Publications

• Prochnow, M., K. Dulias, P. Strobel, M. Bliedtner, G. Daut, S. Szidat, G. Salazar, F. Lechleitner, S. Acharya, R. Abarca, A. Schwarz, A. Schwalb, R. Zech (2024): Paleohydrology and human driven paleoproductivity during the Late Holocene from Schliersee, Bavaria. Quaternary Science Reviews 345, 109012. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109012Externer Link
• Acharya, S., P. Strobel, M. Prochnow, S. Taut, M. Zech, A. Schwalb, R. Zech (2024): Paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, and human impact over the last 400 years based on lipid biomarkers from Lake Höglwörth, Germany. Quaternary Science Advances 15, 100231. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100231Externer Link
• Strobel, P., T. Henning, M. Bliedtner, S. G. Mosher, H. Rahimova, T. Haberzettl, K. L. Kirsten, E. Lehndorff, M. J. Power, M. Zech, R. Zech (2024): Holocene fire dynamics and their climatic controls on the southern Cape coast of South Africa – A 7.2 ka multi-proxy record from the peatland Vankervelsvlei. Quaternary Science Reviews 325, 108464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108464Externer Link

• Bliedtner, M., Haberzettl, T., Nowaczyk, N., Bazarradnaa, E., Zech, R., Strobel, P., 2023. Assessing lock-in depth and establishing a Late Holocene paleomagnetic secular variation record from the Mongolian Altai. Radiocarbon, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2023.38Externer Link
• Prochnow, M., P. Strobel, M. Bliedtner, J. Struck, L. Bittner, S. Szidat, G. Salazar, H. Schneider, S. Acharya, M. Zech, R. Zech (2023): Summer paleohydrology during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene based on δ²H and δ¹⁸O from Bichlersee, Bavaria. Scientific Reports 13, 18487. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45754-4Externer Link
• Bliedtner, M., P. Strobel, J. Struck, M. Prochnow, E. Bazarradnaa, R. Zech (2023): Mid to Late Holocene moisture evolution of semi-arid Mongolia and its anti-phase relationship with monsoonal Asia. – Quaternary Science Reviews 313, 108201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108201Externer Link
• Acharya, S., R. Zech, P. Strobel, M. Bliedtner, M. Prochnow, C. De Jonge (2023): Environmental controls on the distribution of GDGT molecules in Lake Höglwörth, Southern Germany. – Organic Geochemistry 186, 104689. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2023.104689Externer Link
• Acharya, S., M. Prochnow, T. Kasper, L. Langhans, P. Frenzel, P. Strobel, M. Bliedtner, G. Daut, C. Berndt, S. Szidat, G. Salazar, A. Schwalb, R. Zech: A 1000-year multi-proxy paleoenvironmental record from Lake Höglwörth, Bavaria, Germany. – E&G Quaternary Science Journal 72, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-72-219-2023Externer Link

• Struck, J., Bliedtner, M., Strobel, P., Taylor, W., Biskop, S., Plessen, B., Klaes, B., Bittner, L., Jamsranjav, B., Salazar, G., Szidat, S., Brenning, A., Bazarradnaa, E., Glaser, B., Zech, M. and Zech, R. (2022). Central Mongolian lake sediments reveal new insights on climate change and equestrian empires in the Eastern Steppes. Scientific Reports 12(1), 2829.
• Bliedtner M, Strobel P, Struck J, Salazar G, Szidat S, Nowaczyk N, Bazarradnaa E, Lloren R, Dubois N, Haberzettl T and Zech R (2022). Holocene Temperature Variations in Semi-Arid Central Mongolia—A Chronological and Sedimentological Perspective From a 7400-year Lake Sediment Record From the Khangai Mountains. Front. Earth Sci. 10:910782. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.910782Externer Link.
  
  
• Strobel, P., Bliedtner, M., Carr, A.S., Struck, J., du Plessis, N., Glaser, B., Meadows, M.E., Quick, L.J., Zech, M., Zech, R. and Haberzettl, T. (2022). Reconstructing Late Quaternary precipitation and its source on the southern Cape coast of South Africa: A multi-proxy paleoenvironmental record from Vankervelsvlei. Quaternary Science Reviews 284, 107467.
  
  
• Strobel, P., Struck, J., Bazarradnaa, E., Zech, M., Zech, R. and Bliedtner, M. (2022). Precipitation and Lake Water Evaporation Recorded by Terrestrial and Aquatic n-Alkane δ²H Isotopes in Lake Khar Nuur, Mongolia. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 23(2), e2021GC010234.
  
