Lunt DJ et al. 2026. DeepMIP-Eocene-p2: Experimental design for Phase 2 of the early Eocene component of the CMIP7/PMIP7 Deep-time Model Intercomparison Project (DeepMIP-Eocene). Geoscientific Model Development 19, 6143–6166. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-6143-2026
Reichgelt T, Kennedy EM, Hayward BW, Ngadi N, Clowes CD (2026) A late Miocene cold spell in Zealandia: Evidence from the Whitianga Group, Coromandel, New Zealand. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 41: e2026PA005512. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026PA005512
Smith MA, Reichgelt T, Correa-Narveaz J (2026) Environmental interpretations of pollen assemblages from the middle Eocene Clarno Formation of Oregon, USA. Palynology 50: 2631688. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2026.2631688
Trozzi N, Lane B, Perruchoud A, Clark F, Hoermayer L, Meraviglia A, Reichgelt T, Roeder AHK, Kwiatkowska D, Runions A, Smith RS, Majda M (2026) Growth history leaves a geometric trace in puzzle cells. EMBO reports 27: 2559–2580. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44319-026-00755-y
West CK, Reichgelt T, Hoffman GL (2026) Floristic composition and palaeoclimate of the early Paleocene Highvale Mine Ardley Coal Zone fossil flora, central Alberta, Canada. Acta Palaeobotanica 66: 19–50. https://doi.org/10.35535/acpa-2026-0002
Willard DA, Nelissen M, Sluijs A, Brinkhuis H, Reichgelt T, Robinson MM, Self-Trail JM (2026) Terrestrial ecosystem response to changing temperature and seasonality in the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: shallow marine records From the Salisbury Embayment, USA. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 41: e2025PA005278. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025PA005278
Bradshaw CD et al. (2025) MioVeg1: A global middle Miocene vegetation reconstruction for climate modeling. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 40: e2025PA005213. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025PA005213
Reichgelt T, Bannister JM, Lee WG (2025) Leaf hydathode occurrence in indigenous New Zealand angiosperm trees: a preliminary survey. New Zealand Journal of Botany 63: 491–506. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2023.2256295
Tweedy RR, Strömberg CAE, Reichgelt T, Kinyanjui RN, Kimeu JM, Munyaka V, Uno KT (2025) African C3 grass n-alkane distributions & plant chemotaxonomy. Organic Geochemistry 208: 104994. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2025.104994
Smolen JD, Burstyn Y, Wang Z, Reichgelt T, de Wet C, Montañez IP, Hren MT, Atekwana EA, Bowen GJ, Griffith EM, Oster JL, Pederzani S, Zyba A (2025) Organic molecular records of fire–hydroclimate–vegetation dynamics through the last deglaciation archived in a California stalagmite. Geology 53: 775–779. https://doi.org/10.1130/G53221.1
Reichgelt T, Jackson JA, Conran JG, West CK, Kennedy EM, Lee DE (2025) Humid mesothermal climate and open forest at the early Miocene Landslip Hill deposit (Gore Lignite Measures), Southern Zealandia. Earth History and Biodiversity 4: 100027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hisbio.2025.100027
Lowe AJ, Royer DL, Wieczynski DJ, Butrim MJ, Reichgelt T, Azevedo-Schmidt L, Peppe DJ, Enquist BJ, Kerkoff AJ, Michaletz ST, Strömberg CAE (2025) Global patterns in community-scale leaf mass per area distributions of extant woody non-monocot angiosperms and their utility in the fossil record. American Journal of Botany 112: e70019. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.70019
Zhang Y et al. (2025) Fossil leaf cuticle: Best practices for preparation and paleo-CO2 analysis. Earth-Science Reviews 264: 105104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2025.105104
Poorter H, Pons TL, Reichgelt T (2025) Stomatal density and index are more responsive to light intensity than to [CO2]: A meta-analysis and implications for paleo-CO2 reconstruction. Plant Ecophysiology 1: 19. https://doi.org/10.53941/plantecophys.2025.100001
West CK, Reichgelt T, Reyes AV, Buryak SD, Staniszewska KJ, Basinger JF (2024) Paleobotanical evidence for Mediterranean climates in the western Canadian Paleoarctic during the late middle Eocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 39: e2024PA004874. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024PA004874
Schlenker N, Lee WG, Reichgelt T, Ohlemüller R (2024) Do modern climatic niches distinguish extinct and extant plant genera in New Zealand? Ecology and Evolution 14: e70133. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70133
Reichgelt T (2024) Linking the macroclimatic niche of native lithophytic ferns and their prevalence in urban environments. American Journal of Botany 111: e16364. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16364
Jenny DKLL, Reichgelt T, O'Brien C, Liu X, Bijl PK, Huber M, Sluijs A (2024) Climate variability, heat distribution, and polar amplification in the warm unipolar “icehouse” of the Oligocene. Climate of the Past 20: 1627–1657. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-1627-2024
Holdgate GR, Sluiter IRK, Clowes CD, Reichgelt T, Frieling J (2024) The Paleocene - Eocene mangroves of southeastern Australia: spatial and temporal occurrences across four geological basins. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 649: 112317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112317
Reichgelt T, Baumgartner A, Feng R, Willard DA (2023) Poleward amplification, seasonal rainfall and forest heterogeneity in the Miocene of the eastern USA. Global and Planetary Change 222: 104073. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104073
Mathewes RW, Greenwood DR, Reichgelt T (2023) Plant megafossils, palynomorphs, and paleoenvironment from the late Middle to Late Eocene Burnaby Mountain flora, Huntingdon Formation, British Columbia, Canada. International Journal of Plant Sciences 184: 214–235. https://doi.org/10.1086/724156
Kimeu JM, Mwachala G, Hattas D, Reichgelt T, Muasya AM (2023) Plant defense traits among discrete vegetation assemblages in a mesic savanna landscape in Kenya. Journal of Tropical Ecology 39: e23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467423000123
Frieling J, Bohaty SM, Cramwinckel MJ, Gallagher SJ, Holdgate GR, Reichgelt T, Peterse F, Pross J, Sluijs A, Bijl PK (2023) Revisiting the geographical extent of exceptional warmth in the early Paleogene Southern Ocean. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 38: e2022PA004529. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004529.
