Publication list – Ulrich C. Müller 1

Publication list – Ulrich C. Müller
1. Publications in journals and books
Milner, A.M., Müller, U.C., Roucoux, K.H., Collier, R.E.L., Pross, J., Kalaitzidis, S., Christanis,
K., Tzedakis, P.C. (2013) Environmental variability during the Last Interglacial: a new
high-resolution pollen record from Tenaghi Philippon, Greece. Journal of Quaternary
Science, 28: 113-117.
Milner, A.M., Collier, R.E.L., Roucoux, K.H., Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Kalaitzidis, S., Christanis,
K., Tzedakis, P.C. (2012) Enhanced seasonality of precipitation in the Mediterranean
during the early part of the Last Interglacial. Geology, 40: 919-922.
Lowe, J., Barton, N., Blockley, S., Bronk Ramsey, C., Cullen, V.L., Davies, W., Gamble, C.,
Grant, K., Hardiman, M., Housley, R., Lane, C.S., Lee, S., Lewis, M., MacLeod, A.,
Menzies, M., Müller, W., Pollard, M., Price, C., Roberts, A.P., Rohling, E.J., Satow, C.,
Smith, V.C., Stringer, C.B., Tomlinson, E.L., White, D., Albert, P., Arienzo, I., Barker, G.,
Bori , D., Carandente, A., Civetta, L., Ferrier, C., Gaudelli, J.-L., Karkanas, P.,
Koumouzelis, M., Müller, U.C., Orsi, G., Pross, J., Rosi, M., Shalamanov-Korobar, L.,
Sirakov, N., Tzedakis, P.C. (2012) Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of
Neanderthals and early modern humans to natural hazards. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, 34: 13532-13537.
Koutsodendris, A., Pross, J., Müller, U.C., Brauer, A., Fletcher, W.J., Kühl, N., Kirilova, E.,
Verhagen, F.T.M., Lücke, A. & Lotter, A.F. (2012) A short-term climate oscillation during
the Holsteinian interglacial (MIS 11c): An analogy to the 8.2 ka climatic event? Global
and Planetary Change, 92-93: 224-235.
Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Tzedakis, P.C., Gamble, C., Kotthoff, U., Schmiedl, G., Wulf, S. &
Christanis, K. (2011) The role of climate in the spread of modern humans into Europe.
Quaternary Science Reviews, 30: 273-279.
Koutsodendris, A., Brauer, A., Pälike, H., Müller, U.C., Lotter, A.F. & Pross, J. (2011) Subdecadal- to decadal-scale climate cyclicity during the Holsteinian interglacial (MIS 11)
evidenced in annually laminated sediments. Climate of the Past, 7: 987-999.
Pross, J., Müller, U.C. & Koutsodendris, A. (2010) Der Weg ins Eishaus. Natur und Museum,
140-9/10: 228-231.
Koutsodendris, A., Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Brauer, A., Kotthoff, U. & Lotter, A.F. (2010)
Vegetation dynamics and climate variability during the Holsteinian interglacial based on a
pollen record from Dethlingen (northern Germany). Quaternary Science Reviews, 29:
3298-3307.
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Fletcher, W.J., Sánchez Goñi, M.F., Allen, J.M.R., Cheddadi, R., Combourieu-Nebout, N.,
Huntley, B., Lawson, I., Londeix, L., Magri, D., Margari, V., Müller, U.C., Naughton, F.
Novenko, E., Roucoux, K. & Tzedakis, P.C. (2010) Millennial-scale variability during the
last glacial in vegetation records from Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews, 29: 28392864.
Pross, J., Kotthoff, U., Müller, U.C., Peyron, O., Dormoy, I., Schmiedl, G., Kalaitzidis, S. &
Smith, A.M. (2009) Massive perturbation in terrestrial ecosystems of the Eastern
Mediterranean region associated with the 8.2 kyr B.P. climatic event. Geology, 37: 887890.
