Melissa A. Berke

1.9k total citations
37 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Melissa A. Berke is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa A. Berke has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Atmospheric Science, 12 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Melissa A. Berke's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (29 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (9 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (7 papers). Melissa A. Berke is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (29 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (9 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (7 papers). Melissa A. Berke collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Melissa A. Berke's co-authors include Josef P. Werne, Thomas C. Johnson, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Stefan Schouten, James R. Ehleringer, Brett J. Tipple, Kliti Grice, Erik T. Brown, Yongsong Huang and Robert C. Thunell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Melissa A. Berke

33 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melissa A. Berke United States	16	872	342	262	215	191	37	1.1k
Yannick Garcin France	15	860 1.0×	316 0.9×	325 1.2×	346 1.6×	149 0.8×	36	1.2k
C. W. Heil United States	16	844 1.0×	273 0.8×	331 1.3×	343 1.6×	130 0.7×	25	1.2k
Yansheng Gu China	17	680 0.8×	349 1.0×	202 0.8×	114 0.5×	101 0.5×	30	901
Dirk Enters Germany	23	967 1.1×	515 1.5×	369 1.4×	108 0.5×	119 0.6×	45	1.4k
Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall United States	13	707 0.8×	369 1.1×	175 0.7×	173 0.8×	152 0.8×	16	972
Wei Zhong China	19	887 1.0×	247 0.7×	362 1.4×	157 0.7×	87 0.5×	69	1.1k
Tripti Bhattacharya United States	15	903 1.0×	276 0.8×	207 0.8×	142 0.7×	287 1.5×	41	1.1k
Cody Routson United States	13	818 0.9×	242 0.7×	142 0.5×	129 0.6×	248 1.3×	19	959
Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa United States	16	895 1.0×	304 0.9×	390 1.5×	305 1.4×	94 0.5×	27	1.1k

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Berke, Melissa A., M. C. Bourke, Frédéric Dias, et al.. (2025). Storm-driven coastal boulder transport over two winter storm seasons on Inishmaan, Ireland. Geomorphology. 494. 110105–110105.

Koutsodendris, Andreas, Maria Geraga, Helen Kaberi, et al.. (2025). Coupled sea-level and hydroclimatic controls on the southern Red Sea sedimentation during the past 30 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews. 357. 109310–109310.

Beck, Catherine, Melissa A. Berke, Craig S. Feibel, et al.. (2024). ICDP workshop on the Deep Drilling in the Turkana Basin project: exploring the link between environmental factors and hominin evolution over the past 4 Myr. Scientific Drilling. 33(2). 93–108.

Berke, Melissa A., et al.. (2024). ICDP workshop on the Lake Victoria Drilling Project (LVDP): scientific drilling of the world's largest tropical lake. Scientific Drilling. 33(1). 21–31. 1 indexed citations

Karp, Allison T., Kevin T. Uno, Melissa A. Berke, et al.. (2023). Nonlinear rainfall effects on savanna fire activity across the African Humid Period. Quaternary Science Reviews. 304. 107994–107994. 13 indexed citations

Marcks, Brook A., Thiago Pereira dos Santos, Melissa A. Berke, et al.. (2023). Glacial Southern Ocean Expansion Recorded in Foraminifera‐Bound Nitrogen Isotopes From the Agulhas Plateau During the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 38(6). 4 indexed citations

Rice, Prudence M., et al.. (2023). Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 6 indexed citations

Berke, Melissa A., Rebecca S. Robinson, Isla S. Castañeda, et al.. (2021). Latitudinal Migrations of the Subtropical Front at the Agulhas Plateau Through the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 36(7). 12 indexed citations

Berke, Melissa A., Isla S. Castañeda, Andreas Koutsodendris, et al.. (2021). Plio‐Pleistocene Continental Hydroclimate and Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperatures at the Southeast African Margin. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 36(3). 15 indexed citations

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Hall, I.R., S. Barker, Thomas Rackow, et al.. (2021). Antarctic icebergs reorganize ocean circulation during Pleistocene glacials. Nature. 589(7841). 236–241. 39 indexed citations

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Heilman, Kelly A., Valérie Trouet, Soumaya Belmecheri, et al.. (2021). Increased water use efficiency leads to decreased precipitation sensitivity of tree growth, but is offset by high temperatures. Oecologia. 197(4). 1095–1110. 18 indexed citations

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Schwamborn, Georg, Kai Hartmann, Bernd Wünnemann, et al.. (2020). Sediment history mirrors Pleistocene aridification in the Gobi Desert (Ejina Basin, NW China). Solid Earth. 11(4). 1375–1398. 3 indexed citations

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Berke, Melissa A., et al.. (2020). Hydrogen isotope fractionation in modern plants along a boreal-tundra transect in Alaska. Organic Geochemistry. 147. 104064–104064. 17 indexed citations

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Bush, Rosemary T., Melissa A. Berke, & Andrew D. Jacobson. (2017). Plant Water δD and δ ¹⁸ O of Tundra Species from West Greenland. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 49(3). 341–358. 19 indexed citations

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Johnson, Thomas C., Josef P. Werne, Erik T. Brown, et al.. (2016). A progressively wetter climate in southern East Africa over the past 1.3 million years. Nature. 537(7619). 220–224. 90 indexed citations

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Berke, Melissa A., et al.. (2015). Life form-specific gradients in compound-specific hydrogen isotope ratios of modern leaf waxes along a North American Monsoonal transect. Oecologia. 179(4). 981–997. 12 indexed citations

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Berke, Melissa A., Thomas C. Johnson, Josef P. Werne, Stefan Schouten, & Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté. (2012). A mid-Holocene thermal maximum at the end of the African Humid Period. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 351-352. 95–104. 58 indexed citations

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Berke, Melissa A., Thomas C. Johnson, Josef P. Werne, Stefan Schouten, & Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté. (2010). Temperature and hydrologic variability of Lake Victoria, East Africa since the Late Pleistocene. AGUFM. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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Berke, Melissa A., Thomas C. Johnson, Josef P. Werne, Stefan Schouten, & Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté. (2009). Holocene TEX86 temperature reconstructions from Lake Turkana, East Africa. AGUFM. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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Berke, Melissa A., Thomas C. Johnson, Josef P. Werne, & Lindsay A. Powers. (2007). Lake Surface Temperature Variability in Lake Malawi Since the Last Glacial Maximum. AGUFM. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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