Publications

Number ISI citations: 5,525
H-index: 41
Number of papers: 98
Number of book chapters: 8

Journal Articles

Lynn, J. S., Gya, R., Klanderud, K., Telford, R. J., Goldberg, D. E., and Vandvik, V. (2023) Traits help explain species’ performance away from their climate niche centre. Diversity and Distributions 29, 962-978.

Cao, X., Chen, J., Tian, F., Xu, Q., Herzschuh, U., Telford, R. J., Huang, X., Zheng, Z., Shen, C., and Li, W. (2022) Long-distance modern analogues bias results of pollen-based precipitation reconstructions. Science Bulletin 67, 1115-1117.

Herzschuh, U., Böhmer, T., Li, C., Cao, X., Hébert, R., Dallmeyer, A., Telford, R. J., and Kruse, S. (2022) Reversals in Temperature-Precipitation Correlations in the Northern Hemisphere Extratropics During the Holocene. Geophysical Research Letters 49, e2022GL099730.

Strømme, C. B., Lane, A. K., Halbritter, A. H., Law, E., Nater, C. R., Nilsen, E. B., Boutouli, G. D., Egelkraut, D. D., Telford, R. J., Vandvik, V., and Cotner, S. H. (2022) Close to open-Factors that hinder and promote open science in ecology research and education. PLoS ONE 17, e0278339.

Vandvik, V., Althuizen, I. H. J., Jaroszynska, F., Krüger, L. C., Lee, H., Goldberg, D. E., Klanderud, K., Olsen, S. L., Telford, R. J., Östman, S. A. H., Busca, S., Dahle, I. J., Egelkraut, D. D., Geange, S. R., Gya, R., Lynn, J. S., Meineri, E., Young, S., and Halbritter, A. H. (2022) The role of plant functional groups mediating climate impacts on carbon and biodiversity of alpine grasslands. Scientific Data 9.

Geange, S. R., Oppen, J. von, Strydom, T., Boakye, M., Gauthier, T. J., Gya, R., Halbritter, A. H., Jessup, L. H., Middleton, S. L., Navarro, J., Pierfederici, M. E., Chacón-Labella, J., Cotner, S., Farfan-Rios, W., Maitner, B. S., Michaletz, S. T., Telford, R. J., Enquist, B. J., and Vandvik, V. (2021) Next-generation field courses: Integrating Open Science and online learning. Ecology and Evolution 11, 3577-3587.

Lynn, J. S., Klanderud, K., Telford, R. J., Goldberg, D. E., and Vandvik, V. (2021) Macroecological context predicts species’ responses to climate warming. Global Change Biology.

Moros, M., Deckker, P. D., Perner, K., Ninnemann, U. S., Wacker, L., Telford, R. J., Jansen, E., Blanz, T., and Schneider, R. (2021) Hydrographic shifts south of Australia over the last deglaciation and possible interhemispheric linkages. Quaternary Research, 1-12.

Thomson, E. R., Spiegel, M. P., Althuizen, I. H. J., Bass, P., Chen, S., Chmurzynski, A., Halbritter, A. H., Henn, J. J., Jónsdóttir, I. S., Klanderud, K., Li, Y., Maitner, B. S., Michaletz, S. T., Niittynen, P., Roos, R. E., Telford, R. J., Enquist, B. J., Vandvik, V., Macias-Fauria, M., and Malhi, Y. (2021) Multiscale mapping of plant functional groups and plant traits in the High Arctic using field spectroscopy, UAV imagery and Sentinel-2A data. Environmental Research Letters 16.

Carlson, C. J., Chipperfield, J. D., Benito, B. M., Telford, R. J., and O’Hara, R. B. (2020) Don’t gamble the COVID-19 response on ecological hypotheses. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4, 1155-1155.

Carlson, C. J., Chipperfield, J. D., Benito, B. M., Telford, R. J., and O’Hara, R. B. (2020) Species distribution models are inappropriate for COVID-19. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4, 770-771.

Chevalier, M., Davis, B. A., Heiri, O., Seppä, H., Chase, B. M., Gajewski, K., Lacourse, T., Telford, R. J., Finsinger, W., Guiot, J., Kühl, N., Maezumi, S. Y., Tipton, J. R., Carter, V. A., Brussel, T., Phelps, L. N., Dawson, A., Zanon, M., Vallé, F., Nolan, C., Mauri, A., Vernal, A. de, Izumi, K., Holmström, L., Marsicek, J., Goring, S., Sommer, P. S., Chaput, M., and Kupriyanov, D. (2020) Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies. Earth-Science Reviews 210, 103384.