Müller, U.C. (2009) Eemian (Sangamonian) Interglacial. In: Gornitz, V. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of
Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments. 302-307, Springer, Dordrecht.
Kotthoff, U., Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Schmiedl, G., Lawson, I.T., van de Schootbrugge, B. &
Schulz, H. (2008) Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation dynamics in the Aegean region:
An integrated view based on pollen data from marine and terrestrial archives. The
Holocene, 18: 1019-1032.
Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Kotthoff, U., Schmiedl, G., Sierralta, M., Christanis, K. & Tzedakis, C.
(2008) Reaktion terrestrischer Ökosysteme im östlich mediterranen Raum auf die
abrupten Dansgaard-Oeschger Ereignisse in MIS 2–4: Hochauflösende palynologische
Untersuchungen und absolute Datierungen an einem neuen Kern von Tenaghi Philippon.
Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 62: 203-205.
Kotthoff, U., Pross, J., Müller, U.C., Peyron, O., Schmiedl, G., Schulz, H. & Bordon, A. (2008)
Climate dynamics in the borderlands of the Aegean Sea during formation of sapropel S1
deduced from a marine pollen record. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27: 832-845.
Müller, U.C. & Pross, J. (2007) Lesson from the past: Present insolation minimum holds
potential for glacial inception. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26: 3025-3029.
Pross, J., Tzedakis, C., Schmiedl, G., Christanis, K., Hooghiemstra, H., Müller, U.C., Kotthoff,
U., Kalaitzidis, S. & Milner A. (2007) Tenaghi Philippon Re-Visited: Drilling a Continuous
Lower-Latitude Terrestrial Climate Archive of the Last 250,000 Years. Scientific Drilling,
5: 30-32.
Müller, U.C., Kotthoff, U. & Pross, J. (2007) Immediate vegetation response to abrupt
Dansgaard-Oeschger climate change in the eastern Mediterranean region. Quaternary
International, 167-168: 293.
Müller, U.C. & Sánchez Goñi, M.F. (2006) Vegetation dynamics in southern Germany during
Marine Isotope Stage 5 (~130 to 70 kyr ago). In: Sirocko, F., Claussen, M., Sánchez
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Goñi, M.F., & Litt, T. (Eds.) The Climate of Past Interglacials. 277-287, Developments in
Quaternary Science 7, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Sirocko, F., Claussen, M., Litt, T., Sánchez Goñi, M.F., Berger, A., Boettger, T., Diehl, M.,
Desprat, S., Delmonte, B., Degering, D., Frechen, M., Geyh, M.A., Groeger, M.,
Kageyama, M., Kaspar, F., Kühl, N., Kubatzki, C., Lohmann, G., Loutre, M-F., Müller,
U.C., Rein, B., Rosendahl, W., Roucoux, K., Rousseau, D-D., Seelos, K., Siddall, M.,
Scholz, D., Spötl, C., Urban, B., Vautravers, M., Velichko, A., Wenzel, S., Widmann, M. &
Wünnemann, B. (2006) Chronology and climate forcing of the last four interglacials. In:
Sirocko, F., Claussen, Sánchez Goñi, M.F. & Litt, T. (Eds.) The Climate of Past
Interglacials. 597-614, Developments in Quaternary Science 7, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
Müller, U.C., Klotz, S., Geyh, M.A., Pross, J. & Bond, G.C. (2005) Cyclic Climate Changes
during the Eemian Interglacial in Central Europe. Geology, 33: 449-452.
Müller, U.C. & Schönfelder, A. (2005) Die Umweltbedingungen der Übergangszeit vom
Neandertaler zum anatomisch modernen Menschen. In: Conard, N.J., Kölbl, S., Schürle,
W. (Hrsg.) Vom Neandertaler zum modernen Mensch. 39-46, Thorbecke Verlag der
Schwabenverlags AG, Ostfildern.
Müller, U.C. & Kukla, G.J. (2004) North Atlantic Current and European environments during the
declining stage of the last Interglacial. Geology, 32: 1009-1012.
