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Professor Peter Kershaw

 

Postgraduate student supervision:

Current:

Brown, J. The Origins, Development and Environmental History of Caledonia Fen, Bennison Plains Victoria. PhD. With Meredith Orr

Johnston, R. A high resolution, multi-proxy, environmental reconstruction of the Last Glacial  Maximum to Holocene from Tower Hill, western Victoria, Australia. PhD

Lancellotti, L. Archaeologicallandscapes and environmental changes: Neapolis, Gulf of  Oristano, S.W. Sardinia, from the Bronze Age to the present. PhD. With Jim Peterson.

Lewis, T. The value of plant macrofossils in vegetation reconstruction and their application to landscape conservation and restoration in southwestern Victoria. PhD. With Nick Porch and Heather Builth.

Pietrzak, U. The Fate and Behaviour of Copper in Vineyard Soils of Victoria, Australia. PhD

Rule, S. Decadal to centennial climate variability from the last glacial period to the present: Lynch’s Crater, Northeast Queensland, Australia. PhD. With Simon Haberle and Chris Turney

White, C. Climate change and environmental response in south western Victoria: a palaoecological record from Lake Surprise, western plains of Victoria. PhD

Recent:

Leahy, P. (2009) Long term perspectives of Yarra River billabongs (Melbourne, Australia): limnological and palaeolimnological evidence. PhD.

Graham. K. (2008) The contribution of wind-blown dust and its associated pollen to the alpine soils of Victoria. M.Env. Sci. (Research).

Davies, S. (2007) The geochemical characterisation and past environmental significance of mid-late Quaternary tephra deposits in Greater Australia. PhD – Queen’s University, Belfast.

McLeod, A. (2007)  Palaeoenvironmental change in the Central Highlands of Victoria interpreted from the analysis of macrofossil charcoal. PhD.

Sniderman, J.M.K. (2007) Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene vegetation and climate cyclicity in the Western Uplands of Victoria, Australia. PhD.

Porch, N. (2006)  A method for reconstructing the Quaternary climates of Australia using fossil beetles.  PhD.

Cook, E.J. (2006) Late Quaternary environments and climate history at Lakes Bolac and Turangmoroke, Western Victoria, Australia. PhD.

Rowe, C. (2005) A Holocene history of vegetation change in the western Torres Strait region, Australia. PhD.

Bleakley, N. (2003) Late Holocene palaeoecology of  Taynaya Bay: The relationship between diatom assemblages and sediment composition in response to climate change in Antarctic coastal environments. PhD.

Fluin, J. (2002) A diatom-based palaeolimnological investigation of the lower Murray River (southeastern Australia) PhD.

Anshari, G. (2000) Late Quaternary environments of the Lake Sentarum region, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. PhD.

Tibby, J. (2000) The development of a diatom-based model for inferring lake water total phosphorus and its application to Burrinjuck reservoir (southern New South Wales, Australia) PhD.

Current Research:

Topics:

  • The Quaternary history of eastern and northern Australia with emphasis on climatic variability, the development of the present vegetation, rainforest dynamics and the influence of Indigenous biomass burning.
  • The history of climate, rainforest and peatland forest in the Maritime Continent region of Southeast Asia.
  • Environmental change, Aboriginal occupation and conservation in south-western Victoria.
  • Land-Ocean Correlation of long Quaternary records from the Southern Hemisphere on orbital and sub-orbital timescales
  • Palaeolimnological evidence for recent droughts in western Victoria

Honours and research student participation in these project areas welcomed.

Grant support:

Land & Water Australia Innovation Project Grant ‘`The recent Western Victorian drought and its impact: without precedent?’ 2008-2011 ($469,000). With Peter Gell (University of Ballarat) and Paul Leahy (EPA)

Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grant ‘Australian Membership of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program’ 2008-2013 ($1,200,000). With 22 other Chief Investigators.

ARC LIEF grant ‘The Australasian Pollen Atlas’ 2008-2009 ($100,000). With 7 other Chief Investigators.

