Vita

BONDARENKO, O. V. & UTESCHER, T. (2025): Early Paleogene plant biomes of the Pacific side of Eurasia. – Palaeoworld 34 (1): 100865 | https://doi.org/0.1016/j.palwor.2024.06.007

EVSTIGNEEVA, T. A., BONDARENKO, O. V. & UTESCHER, T. (2025): Climate and vegetation changes in southern Primorye (Russian Far East) since the Last Glacial Maximum: A quantitative analysis. – Palaeoworld 34 (1): 100870 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2024.06.009

THOMPSON, N., SALZMANN, U., HUTCHINSON, D. K., STROTHER, S. L., POUND, M. J., UTESCHER, T., BRUGGER, J., HICKLER, T., HOCKING, E. P. & LUNT, D. J. (2025): Global vegetation zonation and terrestrial climate of the warm Early Eocene. – Earth-Science Reviews 261: 105036.
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.105036.

AVERYANOVA, A., TARASEVICH, V., POPOVA, S., UTESCHER, T. & MOSBRUGGER, V. (2024): The late Oligocene flora of Aschudasty, Zaisan Depression (East Kazakhstan). – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 327: 105138. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2024.105138

BONDARENKO, O. V. & UTESCHER, T. (2024): Early Paleogene precipitation patterns over East Asia: Was there a monsoon after all? – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 104 (1): 1-28.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-023-00586-y

BONDARENKO, O. V. & UTESCHER, T. (2024): Early Paleogene vegetation units of East Asia and their spatial distribution. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 639 (3): 112064 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112064

BONDARENKO, O. V., EVSTIGNEEVA, T. A., ALLAGUVATOVA, R. & UTESCHER. T., (2024): Spatial reconstruction of the climate of East Asia in the early Eocene. – Bulletin of the North-Eastern Scientific Center of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2024 (1): 14-25. | https://doi.org/10.34078/1814-0998-2024-1-14-25 (in Russian)

MISHRA, S., BANSAL, M., PRASAD, V., SINGH, V. P., MURTHY, S., PARMAR, S., UTESCHER, T. & KHANGAR, R. (2024): Did the Deccan Volcanism impact the Indian flora during the Maastrichtian? – Earth-Science Reviews 258: 104950. | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104950

SRIVASTAVA, G., BHATIA, H., VERMA, P., SINGH, Y. P., AGRAWAL, S., UTESCHER, T. & MEHROTRA, R. C. (2024): A transient shift in equatorial hydrology and vegetation during the Eocene Thermal Maximum 2. – Geoscience Frontiers 15 (5): 101838.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2024.101838

BHATIA, H., SRIVASTAVA, G., ADHIKARI, P., TAO, S., UTESCHER, T., PAUDAYAL, K. N. & MEHROTRA, R. C. (2022): Asian monsoon and vegetation shift: evidence from the Siwalik succession of India. – Geological Magazine 159 (8): 1397-1414 | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756822000243.

BONDARENKO, O. V. & UTESCHER, T. (2023): Early Paleogene precipitation patterns over East Asia: Was there a monsoon after all? – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-023-00586-y

MIAO, Y., ZHANG, T., HUANG, K., WANG, X., NIU, G., WANG, X., YANG, Y., AN, C., XU, H. & UTESCHER, T. (2023): Pollen assemblages reflect a Mid-Miocene precipitation gradient in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 617: 111514 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111514.

SCHEINER, F., HAVELCOVÁ, M., HOLCOVÁ, K., DOLÁKOVÁ, N., NEHYBA, S., ACKERMAN, L., TRUBAČ, J., HLADILOVÁ, S., REJŠEK, J. & UTESCHER, T. (2023): Evolution of palaeoclimate, palaeoenvironment and vegetation in Central Europe during the Miocene Climate Optimum. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 611: 111364 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111364.

SRIVASTAVA, G., BHATIA, H., VERMA, P., SINGH, Y. P., UTESCHER, T. & MEHROTRA, R. C. (2023): High rainfall afforded resilience to tropical rainforests during Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 628: 111762 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111762.

UTESCHER, T., PRASAD, S., RIEDEL, N. & STEBICH, M. (2023): Diversity patterns of plant functional types in the Holocene of Central India: A case study on the Lonar Crater Lake pollen record. – The Holocene 33 (5): 491-504 | https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836231151801.

