Dr. Christoph Schwörer

Journal Article

Morales-Molino, César; van Vugt, Lieveke; van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F N; Gobet, Erika; Schwörer, Christoph; Ganz, Kathrin; Giagkoulis, Tryfon; Brugger, Sandra O; Bogaard, Amy; Hafner, Albert; Kotsakis, Kostas; Lotter, André F; Tinner, Willy (2024). Looking at the modern landscape of submediterranean Greece through a palaeoecological lens. The Science of the total environment, 949, p. 174986. Elsevier 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174986

Finsinger, Walter; Bigler, Christian; Schwörer, Christoph; Tinner, Willy (2024). Rates of palaeoecological change can inform ecosystem restoration. Biogeosciences, 21(7), pp. 1629-1638. European Geosciences Union 10.5194/bg-21-1629-2024

Stevanon, Philip; Gobet, Erika; Schwörer, Christoph; Rohr, Christian; Tinner, Willy (2024). Vegetation Changes since the late Middle Ages around Bern, Switzerland. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany Springer 10.1007/s00334-024-00985-x

Dziomber, Laura; Gobet, Erika; Leunda, Maria; Gurtner, Lisa; Vogel, Hendrik; Tournier, Nicolas; Damanik, Adrianus; Szidat, Sönke; Tinner, Willy; Schwörer, Christoph (2024). Palaeoecological multiproxy reconstruction captures long-term climatic and anthropogenic impacts on vegetation dynamics in the Rhaetian Alps. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 321 Elsevier 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.105020

Ganz, Kathrin; Morales-Molino, César; Gobet, Erika; Kiosak, Dmytro; Kotova, Nadezhda; van Leeuwen, Jacqueline; Makhortykh, Sergey; Schwörer, Christoph; Tinner, Willy (2024). Holocene vegetation dynamics in southern Ukraine under changing land use and climate. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 321, p. 105019. Elsevier 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.105019

Gugerli, Felix; Brodbeck, Sabine; Lendvay, Bertalan; Dauphin, Benjamin; Bagnoli, Francesca; van der Knaap, Willem O.; Tinner, Willy; Höhn, Maria; Vendramin, Giovanni G.; Morales-Molino, César; Schwörer, Christoph (2023). A range‐wide postglacial history of Swiss stone pine based on molecular markers and palaeoecological evidence. Journal of Biogeography, 50(6), pp. 1049-1062. Wiley 10.1111/jbi.14586

van Vugt, Lieveke; Garcés-Pastor, Sandra; Gobet, Erika; Brechbühl, Sarah; Knetge, Antonietta; Lammers, Youri; Stengele, Katja; Alsos, Inger Greve; Tinner, Willy; Schwörer, Christoph (2022). Pollen, macrofossils and sedaDNA reveal climate and land use impacts on Holocene mountain vegetation of the Lepontine Alps, Italy. Quaternary science reviews, 296, p. 107749. Elsevier 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107749

Garcés-Pastor, Sandra; Coissac, Eric; Lavergne, Sébastien; Schwörer, Christoph; Theurillat, Jean-Paul; Heintzman, Peter D; Wangensteen, Owen S; Tinner, Willy; Rey, Fabian; Heer, Martina; Rutzer, Astrid; Walsh, Kevin; Lammers, Youri; Brown, Antony G; Goslar, Tomasz; Rijal, Dilli P; Karger, Dirk N; Pellissier, Loïc; Heiri, Oliver and Alsos, Inger Greve (2022). High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change. Nature communications, 13(1), p. 6559. Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/s41467-022-34010-4

Schwörer, Christoph; Leunda, Maria; Alvarez, Nadir; Gugerli, Felix; Sperisen, Christoph (2022). The untapped potential of macrofossils in ancient plant DNA research. New Phytologist, 235(2), pp. 391-401. Wiley 10.1111/nph.18108

Schwörer, Christoph; Gobet, Erika; van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F. N.; Bögli, Sarah; Imboden, Rachel; van der Knaap, W. O.; Kotova, Nadezhda; Makhortykh, Sergej; Tinner, Willy (2022). Holocene vegetation, fire and land use dynamics at Lake Svityaz, an agriculturally marginal site in northwestern Ukraine. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 31(2), pp. 155-170. Springer 10.1007/s00334-021-00844-z