Contina, A., Yanco, S. W., Pierce, A. K., DePrenger-Levin, M., Wunder, M. B., Neophytou, A. M., Lostroh, C. P., Telford, R. J., Benito, B. M., Chipperfield, J., O’Hara, R. B., and Carlson, C. J. (2020) Comment on “A global-scale ecological niche model to predict SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection rate. Ecological Modelling 436, 109288.

Gallagher, R. V., Falster, D. S., Maitner, B. S., Salguero-Gómez, R., Vandvik, V., Pearse, W. D., Schneider, F. D., Kattge, J., Poelen, J. H., Madin, J. S., Ankenbrand, M. J., Penone, C., Feng, X., Adams, V. M., Alroy, J., Andrew, S. C., Balk, M. A., Bland, L. M., Boyle, B. L., Bravo-Avila, C. H., Brennan, I., Carthey, A. J. R., Catullo, R., Cavazos, B. R., Conde, D. A., Chown, S. L., Fadrique, B., Gibb, H., Halbritter, A. H., Hammock, J., Hogan, J. A., Holewa, H., Hope, M., Iversen, C. M., Jochum, M., Kearney, M., Keller, A., Mabee, P., Manning, P., McCormack, L., Michaletz, S. T., Park, D. S., Perez, T. M., Pineda-Munoz, S., Ray, C. A., Rossetto, M., Sauquet, H., Sparrow, B., Spasojevic, M. J., Telford, R. J., Tobias, J. A., Violle, C., Walls, R., Weiss, K. C. B., Westoby, M., Wright, I. J., and Enquist, B. J. (2020) Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4, 294-303.

Vandvik, V., Halbritter, A. H., Yang, Y., He, H., Zhang, L., Brummer, A. B., Klanderud, K., Maitner, B. S., Michaletz, S. T., Sun, X., Telford, R. J., Wang, G., Althuizen, I. H. J., Henn, J. J., Garcia, W. F. E., Gya, R., Jaroszynska, F., Joyce, B. L., Lehman, R., Moerland, M. S., Nesheim-Hauge, E., Nordås, L. H., Peng, A., Ponsac, C., Seltzer, L., Steyn, C., Sullivan, M. K., Tjendra, J., Xiao, Y., Zhao, X., and Enquist, B. J. (2020) Plant traits and vegetation data from climate warming experiments along an 1100 m elevation gradient in Gongga Mountains, China. Scientific Data 7.

Vandvik, V., Skarpaas, O., Klanderud, K., Telford, R. J., Halbritter, A. H., and Goldberg, D. E. (2020) Biotic rescaling reveals importance of species interactions for variation in biodiversity responses to climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Halbritter, A. H., De Boeck, H. J., Eycott, A. E., Reinsch, S., Robinson, D. A., Vicca, S., Berauer, B., Christiansen, C. T., Estiarte, M., Grünzweig, J. M., Gya, R., Hansen, K., Jentsch, A., Lee, H., Linder, S., Marshall, J., Peñuelas, J., Kappel Schmidt, I., Stuart-Haëntjens, E., Wilfahrt, P., ClimMani Working Group the, and Vandvik, V. (2019) The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx). Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11, 22-37.

Herzschuh, U., Cao, X., Laepple, T., Dallmeyer, A., Telford, R. J., Ni, J., Chen, F., Kong, Z., Liu, G., Liu, K., Liu, X., Stebich, M., Tang, L., Tian, F., Wang, Y., Wischnewski, J., Xu, Q., Yan, S., Yang, Z., Yu, G., Zhang, Y., Zhao, Y., and Zheng, Z. (2019) Position and orientation of the westerly jet determined Holocene rainfall patterns in China. Nature Communications 10, 2376.