VERNYHOROVA, Y. V., HOLCOVÁ, K., DOLÁKOVÁ, N., REICHENBACHER, B., SCHEINER, F., ACKERMAN, L., REJŠEK, J., DE BORTOLI, L., TRUBAČ, J. & UTESCHER, T. (2023): The Miocene Climatic Optimum at the interface of epicontinental sea and large continent: A case study from the Middle Miocene of the Eastern Paratethys. – Marine Micropaleontology 181: 102231.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2023.102231

BONDARENKO, O. V. & UTESCHER. T. (2022): Early Paleogene continental temperature patterns and gradients over eastern Eurasia. – Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 239: 105401.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2022.105401

BONDARENKO, O. V. & UTESCHER, T. (2022): Late early to early middle Eocene climate and vegetation change at Tastakh Lake (northern Yakutia, eastern Siberia). Palaeobiology and Palaeoenvironment 103 (2): 277-301.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-022-00530-6

BONDARENKO, O. V. & UTESCHER. T. (2022): Quantitative dynamics of the early Pliocene climate and vegetation in the Lena River Delta (northern Yakutia, Eastern Siberia). – Botanica Pacifica 11 (2); 3-17.
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.17581/bp.2022.11212

BONDARENKO, O. V., BLOKHINA, N. I., EVSTIGNEEVA, T. A. & UTESCHER, T. (2022): Short-term climate and vegetation dynamics in Lena River Delta (northern Yakutia, Eastern Siberia) during early Eocene. – Palaeoworld 31 (3): 521-541 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2021.09.006

KUNZMANN, L., LI, S.-F., HUANG, J., UTESCHER, T., SU, T. & ZHOU, Z.-K. (2022): Assessment of phytogeographic reference regions for Cenozoic vegetation – a case study on the Miocene flora of Wiesa (Germany). – Fossil Imprint 78 (1), 1-43.
Open Access: https://doi.org/10.37520/fi.2022.002

LI, Q., UTESCHER, T., LIU, Y. (C.), FERGUSON, D., JIA, H. & QUAN, C. (2022): Monsoonal climate of East Asia in Eocene times inferred from an analysis of plant functional types. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 601: 111138.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111138

LI, Q., DENG, W., WAPPLER, T., UTESCHER, T., MASLOVA, N., LIU, Y. (C.), JIA, H., SONG, C., SU, T. & QUAN, C. (2022): High frequency of arthropod herbivore damage in the Miocene Huaitoutala flora from the Qaidam Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 297: 104569 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104569

MIAO, Y., FANG, X., SUN, J., XIAO, W., YANG, Y., WANG, X., FARNSWORTH, A., HUANG, K., REN, Y., WU, F., QIAO, Q., ZHANG, W., MENG, Q., YAN, X., ZHENG, Z., SONG, C. & UTESCHER, T. (2022) A new biologic paleoaltimetry indicating Late Miocene rapid uplift of northern Tibet Plateau. – Science 378 (6624): 1074-1079.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo2475

UHL, D., BRUCH, A. A. & UTESCHER, T. (2021): Introduction to the special issue “Palaeobotanical contributions in honour of Volker Mosbrugger”. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 101: 1-8.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-021-00484-1

IVANOV, D., UTESCHER, T., DJORGOVA, N., BOZUKOV, V. & ASHRAF, A. R. (2021): The late Miocene Beli Breg Basin (Bulgaria): palaeoecology and climate reconstructions based on pollen data. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 101: 79-102 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00475-8

AVERYANOVA, A., TARASEVICH, V., POPOVA, S., UTESCHER, T., LI, S.-F., MOSBRUGGER, V. & XING, Y. (2021): Rupelian Kazakhstan floras in the context of early Oligocene climate and vegetation in Central Asia. ­– Terra Nova 33 (4): 383-399 | https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12523

SRIVASTAVA, G., FARNSWORTH, A., BHATIA, H., MEHROTRA, R., SHEKAR, M., SU, T., UTESCHER, T. & VALDES, P. J. (2021): Climate and vegetation change during the Upper Siwalik – a study based on the palaeobotanical record of the eastern Himalaya. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 101: 103-121 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00457-w

GOSH, R., BISWAS, A., BRUCH, A. A., UTESCHER, T., SEN, I., PARUYA, D. K., GUHA, A., ISLAM, M. S. & BERA, S. (2021): Palaeoclimate estimates based on the late Miocene to early Pleistocene wood flora of the Bengal Basin: an insight into the climatic evolution of southern Asia. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 101: 141-162 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00467-8

HENROT, A.-J., BRUCH, A. A., FRANCOIS, L. M. & UTESCHER, T. (2021): Introduction to NECLIME Special Issue: Biodiversity and floral patterns in the course of Cenozoic climate change. – Geological Journal 56 (2): 613-615 | https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4075

BONDARENKO, O. V., BLOKHINA, N. I., HENROT, A.-J. & UTESCHER, T. (2021): Paleogene vegetation changes in Primorye, Far East of Russia: A study based on diversity of plant functional types. – Geological Journal 56 (2): 650-672 | https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3788

UTESCHER, T., ASHRAF, R. A., KERN, A. & MOSBRUGGER, V. (2021): Diversity patterns in microfloras recovered from Miocene brown coals of the lower Rhine Basin reveal distinct coupling of the structure of the peat-forming vegetation and continental climate variability. – Geological Journal 56 (2): 768-785.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3801

