RCUK Academic Fellow "Ecosystem Science" (2005-2010)
Lecturer "Earth Sciences" (2010-present)
My current research seeks to place current concerns related to ongoing climate change into a longer term context by examining multiple aspects of the fossil record. Research techniques employed in my lab include analysis of fossil pollen, chironomids, charcoal, wood and organic biomarkers to provide environmental reconstructions; and Ar-Ar and Uranium series dating to develop chronologies.
I have active research projects in the Andes, Amazon and Africa with a particular interests in vegetation-human-climate interactions and biogeography.
For my Faculty/Departmental web profile click here
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Talk to West Midlands Open University Geological Society (January 2012)
William Gosling talks about 2011 publication in Science for The OU student platform:
Podcast for Open University students
Collaborative research with the PaleoEcology research at Florida Institute of Technology recieved international media attention. Bush et al. (2010) highlighted past environmental change evidence which suggests a non-linear ecosystem response to predicted future climate change [full reference below].
Reuters interview (interview with Mark Bush, Florida Institute of Technology)
Press release: New research could predict catastrophic droughts in the Central Andes
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Bush, M.B., Flenley, J.R. and Gosling, W.D. eds. (2011). Tropical rainforests responses to climatic changes (2nd edition). Springer/Praxis. ISBN: 978-3-642-05382-5
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1007/978-3-642-05383-2
Bush, M.B. and Gosling, W.D. (2012). Environmental change in the humid tropics and monsoonal regions. IN: Matthews, J.A. (ed.) The Handbook of Environmental Change. Sage, London. p. 113-140 ISBN: 978-0-857-02360-5
The SAGE Handbook of Environmental Change
Bush, M.B., Gosling, W.D. and Colinvaux, P.A. (2011). Climate and vegetation change in the lowlands of the Amazon Basin. IN: Bush, M.B., Flenley, J.R. and Gosling, W.D. (eds.) Tropical rainforests responses to climatic changes (2nd edition). Springer/Praxis.
ISBN: 978-3-642-05382-5
Gosling, W.D. (2010). Evolution's Atlas. IN: Silvertown, J.A. (ed.) Fragile Web: What's next for nature. Natural History Museum & University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 978-0-565 09261-0
IN: Fragile Web: What next for nature
Bush, M.B., Gosling, W.D. and Colinvaux, P.A. (2007). Quaternary Climate Change in Amazonia. IN: Bush, M.B. and Flenley, J.R. (editors) Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climate Change. Praxis Publishing Limited, Academic Press, p. 55-76.
IN: Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climate Change
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Free access to selected publications through: Open Research Online (ORO)
2011
Williams, J.J., Gosling, W.D., Brooks, S.J., Coe, A.L. & Xu, S. (2011) Vegetation, climate and fire in the eastern Andes (Bolivia) during the last 18,000 years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 312(1-2): 115-126. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.10.001
Cardenas, M.C., Gosling, W.D., Sherlock, S.C., Poole, I., Pennington, R.T. & Mothes, P. (2011) Response to comment on "The response of vegetation on the Andean flank in western Amazonia to Pleistocene climate change". Science, 333, 1825
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1126/science.1207888
Gosling, W.D. & Holden, P.B. (2011) Precessional forcing of tropical vegetation carbon storage. Journal of Quaternary Science, 26 (5):463-467.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1002/jqs.1514
Williams, J.J., Gosling, W.D., Coe, A.L., Brooks, S.J. & Gulliver, P. (2011). Four thousand years of environmental change and human activity in the Cochabamba Basin, Bolivia. Quaternary Research, 76: 58-68. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2011.03.004
Hanselman, J.A., Bush, M.B., Gosling, W.D., Collins, A., Knox, C., Baker, P.A. & Fritz, S.C. (2011) A 370,000-year record of vegetation and fire history around Lake Titicaca (Bolivia/Peru). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 305: 201-214. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.03.002
Cárdenas, M.L., Gosling, W.D., Sherlock, S.C., Poole, I., Pennington, R.T. & Mothes, P. (2011) The response of vegetation on the Andean flank in western Amazonia to Pleistocene climate change. Science, 331, 1055-1058.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1126/science.1197947
2010
Bush, M.B., Hanselman, J.A. and Gosling, W.D. (2010). Non-linear climate change and Andean feedbacks: An imminent turning point? Global Change Biology, 16(12), 3223-3232.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02203.x
2009
Gosling, W.D., Hanselman, J.A., Knox, C., Valencia, B.G., & Bush, M.B. (2009) Long term drivers of change in Polylepis woodland distribution in the central Andes. Journal of Vegetation Science, 20(6), 1041-1052.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2009.01102.x
Marchant, R., Harrison, S.P., Hooghiemstra, H., Markgraf, V., Van Boxel, J.H., Ager, T., Almeida, L., Anderson, R., Baied, C., Behling, H., Berrio, J.C., Burbridge, R., Björck, S., Byrne, R., Bush, M.B., Cleef, A.M., Duivenvoorden, J.F., Flenley, J.R., De Oliveira, P., Van Geel, B., Graf, K.J., Gosling, W.D., Harbele, S., Van Der Hammen, T., S. Hansen, B.C., Horn, S.P., Islebe, G.A., Kuhry, P., Ledru, M.-P., Mayle, F.E., Leyden, B.W., Lozano-GarcÃa, S., Melief, A.B.M., Moreno, P., Moar, N.T., Prieto, A., Van Reenen, G.B., Salgado-Labouriau, M.L., Schäsignbitz, F., Schreve-Brinkman, E.J., & Wille, M. (2009) Pollen-based biome reconstructions for Latin America at 0, 6000 and 18 000 radiocarbon years. Climate of the Past, 5: 725-767.