Khider, D., Emile-Geay, J., McKay, N. P., Gil, Y., Garijo, D., Ratnakar, V., Alonso-Garcia, M., Bertrand, S., Bothe, O., Brewer, P., Bunn, A., Chevalier, M., Comas-Bru, L., Csank, A., Dassié, E., DeLong, K., Felis, T., Francus, P., Frappier, A., Gray, W., Goring, S., Jonkers, L., Kahle, M., Kaufman, D., Kehrwald, N. M., Martrat, B., McGregor, H., Richey, J., Schmittner, A., Scroxton, N., Sutherland, E., Thirumalai, K., Allen, K., Arnaud, F., Axford, Y., Barrows, T., Bazin, L., Pilaar Birch, S. E., Bradley, E., Bregy, J., Capron, E., Cartapanis, O., Chiang, H., Cobb, K. M., Debret, M., Dommain, R., Du, J., Dyez, K., Emerick, S., Erb, M. P., Falster, G., Finsinger, W., Fortier, D., Gauthier, N., George, S., Grimm, E., Hertzberg, J., Hibbert, F., Hillman, A., Hobbs, W., Huber, M., Hughes, A. L. C., Jaccard, S., Ruan, J., Kienast, M., Konecky, B., Le Roux, G., Lyubchich, V., Novello, V. F., Olaka, L., Partin, J. W., Pearce, C., Phipps, S. J., Pignol, C., Piotrowska, N., Poli, M., Prokopenko, A., Schwanck, F., Stepanek, C., Swann, G. E. A., Telford, R. J., Thomas, E., Thomas, Z., Truebe, S., Gunten, L. von, Waite, A., Weitzel, N., Wilhelm, B., Williams, J., Winstrup, M., Zhao, N., and Zhou, Y. (2019) PaCTS 1.0: A crowdsourced reporting standard for paleoclimate data. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 34, 1570-1596.

Telford, R. J. (2019) Review and test of reproducibility of subdecadal resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from microfossil assemblages. Quaternary Science Reviews 222, 105893.

Al-Sabouni, N., Fenton, I. S., Telford, R. J., and Kučera, M. (2018) Reproducibility of species recognition in modern planktonic foraminifera and its implications for analyses of community structure. Journal of Micropalaeontology 37, 519-534.

Bouchet, V. M., Telford, R. J., Rygg, B., Oug, E., and Alve, E. (2018) Can benthic foraminifera serve as proxies for changes in benthic macrofaunal community structure? Implications for the definition of reference conditions. Marine Environmental Research.

Henn, J. J., Buzzard, V., Enquist, B. J., Halbritter, A. H., Klanderud, K., Maitner, B. S., Michaletz, S. T., Pötsch, C., Seltzer, L., Telford, R. J., Yang, Y., Zhang, L., and Vandvik, V. (2018) Intraspecific trait variation and phenotypic plasticity mediate alpine plant species response to climate change. Frontiers in Plant Science 9, 1548.

Perner, K., Moros, M., Deckker, P. D., Blanz, T., Wacker, L., Telford, R. J., Siegel, H., Schneider, R., and Jansen, E. (2018) Heat export from the tropics drives mid to late Holocene palaeoceanographic changes offshore southern Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 180, 96-110.

Uwimbabazi, M., Eycott, A. E., Babweteera, F., Sande, E., Telford, R. J., and Vandvik, V. (2018) Avian guild assemblages in forest fragments around Budongo Forest Reserve, western Uganda. Ostrich 88, 267-276.

Vandvik, V., Halbritter, A. H., and Telford, R. J. (2018) Greening up the mountain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, 883-885.

Yang, Y., Halbritter, A. H., Klanderud, K., Telford, R. J., Wang, G., and Vandvik, V. (2018) Transplants, open top chambers (OTCs) and gradient studies ask different questions in climate change effects studies. Frontiers in Plant Science 9, 1574.

Andrén, E., Telford, R. J., and Jonsson, P. (2017) Reconstructing the history of eutrophication and quantifying total nitrogen reference conditions in Bothnian Sea coastal waters. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 198, 320-328.

Cao, X., Tian, F., Telford, R. J., Ni, J., Xu, Q., Chen, F., Liu, X., Stebich, M., Zhao, Y., and Herzschuh, U. (2017) Impacts of the spatial extent of pollen-climate calibration-set on the absolute values, range and trends of reconstructed Holocene precipitation. Quaternary Science Reviews 178, 37-53.

Chen, J., Lv, F., Huang, X., Birks, H. J. B., Telford, R. J., Zhang, S., Xu, Q., Zhao, Y., Wang, H., Zhou, A., Huang, W., Liu, J., and Wei, G. (2017) A novel procedure for pollen-based quantitative paleoclimate reconstructions and its application in China. Science China Earth Sciences 60, 2059-2066.

Oksman, M., Weckström, K., Miettinen, A., Juggins, S., Divine, D. V., Jackson, R., Telford, R. J., Korsgaard, N. J., and Kucera, M. (2017) Younger Dryas ice margin retreat triggered by ocean surface warming in central-eastern Baffin Bay. Nature Communications 8, 1017.

St. George, S. and Telford, R. J. (2017) Fossil forest reveals sunspot activity in the early Permian: COMMENT. Geology 45, e427.

Tegzes, A. D., Jansen, E., Lorentzen, T., and Telford, R. J. (2017) Northward oceanic heat transport in the main branch of the Norwegian Atlantic Current over the late Holocene. The Holocene 27, 1034-1044.