UTESCHER, T., ERDEI, B., FRANCOIS, L. M., HENROT, A.-J., MOSBRUGGER, V. & POPOVA, S. (2021): Oligocene vegetation of Europe and western Asia-Diversity change and continental patterns reflected by plant functional types. – Geological Journal 56 (2): 628-649.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3830

 

Doláková, N., Kováčová, M. & Utescher. T. (2020): Vegetation and Climate Changes during the Miocene Climatic Optimum (MCO) and Miocene Climatic Transition (MCT) in the northwestern part of Central Paratethys. – Geological Journal 56 (2): 729-743 | https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.4056

Bondarenko, O. V., Utescher, T., Blokhina, N. I., Evstigneeva, T. A. & Kezina, T. V. (2020): Temporal climate and vegetation gradient of the Paleocene in the Amur Region (Far East of Russia). – Botanica Pacifica 9 (2): 13-35 | http://botsad.ru/media/aux/bp/BP_2020_9_2_bondarenko.pdf

Bondarenko, O. V., Blokhina, N. I., Mosbrugger, V. & Utescher, T. (2020): Paleogene climate dynamics in the Primorye Region, Far East of Russia, based on a Coexistence Approach analysis of palaeobotanical data. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100: 5-31 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-019-00377-4

Akkiraz, M. S., Utescher, T., Bruch, A. A., Wilde, V., Durak, S. D. & Mosbrugger, V. (2020): Early Miocene palaeoflora and palaeoecology of the Soma Basin, Western Turkey. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100: 923-938 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00434-3

Bondarenko, O. V., Blokhina, N. I. & Utescher, T. (2019): Major plant biome changes in the Primorye Region (Far East of Russia) during the Paleogene. – Botanica Pacifica 8 (1): 1-16 | http://botsad.ru/media/aux/bp/BP_2019_8_1_bondarenko.pdf

Ivanov, D., Tsenov, B., Utescher, T., Kováčová, M., Mosbrugger, V. & Ashraf, R. A. (2019): Climate reconstructions based on Miocene leaf flora from NW Bulgaria: Comparing leaf physiognomy and nearest living relative approach. – Phytologia Balcanica 25 (2): 137-144 | http://www.bio.bas.bg/~phytolbalcan/PDF/25_2/PhytolBalcan_25-2_02_Ivanov_&_al.pdf

Popova, S., Utescher, T., Averyanova, A., Tarasevich, V., Tropina, P. & Xing, Y. (2019): Early Miocene flora of central Kazakhstan (Turgai Plateau) and its paleoenvironmental implications. – Plant Diversity 41: 183-197 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2019.04.002

Popova, S., Utescher. T., Gromyko, D. V., Mosbrugger, V. & François, L. (2019): Dynamics and evolution of Turgay-type vegetation in Western Siberia throughout the early Oligocene to earliest Miocene – a study based on diversity of plant functional types in the carpological record: Oligocene vegetation of western Siberia. – Journal of Systematics and Evolution 57 (2): 129-141 | https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12420

 

Srivastava, G., Paudayal, K. N., Utescher, T. & Mehrotra, R. (2018): Miocene vegetation shift and climate change: Evidence from the Siwalik of Nepal. – Global and Planetary Change 161: 108-120 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.12.001

Prasad, V., Utescher, T., Sharma, A., Singh, I. B., Garg, R., Gogoi, B., Srivastava, J., Uddandam, P. R. & Joachimski, M. M. (2018): Low-latitude vegetation and climate dynamics at the Paleocene-Eocene transition – A study based on multiple proxies from the Jathang section in northeastern India. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 497: 139-156 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.02.013

 

François, L., Bruch, A. A., Utescher, T., Spicer, R. A. & Spicer, T. (2017): Reconstructing Cenozoic vegetation from proxy data and models – a NECLIME synthesis. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 467: 1-286 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.02.013

Popova, S., Utescher, T., Gromyko, D. V., Bruch, A. A., Henrot, A.-J. & Mosbrugger, V. (2017): Cenozoic vegetation gradients in the mid- and higher latitudes of Central Eurasia and climatic implications. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 467: 69-82 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.09.016

Henrot, A.-J., Utescher, T., Erdei, B., Dury, M., Hamon, N., Ramstein, G., Krapp, M., Herold, N., Goldner, A., Favre, E., Munhoven, G. & François, L. M. (2017): Middle Miocene climate and vegetation models and their validation with proxy data. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 467: 95-119 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.05.026

Utescher, T., Erdei, D., Hably, L. & Mosbrugger, V. (2017):  Late Miocene vegetation of the Pannonian Basin. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 467: 131-148 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.02.042