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering grant ‘Resolving chronological problems with the key late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental record of Lake Wangoom, south-eastern Australia’ 2008 ($4718)

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering grant ‘The value of plant macrofossils for environmental reconstruction and conservation in western Victoria’ 2007 ($4718)

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering grant ‘High resolution palaeoecological records of environmental changes in western Victoria through the last 30,000 years’ 2006 ($5392)

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering grant ‘The history of vegetation-fire-soil-climate relationships in the wet forests of the southern highlands of Victoria’ 2005 ($8148)

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering grant ‘Environmental change and intensification of human occupation: Mt Eccles lava flow’ 2005 ($6402)

ARC Discovery grant ‘Climate, vegetation and fire in the Australian Palaeomonsoon: An investigation using palaeodata synthesis, contemporary observations and model experiments’ 2005-2007 ($291,268). With Manda Lynch and Nigel Tapper.

ARC LIEF grant ‘14CHRONIS (Chronologies from High-ResolutiON Organic Separations): a centre for radiocarbon dating of compounds for the environmental and archaeological sciences’ 2005 ($267,767) With 12 other Chief Investigators.

ARC LIEF grant ‘A new-generation gas-source radiocarbon system for integrated environmental and archaeological research’ 2005 ($854, 354). With 12 other Chief Investigators.

ARC Linkage grant ‘Analysis and interpretation of the cultural and environmental landscape of the nationally significant Mt Eccles lava flow: a GIS approach’ 2004-2007 ($240,000). With Heather Builth.

ARC Discovery grant ‘Drought, El Niño and Climate Change in Queensland over the last 200,000 years: the Lynch's Crater lake record’ 2004-2006 ($250,000). With Raphael Wust (James Cook University) and Bill Anderson (Florida International University)

ARC Research Network grant ‘The ARC Earth System Network’ 2004/5-2008/9 ($2,400,000). With 50 other researchers.

ARC Research Network grant :The Environmental Futures Network’ 2004.5-2008/9 ($1,800,000). With 50 other researchers.

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering grant ‘The temporal and spatial dynamics of tall open forest’ 2004 ($6764) Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering grant ‘Dating a multiproxy record of environmental and human history from the Mt. Eccles lava flow, southwestern Victoria 2004 ($7936) International Quaternary Association (INQUA) grant ‘Land-Ocean Correlation of Long Records from the Southern Hemisphere on Orbital and Suborbital Timescales’ 2004-5. ($5000)

Monash Faculty of Arts Completion grant ‘Optically-Stimulated Luminesence dating of key palaeoenvironmental records’ 2004. ($9500)

National Geographic ‘Fires, El Nino and Humans in the Australian Tropics’ 2003 ($40,000). With Chris Turney (Queen’s University, Belfast).

ARC Linkage grant ‘Sustainable development in southwestern Victoria: construction of a baseline palaeoecological record for assessment of past and future human-environment interactions’ 2003-2006 ($100,000). With Heather Builth.

Large ARC grant ‘Scales of change in the Quaternary of eastern Australia’ 2001-2003 ($218,500). With Bert Roberts (University of Wollongong).

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering grant ‘The Pleistocene-Holocene transition at Lynch’s Crater, northeast Queensland’ 2002 ($2727) Monash University Research Fund (MURF) (New Research Area) ‘Savanna dynamics: climate, vegetation and fire’ 2002 ($140,000). With Jason Beringer and Nigel Tapper. Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering grant ‘Dating of high resolution palaeoenvironmental records from billabong sediments in southeastern Australia’ 2002 ($3492) Large ARC grant ‘Reconstructing Australian environments of the Last Glacial cycle: A quantitative modelling program’ 2001 – 2003  ($235,000). With Ian Simmonds and Tom McMahon (University of Melbourne)

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering grant ‘A high resolution, multiproxy study of pre- and post- European settlement periods in the Yarra River Catchment Victoria’ 2001 ($6765)

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering grant ‘AMS radiocarbon dating of a high resolution record of the last glacial period from Caledonia Fen, Eastern Highlands of Victoria’ 2001($5360)

Large ARC grant ‘Environmental change and variability in the Martime Continent region’ 2000-2002 ($288,000) With Nigel Tapper, Simon Haberle and Sander van der Kaars.

ARC RIEF grant ‘Accelerator facility for environment, archaeology and heritage, biology and materials science’ 2000 ($1,000,000). With the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation and 20 other Chief Investigators.