Trachsel, M. and Telford, R. J. (2017) All age–depth models are wrong, but are getting better. The Holocene 27, 860-869.

Eycott, A. E., Esaete, J., Reiniö, J., Telford, R. J., and Vandvik, V. (2016) Plant functional group responses in an African tropical forest recovering from disturbance. Plant Ecology & Diversity 9, 69-80.

Guittar, J., Goldberg, D., Klanderud, K., Telford, R. J., and Vandvik, V. (2016) Can trait patterns along gradients predict plant community responses to climate change? Ecology 97, 2791-2801.

Payne, R. J., Babeshko, K. V., Bellen, S. van, Blackford, J. J., Booth, R. K., Charman, D. J., Ellershaw, M. R., Gilbert, D., Hughes, P. D., Jassey, V. E., Lamentowicz, Ł., Lamentowicz, M., Malysheva, E. A., Mauquoy, D., Mazei, Y., Mitchell, E. A., Swindles, G. T., Tsyganov, A. N., Turner, T. E., and Telford, R. J. (2016) Significance testing testate amoeba water table reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews 138, 131-135.

Rehfeld, K., Trachsel, M., Telford, R. J., and Laepple, T. (2016) Assessing performance and seasonal bias of pollen-based climate reconstructions in a perfect model world. Climate of the Past 12, 2255-2270.

Telford, R. J., Chipperfield, J. D., Birks, H. H., and Birks, H. J. B. (2016) How foreign is the past? Nature 538, E1-E2.

Trachsel, M. and Telford, R. J. (2016) Technical note: Estimating unbiased transfer-function performances in spatially structured environments. Climate of the Past 12, 1215-1223.

Akite, P., Telford, R. J., Waring, P., Akol, A. M., and Vandvik, V. (2015) Temporal patterns in Saturnidae (silk moth) and Sphingidae (hawk moth) assemblages in protected forests of central Uganda. Ecology and Evolution 5, 1746-1757.

Bjune, A. E., Grytnes, J., Jenks, C. R., Telford, R. J., and Vandvik, V. (2015) Is palaeoecology a ‘special branch’ of ecology? The Holocene 25, 17-24.

Chen, F., Xu, Q., Chen, J., Birks, H. J. B., Liu, J., Zhang, S., Jin, L., An, C., Telford, R. J., Cao, X., Wang, Z., Zhang, X., Selvaraj, K., Lu, H., Li, Y., Zheng, Z., Wang, H., Zhou, A., Dong, G., Zhang, J., Huang, X., Bloemendal, J., and Rao, Z. (2015) East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation. Scientific Reports 5, 11186.

Juggins, S., Simpson, G. L., and Telford, R. J. (2015) Taxon selection using statistical learning techniques to improve transfer function prediction. The Holocene 25, 130-136.

Tegzes, A. D., Jansen, E., and Telford, R. J. (2015) Which is the better proxy for paleo-current strength: Sortable-silt mean size (SS) or sortable-silt mean grain diameter (dSS)? A case study from the Nordic Seas. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 16, 3456-3471.

Cao, X., Herzschuh, U., Telford, R. J., and Ni, J. (2014) A modern pollen-climate dataset from China and Mongolia: Assessing its potential for climate reconstruction. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 211, 87-96.

Esaete, J., Eycott, A. E., Reiniö, J., Telford, R. J., and Vandvik, V. (2014) The seed and fern spore bank of a recovering African tropical forest. Biotropica 46, 677-686.

Salonen, J. S., Luoto, M., Alenius, T., Heikkilä, M., Seppä, H., Telford, R. J., and Birks, H. J. B. (2014) Reconstructing palaeoclimatic variables from fossil pollen using boosted regression trees: comparison and synthesis with other quantitative reconstruction methods. Quaternary Science Reviews 88, 69-81.

Tegzes, A. D., Jansen, E., and Telford, R. J. (2014) The role of the northward-directed (sub)surface limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during the 8.2 ka event. Climate of the Past 10, 1887-1904.

Tian, F., Herzschuh, U., Telford, R. J., Mischke, S., Meeren, T. V. der, and Krengel, M. (2014) A modern pollen-climate calibration set from central-western Mongolia and its application to a late glacial-Holocene record. Journal of Biogeography 41, 1909-1922.

Bulafu, C., Barang, D., Eycott, A. E., Mucunguzi, P., Telford, R. J., and Vandvik, V. (2013) Structural changes are more important than compositional changes in driving biomass loss in Ugandan forest fragments. Journal of Tropical Forestry and Environment 3, 23-38.