Yavuz, N., Culha, G., Demirer, S. S., Utescher, T. & Aydin, A. (2017): Pollen, ostracod and stable isotope records of palaeoenvironment and climate: Upper Miocene and Pliocene of the Çankırı Basin (Central Anatolia, Turkey). – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 467: 149-185 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.04.023

Bondarenko, O. V., Blokhina, N. I., Bruch, A. A., Henrot, A.-J. & Utescher, T. (2017): Quantification of Calabrian vegetation in Southern Primory’e (Far East of Russia) using multiple proxies. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 467: 253-264 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.09.017

Prinz, L., Schäfer, A., McCann, T., Utescher, T., Lokay, P. & Asmus, S. (2017): Facies analysis and depositional model of the Serravallian-age Neurath Sand, Lower Rhine Basin (W Germany). – Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 96 (3): 211-231 | https://doi.org/10.1017/njg.2016.51

Utescher, T., Dreist, A., Henrot, A.-J., Hickler, T., Liu, Y.-S. (C.), Mosbrugger, V., Portmann, F. T. & Salzmann, U. (2017): Continental climate gradients in North America and Western Eurasia before and after the closure of the Central American Seaway. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters 472: 120–130 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.05.019

Barrón, E., Averyanova, A., Kvaček, Z., Momohara, A., Pigg, K. B., Popova, S., Postigo-Mijarra, J. M., Tiffney, B. H., Utescher, T. & Zhou, Z.-K. (2017): The Fossil History of Quercus. – In: Gil-Pelegrín, E., Peguero-Pina, J. J., Sancho-Knapik, D. (Eds.): Oaks Physiological Ecology. Exploring the Functional Diversity of Genus Quercus L. Tree physiology 7. – 39-105; Springer, Cham | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69099-5_3

 

Huang, Y.-J., Linbo, J., Wang, Q., Mosbrugger, V., Utescher, T., Su, T. & Zhou, Z.-K. (2016): Cenozoic plant diversity of Yunnan: A review. – Plant Diversity 38 (6): 271-282.

Van Dam, J. A. & Utescher, T. (2016): Plant- and micromammal-based paleoprecipitation proxies: comparing results of the Coexistence and Climate-Diversity Approach. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 443: 18-33.

 

Akkiraz, M. S., Akgün, F., Utescher, T., Wilde, V., Bruch, A. A., Mosbrugger, V. & Üçbaş-Durak, S. D. (2015): Palaeoecology of the Early-Middle Miocene Coal-Bearing Sediments: Examples From the Uşak-Güre and Soma Basins. – Geological Bulletin of Turkey 58: 39-59.

Huang, Y.-J., Chen, W.-Y., Jacques, F. M. B., Liu, Y.-S. (C.), Utescher, T., Su, T., Ferguson, D. K. & Zhou, Z.-K. (2015): Late Pliocene temperatures and their spatial variation at the southeastern border of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. – Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 111: 44-53.

Utescher, T., Bondarenko, O. V. & Mosbrugger, V. (2015): The Cenozoic Cooling – continental signals from the Atlantic and Pacific side of Eurasia. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters 415: 121-133.

Licht, A., Boura, A., de Franceschi, D., Utescher, T., Sein, C. & Jaeger, J.-J. (2015): Late middle Eocene fossil wood of Myanmar: Implications for the landscape and the climate of the Eocene Bengal Bay. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 216: 44-54.

Mantzouka, D., Kvaček, Z., Teodoridis, V., Utescher, T., Tsaparas, N. & Karakitsios, V. (2015): A new late Miocene (Tortonian) fora from Gavdos Island in southernmost Greece evaluated in the context of vegetation and climate in the Eastern Mediterranean. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 275: 47-81.

 

Doláková, N., Holcová, K., Hladilová, S., Brzobohatý, R., Zágoršek, K., Hrabovský, J., Seko, M. & Utescher, T. (2014): The Badenianparastratotype at Židlochovice from the perspective of the multiproxy study. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 271: 169-201.

Utescher, T., Bruch, A. A., Erdei, B., François, L., Ivanov, D., Jacques, F. M. B., Kern, A. K., Liu, Y.-S., Mosbrugger, V. & Spicer, R. A. (2014): The Coexistence Approach – Theoretical background and practical considerations of using plant fossils for climate quantification. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 410: 58-73.

Schäfer, A. & Utescher, T. (2014): Origin, sediment fill, and sequence stratigraphy of the Cenozoic Lower Rhine Basin (Germany) interpreted from well logs. – Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 165 (2): 287-314.

Roth-Nebelsick, A., Oehm, C., Grein, M., Utescher, T., Kunzmann, L., Friedrich, J. P. & Konrad, W. (2014): Stomatal density and index data of Platanus neptuni leaf fossils and their evaluation as a CO2 proxy for the Oligocene. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 206: 1-9.

