Darwin Center programs and projects
1070: The DARWIN Azolla project – (palaeo) ecology and biogeochemistry of the freshwater fern Azolla and its importance in global biogeochemical cycles
1072: Subproject 2, the palaeoecological component

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Darwin Center publications
Speelman, E.N., van Kempen, M.M.L., Barke, J., Brinkhuis, H., Reichart, G.J., Smolders, A.J.P., Roelofs, J.G.M., Sangiorgi, F., de Leeuw, J.W., Lotter, A.F., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2009). The Eocene Arctic Azolla bloom: environmental conditions, productivity and carbon drawdown . Geobiology7 (2): 155-170.
Darwin Center authors: Barke J., Brinkhuis H., van Kempen M. M. L., Lotter A. F., Reichart G. J., Roelofs J. G. M., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Speelman E. N.

Appy Sluijs, Stefan Schouten, Timme H. Donders, Petra L. Schoon, Ursula Röhl, Gert-Jan Reichart, Francesca Sangiorgi, Jung-Hyun Kim, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté and Henk Brinkhuis (2009). Warm and wet conditions in the Arctic region during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2. Nature geoscience2: 777-780.
Darwin Center authors: Brinkhuis H., Reichart G. J., Schoon P. L., Schouten S., Sinninghe Damsté J. S., Sluijs A.

Margaret E. Collinson, Judith Barke, Johan van der Burgh, Johanna H.A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, Claus Heilmann-Clausen, Lauren E. Howard, Henk Brinkhuis (2010). Did a single species of Eocene Azolla spread from the Arctic Basin to the southern North Sea?. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology159: 152-165.
Darwin Center authors: Barke J., Brinkhuis H.

Barke, J., Abels, H.A., Sangiorgi, F., Greenwood, D.R., Sweet, A.R., Donders, T., Reichart, G.-J. , Lotter, A.F., Brinkhuis, H. (2011). Orbitally forced Azolla blooms And Middle Eocene Arctic hydrology: Clues from palynology . GeologyVolume 39, Issue 5: 427-430.
Darwin Center authors: Barke J., Brinkhuis H., Lotter A. F., Reichart G. J.

Judith Barke, Johan van der Burgh, Johanna H.A. van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, Margaret E. Collinson, Martin A. Pearce, Jonathan Bujak, Claus Heilmann-Clausen, Eveline N. Speelman, Monique M.L. van Kempen, Gert-Jan Reichart, André F. Lotter, Henk Brinkhuis (2012). Coeval Eocene blooms of the freshwater fern Azolla in and around Arctic and Nordic seas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology337-338: 108-119.
Darwin Center authors: Barke J., Brinkhuis H., van Kempen M. M. L., Lotter A. F., Reichart G. J., Speelman E. N.

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