Rey, Fabian; Brugger, Sandra O.; Gobet, Erika; Andenmatten, Romain; Bonini, Andrea; Inniger, Hannah; Maurer, Corina; Perret-Gentil-dit-Maillard, Nina; Riederer, Julian C.; Heiri, Oliver; Tinner, Willy; Schwörer, Christoph (2022). 14,500 years of vegetation and land use history in the upper continental montane zone at Lac de Champex (Valais, Switzerland). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 31(4), pp. 377-393. Springer 10.1007/s00334-021-00859-6

Höhn, Laura; Leunda, Maria; Gobet, Erika; Tinner, Willy; Schwörer, Christoph (2022). Vegetation response to rapid climate change during the Lateglacial-Early Holocene transition at Gola di Lago, southern Switzerland. Boreas, 51(3), pp. 606-620. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1111/bor.12578

Osmont, Dimitri; Brügger, Sandra; Gilgen, Anina; Weber, Helga; Sigl, Michael; Modini, Robin L.; Schwörer, Christoph; Tinner, Willy; Wunderle, Stefan; Schwikowski, Margit (2020). Tracing devastating fires in Portugal to a snow archive in the Swiss Alps: a case study. The Cryosphere, 14(11), pp. 3731-3745. Copernicus Publications 10.5194/tc-14-3731-2020

Rey, Fabian; Gobet, Erika; Schwörer, Christoph; Hafner, Albert; Szidat, Sönke; Tinner, Willy (2020). Climate impacts on vegetation and fire dynamics since the last deglaciation at Moossee (Switzerland). Climate of the past, 16(4), pp. 1347-1367. Copernicus Publications 10.5194/cp-16-1347-2020

Gassner, Sylvia Kristina; Gobet, Erika; Schwörer, Christoph; van Leeuwen, Jacqueline; Vogel, Hendrik; Giagkoulis, Tryfon; Makri, Stamatina; Grosjean, Martin; Panajiotidis, Sampson; Hafner, Albert; Tinner, Willy (2020). 20,000 years of interactions between climate, vegetation and land use in Northern Greece. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 29(1), pp. 75-90. Springer 10.1007/s00334-019-00734-5

Brügger, Sandra O.; Gobet, Erika; Schanz, Federica R.; Heiri, Oliver; Schwörer, Christoph; Sigl, Michael; Schwikowski, Margit; Tinner, Willy (2019). Why loss matters: Reply to the comments of Festi and others on ‘A quantitative comparison of microfossil extraction methods from ice cores’ by Brugger and others (2018). Journal of glaciology, 65(253), pp. 867-868. International Glaciological Society 10.1017/jog.2019.61

Finsinger, Walter; Schwörer, Christoph; Heiri, Oliver; Morales-Molino, César; Ribolini, Adriano; Giesecke, Thomas; Haas, Jean Nicolas; Boltshauser-Kaltenrieder, Petra; Magyari, Enikő K.; Ravazzi, Cesare; Rubiales, Juan Manuel; Tinner, Willy (2019). Fire on ice and frozen trees? Inappropriate radiocarbon dating leads to unrealistic reconstructions. New Phytologist, 222(2), pp. 657-662. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1111/nph.15354

Leunda, Maria; González-Sampériz, Penélope; Gil-Romera, Graciela; Bartolomé, Miguel; Belmonte-Ribas, Ánchel; Gómez-García, Daniel; Kaltenrieder, Petra; Rubiales, Juan Manuel; Schwörer, Christoph; Tinner, Willy; Morales-Molino, César; Sancho, Carlos (2019). Ice cave reveals environmental forcing of long-term Pyrenean tree line dynamics. Journal of Ecology, 107(2), pp. 814-828. Blackwell 10.1111/1365-2745.13077

Rey, Fabian; Gobet, Erika; Schwörer, Christoph; Wey, Othmar; Hafner, Albert; Tinner, Willy (2019). Causes and mechanisms of synchronous succession trajectories in primeval Central European mixed Fagus sylvatica forests. Journal of Ecology, 107(3), pp. 1392-1408. Blackwell 10.1111/1365-2745.13121

Schwörer, Christoph; Ammann, Brigitta; Conedera, Marco; Tinner, Willy (2019). Wälder in der Zeitmaschine − Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Paläoökologie. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen, 170(3), pp. 117-124. Schweizerischer Forstverein 10.3188/szf.2019.0117

