set design with one observation per site, some training-sets, including those for peatland testate amoeba-hydrology transfer functions, have a clustered structure with many observations from each site. Here we show that this clustered design causes standard performance stat…
Can pollution bias peatland paleoclimate reconstruction?
Peatland testate amoebae are widely used to reconstruct paleohydrological/climatic changes, but many species are also known to respond to pollutants. Peatlands around the world have been exposed to anthropogenic and intermittent natural pollution through the late Holocene. This raises the question: can pollution lead to changes in the testate amoeba paleoecological record that could be erroneously interpreted as a climatic change? To address this…
Volcanic impacts on peatland microbial communities
The performance of single- and multi-proxy transfer functions (testate amoebae, bryophytes, vascular plants) for reconstructing mire surface wetness and pH
Peatlands are widely exploited archives of paleoenvironmental change. We developed and compared multiple transfer functions to infer peatland depth to the water table (DWT) and pH based on testate amoeba (percentages, or presence/absence), bryophyte presence/absence, and vascular plant presence/absence data from sub-alpine peatlands in the SE Swiss Alps in order to 1) compare the performance of single-proxy vs. multi-proxy models and 2) assess th…
Volcanic impacts on the Holocene vegetation history of Britain and Ireland? A review and meta-analysis of the pollen evidence
Geography (24 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (20 works) · Peat (17 works) · Physical geography (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Geology (16 works) · Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (15 works) · Testate amoebae (13 works) · Holocene (12 works) · Biology (11 works)