  
• Reinhardt, A.L., Kasper, T., Lochner, M., Bliedtner, M., Krahn, K.J., Haberzettl, T., Shumilovskikh, L., Rahobisoa, J.-J., Zech, R., Favier, C., Behling, H., Bremond, L., Daut, G. and Montade, V. (2022). Rain Forest Fragmentation and Environmental Dynamics on Nosy Be Island (NW Madagascar) at 1300 cal BP Is Attributable to Intensified Human Impact. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9, 783770.
  
  
• Mekonnen, B., Glaser, B., Zech, R., Zech, M., Schlütz, F., Bussert, R., Addis, A., Gil-Romera, G., Nemomissa, S., Bekele, T., Bittner, L., Solomon, D., Manhart, A. and Zech, W. (2022). Climate, vegetation and fire history during the past 18,000 years, recorded in high altitude lacustrine sediments on the Sanetti Plateau, Bale Mountains (Ethiopia). Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 9(1), 14.

Submitted/in revision

• Strobel, P., Bliedtner, M., Carr, A. S., Struck, J., du Plessis, N., Glaser, B., Meadows, M.E., Quick, L.J., Zech, M., Zech, R., Haberzettl, T, submitted. Reconstructing Late Quaternary precipitation and its source on the southern Cape coast of South Africa: A multi-proxy paleoenvironmental record from Vankervelsvlei.
• Strobel, P., Zech, R., Struck, J., Bazarradnaa, E., Zech, M., Bliedtner, M., in revision. Precipitation and lake water evaporation recorded by terrestrial and aquatic n-alkane δ²H isotopes in Lake Khar Nuur, Mongolia.
• Struck, J., Bliedtner, M., Strobel, P., Taylor, W.T.T., Biskop, S., Plessen, B., Klaes, B., Bittner, L., Jamsranjav, B., Salazar, G., Szidat, S., Brenning, A., Bazarradnaa, E., Glaser, B., Zech, M., Zech, R., in revision. Climate Change and Equestrian Empires in the Eastern Steppes: New Insights from a High-resolution Lake Core in Central Mongolia.

2021

• Bliedtner, M., Struck, J., Strobel, P., Salazar, G., Szidat, S., Bazarradnaa, E., Lloren, R., Dubois, N., Zech, R., 2021. Late Holocene Climate Changes in the Altai Region Based on a First High‐Resolution Biomarker Isotope Record From Lake Khar Nuur. Geophysical Research Letters 48 (20). https://doi:10.1029/2021GL094299
• Hepp, J., Mayr, C., Rozanski, K., Schäfer, I. K., Tuthorn, M., Glaser, B., Juchelka, D., Stichler, W., Zech, R., and Zech, M. (2021). Validation of a coupled δ2Hn-alkane-δ18Osugar paleohygrometer approach based on a climate chamber experiment. Biogeosciences, 18, 5363–5380. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2020-434Externer Link.
• Zech, M., Lerch, M., Bliedtner, M., Bromm, T., Seemann, F., Szidat, S., Salazar, G., Zech, R., Glaser, B., Haas, J. N., Schäfer, D., and Geitner, C. (2021). Revisiting the subalpine Mesolithic site Ullafelsen in the Fotsch Valley, Stubai Alps, Austria – new insights into pedogenesis and landscape evolution from leaf-wax-derived n-alkanes, black carbon and radiocarbon dating, E&G Quaternary Sci. J., 70, 171–186, https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-70-171-2021Externer Link.
• Wolf, D., Kolb, T., Ryborz, K., Heinrich, S., Schäfer, I., Calvo, R., Sanchez, J., Hambach, U., Zech, R., Zöller, L. and Faust, D. (2021). Evidence for strong relations between the upper Tagus loess formation (central Iberia) and the marine atmosphere off the Iberian margin during the last glacial period. Quaternary Research 101, 84-113.
• Strobel, P., Bliedtner, M., Carr, A.S., Frenzel, P., Klaes, B., Salazar, G., Struck, J., Szidat, S., Zech, R., Haberzettl, T. (2021). Holocene sea level and environmental change at the southern Cape - an 8.5 kyr multi-proxy paleoclimate record from lake Voёlvlei, South Africa. Climate of the Past 17, 1567-1586. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1567-2021.
• Cooper, A., Turney, C.S.M., Palmer, J., Hogg, A., McGlone, M., Wilmshurst, J., Lorrey, A.M., Heaton, T.J., Russell, J.M., McCracken, K., Anet, J.G., Rozanov, E., Friedel, M., Suter, I., Peter, T., Muscheler, R., Adolphi, F., Dosseto, A., Faith, J.T., Fenwick, P., Fogwill, C.J., Hughen, K., Lipson, M., Liu, J., Nowaczyk, N., Rainsley, E., Bronk Ramsey, C., Sebastianelli, P., Souilmi, Y., Stevenson, J., Thomas, Z., Tobler, R. and Zech, R. (2021). A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago. Science 371(6531), 811.
• Strobel, P., Struck, J., Zech, R., Bliedtner, M. (2021): The spatial distribution of sedimentary compounds and their environmental implications in surface sediments of Lake Khar Nuur (Mongolian Altai). Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.5049Externer Link.
• Garcia Morabito, E., Terrizzano, C., Zech, R., Yamin, M., Wüthrich, L., Christl, M., Ramos, V., Haghipour, N., and Cortés, J. (2021). ¹⁰Be surface exposure dating reveals unexpected high deformation rates in the central Andean wedge interior. Terra Nova 33, 30-45. doi.org/10.1111/ter.12487Externer Link
• Tobal, J.E., Morabito, E.G., Terrizzano, C.M., Zech, R., Colavitto, B., Struck, J., Christl, M. and Ghiglione, M.C. (2021). Quaternary landscape evolution of patagonia at the Chilean Triple Junction: Climate and tectonic forcings. Quaternary Science Reviews 261, 106960.
• Zhang, Q., Dong, W., Dou, J., Dong, G. and Zech, R. (2021). Cirques of the central Tibetan Plateau: Morphology and controlling factors. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 582, 110656.