Quan, C., Liu, Y.-S., Tang, H. & Utescher, T. (2014): Miocene shift of European atmospheric circulation from trade wind to westerlies. – Scientific Reports 4: 5660.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep05660

Quan, C., Liu, Z., Utescher, T., Jin, J., Shu, J., Li, Y. & Liu, Y.-S. (2014): Revisiting the Paleogene climate pattern of East Asia: A synthetic review. – Earth-Science Reviews 139: 213-230.

Mantzouka, D., Kvaček, Z., Teodoridis, V., Utescher, T., Tsaparas, N. & Karakitsios, V. (2014): A new late Miocene (Tortonian) flora from Gavdos Island in southernmost Greece evaluated in the context of vegetation and climate in the Eastern Mediterranean. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 275 (1): 47-81.

 

Quan, C., Liu, Y.-S. & Utescher, T. (2013): Paleogene temperature gradient, seasonal variation and climate evolution of northeast China. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 313-314: 150-161.

Bozukov, V., Ivanov, D. & Utescher, T. (2013): Ficus palamarevii sp. nov. (Moraceae), a new subtropical element in the Bulgarian Paleogene flora. – Comptes rendus de l’Académie Bulgare des Sciences 66: 1733-1738.

Bondarenko, O., Blokhina, N. & Utescher, T. (2013): Quantification of Calabrian climate in the higher latitudes (southern Primory’e, Far East of Russia) – an integrative case of study using multiple proxies. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 386: 445-458.

Popova, S., Utescher, T., Gromyko, D. V., Mosbrugger, V., Herzog, E. & Francois, L. (2013): Vegetation change in Siberia and the Northeast of Russia during the Cenozoic Cooling – a study based on diversity of plant functional types. – Palaios 28: 418-432.

Rasmussen, E. S., Utescher, T. & Dybkjaer, K. (2013): Drowning of the Miocene Billund delta, Jylland: land-sea fluctuations during a global warming event. – Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 28: 9-12.

Quan, C., Han, S., Utescher, T., Zhang, C. & Liu, Y.-S (C.) (2013): Validation of temperature-precipitation based aridity index: Paleoclimatic implications. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 386: 86-95.

Grein, M., Oehm, C., Konrad, W., Utescher, T., Kunzmann, L. & Roth-Nebelsick, A. (2013): Atmospheric CO2 from the late Oligocene to early Miocene based on photosynthesis data and fossil leaf characteristics. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 374: 41-51.

 

Akkiraz, M. S., Akgün, F., Utescher, T., Wilde, V., Bruch, A. A., Mosbrugger, V. & Üçbaş, S. D. (2012): Palaeoflora and climate of lignite-bearing lower-middle Miocene sediments in the Seyitömer and Tunçbilek sub-basins, Kütahya Province, Northwest Turkey. – Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 21: 213-235 | https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-12-21-2/yer-21-2-3-1007-45.pdf

Erdei, B., Utescher, T., Hably, L., Tamás, J., Roth-Nebelsick, A. & Grein, M. (2012): Early Oligocene continental climate of the Palaeogene Basin (Hungary and Slovenia) and the surrounding area. – Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 21: 153-186 | https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-12-21-2/yer-21-2-1-1005-29.pdf

Hoorn, C., Straathof, J., Abels, H. A., Xu, Y., Utescher, T. & Dupont-Nivet, G. (2012): A late Eocene palynological record of climate change and Tibetan Plateau uplift (Xining Basin, China). – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 344-345: 16-38.

Ivanov, D., Utescher, T., Ashraf, A. R., Mosbrugger, V., Bozukov, V., Djorgova, N. & Slavomirova, E. (2012): Late Miocene palaeoclimate and ecosystem dynamics in southwestern Bulgaria − a study based on pollen data from the Gotse-Delchev Basin. – Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 21: 187-211 | https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-12-21-2/yer-21-2-2-1004-45.pdf

Popova, S., Utescher, T., Gromyko, D., Bruch, A. A. & Mosbrugger, V. (2012): Palaeoclimate evolution in Siberia and the Russian Far East from the Oligocene to Pliocene – evidence from fruit and seed floras. – Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 21: 315-334 | https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-12-21-2/yer-21-2-8-1005-6.pdf

Quan, C., Liu, Y.-S. & Utescher, T. (2012): Paleogene temperature gradient, seasonal variation and climate evolution of northeast China. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 313-314: 150-161.

Quan, C., Liu, Y.-S. & Utescher, T. (2012): Eocene monsoon prevalence over China: A paleobotanical perspective. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 365-366: 302-311.

Roth-Nebelsick, A., Grein, M., Utescher, T. & Konrad, W. (2012): Stomatal pore length change in leaves of Eotrigonobalanus furcinervis (Fagaceae) from the Late Eocene to the Latest Oligocene and its impact on gas exchange and CO2 reconstruction. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 174: 106-112.