http://www.clim-past.net/5/725/2009/cp-5-725-2009.pdf
Gosling, W.D., Mayle, F.E., Tate, N.J. and Killeen, T.J. (2009) Differentiation between Neotropical rainforest, dry forest, and savannah ecosystems by their modern pollen spectra and implications for the fossil pollen record. Review of Palynology and Palaeobotany, 153 (1-2), 70-85.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2008.06.007
2008
Gosling, W.D. and Bunting, M.J. (2008) A role for palaeoecology in anticipating future change in mountain regions? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 259 (1): 1-5.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.10.017
Gosling, W.D., Bush, M.B., Hanselman, J.A. and Chepstow-Lusty, A. (2008) Glacial-interglacial changes in moisture balance and the impact on vegetation in the sourthern hemisphere tropical Andes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 259 (1): 35-50.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.02.050
2007
Bush, M.B., Silman, M.R., de Toledo, M.B., Listopad, C., Gosling, W.D., Williams, C., de Oliveira, P.E. and Krisel, C. (2007). Holocene fire and occupation in Amazonia: records from two lake districts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 362: 209-218.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1098/rstb.2006.1980
2005
Bush, M.B., Hansen, B.C.S., Rodbell, D., Seltzer, G.O., Young, K.R., León, B., Silman, M.R. and Gosling, W.D. (2005). A 17,000-year history of Andean climatic and vegetation change from Laguna de Chochos, Peru. Journal of Quaternary Science, 20 (7-8): 703-714.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1002/jqs.983
Hanselman, J.E., Gosling, W.D., Ralph, G.M. and Bush, M.B. (2005). Contrasting histories of MIS 5e and the Holocene from Lake Titicaca (Bolivia/Peru). Journal of Quaternary Science, 20 (7-8): 663-670.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1002/jqs.979
Gosling, W.D., Mayle, F.E., Tate, N.J. and Killeen, T.J. (2005). Modern pollen rain characteristic of tall terra firme evergreen forest, Southern Amazonia. Quaternary Research, 64: 284-297.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2005.08.008
Gosling, W.D. and Bush, M.B. (2005). A biogeographic comment on: Wüster, W. et al. (2005) Tracing an invasion: landbridges, refugia, and the phylogeography of the Neotropical rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus durissus). Molecular Ecology, 14(11): 3615-3617. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02642.x
2004
Mayle, F.E., Beerling, D.J., Gosling, W.D. and Bush, M.B. (2004). Responses of Amazonian ecosystems to climatic and atmospheric carbon dioxide changes since the last glacial maximum. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, (B), 359: 499-514.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1098/rstb.2003.1434
2003
Gosling, W.D., Mayle, F.E., Killeen, T.J., Siles, M., Sanchez, L. and Boreham, S. (2003). A simple and effective methodology for sampling modern pollen rain in tropical environments. The Holocene 13(4): 613-618.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1191/0959683603hl649rr
2001
Trudgill, S.T., Viles, H.A., Inkpen, R., Moses, C., Gosling, W.D., Yates, T., Collier, P., Smith, D.I. and Cook, R.U. (2001). Twenty-year weathering remeasurements at St Paul's Cathedral, London. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 26: 1129-1142.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1002/esp.260
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