• Struck, J., Bliedtner, M., Strobel, P., Bittner, L., Bazarradnaa, E., Andreeva, D., Zech, W., Glaser, B., Zech, M., and Zech, R. (2020). Leaf Waxes and Hemicelluloses in Topsoils Reflect the 2H and 18O Isotopic Composition of Precipitation in Mongolia. Front. Earth Sci. 8, 343.
• Hepp, J., Schäfer, I., Lanny, V., Franke, J., Bliedtner, M., Rozanski, K., Glaser, B., Zech, M., Eglinton, T., Zech, R. (2020). Evaluation of bacterial glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether and 2H–18O biomarker proxies along a central European topsoil transect. Biogeosciences, 17, 741-756.
• Zhang, Q., Fu, P., Yi, C., Wang, N., Wang, Y., Capolongo, D. and Zech, R. (2020). Palaeoglacial and palaeoenvironmental conditions of the Gangdise Mountains, southern Tibetan Plateau, as revealed by an ice-free cirque morphology analysis. Geomorphology 370, 107391.
• Strobel, P., Bliedtner, M., Carr, A. S., Frenzel, P., Klaes, B., Salazar, G., Struck, J., Szidat, S., Zech, R., Haberzettl, T. (in review): Holocene sea level and environmental change at the southern Cape – an 8.5 kyr multi-proxy paleoclimate record from lake Voёlvlei, South Africa, Clim. Past Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2020-130Externer Link.
• Strobel, P., Struck, J., Zech, R., Bliedtner, M., submitted. The spatial distribution of grain size and geochemical proxies in Lake Khar Nuur, Mongolian Altai.
• Bliedtner, M., Zech, R., Zech, J., Schäfer, I., Suchodoletz, H., 2020. A first Holocene leaf wax isotope‐based paleoclimate record from the semi‐humid to semi‐arid south‐eastern Caucasian lowlands. Journal of Quaternary Science. doi:10.1002/jqs.3210.
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• Bliedtner, M., Suchodoletz, H. von, Schäfer, I., Welte, C., Salazar, G., Szidat, S., Haas, M., Dubois, N., Zech, R., 2020. Age and origin of leaf wax n-alkanes in fluvial sediment-paleosol sequences and implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 24(4), 2105–2120. doi:10.5194/hess-24-2105-2020. https://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/24/2105/2020/Externer Link
• Strobel P., Haberzettl, T., Bliedtner, M., Struck, J., Glaser, B., Zech, M., Zech, R. (2020): The potential of δ²H_n-alkanes and δ¹⁸O_sugar for paleoclimate reconstruction - A regional calibration study for South Africa.- Science of the Total Environment, 716, 137045. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137045Externer Link
  
• Struck J., Bliedtner M., Strobel P., Schumacher J., Bazarradnaa E., Zech R. (2020): Leaf wax n-alkane patterns and compound-specific δ¹³C of plants and topsoils from semi-arid/arid Mongolia.- Biogeosciences, 17, 567-580. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-567-2020Externer Link

• Häggi, C., Zech, R., Sosin, P., Zech, W. and Eglinton, T. (2019). A 250 ka leaf-wax δD record from a loess section in Darai Kalon, Southern Tajikistan. Quaternary Science Reviews 208, 118-128. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118305225Externer Link
  
  
• Trigui, Y., Wolf, D., Sahakyan, L., Hovakimyan, H., Sahakyan, K, Zech, R., Fuchs, M., Wolpert, T., Zech, M., Faust, D. (2019). First calibration and application of leaf wax n-alkane biomarkers in loess-paleosol sequences and modern plants and soils in Armenia. Geosciences 9, 263.
  