Cramwinckel MJ et al. (2023) Global and zonal-mean hydrological response to Early Eocene warmth. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 38: e2022PA004542. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004542
Williams CJR et al. (2022) African hydroclimate during the early Eocene from the DeepMIP simulations. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 37: e2022PA004419. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004419
Zhao J, Li S, Farnsworth A, Valdes PJ, Reichgelt T, Chen L, Zhou Z, Su T (2022) The Paleogene to Neogene climate evolution and driving factors on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Science China Earth Sciences 65: 1339–1352. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-021-9932-2
Sluiter IRK, Holdgate GR, Reichgelt T, Greenwood DR, Kershaw AP, Schulz NL (2022) A new perspective on late Eocene and Oligocene vegetation and paleoclimate of south-eastern Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 596: 110985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110985
Reichgelt T, Lee WG, Lee DE (2022) The extinction of Miocene broad-leaved deciduous Nothofagaceae and loss of seasonal forest biomes in New Zealand. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 307: 104779. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104779
Reichgelt T, Lee WG (2022) Geographic variation of leaf form among indigenous woody angiosperms in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 60: 134–158. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2021.1960384
Reichgelt T, Greenwood DR, Steinig S, Conran JG, Hutchinson DK, Lunt DJ, Scriven LJ, Zhu J (2022) Plant proxy evidence for high rainfall and productivity in the Eocene of Australia. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 37: e2022PA004418. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004418
West CK, Reichgelt T, Basinger JF (2021) The Ravenscrag Butte flora: Paleoclimate and paleoecology of an early Paleocene (Danian) warm-temperate deciduous forest near the vanishing inland Cannonball Seaway. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 576: 110488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110488
Prebble JG, Kennedy EM, Reichgelt T, Clowes C, Womack T, Mildenhall DC, Raine JI, Crouch EM (2021) A 100 million year composite pollen record from New Zealand shows maximum angiosperm abundance delayed until Eocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 566: 110207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110207
Huurdeman EP, Frieling J, Reichgelt T, Bijl PK, Bohaty SM, Holdgate GR, Gallagher SJ, Peterse F, Greenwood DR, Pross J (2021) Rapid expansion of meso-megathermal rain forests into the southern high latitudes at the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Geology 49: 40–44. https://doi.org/10.1130/G47343.1
Allstädt FJ, Koutsondendris A, Appel E, Rösler W, Reichgelt T, Kaboth-Bar S, Prokopenko AA, Pross J (2021) Late Pliocene to early Pleistocene climate dynamics in western North America based on a new pollen record from paleo-Lake Idaho. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 101: 177–195. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00460-1.
West CK, Greenwood DR, Reichgelt T, Lowe AJ, Vachon JM, Basinger JF (2020) Paleobotanical proxies for early Eocene climates and ecosystems in northern North America from middle to high latitudes. Climate of the Past 16: 1387–1410. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1387-2020
Reichgelt T, D'Andrea WJ, Valdivia-McCarthy AdC, Fox BRS, Bannister JM, Conran JG, Lee WG, Lee DE (2020) Elevated CO2, increased leaf-level productivity, and water-use efficiency during the early Miocene. Climate of the Past 16: 1509–1521. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-1509-2020
Kimeu JM, Mwachala G, Reichgelt T, Muasya AM (2020) Characterisation of alternative stable vegetation assemblages in a mesic savannah in Kenya. African Journal of Ecology 58: 492–502. https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12716.
