Martyn Waller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martyn Waller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Waller |
| SIGNATURE | WALLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kingston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3876-2492 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Agricultural systems regulate plant and insect diversity and induce ecosystem novelty
Land-use change plays an important role in shaping plant and insect diversity over long time timescales. Great Britain provides an ideal case study to investigate patterns of long-term vegetation and insect diversity change owing to the existence of spatially and temporally extensive environmental archives (lake sediments, peatlands, and archaeological sites) and a long history of landscape transformation through agrarian change. The trends ident…
The interpretation of Holocene pollen assemblages from coastal lowlands
Long-term development of a cultural landscape
Ashtead Common, the evolution of a cultural landscape
The results of palaeoecological (pollen and fungal spores) investigations of an abandoned clay pit on Ashtead Common, Surrey are presented and compared with archaeological and documentary evidence. The pit lies adjacent to a Roman industrial complex, with early Saxon activity recorded nearby. Prior to the early twentieth century AD the Common was managed as wood-pasture and it has a high nature conservation designation as a result of c. 2000 vete…
Interpretation of radiocarbon dates from the upper surface of late-Holocene peat layers in coastal lowlands
Marine/brackish clastic sediments replace freshwater peats in the stratigraphic column of many coastal lowland areas bordering the North Sea during the late Holocene. Radiocarbon dates are routinely used to provide a chronology for this shift. We examine the assumptions underpinning this approach. The results of investigations from 13 sites in the Rye area of Romney Marsh, southeast England, are reported. Dates from apparently gradational contact…
Mid to late Holocene vegetation and land use history in the Weald of south-eastern England
Estimates of‘relative pollen productivity’ and‘relevant source area of pollen’ for major tree taxa in two Norfolk (UK) woodlands
Surface sample pollen assemblages and vegetation data collected from two East Anglian fen carr sites with adjacent dry woodland belts are analysed to estimate the relevant source area of pollen (RSAP) and the relative pollen productivity (RPP) values for the major canopy trees. The‘relevant source area of pollen’ is found to be on the order of 50-150 m, comparable with but slightly greater than estimates for forest hollow contexts in dry woodland…
A pollen analytical record for hemp retting from Dungeness Foreland, UK
Drought and dust deposition in the West African Sahel
A high-resolution, multiproxy palaeolimnological record from the Manga Grasslands, northeastern Nigeria, spanning the last 5500 calendar years, reveals the episodic deterioration in Sahelian climate as significant biogeophysical thresholds were crossed. Desert-dust deposition began to increase 4700 cal. BP. Rainfall during the summer-monsoon season declined permanently after 4100 cal. BP. A further significant change in atmospheric circulation, g…
Ecology and Landscape Development
An Investigation into the Palynological Properties of Fen Peat through Multiple Pollen Profiles from South-Eastern England
Paludification and pollen representation
The representation of taxa with poorly dispersed pollen grains in pollen diagrams is strongly influenced by basin size. Waterlogging and peat formation (paludification) can, by leading to an expansion in wetland area, produce changes in the representation of dry-land taxa. This phenomenon appears to be responsible for reductions in Tilia pollen at a number of sites across lowland England, reductions which formerly may have been wrongly attributed…
Environmental studies. The Fenland Project's environmental programme
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Estimates of‘relative pollen productivity’ and‘relevant source area of pollen’ for major tree taxa in two Norfolk (UK) woodlands
Surface sample pollen assemblages and vegetation data collected from two East Anglian fen carr sites with adjacent dry woodland belts are analysed to estimate the relevant source area of pollen (RSAP) and the relative pollen productivity (RPP) values for the major canopy trees. The‘relevant source area of pollen’ is found to be on the order of 50-150 m, comparable with but slightly greater than estimates for forest hollow contexts in dry woodland…
A pollen analytical record for hemp retting from Dungeness Foreland, UK
An Investigation into the Palynological Properties of Fen Peat through Multiple Pollen Profiles from South-Eastern England
Mid to late Holocene vegetation and land use history in the Weald of south-eastern England
Paludification and pollen representation
The representation of taxa with poorly dispersed pollen grains in pollen diagrams is strongly influenced by basin size. Waterlogging and peat formation (paludification) can, by leading to an expansion in wetland area, produce changes in the representation of dry-land taxa. This phenomenon appears to be responsible for reductions in Tilia pollen at a number of sites across lowland England, reductions which formerly may have been wrongly attributed…
Drought and dust deposition in the West African Sahel
A high-resolution, multiproxy palaeolimnological record from the Manga Grasslands, northeastern Nigeria, spanning the last 5500 calendar years, reveals the episodic deterioration in Sahelian climate as significant biogeophysical thresholds were crossed. Desert-dust deposition began to increase 4700 cal. BP. Rainfall during the summer-monsoon season declined permanently after 4100 cal. BP. A further significant change in atmospheric circulation, g…