  
• Hepp, J., Wüthrich, L., Bromm, T., Bliedtner, M., Schäfer, I.K., Glaser, B., Rozanski, K., Sirocko, F., Zech, R. and Zech, M. (2019). How dry was the Younger Dryas? Evidence from a coupled δ²H-δ¹⁸O biomarker paleohygrometer applied to the Gemündener Maar sediments, Western Eifel, Germany. Clim. Past 15, 713-733.

• Bliedtner, M., Zech, R., Kühn, P., et al. (2018). The potential of leaf wax biomarkers from fluvial soil-sediment sequences for paleovegetation reconstructions - Upper Alazani River, central southern Greater Caucasus (Georgia). Quaternary Science Reviews. 196, 62-79.
• Bliedtner, M., Schäfer, I.K., Zech, R. and Suchodoletz, H.v. (2018). Leaf wax n-alkanes in modern plants and topsoils from eastern Georgia (Caucasus) - implications for reconstructing regional paleovegetation. Biogeosciences, 15, 3927-3936.
• Wolf, D., Kolb, T., Alcaraz-Castaño, M., Heinrich, S., Baumgart, P., Calvo, R., Sánchez, J., Ryborz, K., Schäfer, I.K., Bliedtner, M., Zech, R., Zöller, L., Faust, D. (2018). Climate deteriorations and Neanderthal demise in interior Iberia. Scientific Reports, 8(1) 10.1038/s41598-018-25343-6.
• Schaetzl, R.J., III, E.A.B., Crouvi, O., Fitzsimmons, K.E., Grimley, D.A., Hambach, U., Lehmkuhl, F., Marković, S.B., Mason, J.A., Owczarek, P., Roberts, H.M., Rousseau, D.-D., Stevens, T., Vandenberghe, J., Zárate, M., Veres, D., Yang, S., Zech, M., Conroy, J.L., Dave, A.K., Faust, D., Hao, Q., Obreht, I., Prud'homme, C., Smalley, I., Tripaldi, A., Zeeden, C. and Zech, R. (2018). Approaches and challenges to the study of loess - Introduction to the LoessFest Special Issue. Quaternary Research 89, 563-618.
• Wüthrich, L., Garcia Morabito, E., Zech, J., Gnägi, Ch., Trauerstein, M., Veit, H., Merchel, S., Scharf, A., Rugel, G., Christl, M., Zech, R. (2018). 10Be surface exposure dating of the last deglaciation in the Aare Valley, Switzerland Swiss Journal of Geosciences 10.1007/s00015-018-0298-3.
• Struck, J., Roettig, C.B., Faust, D. and Zech, R. (2018). Leaf waxes from aeolionite paleosol sequences on Fuertaventura and their potential for paleoenvironmental and -climate reconstruction in the arid subtropics. E&G - Quaternary Science Journal 66, 109-114.
• Lerch, M., Bliedtner, M., Roettig, C.-B., Schmidt, J.-U., Szidat, S., Salazar, G., Zech, R., Glaser, B., Kleber, A. and Zech, M. (2018). Lipid biomarkers in aeolian sediments under desert pavements - potential and first results from the Black Rock Desert, Utah, USA, and Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain. E&G Quaternary Sci. J. 66, 103-108.
• Longo, W.M., Huang, Y., Yao, Y., Zhao, J., Giblin, A.E., Wang, X., Zech, R., Haberzettl, T., Jardillier, L., Toney, J., Liu, Z., Krivonogov, S., Kolpakova, M., Chu, G., D'Andrea, W.J., Harada, N., Nagashima, K., Sato, M., Yonenobu, H., Yamada, K., Gotanda, K. and Shinozuka, Y. (2018). Widespread occurrence of distinct alkenones from Group I haptophytes in freshwater lakes: Implications for paleotemperature and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 492, 239-250.2018
• Bliedtner, M., Zech, R., Kühn, P., et al. (2018). The potential of leaf wax biomarkers from fluvial soil-sediment sequences for paleovegetation reconstructions - Upper Alazani River, central southern Greater Caucasus (Georgia). Quaternary Science Reviews. 196, 62-79.
• Bliedtner, M., Schäfer, I.K., Zech, R. and Suchodoletz, H.v. (2018). Leaf wax n-alkanes in modern plants and topsoils from eastern Georgia (Caucasus) - implications for reconstructing regional paleovegetation. Biogeosciences, 15, 3927-3936.
• Wolf, D., Kolb, T., Alcaraz-Castaño, M., Heinrich, S., Baumgart, P., Calvo, R., Sánchez, J., Ryborz, K., Schäfer, I.K., Bliedtner, M., Zech, R., Zöller, L., Faust, D. (2018). Climate deteriorations and Neanderthal demise in interior Iberia. Scientific Reports, 8(1) 10.1038/s41598-018-25343-6.
• Schaetzl, R.J., III, E.A.B., Crouvi, O., Fitzsimmons, K.E., Grimley, D.A., Hambach, U., Lehmkuhl, F., Marković, S.B., Mason, J.A., Owczarek, P., Roberts, H.M., Rousseau, D.-D., Stevens, T., Vandenberghe, J., Zárate, M., Veres, D., Yang, S., Zech, M., Conroy, J.L., Dave, A.K., Faust, D., Hao, Q., Obreht, I., Prud'homme, C., Smalley, I., Tripaldi, A., Zeeden, C. and Zech, R. (2018). Approaches and challenges to the study of loess - Introduction to the LoessFest Special Issue. Quaternary Research 89, 563-618.
• Wüthrich, L., Garcia Morabito, E., Zech, J., Gnägi, Ch., Trauerstein, M., Veit, H., Merchel, S., Scharf, A., Rugel, G., Christl, M., Zech, R. (2018). 10Be surface exposure dating of the last deglaciation in the Aare Valley, Switzerland Swiss Journal of Geosciences 10.1007/s00015-018-0298-3.
• Struck, J., Roettig, C.B., Faust, D. and Zech, R. (2018). Leaf waxes from aeolionite paleosol sequences on Fuertaventura and their potential for paleoenvironmental and -climate reconstruction in the arid subtropics. E&G - Quaternary Science Journal 66, 109-114.
• Lerch, M., Bliedtner, M., Roettig, C.-B., Schmidt, J.-U., Szidat, S., Salazar, G., Zech, R., Glaser, B., Kleber, A. and Zech, M. (2018). Lipid biomarkers in aeolian sediments under desert pavements - potential and first results from the Black Rock Desert, Utah, USA, and Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain. E&G Quaternary Sci. J. 66, 103-108.
• Longo, W.M., Huang, Y., Yao, Y., Zhao, J., Giblin, A.E., Wang, X., Zech, R., Haberzettl, T., Jardillier, L., Toney, J., Liu, Z., Krivonogov, S., Kolpakova, M., Chu, G., D'Andrea, W.J., Harada, N., Nagashima, K., Sato, M., Yonenobu, H., Yamada, K., Gotanda, K. and Shinozuka, Y. (2018). Widespread occurrence of distinct alkenones from Group I haptophytes in freshwater lakes: Implications for paleotemperature and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 492, 239-250.2017