Bulafu, C., Baranga, D., Mucunguzi, P., Telford, R. J., and Vandvik, V. (2013) Massive structural and compositional changes over two decades in forest fragments near Kampala, Uganda. Ecology and Evolution 3, 3804-3823.

Carstensen, J., Telford, R. J., and Birks, H. J. B. (2013) Diatom flickering prior to regime shift. Nature 498, E11-E12.

Kemp, A. C., Telford, R. J., Horton, B. P., Anisfeld, S. C., and Sommerfield, C. K. (2013) Reconstructing Holocene sea level using salt-marsh foraminifera and transfer functions: lessons from New Jersey, USA. Journal of Quaternary Science 28, 617-629.

Klemm, J., Herzschuh, U., Pisaric, M. F. J., Telford, R. J., Heim, B., and Pestryakova, L. A. (2013) A pollen-climate transfer function from the tundra and taiga vegetation in Arctic Siberia and its applicability to a Holocene record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 386, 702-713.

Telford, R. J., Li, C., and Kucera, M. (2013) Mismatch between the depth habitat of planktonic foraminifera and the calibration depth of SST transfer functions may bias reconstructions. Climate of the Past 9, 859-870.

Birks, H. H., Jones, V. J., Brooks, S. J., Birks, H. J. B., Telford, R. J., Juggins, S., and Peglar, S. M. (2012) From cold to cool in northernmost Norway: Lateglacial and early Holocene multi-proxy environmental and climate reconstructions from Jansvatnet, Hammerfest. Quaternary Science Reviews 33, 100-120.

Bouchet, V. M. P., Alve, E., Rygg, B., and Telford, R. J. (2012) Benthic foraminifera provide a promising tool for ecological quality assessment of marine waters. Ecological Indicators 23, 66-75.

Brooks, S. J., Jones, V. J., Telford, R. J., Appleby, P. G., Watson, E., McGowan, S., and Benn, S. (2012) Population trends in the Slavonian grebe Podiceps auritus (L.) and Chironomidae (Diptera) at a Scottish loch. Journal of Paleolimnology 47, 631-644.

Payne*, R. J., Telford*, R. J., Blackford, J. J., Blundell, A., Booth, R. K., Charman, D. J., Lamentowicz, Ł., Lamentowicz, M., Mitchell, E. A., Potts, G., Swindles, G. T., Warner, B. G., and Woodland, W. (2012) Testing peatland testate amoeba transfer functions: Appropriate methods for clustered training-sets. The Holocene 22, 819-825.

Salonen, J. S., Ilvonen, L., Seppä, H., Holmström, L., Telford, R. J., Gaidamavičius, A., Stančikaite, M., and Subetto, D. (2012) Comparing different calibration methods (WA/WA-PLS regression and Bayesian modelling) and different-sized calibration sets in pollen-based quantitative climate reconstruction. The Holocene 22, 413-424.

Velle, G., Telford, R. J., Heiri, O., Kurek, J., and Birks, H. J. B. (2012) Testing intra-site transfer functions: an example using chironomids and water depth. Journal of Paleolimnology 48, 545-558.

Austin, W. E. N., Telford, R. J., Ninnemann, U. S., Brown, L., Wilson, L. J., Small, D. P., and Bryant, C. L. (2011) North Atlantic reservoir ages linked to high Younger Dryas atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations. Global and Planetary Change 79, 226-233.

Hoogakker, B. A. A., Chapman, M. R., McCave, I. N., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Ellison, C. R. W., Hall, I. R., and Telford, R. J. (2011) Dynamics of North Atlantic Deep Water masses during the Holocene. Paleoceanography 26, PA4214.

Lloyd, J., Moros, M., Perner, K., Telford, R. J., Kuijpers, A., Jansen, E., and McCarthy, D. (2011) A 100 yr record of ocean temperature control on the stability of Jakobshavn Isbrae, West Greenland. Geology 39, 867-870.

Perner, K., Moros, M., Lloyd, J. M., Kuijpers, A., Telford, R. J., and Harff, J. (2011) Centennial scale benthic foraminiferal record of late Holocene oceanographic variability in Disko Bugt, West Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 2815-2826.

Telford, R. J. and Birks, H. J. B. (2011) QSR Correspondence “Is spatial autocorrelation introducing biases in the apparent accuracy of palaeoclimatic reconstructions?”. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 3210-3213.

Telford, R. J. and Birks, H. J. B. (2011) A novel method for assessing the statistical significance of quantitative reconstructions inferred from biotic assemblages. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 1272-1278.

Telford, R. J. and Birks, H. J. B. (2011) Effect of uneven sampling along an environmental gradient on transfer-function performance. Journal of Paleolimnology 46, 99-106.