Long-term development of a cultural landscape
Interpretation of radiocarbon dates from the upper surface of late-Holocene peat layers in coastal lowlands
Marine/brackish clastic sediments replace freshwater peats in the stratigraphic column of many coastal lowland areas bordering the North Sea during the late Holocene. Radiocarbon dates are routinely used to provide a chronology for this shift. We examine the assumptions underpinning this approach. The results of investigations from 13 sites in the Rye area of Romney Marsh, southeast England, are reported. Dates from apparently gradational contact…
Agricultural systems regulate plant and insect diversity and induce ecosystem novelty
Land-use change plays an important role in shaping plant and insect diversity over long time timescales. Great Britain provides an ideal case study to investigate patterns of long-term vegetation and insect diversity change owing to the existence of spatially and temporally extensive environmental archives (lake sediments, peatlands, and archaeological sites) and a long history of landscape transformation through agrarian change. The trends ident…
Ashtead Common, the evolution of a cultural landscape
The results of palaeoecological (pollen and fungal spores) investigations of an abandoned clay pit on Ashtead Common, Surrey are presented and compared with archaeological and documentary evidence. The pit lies adjacent to a Roman industrial complex, with early Saxon activity recorded nearby. Prior to the early twentieth century AD the Common was managed as wood-pasture and it has a high nature conservation designation as a result of c. 2000 vete…
Environmental studies. The Fenland Project's environmental programme
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Environmental studies. The Fenland Project's environmental programme
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Paludification and pollen representation
The representation of taxa with poorly dispersed pollen grains in pollen diagrams is strongly influenced by basin size. Waterlogging and peat formation (paludification) can, by leading to an expansion in wetland area, produce changes in the representation of dry-land taxa. This phenomenon appears to be responsible for reductions in Tilia pollen at a number of sites across lowland England, reductions which formerly may have been wrongly attributed…
An Investigation into the Palynological Properties of Fen Peat through Multiple Pollen Profiles from South-Eastern England
Ecology and Landscape Development
Drought and dust deposition in the West African Sahel
A high-resolution, multiproxy palaeolimnological record from the Manga Grasslands, northeastern Nigeria, spanning the last 5500 calendar years, reveals the episodic deterioration in Sahelian climate as significant biogeophysical thresholds were crossed. Desert-dust deposition began to increase 4700 cal. BP. Rainfall during the summer-monsoon season declined permanently after 4100 cal. BP. A further significant change in atmospheric circulation, g…
Estimates of‘relative pollen productivity’ and‘relevant source area of pollen’ for major tree taxa in two Norfolk (UK) woodlands
Surface sample pollen assemblages and vegetation data collected from two East Anglian fen carr sites with adjacent dry woodland belts are analysed to estimate the relevant source area of pollen (RSAP) and the relative pollen productivity (RPP) values for the major canopy trees. The‘relevant source area of pollen’ is found to be on the order of 50-150 m, comparable with but slightly greater than estimates for forest hollow contexts in dry woodland…
A pollen analytical record for hemp retting from Dungeness Foreland, UK
Interpretation of radiocarbon dates from the upper surface of late-Holocene peat layers in coastal lowlands
Marine/brackish clastic sediments replace freshwater peats in the stratigraphic column of many coastal lowland areas bordering the North Sea during the late Holocene. Radiocarbon dates are routinely used to provide a chronology for this shift. We examine the assumptions underpinning this approach. The results of investigations from 13 sites in the Rye area of Romney Marsh, southeast England, are reported. Dates from apparently gradational contact…
Mid to late Holocene vegetation and land use history in the Weald of south-eastern England
Ashtead Common, the evolution of a cultural landscape
The results of palaeoecological (pollen and fungal spores) investigations of an abandoned clay pit on Ashtead Common, Surrey are presented and compared with archaeological and documentary evidence. The pit lies adjacent to a Roman industrial complex, with early Saxon activity recorded nearby. Prior to the early twentieth century AD the Common was managed as wood-pasture and it has a high nature conservation designation as a result of c. 2000 vete…
The interpretation of Holocene pollen assemblages from coastal lowlands
Long-term development of a cultural landscape
Agricultural systems regulate plant and insect diversity and induce ecosystem novelty
Land-use change plays an important role in shaping plant and insect diversity over long time timescales. Great Britain provides an ideal case study to investigate patterns of long-term vegetation and insect diversity change owing to the existence of spatially and temporally extensive environmental archives (lake sediments, peatlands, and archaeological sites) and a long history of landscape transformation through agrarian change. The trends ident…
Geography (13 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (10 works) · Biology (9 works) · Pollen (9 works) · Physical geography (7 works) · Vegetation (pathology (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Geology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works)