• Wüthrich, L., Bliedtner, M., Schäfer, I.K., Zech, J., Shajari, F., Gaar, D., Preusser, F., Salazar, G., Szidat, S. and Zech, R. (2017). Late Quaternary climate and environmental reconstruction based on leaf wax analyses in the loess sequence of Möhlin, Switzerland. E&G - Quaternary Science Journal 66, 91-100.
• Wüthrich, L., Brändli, C., Braucher, R., Veit, H., Haghipour, N., Terrizzano, C., Christl, M., Gnägi, C. and Zech, R. (2017). 10Be depth profiles in glacial sediments on the Swiss Plateau: deposition age, denudation and (pseudo-) inheritance. E&G - Quaternary Science Journal 66, 57-68.
• Haas, H., Bliedtner, M., Borodynkin, I., Salazar, G., Szidat, S., Eglinton, T.I. and Zech, R. (2017). Radiocarbon dating of leaf waxes in the loess paleosol sequence Kurtak, Central Siberia. Radiocarbon DOI:10.1017/RDC.2017.1.
• Hepp, J., Zech, R., Rozanski, K., Tuthorn, M., Glaser, B., Greule, M., Keppler, F., Huang, Y., Zech, W. and Zech, M. (2017). Late Quaternary relative humidity changes from Mt. Kilimanjaro, based on a coupled 2H-18O biomarker paleohygrometer approach. Quaternary International 438, Part B, 116-130.
• Terrizzano, C.M., García Morabito, E., Christl, M., Likermann, J., Tobal, J., Yamin, M. and Zech, R. (2017). Climatic and tectonic forcing on alluvial fans in the Southern Central Andes. Quaternary Science Reviews 172, 131-141.
• Veit, H., Trauerstein, M., Preusser, F., Messmer, T., Gnägi, C., Zech, R. and Wüthrich, L. (2017). Early Holocene cover beds on the Swiss Plateau: Genesis and palaeo-environment. Catena 158, 102-112.
• Wüthrich, L. (2017). Into and out of the last glaciation - a multi proxy approach on glacial deposits, lake sediments, and loess. PhD Thesis, University of Bern.
• Zech, J., Terrizzano, C., García Morabito, E., Veit, H., Zech, R. (2017). Timing and extent of Late Pleistocene glaciation in the arid Central Andes of Argentina and Chile (22º-41ºS). Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica 43, DOI: http://doi.org/10.18172/cig.3235.
• Zech, M., Kreutzer, S., Zech, R., Goslar, T., Meszner, S., McIntyre, C., Häggi, C., Eglinton, T., Faust D. and Fuchs, M., (2017). Comparative 14C and OSL dating of loess-paleosol sequences to evaluate post-depositional contamination of n-alkane biomarkers. Quaternary Research 87, 180-189.