Müller, U.C. (2004) Wann wird das Holozän-Interglazial enden?: In: Kösel, M. (Hrsg.) Beiträge
zur Geomorphologie, Bodengeographie und Quartärforschung. Tübinger Geowissenschaftliche Arbeiten, D10, 277-293, Tübingen.
Klotz, S., Müller, U., Mosbrugger, V., de Beaulieu, J.-L. & Reille, M. (2004) Eemian to early
Würmian climate dynamics: history and pattern of changes in Central Europe.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 211: 107-126.
Franz, M., Knipping, M., Müller, U.C. & Schreiner, A. (2003) Untersuchungen zum Alter und zur
Genese der Schotterfüllung des Donaueschinger Riedes (Baden-Württemberg).
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft, 154: 407-422.
Müller, U.C., Pross, J. & Bibus, E. (2003) Vegetation response to rapid climate change in
Central Europe during the past 140,000 yr based on evidence from the Füramoos pollen
record. Quaternary Research, 59: 235-245.
Müller, U.C. (2003) Das Klima der Steinzeitmenschen.: In: Brunecker, F. (Hrsg.) Rulaman der
Steinzeitheld. 102-115, Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen, Berlin.
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Müller, U.C. (2001) Die Vegetations- und Klimaentwicklung im jüngeren Quartär anhand
ausgewählter Profile aus dem südwestdeutschen Alpenvorland. Tübinger Geowissenschaftliche Arbeiten, D7, 118 p., Tübingen.
Müller, U.C. (2000) A late Pleistocene pollen sequence from the Jammertal, SW- Germany with
particular reference to location and altitude as factors determining Eemian forest
composition. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 9: 125-131.
2. Presentations at conferences, workshops, and in the public (* = invited presentation)
Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Milner, A.M., Kotthoff, U., Christanis, K. (2012) The sequence of
atmospheric warming across the Earth’s latitudes during the last glacial termination.
DEUQUA-Conference, 16th - 20th Sept., Bayreuth.
Fletcher, W., Müller, U.C., Christanis, K., Pross, J. (2012) Detection of Dansgaard-Oeschgerlike climate variability during MIS 8 and 9 a-c (240 - 310 ka) at Tenaghi Philippon, NE
Greece. 13th International Palynological Congress, 23rd - 30th August, Tokyo, Japan.
Müller, U.C., Kotthoff, U., Pross, J. (2012). Climate Change during the Last Glacial and Early
Holocene: Causes and Consequences viewed from the eastern Mediterranean. 32nd
International Geographical Congress, 26th - 30th August, Cologne, Germany.
*Müller, U.C., Tzedakis, P.C., Gamble, C. (2011) The role of climate in the spread of modern
humans into Europe. Royal Society scientific meeting “Early anatomically modern
humans in Eurasia: coping with climatic complexity”; 21st - 22nd Nov., Kavli Royal Society
International Centre, Buckinghamshire, UK.
Müller, U.C., Fletcher, W.J., Christanis, K., Pross, J. (2011) Millennial-scale climate variability in
the eastern Mediterranean region during the last three glacial intervals (MIS 2-4, MIS 6,
MIS 8-9c). 18th INQUA-Congress, 21st - 27th July, Bern, Switzerland.
Hardiman, M., Tzedakis, C., Muller, U., Pross, J., Margari, V., Lanen, C., Blockley, S.P.E., Lowe
J.J., Menzies, M.A., Ramsey, C.B. (2011) Synchronizing high-resolution pollen records
from the last glacial interval (c. 20-50 Ka BP) using tephrochronology; Testing for ‘leads’
and ‘lags’ during environmental transitions. 18th INQUA-Congress, 21st - 27th July, Bern,
Switzerland.
Koutsodendris, A., Pross, J., Müller, U.C., Brauer, A., Fletcher, W.J., Lotter, A.F. (2011) A shortterm climate oscillation during the Holsteinian interglacial (MIS 11c): Characteristics,
spatial extent and potential triggering mechanisms. 18th INQUA-Congress, 21st - 27th
July, Bern, Switzerland.