Strategic Monash University Research Fund grant (SMURF 1) ‘Environmental change, prediction and management’ 2000. ($140,000)

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering grant ‘The Pleistocene/Holocene boundary in Victoria’ 2000 ($5700)

Offices Currently Held:

  • Scientific Steering Committee member, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Past Global Changes (PAGES) project
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New Millennium Publications:

  • Coulter, S.E., Turney, C.S.M., Kershaw, A.P. and Rule, S. (in press) The characterisation and significance of a distal tephra on mainland Australia.  Quaternary Science Reviews.
  • Walker, M., Johnsen,  S., Rasmussen, S.O., Steffensen, J.-P., Popp, T., Gibbard,  P., Hoek, W., Lowe, J., Andrews, J., Björck, S., Cwynar, L., Hughen, K., Kershaw, P., Kromer,  B., Litt, T., Lowe,  D.L., Nakagawa, T., Newnham, R. and Schwander, J. (2008) The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Holocene Series/Epoch (Quaternary System/Period) in the NGRIP ice core. Episodes 31, 264-267.
  • Builth, H., Kershaw. A.P., White, C., Roach, A., Hartney, L., McKenzie, M., Lewis, T., and Jacobsen, G. (2008) Environmental and cultural change on the Mt Eccles lava flow landscapes of south-west Victoria, Australia. The Holocene 18, 421-432.
  • Rowe, C. and Kershaw, A.P. (2008) Microbotanical remains in landscape archaeology. In David, B. (Ed.) Handbook of Landscape Archaeology. Left Coast Press, Californiapp. 430-441.
  • Brooks, B.W., Bowman, D.M.J.S., Burney, D.A., Flannery, T.F., Gagan, M.K., Gillespie, R., Johnson, C.N., Kershaw, A.P., Magee, J.W., Martin, P.S., Miller, G.H., Peiser, B., Roberts, R.G. (2007). Would the Australian megafauna have become extinct if people had never colonized the continent? Comments on ‘A review of the evidence for a human role in the extinction of Australian megafauna and an alternative explanation’ by S. Wroe and J. Field. Quaternary Science Reviews 26, 560-564.
  • Lynch, A.H., Beringer, J., Kershaw, A.P., Marshall, A., Mooney, S. Tapper, N., Turney, C. and van Der Kaars, S. (2007) Using the paleorecord to evaluate climate and fire interactions in Australia. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 35, 215-239.
  • Kershaw, A.P., Haberle, S.G., Turney, C.S.M. and Bretherton, S.C. (Eds.) (2007) Environmental history of the humid tropics region of north-east Australia. Special issue Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 251 (1), 1-173.
  • Moss, P.T., Kershaw, A.P. (2007). A late Quaternary marine palynological record (Oxygen isotope stages 1-7) for the Humid Tropics of northeastern Australia based on ODP Site 820). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 251: 4-22.
  • Kershaw, A.P., Bretherton, S.C., van der Kaars, S. (2007) A complete pollen record of the last 230 ka from Lynch’s Crater, northeastern Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 151: 23-45.
  • Kershaw, A.P., McKenzie, G.M, Porch, N., Roberts, R.G., Brown, J., Heijnis, H., Orr, L.M., Jacobsen, G., Newall, P.R. (2007) A high resolution record of vegetation and climate through the last glacial cycle from Caledonia Fen, south-eastern highlands of Australia. Journal of Quaternary Science 22: 481-500
  • Kershaw, P., van der Kaars, S., Moss, P., Opdyke, B., Guichard, F., Rule, S., Turney, C., 2007. Environmental change and the arrival of people in the Australian region. Before Farming [Online] http://www.waspress.co.uk/journals/beforefarming//journal_20061/, 2006/1 article 2.
  • Reid, M.A., Sayer, C.D., Kershaw, A.P., Heijnis, H. (2007) Palaeolimnological evidence for submerged plant loss in a floodplain lake associated with accelerated catchment soil erosion (Murray River, Australia). Journal of Paleolimnology 38: 191-208.
  • Sniderman, J.M.K., Pillans, B., O’Sullivan, P.B. and Kershaw, A.P. (2007) Climate and vegetation in southeastern Australia respond to Southern Hemisphere insolation forcing in the late Pliocene – early Pleistocene. Geology 35: 41-44.
  • Kershaw, A.P. and van der Kaars (2007) Pollen records, Late Pleistocene, Australia and New Zealand. In: Elias, S.A. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, Vol. 4. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 2613-2622.