Utescher, T., Ashraf, A. R., Dreist, A., Dybkjær, K., Mosbrugger, V., Pross, J. & Wilde, V. (2012): Variability of Neogene continental climates in Northwest Europe – a detailed study based on microfloras. – Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 21: 289-314 | https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/issues/yer-12-21-2/yer-21-2-7-1005-3.pdf

Xing, Y., Utescher, T., Jacques, F. M. B., Tao S., Liu, Y.-S, Huang, J.-J. & Zhou, Z.-Z. (2012): Paleoclimatic estimation reveals a weak winter monsoon in southwestern China during the late Miocene: Evidence from plant macrofossils. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 358-360: 19-26.

 

Eronen, J. T., Micheels, A. & Utescher, T. (2011): A comparison of estimates of mean annual precipitation from different proxies: a pilot study for the European Neogene. – Evolutionary Ecology Research 13: 851-867.

Grein, M., Oehm, C., Roth-Nebelsick, A., Konrad, W. & Utescher, T. (2011): Atmospheric CO2 at the Oligocene/Miocene transition reconstructed by using fossil plant material. – Geophysical Research Abstract 13: EGU2011-8079.

Akkiraz, M. S., Akgün, F., Utescher, T., Bruch, A. A. & Mosbrugger, V. (2011): Precipitation gradients during the Miocene in Western and Central Turkey as quantified from pollen data. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 276-290.

Micheels, A., Bruch, A. A., Eronen, J., Fortelius, M., Harzhauser, M., Utescher, T. & Mosbrugger, V. (2011): Analysis of heat transport mechanisms from a Late Miocene model experiment with a fully-coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 337-350.

Liu, Y. C., Utescher, T., Zhou, Z. & Sun, B. (2011): The evolution of Miocene climates in North China: Preliminary results of quantitative reconstructions from plant fossil records. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 308-317.

Bozukov, V. S, Utescher, T., Ivanov, D. A., Tsenov, B. V., Ashraf, A. R. & Mosbrugger, V. (2011): New results for the fossil macroflora of the Beli Breg Lignite Basin, West Bulgaria. – Phytologia Balcanica 17: 3-19.

Bruch, A. A., Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V. & NECLIME members (2011): Precipitation patterns in the Miocene of Central Europe and the development of continentality. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 202-211.

Ivanov, D., Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V., Syabryaj, S., Djordjević-Milutinović, D. & Molchanoff, S. (2011): Miocene vegetation and climate dynamics in Eastern and Central Paratethys (Southeastern Europe). – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 262-275.

Utescher, T., Bruch, A. A., Micheels, A., Mosbrugger, V. & Popova, S. (2011): Cenozoic climate gradients in Eurasia a palaeo-perspective on future climate change? – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 351-358.

François, L., Utescher, T., Favre, E., Henrot, A.-J., Warnant, P., Micheels, A., Erdei, B., Suc, J.-P., Cheddadi, R. & Mosbrugger, V. (2011): Modelling Late Miocene vegetation in Europe: Results of the CARAIB model and comparison with palaeovegetation data. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 359-378.

Utescher, T., Böhme, M. & Mosbrugger, V. (2011): The Neogene of Eurasia: Spatial gradients and temporal trends – The second synthesis of NECLIME. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304: 196-201.

Grein, M., Utescher, T., Wilde, V. & Roth-Nebelsick, A. (2011): Reconstruction of the middle Eocene climate of Messel using palaeobotanical data. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 260 (3): 305-318.

Grein, M., Konrad, W., Wilde, V., Utescher, T. & Roth-Nebelsick, A. (2011): Reconstruction of atmospheric CO2 during the early middle Eocene by application of a gas exchange model to fossil plants from the Messel Formation, Germany. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 309: 383-391.

Stefanova, M., Ivanov, D. A. & Utescher, T. (2011): Geochemical appraisal of palaeovegetation and climate oscillation in the Late Miocene of Western Bulgaria. – Organic Geochemistry 42: 1363-1374.

Larsson, L. M., Dybkjær, K., Rasmussen, E. S., Piasecki, S., Utescher, T. & Vajda, V. (2011): Miocene climate evolution of northern Europe: A palynological investigation from Denmark. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 309: 161-175.

Quan, C., Liu, Y. C. & Utescher, T. (2011): Paleogene evolution of precipitation in Northeastern China supporting the Middle Eocene intensification of the East Asian Monsoon. – Palaios 26: 743-753.

 

Micheels, A., Popova, S., Uhl, D., Utescher, T. & Mosbrugger, V. (2010): Klimawandel und Vegetation im Miozän – was wir aus der Vergangenheit lernen können. – Natur und Museum 140: 268-273.

 

Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V., Ivanov, D. & Dilcher, D. L. (2009): Present-day climatic equivalents of European Cenozoic climates. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters 284: 544-552.