Andersson, C., Pausata, F. S. R., Jansen, E., Risebrobakken, B., and Telford, R. J. (2010) Holocene trends in the foraminifer record from the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Climate of the Past 6, 179-193.

Hobbs, W. O., Telford, R. J., Birks, H. J. B., Saros, J. E., Hazewinkel, R. R. O., Perren, B. B., Saulnier-Talbot, É., and Wolfe, A. P. (2010) Quantifying recent ecological changes in remote lakes of North America and Greenland using sediment diatom assemblages. PLOS ONE 5, 1-12.

Moros, M., Deckker, P. D., Jansen, E., Perner, K., and Telford, R. J. (2009) Holocene climate variability in the Southern Ocean recorded in a deep-sea sediment core off South Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 1932-1940.

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

Telford, R. J. and Birks, H. J. B. (2009) Evaluation of transfer functions in spatially structured environments. Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 1309-1316.

Hald, M., Andersson, C., Ebbesen, H., Jansen, E., Klitgaard-Kristensen, D., Risebrobakken, B., Salomonsen, G. R., Sarnthein, M., Sejrup, H. P., and Telford, R. J. (2007) Variations in temperature and extent of Atlantic Water in the northern North Atlantic during the Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 26, 3423-3440.

Lamb, H. F., Leng, M. J., Telford, R. J., Ayenew, T., and Umer, M. (2007) Oxygen and carbon isotope composition of authigenic carbonate from an Ethiopian lake: a climate record of the last 2000 years. The Holocene 17, 517-526.

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.

Telford, R. J., Vandvik, V., and Birks, H. J. B. (2007) Response to comment on “Dispersal limitations matter for microbial morphospecies. Science 316, 1124-1124.

Antonsson, K., Brooks, S. J., Seppä, H., Telford, R. J., and Birks, H. J. B. (2006) Quantitative palaeotemperature records inferred from fossil pollen and chironomid assemblages from Lake Gilltjärnen, northern central Sweden. Journal of Quaternary Science 21, 831-841.

Clarke, A. L., Weckström, K., Conley, D. J., Anderson, N. J., Adser, F., Andrén, E., Jonge, V. N. de, Ellegaard, M., Juggins, S., Kauppila, P., Korhola, A., Reuss, N., Telford, R. J., and Vaalgamaa, S. (2006) Long-term trends in eutrophication and nutrients in the coastal zone. Limnology and Oceanography 51, 385-397.

Telford, R. J. (2006) Limitations of dinoflagellate cyst transfer functions. Quaternary Science Reviews 25, 1375-1382.

Telford, R. J., Vandvik, V., and Birks, H. J. B. (2006) Dispersal limitations matter for microbial morphospecies. Science 312, 1015-1015.

Telford, R. J., Vandvik, V., and Birks, H. J. B. (2006) How many freshwater diatoms are pH specialists? A response to Pither & Aarssen (2005). Ecology Letters 9, E1-E5.

Heegaard, E., Birks, H. J. B., and Telford, R. J. (2005) Relationships between calibrated ages and depth in stratigraphical sequences: an estimation procedure by mixed-effect regression. The Holocene 15, 612-618.

Lamb, A. L., Leng, M. J., Sloane, H. J., and Telford, R. J. (2005) A comparison of the palaeoclimate signals from diatom oxygen isotope ratios and carbonate oxygen isotope ratios from a low latitude crater lake. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 223, 290-302.

Newton, A. J., Metcalfe, S. E., Davies, S. J., Cook, G., Barker, P., and Telford, R. J. (2005) Late Quaternary volcanic record from lakes of Michoacán, central Mexico. Quaternary Science Reviews 24, 91-104.

Telford, R. J. and Birks, H. J. B. (2005) The secret assumption of transfer functions: problems with spatial autocorrelation in evaluating model performance. Quaternary Science Reviews 24, 2173-2179.

Telford, R. J., Andersson, C., Birks, H. J. B., and Juggins, S. (2004) Biases in the estimation of transfer function prediction errors. Paleoceanography 19, PA4014.

Telford, R. J., Barker, P., Metcalfe, S., and Newton, A. (2004) Lacustrine responses to tephra deposition: examples from Mexico. Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 2337-2353.

Telford, R. J., Heegaard, E., and Birks, H. J. B. (2004) All age-depth models are wrong: but how badly? Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 1-5.

Telford, R. J., Heegaard, E., and Birks, H. J. B. (2004) The intercept is a poor estimate of a calibrated radiocarbon age. The Holocene 14, 296-298.