Gubler, Moritz Raffael; Henne, Paul D.; Schwörer, Christoph; Boltshauser-Kaltenrieder, Petra; Lotter, André Franz; Brönnimann, Stefan; Tinner, Willy (2018). Microclimatic gradients provide evidence for a glacial refugium for temperate trees in a sheltered hilly landscape of Northern Italy. Journal of biogeography, 45(11), pp. 2564-2575. Blackwell Scientific Publications 10.1111/jbi.13426

Eggenberger, Sebastian; Gobet, Erika; van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F. N.; Schwörer, Christoph; van der Knaap, Pim; van Dobben, Han F.; Vogel, Hendrik; Tinner, Willy; Rambeau, Claire M. C. (2018). Millennial multi-proxy reconstruction of oasis dynamics in Jordan, by the Dead Sea. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 27(5), pp. 649-664. Springer 10.1007/s00334-017-0663-6

Brügger, Sandra O.; Gobet, Erika; Schanz, Federica R.; Heiri, Oliver; Schwörer, Christoph; Sigl, Michael; Schwikowski, Margit; Tinner, Willy (2018). A quantitative comparison of microfossil extraction methods from ice cores. Journal of glaciology, 64(245), pp. 432-442. International Glaciological Society 10.1017/jog.2018.31

Hafner, Albert; Schwörer, Christoph (2018). Vertical mobility around the high-alpine Schnidejoch Pass. Indications of Neolithic and Bronze Age pastoralism in the Swiss Alps from paleoecological and archaeological sources. Quaternary International, 484, pp. 3-18. Elsevier 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.12.049

Schwörer, Christoph; Gavin, Daniel G.; Walker, Ian R.; Hu, Feng Sheng (2017). Holocene tree line changes in the Canadian Cordillera are controlled by climate and topography. Journal of Biogeography, 44(5), pp. 1148-1159. Wiley 10.1111/jbi.12904

Schwörer, Christoph; Gobet, Erika (2016). Das lange Gedächtnis der Moore. aqua viva. Die Zeitschrift für Gewässerschutz, 2016(3), pp. 38-40. Aqua viva Rheinaubund

Schwörer, Christoph; Fisher, David M.; Gavin, Daniel G.; Temperli, Christian; Bartlein, Patrick J. (2016). Modeling postglacial vegetation dynamics of temperate forests on the Olympic Peninsula (WA, USA) with special regard to snowpack. Climatic change, 137(3-4), pp. 379-394. Springer 10.1007/s10584-016-1696-z

Thöle, Lena; Schwörer, Christoph; Colombaroli, Daniele; Gobet, Erika; Boltshauser-Kaltenrieder, Petra; van Leeuwen, Jacqueline; Tinner, Willy (2016). Reconstruction of Holocene vegetation dynamics at Lac de Bretaye, a high-mountain lake in the Swiss Alps. Holocene, 26(3), pp. 380-396. Sage 10.1177/0959683615609746

Schwörer, Christoph; Colombaroli, Daniele; Boltshauser-Kaltenrieder, Petra; Rey, Fabian; Tinner, Willy (2015). Early human impact (5000-3000 BC) affects mountain forest dynamics in the Alps. Journal of Ecology, 103(2), pp. 281-295. Blackwell 10.1111/1365-2745.12354

Schwörer, Christoph; Kaltenrieder, Petra; Glur, Lukas; Berlinger, Matthias; Elbert, Julie; Frei, Stephanie; Gilli, Adrian; Hafner, Albert; Anselmetti, Flavio S.; Grosjean, Martin; Tinner, Willy (2014). Holocene climate, fire and vegetation dynamics at the treeline in the Northwestern Swiss Alps. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 23(5), pp. 479-496. Springer 10.1007/s00334-013-0411-5

Schwörer, Christoph; Henne, Paul Daniel; Tinner, Willy (2014). A model-data comparison of Holocene timberline changes in the Swiss Alps reveals past and future drivers of mountain forest dynamics. Global Change Biology, 20(5), pp. 1512-1526. Blackwell Science 10.1111/gcb.12456

Heiri, Oliver; Koinig, Karin A.; Spötl, Christoph; Barrett, Sam; Brauer, Achim; Drescher-Schneider, Ruth; Gaar, Dorian; Ivy-Ochs, Susan; Kerschner, Hanns; Luetscher, Marc; Moran, Andrew; Nicolussi, Kurt; Preusser, Frank; Schmidt, Roland; Schoeneich, Philippe; Schwörer, Christoph; Sprafke, Tobias; Terhorst, Birgit; Tinner, Willy (2014). Palaeoclimate records 60–8 ka in the Austrian and Swiss Alps and their forelands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 106, pp. 186-205. Pergamon 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.021