Utescher, T., Ivanov, D., Harzhauser, M., Bozukov, V., Ashraf, A. R., Rolf, C., Urbat, M. & Mosbrugger, V. (2009): Cyclic climate and vegetation change in the late Miocene of Western Bulgaria. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 272: 99-114.

 

Bozukov, V., Utescher, T. & Ivanov, D. (2008): Late Eocene to early Miocene climate and vegetation of Bulgaria. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 153: 360-374.

Ivanov, D., Utescher, T., Ashraf, A. R., Mosbrugger, V., Slavomirova, E., Djorgova, N. & Bozukov, V. (2008): Vegetation structure and dynamics in the late Miocene of Staniantsi Basin (west Bulgaria). First results. – Comptes rendus de l’Académie Bulgare des Sciences 61: 223-232.

 

Utescher, T. & Mosbrugger, V. (2007): Eocene vegetation patterns reconstructed from plant diversity – A global perspective. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 247: 243-271.

Uhl, D., Klotz, S., Traiser, C., Thiel, C., Utescher, T., Kowalski, E. & Dilcher, D. L. (2007): Cenozoic paleotemperatures and leaf physiognomy – A European perspective. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 248: 24-31.

Steppuhn, A., Micheels, A., Bruch, A. A., Uhl, D., Utescher, T. & Mosbrugger, V. (2007): The sensitivity of ECHAM4/ML to a double CO2 scenario for the Late Miocene and the comparison to terrestrial proxy data. – Global and Planetary Change 57: 189-212.

Erdei, B., Hably, L., Kázmér, M., Utescher. T. & Bruch, A. A. (2007): Neogene flora and vegetation development in the Pannonian Basin – relations to palaeoclimate and palaeogeography. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253: 115-140

Syabryaj, S., Molchanoff, S., Utescher,T. & Bruch, A. A. (2007): Changes of climate and vegetation during the Miocene on the territory of Ukraine. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253: 153-168.

Utescher, T., Dordjevic-Milutinovic, D., Bruch, A. A. & Mosbrugger, V. (2007): Palaeoclimate and vegetation change in Serbia during the last 30 Ma. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253: 157-168.

Utescher, T., Erdei, B., Francois, L. & Mosbrugger, V. (2007): Tree diversity in the Miocene forests of Western Eurasia. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253: 242-266.

Ivanov, D., Ashraf, A. R., Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V. & Slavomirova, E. (2007): Late Miocene vegetation and climate of the Balkan region: palynology of the Beli Breg Coal Basin sediments. – Geologica Carpathica 58: 367-381.

 

Bruch, A. A., Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V., Gabrielyan, I. & Ivanov, D. A. (2006): Late Miocene terrestrial climate in the circum-Alpine realm – a quantitative paleobotanical analyses. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 238: 270-280.

 

Mosbrugger, V., Utescher, T. & Dilcher, D. (2005): Cenozoic continental climatic evolution of Central Europe. – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (42): 14964-14969.

Poole, I., Cantrill, D.  Utescher, T. (2005): A multi-proxy approach to determine Antarctic terrestrial palaeoclimate during the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 222: 95-121.

Schäfer, A., Utescher, T., Valdivia-Manchego, M., Klett, M., Eichhorst, F. & von der Hocht, F. (2005): The Cenozoic Lower Rhine Basin – rifting, sediment input, and cyclic stratigraphy. – Geologische Rundschau 94: 621-639.

 

Bruch, A. A., Utescher, T., Alcalde Olivares C., Dolakova, N. & Mosbrugger, V. (2004): Middle and Late Miocene spatial temperature patterns and gradients in Central Europe – preliminary results based on palaeobotanical climate reconstructions. – Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 249: 15-27.

Roth-Nebelsick, A., Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V., Diester-Haass, L. & Walther, H. (2004): Changes in atmosperic CO2 concentrations and climate from the Late Eocene to Early Miocene: palaeobotanical reconstruction based on fossil floras from Saxony, Germany. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 205: 43-67.

Schäfer, A., Utescher, T. & Mörs, T. (2004): Stratigraphy of the Cenozoic Lower Rhine Basin, northwestern Germany. – Newsletters on Stratigraphy 40 (1/2): 73-110.

 

Uhl, D., Mosbrugger, V., Bruch, A. & Utescher, T. (2003): Reconstructing palaeotemperatures using leaf floras – case studies for a comparison of leaf margin analysis and the coexistence approach. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 126 (1/2): 49-64.

 

Agusti, J., Andrews, P., Armour-Chelu, M., Begun, D. R., Cameron, D. W., Damuth, J., Daxner-Höck, G., De Bonis, L., Fejfar, O., Fessaha, N., Fortelius, M., Franzen, J., Gasparik, M., Gentry, A., Heissig, K., Hernyak, G., Kaiser, T., Koufos, G. D., Krolopp, E., Janossy, D., Llenas, M., Meszaros, L., Müller, P., Renne, P., Rocek, Z., Sen, S., Scott, R., Szyndlar, Z., Topál, G., Ungar, P. S., Utescher, T., Van Dam, J. A., Werdelin, L. & Ziegler, R. (2002): Recent advances on multidisciplinary research at Rudabánya, Late Miocene (MN9), Hungary: a compendium. – Palaeontographica Italica 89: 3-36.