  • Kershaw, A.P., van der Kaars, S. and Flenley, J.F. (2007) The Quaternary history of far eastern rainforests. In: Bush, M.B. and Flenley, J.F. (Eds.) Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climate Change. Springer-Praxis, Berlin, pp. 77-115.
  • Turney, C.S.M., Haberle, S., Fink, D., Kershaw, A.P., Barbetti, M., Barrows, T.T., Black, M., Cohen, T.J., Correge, T., Hesse, P.P., Qua, Q., Johnston, R., Morgan, V., Moss, P., Nanson, G., Van Ommen, T., Rule, S., Williams, N.J., Zhao, J-X., D’Costa, D., Feng, Y-X., Gagan, M., Mooney, S., Xia, Q. (2006). Integration of ice-core, marine and terrestrial records for the Australian Last Glacial Maximum and Termination: a contribution from the OZ INTIMATE group. Journal of Quaternary Science 21: 751-761
  • Turney, C.S.M., Kershaw, A.P., James, S., Branch, N., Cowley, J., Fifield, LK., Jacobsen, G., Moss, P. (2006) Geochemical changes recorded in Lynch’s Crater, northeastern Australia, over the past 50 ka. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 233: 187-203.
  • Turney, C.S.M., Kershaw, A.P. and Lynch, A. (Eds.) (2006) Integrating High Resolution Past Climate Records for Future Prediction in the Australasian Region. Special issue Journal of Quaternary Science 21 (7), 679-801.
  • Bottjer, D.J., Correge, T., Kershaw, A.P. and Surlyk, F. (Eds.) (2006) Exploring Life and Environments Through Time: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Palaeo-3. Special issue Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology  232 (2-4), 97-458. 
  • Turney C.S.M., Kershaw, A.P., Lowe, J.J., van der Kaars, S., Johnston, R., Rule, S., Moss, P., Radke, L., Tibby, J., McGlone, M.S., Wilmshurst, J.M., Vandergoes, M.J., Fitzsimons, S.J., Bryant, C., Branch, N.P., Jacobsen, G. & Fifield, L.K. (2006) Climatic variability in the southwest Pacific during the Last Termination (20–10ka BP). Quaternary Science Reviews 25: 886–903.
  • Tibby, J., Kershaw, A.P., Builth, H., Philibert, A. and White, C. (2006) Environmental change and variability in south-western Victoria: changing constraints and opportunities for occupation and land use, in David, B., Bryson, B  and McNiven, I., (Eds.) The Social Archaeology of Indigenous Societies.:  Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, pp 254-269.
  • Moss, P.T., Kershaw, A.P. and Grindrod, J. (2005) Pollen transport and deposition in riverine and marine environments within the humid tropics of northeastern Australia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 134: 55-69.
  • Barry, M.J., Tibby, J., Tsitsilas, A., Mason, B., Kershaw, A.P. and Heijnis, H. (2005) A long term lake salinity record and its relationships to Daphnia populations. Archiv. fur Hydrobiologie, 163: 1-23.
  • Kershaw, A.P., Moss, P.T. and Wild, R. (2005) Patterns and causes of vegetation change in the Australian Wet Tropics region over the last 10 million years. In Bermingham, E, Dick, C and Moritz, C. (eds.). Tropical Rainforests: Past Present and Future. The University of Chicago Press, pp. 374-400.
  • Leahy, P.G., Tibby, J., Kershaw, A.P., Heijnis, H. and Kershaw, J.S. (2005) A palaeolimnological reconstruction of the impact of European settlement on the Yarra River floodplain, Victoria, Australia. River Research and Management, 2005, 21: 131-149.
  • Wang, P., Clemens, S., Beaufort, L., Bracannot, P., Ganssen, G., Jian, Z., Kershaw, A.P. and Sarnthein, M. (2005) Evolution and variability of the Asian monsoon system: state of the art and outstanding issues. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24: 595-629.
  • Pickett, E.J., Harrison, S.P., Hope, G., Harle, K., Dodson, J.R., Kershaw, A.P., Prentice I.C., Backhouse, J., Colhoun, E.A., D’Costa, D., Flenley, J., Grindrod, J., Haberle, S., Hassell, C., Kenyon, C., Macphail, M., Martin, H., Martin, A.H., McKenzie, M., Newsome, J.C., Penny, D., Powell, J., Raine, J.I., Southern, W., Sutra, J.-P., Thomas, I., van der Kaars, S. and Ward, J. (2004) Pollen-based reconstructions of biome distributions for Australia, South East Asia and the Pacific (SEAPAC region) at 0, 6000 and 18,000 14 C yr B.P. Journal of Biogeography, 30: 1381-1444.