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Milner, A.M., Collier, R.E.L., Roucoux, K.H., Müller, U.C., Christanis, K., Pross, J., Tzedakis
P.C. (2011) Persistent variability during the last interglacial: Evidence from the eastern
Mediterranean. 18th INQUA-Congress, 21st - 27th July, Bern, Switzerland.
*Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Tzedakis, P.C., Gamble, C., Kotthoff, U., Schmiedl, G., Wulf, S.,
Christanis, K. (2011) The role of climate in the spread of modern humans into Europe.
Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 806 - Our Way to Europe, Institute of Prehistoric
Archaeology, University of Cologne, 20th June, Cologne, Germany.
Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Tzedakis, P.C., Gamble, C., Kotthoff, U., Schmiedl, G., Wulf, S.,
Christanis, K. (2011) The role of climate in the spread of modern humans into Europe. 7th
Annual meeting of AK Geoarchäologie, 6th May, Heidelberg, Germany.
*Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Tzedakis, P.C., Gamble, C., Kotthoff, U., Schmiedl, G., Wulf, S.,
Christanis, K. (2010) The role of climate in the spread of modern humans into Europe.
QUISS Seminar, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University London, 18th
Oct., London, UK.
Müller, U.C. (2010) Aussterben durch Klimawandel – Was wir aus der Erdgeschichte über die
Auswirkungen des aktuellen Klimawandels lernen können. Vortragsreihe: „Hessen,
Afrika, Antarktis – Insight into the work of the new LOEWE research centre BiKF,
PresseClub, 26th May, Frankfurt, Germany.
*Müller, U.C. (2010) Tenaghi Philippon Drilling Project Management and Pitfalls. German
Scientific Earth Probing Consortium GESEP, 11th - 12th March, Frankfurt, Germany.
*Müller, U.C., Schwalb, A., Koutsodendris, A. (2010) Instruction for lecture „Lake sediments”.
German Scientific Earth Probing Consortium GESEP, 11th - 12th March, Frankfurt,
Germany.
Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Kotthoff, U., Schmiedl, G., Christanis, K., Wulf, S., Tzedakis, C. (2009)
Einfluss der Dansgaard-Oeschger Klimavariabilität auf den östlichen Mediterranraum.
57th German Geographical Congress, 19th - 26th Sept., Vienna, Austria.
*Müller, U.C. (2009) Live-Interview in HR3-Television on „Climate change and climate archive
Tenaghi Philippon in Greece“ within the broadcast „Alle Wetter“, 7:15 pm 10th June,
Frankfurt, Germany.
Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Kotthoff, U., Schmiedl, G., Sierralta, M., Christanis, K., Tzedakis, C.
(2008) Reaktion terrestrischer Ökosysteme im östlich mediterranen Raum auf die
extremen und abrupten Dansgaard-Oeschger Ereignisse in MIS 2-4. 34th DEUQUAConference, 31th Aug. - 6th Sept., Vienna, Austria.
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*Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Kotthoff, U., Schmiedl, G., Sierralta, M., Christanis, K., Tzedakis, C.
(2008) Vegetation response in the eastern Mediterranean to Dansgaard-Oeschger
variability during MIS 2 to 4 as recorded in a new core from Tenaghi Philippon. QUESTDESIRE-Workshop: Reconstruction of vegetation changes during Dansgaard-Oeschger
events, 16th - 19th June, Bordeaux 1 University, France.
Müller, U.C., Kotthoff, U., Pross, J. (2007) Immediate vegetation response to abrupt DansgaardOeschger climate change in the eastern Mediterranean region. 17th INQUA-Congress,
28th July - 3rd Aug., Cairns, Australia.
*Müller, U.C. (2007) Regionale Auswirkungen des Klimawandels in Mitteleuropa und im östlich
mediterranen Raum. Presentation for appointment procedure of W2-Professorship for
Climatology at the University Bayreuth (application selected for external evaluation), 17th
of July, Bayreuth, Germany.
