Anne Dallmeyer

Department External and Emeriti
Group Climate Vegetation Dynamics
Position Scientist
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Email anne.dallmeyer@mpimet.mpg.de
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  ORCID          https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3270-610X

 

Research interests

  • vegetation dynamics and large-scale vegetation changes
  • interactions between climate and vegetation
  • monsoon systems and their role in the global atmospheric circulation
  • paleoclimate, focus Holocene

  • Herzschuh, U., Böhmer, T., Chevalier, M., Dallmeyer, A., Li, C., Cao, X., Hebert, R., Peyron, O., Nazarova, L., Novenko, E., Park, J., Rudaya, N., Schlütz, F., Shumilovskikh, L., Tarasov, P., Wang, Y., Wen, R., Xu, Q. & Zheng, Z. (2023). Regional pollen-based Holocene temperature and precipitation patterns depart from the Northern Hemisphere mean trends. Climate of the Past, 19, 1481-1506. doi:10.5194/cp-19-1481-2023 [publisher-version]
  • Chevalier, M., Dallmeyer, A., Weitzel, N., Li, C., Baudouin, J.-P., Herzschuh, U., Cao, X. & Hense, A. (2023). Refining data-data and data-model vegetation comparisons using the Earth mover's distance (EMD). Climate of the Past, 19, 1043-1060. doi:10.5194/cp-19-1043-2023 [publisher-version]
  • Herzschuh, U., Böhmer, T., Li, C., Chevalier, M., Hébert, R., Dallmeyer, A., Cao, X., Bigelow, N., Nazarova, L., Novenko, E., Park, J., Peyron, O., Rudaya, N., Schlütz, F., Shumilovskikh, L., Tarasov, P., Wang, Y., Wen, R., Xu, Q. & Zheng, Z. (2023). LegacyClimate 1.0: A dataset of pollen-based climate reconstructions from 2594 Northern Hemisphere sites covering the last 30kyr and beyond. Earth System Science Data, 15, 2235-2258. doi:10.5194/essd-15-2235-2023 [publisher-version]
  • Kirsten, F., Dallmeyer, A., Bernbeck, R., Böhmer, T., Busch, R., Hessari, M., Pollock, S. & Schütt, B. (2023). Were climatic forcings the main driver for Mid-Holocene changes in settlement dynamics on the Varmin Plain (Central Iranian Plateau)?. PLoS One. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0290181 [supplementary-material][publisher-version]
  • Dallmeyer, A., Poska, A., Marquer, L., Seim, A. & Gaillard-Lemdahl, M.-J. (2023). The challenge of comparing pollen-based quantitative vegetation reconstruction with outputs from vegetation models - a European perspective. Climate of the Past, 19, 1531-1557. doi:10.5194/cp-19-1531-2023 [supplementary-material][publisher-version]
  • Herzschuh, U., Böhmer, T., Li, C., Cao, X., Hébert, R., Dallmeyer, A., Telford, R. & Kruse, S. (2022). Reversals in temperature-precipitation correlations in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics during the Holocene. Geophysical Research Letters, 49: e2022GL099730. doi:10.1029/2022GL099730 [publisher-version]
  • Dallmeyer, A., Kleinen, T., Claussen, M., Weitzel, N., Cao, X. & Herzschuh, U. (2022). The deglacial forest conundrum. Nature Communications, 13: 6035. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33646-6 [supplementary-material][multimedia][publisher-version][supplementary-material]
  • Dallmeyer, A., Claussen, M., Lorenz, S., Sigl, M., Toohey, M. & Herzschuh, U. (2021). Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2.. Climate of the Past, 17, 2481-2513. doi:10.5194/cp-17-2481-2021 [supplementary-material][publisher-version]
  • Dallmeyer, A., Claussen, M., Lorenz, S. & Shanahan, T. (2020). The end of the African humid period as seen by transient comprehensive Earth system model simulation of the last 8000 years. Climate of the Past, 16, 117-140. doi:10.5194/cp-16-117-2020 [supplementary-material][publisher-version][supplementary-material]
  • Dallmeyer, A., Claussen, M. & Brovkin, V. (2019). Harmonising plant funtional type distributions for evaluating Earth System Models. Climate of the Past, 15, 335-366. doi:10.5194/cp-15-335-2019 [supplementary-material][publisher-version]
  • Weitzel, N., Wagner, S., Sjolte, J., Klockmann, M., Bothe, O., Andres, H., Tarasov, L., Rehfeld, K., Zorita, E., Widmann, M., Sommer, P., Schaedler, G., Ludwig, P., Kapp, F., Jonkers, L., Garcia-Pintado, J., Fuhrmann, F., Dolman, A., Dallmeyer, A. & Brücher, T. (2019). Diving into the past - a paleo data-model comparison workshop on the Late Glacial and Holocene. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100, ES1-ES4. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-18-0169.1 [publisher-version]
  • Cao, X., Tian, F., Dallmeyer, A. & Herzschuh, U. (2019). Northern Hemisphere biome changes (>30°N) since 40 cal ka BP and their driving factors inferred from model-data comparisons. Quaternary Science Reviews, 220, 291-309. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.07.034