  • Hope, G.S., Kershaw, A.P., van der Kaars, S., Sun, X., Liew, P-M., Heusser, L.E., Takahara, H., McGlone, M., Myoshi, N. and Moss, P.T. (2004) History of vegetation and habitat change in the Austral-Asian region. Quaternary International, 118-119:
  • Kershaw, A.P. and Orr, M.L. (Eds.) (2004) Environmental History of the Newer Volcanic Province of Victoria. Thematic issue, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 116 (1), 1-182.
  • Kershaw, A.P., D’Costa, D.M., Tibby, J., Wagstaff, B.E. and Heijnis, H. (2004) The last million years around Lake Keilambete, western Victoria. Proceedings, Royal Society of Victoria, 116: 95-106.
  • Sherwood, J, Oyston, B. and Kershaw, A.P. (2004) The age and contemporary environments of Tower Hill volcano, southwest Victoria, Australia, Proceedings, Royal Society of Victoria, 116: 71-78.
  • Harle, K.J., Kershaw, A.P. and Clayton, E. (2004) Patterns of vegetation change in southwest Victoria (Australia) over the last two glacial/interglacial cycles.  Proceedings, Royal Society of Victoria, 116: 107-139.
  • Kershaw, A.P., Tibby, J. Penny, D., Yesdani, H., Walkley, R., Cook, E. and Johnston, R. (2004) Latest Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation and environmental history of the western plains of Victoria. Proceedings, Royal Society of Victoria, 2004, 116: 141-163.
  • Anshari, G., Kershaw, A.P. and van der Kaars, S. (2004) Environmental Change and peatland forest dynamics in the Lake Sentarum Area, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Journal of Quaternary Science, 19: 637-655.
  • McKenzie, G.M. and Kershaw, A.P. (2004) A Holocene pollen record from cool temperate rainforest, Aire Crossing, the Otway region of Victoria, Australia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 132: 281-290.
  • Turney, C.S.M., Kershaw, A.P., Clemens, S., Branch, N., Moss, P.T. and Fifield, L.K. (2004) Millennial and orbital variations in El Niño/Southern Oscillation and high latitude climate in the last glacial period. Nature, 428, 306-310.
  • Kershaw, A.P. and Turney, C.S.M. (2004) The day after tomorrow. Australasian Science 25 (7): 29-31.
  • Kershaw, A.P., van der Kaars, S. and Moss, P.T. (2003) Late Quaternary Milankovitch-scale climate change and variability and its impact on monsoonal Australia. Marine Geology 201: 81-95.
  • Kershaw, A.P., Moss, P.T. and van der Kaars, S. (2003) Causes and consequences of long-term climatic variability on the Australian continent. Freshwater Biology 48: 1274-1283.
  • Tibby, J., Reid, M.A., Fluin, J., Hart, B.T. and Kershaw, A.P. (2003) Assessing long-term pH change in an Australian river catchment using monitoring and palaeolimnological data. Environmental Science and Technology 37: 3250-3255.
  • Kershaw, A.P., David, B., Tapper, N.J., Penny, D. and Brown, J.(Eds.) (2002)Bridging Wallace’s Line: The Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Southeast Asian – Australian Region. Catena Verlag., Reiskirchen, Germany, 360 pp.
  • Kershaw, A.P., van der Kaars, S., Moss, P.T. and Wang, X. (2002) Palynological evidence for environmental change in the Indonesian-northern Australian region over the last 140,000 to 300,000 years. In Kershaw, A.P., David, B., Tapper, N.J., Penny, D. and Brown, J. (eds.) Bridging Wallace’s Line: The Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Southeast Asian – Australian Region. Catena Verlag., Reiskirchen, Germany, pp. 97-118.
  • David, B., Kershaw, A.P. and Tapper, N. (2002) Bridging Wallace’s Line: Bringing home the Antipodes. In Kershaw, A.P., David, B., Tapper, N.J., Penny, D. and Brown, J. (eds.) Bridging Wallace’s Line: The Environmental and Cultural History and Dynamics of the Southeast Asian – Australian Region. Catena Verlag., Reiskirchen, Germany, pp. 1-4.
  • Kershaw, A.P., Clark, J.S. and Gill, A.M. (2002) A history of fire in Australia. In Bradstock, R., Williams, J. and Gill, A.M. (eds.) Flammable Australia: the Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent. Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-25.