Figueiral, I., Mosbrugger V., Rowe, N., Utescher, T., Jones, T. & Von Der Hocht, F. (2002): Role of Charcoal Analysis for Interpreting Vegetation Change and Paleoclimate in the Miocene Rhine Embayment (Germany). – Palaios 17: 347-365.

Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V. & Ashraf, A. R. (2002): Facies and paleogeography of the Tertiary of the Lower Rhine Basin – sedimentary versus climatic control. – Netherlands Journal of Earth Sciences 81: 185-191.

 

Utescher, T., Mosbrugger, V. & Ashraf, A. R. (2000): Terrestrial climate evolution in Northwest Germany over the last 25 million years. – Palaios 15: 430-449.

 

Gebka, M., Mosbrugger, V., Schilling, H.-D. & Utescher, T. (1999): Regional scale palaeoclimate modelling on soft proxy-data basis – an example from the Upper Miocene of the Lower Rhine Embayment. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 152: 225-258.

 

Klein, H., Utescher, T. & Langer, W. (1998): Zur Karbonatmikrofazies der unteren Eifel-Stufe/Mitteldevon am Ohlesberg bei Bad Münstereifel/Eifel. – Decheniana 151: 227-243.

Figueiral, I., Mosbrugger, V., Rowe, N. P., Ashraf, A. R., Utescher, T. & Jones, T. P. (1998): The Miocene peat-forming vegetation of northwestern Germany: an analysis of wood remains and comparison with previous palynological interpretations. – Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 104: 239-266.

 

Ashaf, A. R., Mosbrugger, V. & Utescher, T. (1997): Palynological studies in the Neogene of the open-pit mines Inden and Bergheim (Lower Rhine Embayment, Germany). – Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 201: 29-46.

Utescher, T., Gebka, M., Mosbrugger, V., Schilling, H.-D. & Ashraf, A. R. (1997): Regional palaeontological-meteorological palaeoclimate reconstruction of the Neogene Lower Rhine Embayment. – Mededelingen Nederlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen 58: 263-271.

Schäfer, A., Utescher, T. & von der Hocht, F. (1997): Klastische Sedimentsysteme im Tertiär der Niederrheinischen Bucht. – In: Ricken, W. (Hg.): ­2. Sedimentologentreffen. Exkursionsführer. 21.-24. Mai 1997 am Geologischen Institut der Universität zu Köln. – Terra Nostra 1997 (3): 68-113.

Mosbrugger, V. & Utescher, T. (1997): The coexistence approach – a method for quantitative reconstructions of Tertiary terrestrial palaeoclimate data using plant fossils. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 134: 61-86.

Jones, T. P., Fortier, S. M., Mosbrugger, V., Roessler, J., Utescher, T. & Ashraf, A. R. (1997): 13C/12C ratio double cyclicity in a Miocene browncoal: isotopic signals and orbital forcing. – Terra Nova 9: 19-23.

Huhn, B., Utescher, T., Ashraf, A. R. & Mosbrugger, V. (1997): The peat-forming vegetation in the Middle Miocene Lower Rhine Embayment, an analysis based on palynological data. – Mededelingen Nederlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen 58: 211-218.

Ashraf, A. R., Utescher, T. & Mosbrugger, V. (1997): Tertiary palynostratigraphy? how reproducible are the results? – Mededelingen Nederlands Instituut voor Toegepaste Geowetenschappen 58: 163-170.

 

Mosbrugger, V., Utescher, T., Ashraf, A. R., Schilling, H.-D. & Gebka, M. (1993): Rekonstruktion der obermiozänen Klimaverhältnisse (10-5 Mio a v. h.) im Bereich der Niederrheinischen Bucht. – In: NEUGEBAUER, H. J. (Hg.): Kontinentale Stoffkreisläufe und ihre Modellierung. Sonderforschungsbereich der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft 350. – 15-17; Bonn.

 

Utescher, T. (1992): Sedimentologische Untersuchungen Fe-Oolith-führender Karbonate (Heisdorf-Erze) an der Unter-Mitteldevon-Grenze im Westlichen Rheinischen Schiefergebirge. – Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 5: 303-320.

Utescher, T. (1992): Mikrofazielle Untersuchungen im Unter-Mitteldevon-Grenzbereich des Westlichen Rheinischen Schiefergebirges. – Decheniana 145: 204-301.

 

Ashraf, A. R. & Utescher, T. (1991): Sporen-Assoziationen aus dem Oberems der mittleren Eifel (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge). – Palaeontographica, Abteilung B 221: 153-170.