*Müller, U.C. (2007) The insolation control of European vegetation during Marine Isotope Stage
(MIS) 11. INQUA-Stage-11-Workshop, 29th - 31st Jan., Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, USA.
*Müller, U.C. (2006) Klima- und Umweltveränderungen im nördlichen Alpenvorland seit dem
jüngeren Quartär. Geo-Colloquium at the University of Innsbruck, 14th Dec., Innsbruck,
Austria.
*Müller, U.C. (2006) Klimaänderungen in Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Isolde-Kurz-Gymnasium
Reutlingen, 24th Oct., Reutlingen, Germany.
Müller, U.C., Kotthoff, U., Pross, J. (2005) Did the climatic response skip a precessional beat
during Marine Isotope Stage 11? American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting, 5th - 9th
Dec., San Francisco, USA.
Müller, U.C. (2005) Palynostratigraphie und Lössstratigraphie des letzten Interglazial/ GlazialZyklus in Mitteleuropa. 55th German Geographical Congress, 1st-8th Oct., Trier, Germany.
Müller, U.C. (2005) Cyclic Climate Changes during the Last Interglacial. DEKLIM-PAGESConference: The climate of the next millennia in the perspective of abrupt climate change
during the late Pleistocene, 7th - 10th March, Mainz, Germany.
Müller, U.C., Klotz, S., Geyh, M.A., Pross, J., Bond, G. (2004) Are there Cyclic Changes during
the Eemian Interglacial? 32nd DEUQUA-Conference, 30th Aug. - 3rd Sept., Nijmegen, The
Netherlands.
Müller, U.C. (2004) Was MIS 11 associated with an exceptionally long interglacial? Evidence
from marine and terrestrial records. 3rd DEKLIM-Workshop: Climate change at the very
end of a warm stage, 8th - 10th March, Potsdam, Germany.
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Müller, U.C., Kukla, J.G. (2003) The influence of the North Atlantic circulation on Europe at the
end of the last interglacial. 16th INQUA-Congress, 23rd - 31st July, Reno, USA.
Müller, U.C. (2003) North Atlantic and Europe at the end of the last interglacial. 2nd DEKLIMWorkshop: Climate change at the very end of a warm stage, 24th - 28th March,
Heidelberg, Germany.
Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Bibus, E. (2002) Correlating a new Stage 5 pollen record from Central
Europe with Greenland and North Atlantic climate signals. 1st DEKLIM-Workshop:
Climate change at the very end of a warm stage, 18th - 21st March, Leipzig, Germany.
Müller, U.C. (2000) Palynologische Untersuchungen an einer jungpleistozänen Sequenz aus
dem Füramoos (Oberschwaben): Eem, Frühwürm, Mittelwürm. 30th DEUQUAConference, 6th - 8th Sept., Bern, Switzerland.
Müller, U.C. (1999) Ein langes Pollenprofil aus dem Füramoos: Eem, Altwürm, Mittelwürm,
Spätglazial und Holozän. 9th Annual meeting of AK Vegetationsgeschichte der ReinholdTüxen Gesellschaft, 29th Okt. - 1st Nov., Kiel, Germany.
Müller, U.C. (1999) Ein Ansatz zur Effizienzsteigerung der Pollenzählung. Annual meeting of AK
Paläobotanik und Palynologie. 12th - 15th May, Tübingen, Germany.
Müller, U.C. (1998) Ein jungpleistozänes Pollenprofil aus dem Jammertal bei Biberach an der
Riss. Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 275 - Klimagekoppelte Prozesse, Workshop
Palynologie, 1st - 2nd May, Tübingen, Germany.
Müller, U.C. (1997) Pollenanalytische Untersuchungen an einer kontinuierlichen Folge vom
Riss-Spätglazial bis ins mittlere Würm aus dem Jammertal bei Biberach an der Riss. 7th
Annual meeting of AK Vegetationsgeschichte der Rheinhold-Tüxen Gesellschaft, 7th - 8th
Nov., Graz, Austria.
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