• Diebold, C. (2016). Leaf waxes in surface soils along a transect across the Alps. BSc Thesis. Universität Bern.
• Graber, M. (2016). 10Be surface exposure dating of the Rhone- and the Aare-Glacier, MSc Thesis, University of Bern.
• Schäfer, I.K., Lanny, V., Franke, J., Eglinton, T.I., Zech, M., Vysloužilová, B. and Zech, R. (2016). Leaf waxes in litter and topsoils along a European transect. Soil 2, 551-564.
• Schäfer, I.K., Bliedtner, M., Wolf, D., Faust, D. and Zech, R. (2016). Evidence for humid conditions during the last glacial from leaf wax patterns in the loess-paleosol sequence El Paraíso, Central Spain. Quaternary International 407, 64-73.
• Shajari, F. (2016). Paleoenvironmental reconstruction based on leaf wax and compound-specific D/H analyses in the loess paleosol sequence Möhlin, Switzerland. MSc Thesis, TU Munich
• Zech, R. (2016). Zurück in die Eiszeit - Klima und Kohlenstoffspeicherung in Sibirien. Geopanorama 1/2016: 13-17.
• Zhu, D., Peng, S., Ciais, P., Zech, R., Krinner, G., Zimov, S. and Grosse, G. (2016). Simulating soil organic carbon in yedoma deposits during the Last Glacial Maximum in a land surface model. Geophysical Research Letters 43, 5133-5142.

• Zech, R., Mayr, C. and Doppler, G. (2015). Löss und Paläoböden in Bobingen - Eine geochemische Reise in die letzte Eiszeit. Deutsche Bodenkundliche Gesellschaft - Mitteilungen (Exkursionsführer) 117, 139-148.
• Hepp, J., Tuthorn, M., Zech, R., Mügler, I., Schlütz, F., et al. (2015). Reconstructing lake evaporation history and the isotopic composition of precipitation by a coupled δ18O-δ2H biomarker approach. Journal of Hydrology 529, 622-631.
• Tuthorn, M., Zech, R., Ruppenthal, M., Oelmann, Y., Kahmen, A., et al. (2015). Coupling δ2H and δ18O biomarker results yields information on relative humidity and isotopic composition of precipitation - a climate transect validation study. Biogeosciences 12, 3913-3924.
• Zech, M., Zech, R., Rozanski, K., Gleixner, G., and Zech, W. (2015). Do n-alkane biomarkers in soils/sediments reflect the δ2H isotopic composition of precipitation? A case study from Mt. Kilimanjaro and implications for paleoaltimetry and paleoclimate research. Isotopes in Environmental & Health Studies, DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2015.1058790.

• Häggi, C., Zech, R., McIntyre, C., Zech, M., and Eglinton, T. (2014). On the stratigraphic integrity of leaf-wax biomarkers in loess paleosols. Biogeosciences 11, 2455-2463.
• Zech, M., Tuthorn, M., Zech, R., Schluetz, F., Zech, W., Glaser, B. (2014). A 16-ka lacustrine 18O record from High Himalaya reflecting the Indian Monsoon Variability. Journal of Paleolimnology 51, 241-251.
• Terrizzano, C. M., Cortés, J. M., Zech, R., García Morabito, E. (2014). Drainage anomalies as indicators of soft-linked deformation zones between neotectonic structural highs in the Precordillera, Central Andes of Argentina. Geomorphology 224, 1-15.
• Suter, I., Zech, R., Anet, J. G., and Peters, T. (2014). Impact of geomagnetic excursions on atmospheric chemistry and dynamics. Climate of the Past 10, 1183-1194.2013

• Zech, R., Zech, M., Marković, S., Hambach, U., Huang, Y. (2013). Humid glacials, arid interglacials? Critical thoughts on pedogenesis and paleoclimate based on multi-proxy analyses of the loess-paleosol sequence Crvenka, Northern Serbia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 387, 165-175.
• Zech, R., Röhringer, I., Sosin, P., Kabgov, H., Merchel, S., Akhmadaliev, S., Zech, W. (2013). Late Pleistocene glaciations in the Gissar Range, Tajikistan, based on 10Be surface exposure dating. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 369, 253-261.
• Zech, M., Tuthorn, M., Detsch, F., Rozanski, K., Zech, R., Zöller, L., Zech, W., Glaser, B., (2013). A 220 ka terrestrial δ18O and deuterium excess biomarker record from an eolian permafrost paleosol sequence, NE-Siberia. Chemical Geology 360-361, 220-230.