Rey, Fabian; Schwörer, Christoph; Gobet, Erika; Colombaroli, Daniele; van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F. N.; Schleiss, Silke; Tinner, Willy (2013). Climatic and human impacts on mountain vegetation at Lauenensee (Bernese Alps, Switzerland) during the last 14,000 years. Holocene, 23(10), pp. 1415-1427. Los Angeles, Calif.: Sage 10.1177/0959683613489585

Zweifel, Noëmi; Schwörer, Christoph; Heiri, Oliver (2013). 14 000 Jahre Klimageschichte am Lauenensee. Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern, 70, pp. 107-116. Bern: Naturforschende Gesellschaft Bern

Rey, Fabian; Schwörer, Christoph; Gobet, Erika; Colombaroli, Daniele; van Leeuwen, Jacqueline F. N.; Tinner, Willy; Schleiss, Silke (2013). Die Vegetationsgeschichte der letzten 14 000 Jahre am Lauenensee. Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern, 70, pp. 95-105. Bern: Naturforschende Gesellschaft Bern

Berthel, Nadine; Schwörer, Christoph; Tinner, Willy (2012). Impact of Holocene climate changes on alpine and treeline vegetation at Sanetsch Pass, Bernese Alps, Switzerland. Review of palaeobotany and palynology, 174, pp. 91-100. Amsterdam: Elsevier 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.12.007

Book Section

Lang, Gerhard; Tinner, Willy; Morales-Molino, César; Schwörer, Christoph; Ammann, Brigitta (2023). Stratigraphies and chronological subdivisions of the Late-glacial and the Holocene. In: Lang, Gerhard; Ammann, Brigitta; Behre, Karl-Ernst; Tinner, Willy (eds.) Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics of Europe (pp. 137-144). Bern: Haupt Verlag

Lang, Gerhard; Ammann, Brigitta; Schwörer, Christoph; Tinner, Willy (2023). Today’s vegetation and woody flora. In: Lang, Gerhard; Ammann, Brigitta; Behre, Karl-Ernst; Tinner, Willy (eds.) Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics of Europe (pp. 145-149). Bern: Haupt Verlag

Lang, Gerhard; Ammann, Brigitta; van der Knaap, W.O. (Pim); Morales-Molino, César; Schwörer, Christoph; Tinner, Willy (2023). Regional vegetation history. In: Lang, Gerhard; Ammann, Brigitta; Behre, Karl-Ernst; Tinner, Willy (eds.) Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics of Europe (pp. 150-246). Bern: Haupt Verlag

Lang, Gerhard; Tinner, Willy; Morales-Molino, César; Schwörer, Christoph; van Vugt, Lieveke; Gobet, Erika; Ammann, Brigitta (2023). History of selected taxa. In: Lang, Gerhard; Ammann, Brigitta; Behre, Karl-Ernst; Tinner, Willy (eds.) Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics of Europe (pp. 249-362). Bern: Haupt Verlag

Tinner, Willy; Lang, Gerhard; Schwörer, Christoph (2023). Treeline and timberline dynamics. In: Lang, Gerhard; Ammann, Brigitta; Behre, Karl-Ernst; Tinner, Willy (eds.) Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics of Europe (pp. 455-466). Bern: Haupt Verlag

Gobet, Erika; Schwörer, Christoph; van Leeuwen, Jacqueline; Nielsen, Ebbe Holm; Kotova, Nadezhda; Makhortykh, Sergej; Kiosak, Dmytro; Tinner, Willy (2017). Vegetation shifts at the monumental Ukrainian site of Kamyana Mohyla during the Neolithisation period. In: Makhortykh, Sergej; de Capitani, Annick (eds.) Archaeology and Palaeoecology of the Ukrainian Steppe (pp. 51-60). Kyiv: IA NAS of Ukraine

Conference or Workshop Item

Hafner, Albert; Schwörer, Christoph (4 September 2015). Vertical mobility in the Swiss Alps. The alpine pass Schnidejoch and indications of early pastoralism. (Unpublished). In: EAA Annual meeting, Glasgow, Friday, Session AM6: Casting a glance over the mountains: Archaeological and biogeochemical approaches to the understanding of vertical mobility. Glasgow. 03.-05.09.2015.