Barker, P., Telford, R. J., Gasse, F., and Thevenon, F. (2002) Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeohydrology of Lake Rukwa, Tanzania, inferred from diatom analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 187, 295-305.

Lamb, A. L., Leng, M. J., Lamb, H. F., Telford, R. J., and Mohammed, M. U. (2002) Climatic and non-climatic effects on the delta-18O and delta-13C compositions of Lake Awassa, Ethiopia, during the last 6.5ka. Quaternary Science Reviews 21, 2199-2211.

Barker, P. A., Street-Perrott, F. A., Leng, M. J., Greenwood, P. B., Swain, D. L., Perrott, R. A., Telford, R. J., and Ficken, K. J. (2001) A 14,000-year oxygen isotope record from diatom silica in two alpine lakes on Mt. Kenya. Science 292, 2307-2310.

Barker, P., Telford, R. J., Merdaci, O., Williamson, D., Taieb, M., Vincens, A., and Gibert, E. (2000) The sensitivity of a Tanzanian crater lake to catastrophic tephra input and four millennia of climate change. The Holocene 10, 303-310.

Leng, M. J., Lamb, A. L., Lamb, H. F., and Telford, R. J. (1999) Palaeoclimatic implications of isotopic data from modern and early Holocene shells of the freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata, from lakes in the Ethiopian Rift Valley. Journal of Paleolimnology 21, 97-106.

Telford, R. J. and Lamb, H. F. (1999) Groundwater-mediated response to Holocene climatic change recorded by the diatom stratigraphy of an Ethiopian crater lake. Quaternary Research 52, 63-75.

Telford, R. J., Lamb, H. F., and Umer Mohammed, M. (1999) Diatom-derived palaeoconductivity estimates for Lake Awassa, Ethiopia: evidence for pulsed inflows of saline groundwater. Journal of Paleolimnology 21, 409-422.

* Joint first author

Book Chapters

Weckström, K., Lewis, J. P., Andrén, E., Ellegaard, M., Rasmussen, P., and Telford, R. J. (2017) Palaeoenvironmental History of the Baltic Sea: One of the Largest Brackish-Water Ecosystems in the World. In: Applications of Paleoenvironmental Techniques in Estuarine Studies. Ed. by Weckström, K., Saunders, K. M., Gell, P. A. and Skilbeck, C. G. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 615-662.

Kemp, A. C. and Telford, R. J. (2015) Transfer functions. In: Handbook of Sea-Level Research. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 470-499.

Juggins, S. and Telford, R. J. (2012) Exploratory data analysis and data display. In: Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Data Handling and Numerical Techniques. Ed. by Birks, H. J. B., Lotter, A. F., Juggins, S. and Smol, J. P. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 123-141.

Jansen, E., Andersson, C., Moros, M., Nisancioglu, K. H., Nyland, B. F., and Telford, R. J. (2009) The early to mid-Holocene thermal optimum in the North Atlantic. In: Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 123-137.

Kebede, S., Lamb, H., Telford, R. J., Leng, M., and Umer, M. (2002) Lake - groundwater relationships, oxygen isotope balance and climate sensitivity of the Bishoftu Crater Lakes, Ethiopia. In: The East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Palaeolimnology and Biodiversity. Ed. by Odada, E. O. and Olago, D. O. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 261-275.

Kelly, M. G., Bayer, M. M., Hürlimann, J., and Telford, R. J. (2002) Human error and quality assurance in diatom analysis. In: Automatic Diatom Identification. Ed. by Buf, J. M. H. du and Bayer, M. M. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 75-92.

Lamb, H., Kebede, S., Leng, M., Ricketts, D., Telford, R. J., and Umer, M. (2002) Origin and isotopic composition of aragonite laminae in an Ethiopian crater lake. In: The East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Palaeolimnology and Biodiversity. Ed. by Odada, E. O. and Olago, D. O. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 487-508.

Telford, R. J., Juggins, S., Kelly, M., and Ludes, B. (2002) Diatom applications. In: Automatic Diatom Identification. Ed. by Buf, J. M. H. du and Bayer, M. M. Singapore: World Scientific, pp. 41-53.

R packages

Telford, R. J. (2023) checker: Checks R Configuration Set Up Correctly Before Class. R package version 0.1.3.

Telford, R. J., Halbritter, A. H., and Maitner, B. S. (2023) traitstrap: Bootstrap Trait Values to Calculate Moments. R package version 0.1.0.

Telford, R. J. and Trachsel, M. (2023) palaeoSig: Significance Tests of Quantitative Palaeoenvironmental Reconstructions. R package version 2.1-3.