  • Clark, J.S., Gill, A.M. and Kershaw, A.P. (2002) Spatial variability in fire regimes: its effects on recent and past vegetation. In Bradstock, R., Williams, J. and Gill, A.M. (eds.) Flammable Australia: the Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent. Cambridge University Press, pp. 125-141.
  • Harle, K.J., Heijnis, H., Chisari, R., Kershaw, A.P., Zoppi, U. and Jacobsen, G. (2002) A chronology for the long pollen record from Lake Wangoom, western Victoria (Australia) as derived from uranium/thorium disequilibrium dating. Journal of Quaternary Science 17, 707-720.
  • Reid, M.A., Fluin, J., Ogden, R.W., Tibby, J. and Kershaw, A.P. (2002) Long-term perspectives on human impacts on floodplain-river ecosystems, Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Proceedings of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology , 28: 710-716.
  • Dam, R., van der Kaars, S. and Kershaw, A.P.(Eds.) (2001) Quaternary Environmental Change in the Indonesian Region. Special issue, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 171, 428 pp.
  • Kershaw, A.P. and Wagstaff, B.E. (2001) The southern conifer family Araucariaceae: history, status, and value for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 32: 397-414.
  • Anshari, G., Kershaw, A.P. and van der Kaars, S. (2001) A Late Pleistocene and Holocene pollen and charcoal record from peat swamp forest, Lake Sentarum Wildlife Reserve, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 171: 213-228.
  • Wagstaff, B.E., Kershaw, A.P., O’Sullivan, P.B., Harle, K.J. and Edwards, J.(2001) An Early to Middle Pleistocene palynological record from the volcanic crater of Pejark Marsh, Western Plains of Victoria, southeastern Australia’Quaternary International, 83-85: 211-232.
  • Kershaw, A.P. (2001) The history, palaeoclimatic significance and present day status of the southern conifer families Araucariaceae and Podocarpaceae, with special reference to Australia. Geociencias 6: 5-21.
  • Turney, C.S.M., Bird, M.I., Fifield, L.K., Kershaw, A.P., Cresswell, R.G., Santos, G.M., di Tada, M.L., Hausladen, P.A. & Youping, Z. (2001) Development of a robust 14C chronology for Lynch's Crater (North Queensland, Australia) using different pretreatment strategies.Radiocarbon, 43: 45-54.
  • Turney, C.S.M., Kershaw, A.P., Moss, P., Bird, M.I., Fifield, L.K., Cresswell,
  • R.G., Santos, G.M., di Tada, M.L., Hausladen, P.A. & Youping, Z. (2001) Redating the onset of burning at Lynch’s Crater (North Queensland): implications for human settlement in Australia. Journal of Quaternary Science, 16: 767-771.
  • Kershaw, A.P., Penny, D., van der Kaars, S., Anshari, G. and Thamotherampillai, A. (2001) Evidence for vegetation and climate in lowland southeast Asia at the Last Glacial Maximum. In Melcalfe, I., Smith, J.M.B., Morwood, M. and Davidson, I. (Eds.) Floral and Faunal Migrations and Evolution in Southeast Asia-Australasia. A.A. Balkema, Lisse, 227-236.
  • Kershaw, A.P. and C. Whitlock (Eds.) (2000) Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle: Patterns and Causes of Change. Special issue, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 155 (1-2), 1-209.
  • Kershaw, A.P., Quilty, P.G., van Huet, S., David, B. and McMinn, A. (2000) The Quaternary. In Contributions to Phanerozoic Biogeography of Australasian Faunas and Floras. Australasian Association of Palaeontologists Memoirs, 23: 461-506.
  • McKenzie, G.M. and Kershaw, A.P. (2000) The last glacial cycle from Wyelangta, the Otway Region of Victoria, Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 155:177-193.
  • Moss, P.T. and Kershaw, A.P. (2000) The last glacial cycle from the humid tropics of northeastern Australia: comparison of a terrestrial and a marine record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 155: 155-176.
  • van der Kaars, S., Wang, X., Kershaw, A.P., Guichard, F. and Setiabudi, D.A. (2000) Late Quaternary palaeoecological record from the Banda Sea, Indonesia: patterns of vegetation, climate and biomass burning in Indonesia and northern Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 155: 135-153.

 


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