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| Holocene thermal maximum in the western Arctic (0–180 W) DS Kaufman, TA Ager, NJ Anderson, PM Anderson, JT Andrews, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 23 (5-6), 529-560, 2004 | 976 | 2004 |
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| Variations in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation over the past millennium GM MacDonald, RA Case Geophysical Research Letters 32 (8), 2005 | 718 | 2005 |
| A database and synthesis of northern peatland soil properties and Holocene carbon and nitrogen accumulation J Loisel, Z Yu, DW Beilman, P Camill, J Alm, MJ Amesbury, D Anderson, ... the Holocene 24 (9), 1028-1042, 2014 | 598 | 2014 |
| Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw G Hugelius, J Loisel, S Chadburn, RB Jackson, M Jones, G MacDonald, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (34), 20438-20446, 2020 | 545 | 2020 |
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| US Pacific coastal wetland resilience and vulnerability to sea-level rise K Thorne, G MacDonald, G Guntenspergen, R Ambrose, K Buffington, ... Science Advances 4 (2), eaao3270, 2018 | 354 | 2018 |
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