  • Tian , F., Cao, X., Dallmeyer, A., Lohmann, G., Zhang, X., Ni, J., Andreev, A., Anderson, P., Lozhkin, A., Bezrukova, E., Rudaya, N., Xu, Q. & Herzschuh, U. (2018). Biome changes and their inferred climatic drivers in northern and eastern continental Asia at selected times since 40 cal ka bp. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 27, 365-379. doi:10.1007/s00334-017-0653-8
  • Dallmeyer, A., Claussen, M., Ni, J., Cao, X., Wang, Y., Fischer , N., Pfeiffer, M., Jin , L., Khon, V., Wagner, S., Haberkorn, K. & Herzschuh, U. (2017). Holocene biome changes in Asia - an analysis of different transient Earth system model simulations. Climate of the Past, 13, 107-134. doi:10.5194/cp-13-107-2017 [supplementary-material][publisher-version]
  • Wang, Y., Bekeschus, B., Handorf, D., Liu, X., Dallmeyer, A. & Herzschuh, U. (2017). Coherent tropical-subtropical Holocene see-saw moisture patterns in the eastern hemisphere monsoon systems. Quaternary Science Reviews, 169, 231-242. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.06.006
  • Tian, F., Cao, X., Dallmeyer, A., Zhao, Y., Ni, J. & Herzschuh, U. (2017). Pollen-climate relationships in time (9 ka, 6 ka, 0 ka) and space (upland vs. lowland) in eastern continental Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 156, 1-11. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.11.027
  • Claussen, M., Dallmeyer, A. & Bader, J. (2017). Theory and modeling of the African humid period and the green Sahara. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.532
  • Tian, F., Cao, X., Dallmeyer, A., Ni, J., Zhao, Y., Wang, Y. & Herzschuh, U. (2016). Quantitative woody cover reconstructions from eastern continental Asia of the last 22 kyr reveal strong regional peculiarities. Quaternary Science Reviews, 137, 33-44. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.02.001
  • Dallmeyer, A., Herzschuh, U., Claussen, M., Ni, J., Wang, Y., Mischke, S. & Cao, X. (2015). Vegetation, climate, man—Holocene variability in monsoonal Central Asia. In Schulz, M. & Paul, A. (Eds.), Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC) (pp.97-102). Cham: Springer .
  • Dallmeyer, A., Claussen, M., Fischer, N., Haberkorn, K., Wagner , S., Pfeiffer, M., Jin, L., Khon, V., Wang, Y. & Herzschuh, U. (2015). The evolution of sub-monsoon systems in the Afro-Asian monsoon region during the Holocene comparison of different transient climate model simulations. Climate of the Past, 11, 305-326. doi:10.5194/cp-11-305-2015 [publisher-version]
  • Tian, F., Herzschuh, U., Dallmeyer, A., Xu, Q., Mischke, S. & Biskaborn, B. (2013). Environmental variability in the monsoon-westerlies transition zone during the last 1200 years: Lake sediment analyses from central Mongolia and supra-regional synthesis. Quaternary Science Reviews, 73, 31-47. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.05.005 [publisher-version]
  • Dallmeyer, A., Claussen, M., Wang, Y. & Herzschuh, U. (2013). Spatial variability of Holocene changes in the annual precipitation pattern - a model-data synthesis for the Asian monsoon region. Climate Dynamics, 40, 2919-2936. doi:10.1007/s00382-012-1550-6 [publisher-version]
  • Dallmeyer, A., Claussen, M., Herzschuh, U. & Fischer, N. (2011). Holocene vegetation and biomass changes on the Tibetan Plateau: a model-pollen data comparison. Climate of the Past, 7, 881-901. doi:10.5194/cp-7-881-2011 [publisher-version]
  • Dallmeyer, A. & Claussen, M. (2011). The influence of land cover change in the Asian monsoon region on present-day and mid-Holocene climate. Biogeosciences, 8, 1499-1519. doi:10.5194/bg-8-1499-2011 [publisher-version]
  • Dallmeyer, A., Claussen, M. & Otto, J. (2010). Contribution of oceanic and vegetation feedbacks to Holocene climate change in Central and Eastern Asia. Climate of the Past, 6, 195-218. doi:10.5194/cp-6-195-2010 [publisher-version]

Research highlights

The conundrum of forest expansion after the last ice age

How fast the Northern Hemisphere forest macro ecosystem tracks strongly warming climates such as projected for the near future is largely unknown. In…

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Holocene vegetation transitions and their climatic drivers in MPI-ESM1.2

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New method for evaluating Earth System Models

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Variability of the Earth system over the last 8000 years

After the peak of the last ice age about 21,000 years ago, the great ice masses that had covered large parts of North America and northern Europe…

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Large-scale research project PalMod: What have we learned?

The PalMod project (short for paleo-modeling), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), investigates the climate system…