• Zech, R. (2012). A permafrost glacial hypothesis - Permafrost carbon might help explaining the Pleistocene ice ages. Eiszeitalter & Gegenwart - Quaternary Science Journal, 61, 84-92.
• Zech, R., Gao, L., Tarozo, R., and Huang, Y. (2012). Branched GDGTs in loess-paleosol sequences: three case studies. Organic Geochemistry, 53, 38-44.
• Zech, R. (2012). A late Pleistocene glacial chronology from the Kitschi-Kurumdu Valley, Tien Shan (Kyrgyzstan), based on 10Be surface exposure dating. Quaternary Research, 77, 281-288.
• Gao, L., Nie, J., Clemens, S., Liu, W., Sun, J., Zech, R. and Huang, Y. (2012). The importance of solar insolation on the temperature variations for the past 110 kyr on the Chinese Loess Plateau., Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 317-318, 128-133.
• Röhringer, I., Zech, R., Sosin, P., Aldahan, A., Kubik, P.W., Zöller, L., Zech, W. (2012). The late Pleistocene glaciation in the Bogchigir Valleys (Pamir, Tajikistan) based on 10Be surface exposure dating. Quaternary Research, 78, 590-597.

• Zech, R., Huang, Y., Zech, M., Tarozo, R., and Zech, W. (2011). High carbon sequestration in Siberian permafrost loess-paleosols during glacials. Climate of the Past, 7, 501-509.
• Zech, R., Zech, J., Kull, C., Kubik, P., and Veit, H. (2011). Early last glacial maximum in the southern Central Andes reveals northward shift of the westerlies at ~39 ka. Climate of the Past, 7, 41-46.
• Zech, M., Zech, R., Buggle, B., and Zöller, L. (2011). Novel methodological approaches in loess research - interrogating biomarkers and compound-specifc stable isotopes. Eiszeitalter & Gegenwart - Quaternary Science Journal, 60, 170-187.
• Zech, W., Zech, R., Zech, M., Leiber, K., Dippold, M., Frechen, M., Bussert, R., and Andreev, A. (2011). Obliquity forcing of Quaternary glaciation and environmental changes in NE Siberia. Quaternary International, 234, 133-145.
• May, J.-H., Zech, J., Zech, R., Preusser, F., Argollo, J., Kubik, P. W., and Veit, H. (2011). Reconstruction of a complex late Quaternary glacial landscape in the Cordillera de Cochabamba (Bolivia) based on a morphostratigraphic and multiple dating approach. Quaternary Research, 76, 106-118.
• May, J.-H., Zech, R., Schellenberger, A., Kull, Ch. and Veit, H. (2011). Quaternary environmental and climate changes in the Central Andes. In: Salfity, J. and Marquillas, R. (Eds.). Cenozoic Geology of the Central Andes of Argentina. SCS Publisher, Salta. 458 pp.

• Zech, J., Zech, R., May, J.-H., Kubik, P.W., Veit, H. (2010). Lateglacial and early Holocene glaciation in the tropical Andes caused by La Niña-like conditions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 293, 248-254.
• Zech, M., Andreev, A., Zech, R., Müller, S., Hambach, U., Frechen, M., Zech, W. (2010). Quaternary vegetation changes derived from a permafrost palaeosol sequence in NE-Siberia using alkane biomarker and pollen analyses: contradicting vegetation history versus climate history? Boreas, DOI 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00132.x.

• Zech, R., Smith, J. and Kaplan, M. (2009). Chronologies of the LGM and its Termination in the Andes based on Surface Exposure Dating. In: Vimeux, F., Sylvestre, F. and Khodri, M. (Eds.). Past climate variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene in South America and Surrounding regions, Springer. 14: 61-87.
• Zech, R., Zech, M., Kubik, P. W. Krishna, K., and Zech, W. (2009). Deglaciation and landscape history around Annapurna, Nepal based on 10Be surface exposure dating. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 1106-1118.
• Zech, J., Zech, R., Kubik, P. W. and Veit, H. (2009). Glacier and climate reconstruction at Tres Lagunas, NW Argentina, based on 10Be surface exposure dating and lake sediment analyses. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 284(3-4): 180-190.
• Zech, W., Zech, M., Zech, R., Peinemann, N., Morras, H., Moretti, L., Ogle, N., Kalim, R., Fuchs, M., Schad, P. and Glaser, B. (2009). Late Quaternary palaeosol records from subtropical (38º S) to tropical (16º S) South America and palaeoclimatic implications. Quaternary International 196: 107-120.
• Zech, M., Zech, R., Glaser, B., Morrás, H. and Moretti, L. M. (2009). Late Quaternary environmental changes in Misiones, subtropical NE Argentina, deduced from multi-proxy geochemical analyses in a palaeosol-sediment sequence. Quaternary International 196: 121-136.