Willard DA, Donders TH, Reichgelt T, Greenwood DR, Sangiorgi F, Peterse F, Nierop KGJ, Frieling J, Schouten S, Sluijs A (2019) Arctic vegetation, temperature, and hydrology during Early Eocene transient global warming events. Global and Planetary Change 178: 139–152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.04.012.
Reichgelt T, Kennedy EM, Conran JG, Lee WG, Lee DE (2019) The presence of moisture deficits in Miocene New Zealand. Global and Planetary Change 172: 268–277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.10.013
Reichgelt T, D'Andrea WJ (2019) Plant carbon assimilation rates in atmospheric CO2 reconstructions. New Phytologist 223: 1844–1855. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15914
Reichgelt T, West CK, Greenwood DR (2018) The relation between global palm distribution and climate. Scientific Reports 8: 4721. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23147-2
Lowe AJ, Greenwood DR, West CK, Galloway JM, Sudermann M, Reichgelt T (2018) Plant community ecology and climate on an upland volcanic landscape during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum: McAbee Fossil Beds, British Columbia, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 511: 433–448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.09.010
Hyland EG, Huntington KW, Sheldon ND, Reichgelt T (2018) Temperature seasonality in the North American continental interior during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. Climate of the Past 14: 1391–1404. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1391-2018
Baranyi V, Reichgelt T, Olsen PE, Parker WG, Kürschner WM (2018) Norian vegetation history and related environmental changes: New data from the Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona, SW USA). Geological Society of America Bulletin 130: 775–795. https://doi.org/10.1130/B31673.1
Reichgelt T, Lee WG, Lusk CH, Kennedy EM (2017) Changes in leaf physiognomy of New Zealand woody assemblages in response to Neogene environmental cooling. Journal of Biogeography 44: 1160–1171. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12980
Prebble JG, Reichgelt T, Mildenhall DC, Greenwood DR, Raine JI, Kennedy EM, Seebeck HC (2017) Terrestrial climate evolution in the Southwest Pacific over the past 30 million years. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 459: 136–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.11.006
Greenwood DR, Keefe RL, Reichgelt T, Webb JA (2017) Eocene paleobotanical altimetry of Victoria's Eastern Uplands. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 64: 625–637. https://doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2017.1318793
Reichgelt T, Kennedy EM, Jones WA, Jones DT, Lee DE (2016) Contrasting palaeoenvironments of the mid/late Miocene Dunedin Volcano, southern New Zealand: Climate or topography? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 441: 696–703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.10.029
Reichgelt T, Jones WA, Jones DT, Conran JG, Lee DE (2016) Diverse and abundant insect herbivory on Miocene Nothofagaceae of the Dunedin Volcano, Otago, New Zealand. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 96: 265–279. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-015-0212-1
Reichgelt T, D'Andrea WJ, Fox BRS (2016) Abrupt plant physiological changes in southern New Zealand at the termination of the Mi-1 event reflect shifts in hydroclimate and pCO2. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 455: 115–124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.026
Conran JG, Lee DE, Reichgelt T (2016) Malloranga dentata (Euphorbiaceae: Acalyphoideae): A new fossil species from the Miocene of New Zealand. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 226: 58–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2015.12.007
Conran JG, Bannister JM, Reichgelt T, Lee DE (2016) Epiphyllous fungi and leaf physiognomy indicate an ever-wet humid mesothermal (subtropical) climate in the late Eocene of southern New Zealand. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 452: 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.03.032
Reichgelt T, Kennedy EM, Conran JG, Mildenhall DC, Lee DE (2015) The early Miocene paleolake Manuherikia: vegetation heterogeneity and warm-temperate to subtropical climate in southern New Zealand. Journal of Paleolimnology 53: 349–365. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-015-9827-5
Conran JG, Bannister JM, Lee DE, Carpenter RJ, Kennedy EM, Reichgelt T, Fordyce RE (2015) An update of monocot macrofossil data from New Zealand and Australia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 178: 394–420. https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12284
Reichgelt T, Jones WA, Jones DT, Conran JG, Bannister JM, Kennedy EM, Mildenhall DC, Lee DE (2014) The flora of Double Hill (Dunedin Volcanic Complex, Middle–Late Miocene) Otago, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 44: 105–135. https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2014.923476
Kennedy EM, Arens NC, Reichgelt T, Spicer RA, Spicer TEV, Stranks L, Yang J (2014) Deriving temperature estimates from Southern Hemisphere leaves. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 412: 80–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.07.015
Reichgelt T, Parker WG, Martz JW, Conran JG, van Konijnenburg-van Cittert JHA, Kürschner WM (2013) The palynology of the Sonsela member (Late Triassic, Norian) at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 189: 18–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2012.11.001
Reichgelt T, Kennedy EM, Mildenhall DC, Conran JG, Greenwood DR, Lee DE (2013) Quantitative palaeoclimate estimates for Early Miocene southern New Zealand: Evidence from Foulden Maar. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 378: 36–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.03.019