Presentations and Posters (Selected)

Telford, R. J. (2018) Challenges for sub-decadal resolution palaeoenvironmental reconstructions from microfossil assemblages. In: IPA-IAL 2018 Abstract Book. , p. 51.

Rehfeld, K., Trachsel, M., Telford, R. J., and Laepple, T. (2016) How do proxy reconstruction artifacts contribute to the outcome of paleoclimate model benchmarking?. In: EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. , p. 8513.

Telford, R. J. (2015) What do statistical tests of the significance of transfer-function derived reconstruction tell us? 13th International Paleolimnology Symposium. Lanzhou, China.

Telford, R. J. (2014) Pitfalls of using transfer functions to reconstruct sea-ice. PAGES Sea ice Proxy (SIP) working group Sea ice proxy synthesis and data-model comparison. Bremerhaven, Germany.

Trachsel, M., Telford, R. J., and Birks, H. J. B. (2014) Assessing the influence of two environmental variables on microfossil stratigraphies. In: EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. , p. 6628.

Telford, R. J. (2013) Identifying lakes with potential good temperature reconstructions. 12th International Workshop on Subfossil Chironomids. New Forest, UK.

Telford, R. J. (2012) Power analysis of tests of statistical significance of quantitative reconstructions. 12th International Paleolimnology Symposium. Glasgow, UK.

Telford, R. J. (2012) Significance tests for transfer function-derived quantitative reconstructions. Quaternary International 279-280. XVIII INQUA Congress, 21st–27th July, 2011, Bern, Switzerland, 487.

Telford, R. J. and Kucera, M. (2012) Consequences of the mismatch between the depth at which planktonic foraminifera live and the calibration depth of SST transfer functions. In: EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. , p. 13508.

Telford, R. J. (2011) Avoiding numerical pitfalls in chironomid palaeoecology. 11th International Subfossil Chironomid Workshop. Finse, Norway.

Telford, R. J. (2011) Significance tests for transfer function-derived quantitative reconstructions. INTIMATE workshop. Potsdam, Germany.

Telford, R. J. (2008) The tropics or the Arctic? Where will ecosystem response to climate change be greatest? A test with palaeoecological data. 12th Nordic Meeting on Neotropical Botany. Turku, Finland.

Telford, R. J. (2007) Improving transfer functions for palaeoenvironmental reconstructions in spatially structured environments. NEPAL Conference. Palmse, Estonia.

Telford, R. J., Jansen, E., Risebrobakken, B., Knudsen, K. L., Eiríksson, J., and Koç, N. (2007) Synthesis of 1200 years of climate change in the Nordic Sea. European Geosciences Union General Assembly. Vienna, Austria.

Brown, L., Austin, W. E. N., Telford, R. J., Ninnemann, U. S., Wilson, L. J., and Bryant, C. L. (2006) North Atlantic surface ocean radiocarbon reservoir age variation: links to rapid global climate change. 19th International 14C Conference. Oxford, UK.

Telford, R. J. (2006) How many dates is enough? 2nd Carlsburg Dating Conference. Copenhagen, Denmark.

Telford, R. J. and Birks, H. J. B. (2005) The secret assumption of transfer functions. European Geosciences Union General Assembly. Vienna, Austria.

Telford, R. J. (2004) Correlation of Norwegian terrestrial and oceanic temperature-sensitive proxies. ESF-HOLIVAR Workshop. Bremen, Germany.

Conley, D. J., Andersen, J. H., Anderson, N. J., Andrén, E., L, C. A., Jonge, V. de, Ellegaard, M., Juggins, S., Korhola, A., Reuss, N., Telford, R. J., Vaalgamaa, S., and Weckstrom, K. (2003) Monitoring long-term trends in eutrophication and nutrients in the coastal zone. 9th International Paleolimnology Symposium. Espoo, Finland.

Telford, R. J. (2003) The intercept is a poorly behaved estimate of a calibrated radiocarbon age. HOLIVAR workshop. Utrecht, Netherlands.

Telford, R. J., Heegaard, E., and Birks, H. J. B. (2003) All age-depth models are wrong: but which are useful? 9th International Paleolimnology Symposium. Espoo, Finland.

Telford, R. J. and Lamb, H. F. (1998) Diatom-derived palaeoconductivity estimates for Lake Awassa Ethiopia: evidence for pulsed inflows of saline groundwater? Pages Open Science Meeting. London, UK.

Telford, R. J. and Lamb, H. F. (1997) Diatom-derived palaeoconductivity estimates for Lakes Awassa and Tilo, Ethiopia: Holocene records of volcanic impact and climatic change. 7th International Paleolimnology Symposium,. Heiligkreuztal, Germany.