• Zech, R., May, J.-H., Kull, C., Ilgner, J., Kubik, P. and Veit, H. (2008). Timing of the Late Quaternary Glaciation in the Andes from ~15 to 40°S. Journal of Quaternary Science 23: 635-647.
• Kull, C., Imhof, S., Grosjean, M., Zech, R. and Veit, H. (2008). Late Pleistocene glaciation in the Central Andes: Temperature versus humidity control - A case study from the eastern Bolivian Andes (17°S) and regional synthesis. Global and Planetary Change 60: 148-164.
• Zech, M., Zech, R., Zech, W., Glaser, B., Brodowski, S. and Amelung, W. (2008). Characterisation and palaeoclimate of a loess-like permafrost palaeosol sequence in NE Siberia. Geoderma 143: 281-295.
• May, J.-H., Zech, R. and Veit, H. (2008). Paleosol-sediment-sequences and their implications for the Late Quaternary landscape evolution along the Andean piedmont (Eastern Bolivia). Geomorphology: 98, 34-54.

• Zech, R., Kull, C., Kubik, P. and Veit, H. (2007). LGM and Late Glacial glacier advances in the Cordillera Real and Cochabamba (Bolivia) deduced from 10Be surface exposure dating. Climate of the Past 3, 623-635.
• Zech, R., Kull, C. and Veit, H. (2007). Exposure dating of Late Glacial and pre-LGM moraines in the Cordillera Dona Rosa, Northern Chile (~31°S). Climate of the Past 3: 1-14.
• Zech, M., Zech, R. and Glaser, B. (2007). A 240,000-year stable carbon and nitrogen isotope record from a loess-like palaeosol sequence in the Tumara Valley, Northeast Siberia. Chemical Geology 242: 307-318.

• Zech, R. (2006). Glacier and Climate Reconstruction in the Central Andes based on 10Be Surface Exposure Dating. PhD thesis. University of Bern. Institute of Geography. pp. 101.
• Zech, R., Kull, C. and Veit, H. (2006). Late Quaternary glacial history in the Encierro Valley, Northern Chile (29°S), deduced from 10Be surface exposure dating. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 234 (2-4): 277-286.
• Zech, R., Kull, C. and Veit, H. (2006). Expositionsdatierung in den Zentralen Anden: Quartäre Gletscher- und Klimarekonstruktion mittels in-situ 10Be. Geographica Helvetica 61 (2): 77-90.
• Abramowski, U., Bergau, A., Seebach, D., Zech, R., Glaser, B., Sosin, P., Kubik, P. W. and Zech, W. (2006). Late Pleistocene palaeoglaciations of Central Asia: a new chronology based on 10Be surface exposure ages of erratic boulders from the Pamir (Tajikistan), Alay and Turkestan Ranges (Kyrgyzstan). Quaternary Science Reviews: 25, 1080-1096.

• Zech, R., Abramowski, U., Glaser, B., Sosin, P., Kubik, P. W. and Zech, W. (2005). Late Quaternary glacial and climate history of the Pamir Mountains derived from cosmogenic 10Be exposure ages. Quaternary Research 64 (2): 212-220.
• Zech, R., Glaser, B., Sosin, P., Kubik, P. W. and Zech, W. (2005). Evidence for long-lasting landform surface instability on hummocky moraines in the Pamir Mountains from surface exposure dating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 237: 453-461.
• Zech, R., Abramowski, U., Glaser, B., Sosin, P., Kubik, P. W. and Zech, W. (2005). Expositionsdatierung mittels kosmogener Nuklide: Ausgewählte Beispiele aus dem Pamir und dem Himalaya. In: Hochgebirge und ihr Umland, Hrsg: Eidam, U., Schröder, H. and Winter, S., Berliner Geographische Arbeiten 100: 3-8.
• Zech, R., Abramowski, U., Glaser, B., Sosin, P., Kubik, P. and Zech, W. (2003). Potentials and limitations of surface exposure dating using in-situ production of cosmogenic 10Be in the Pamir. Berliner Paläobiologische Abhandlungen 02: 134-135.

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