Dr. Ramesh Glückler

Geographer & Geoecologist

Publications


Below you can find individual sections for peer-reviewed research articles, chapters, reports & more, information on how to access published data & code, as well as a list of conference contributions.

Preprints

Current preprints for upcoming research articles which are currently in the submission, peer-review, or publication process, are listed here:
  • Glückler, R., Dietze, E., Andreev, A. A., Kruse, S., Zakharov, E. S., Baisheva, I. A., Stieg, A., Tsuyuzaki, S., Pestryakova, L. A., Herzschuh, U. (2025): Human dimension of Holocene wildfire dynamics in boreal eastern Siberia. bioRxiv. DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.14.643308 [Preprint] 

Peer-reviewed publications

Since 2021, I was involved in seven peer-reviewed publications, including six research articles (three as lead author) and one thesis abstract - more is in the work. Thanks to all the fantastic colleagues and mentors with whom I had the pleasure to collaborate:
  • Glückler, R. (2025): Long-term changes of wildfire regimes in eastern Siberia: An evaluation based on lake sediment indicators and individual-based modeling. E&G Quaternary Science Journal, 74(1), 101–103. DOI: 10.5194/egqsj-74-101-2025

  • Baisheva I., Biskaborn B.K., Stoof-Leichsenring K.R., Andreev A., Heim B., Meucci S., Ushnitskaya L.A., Zakharov E.S., Dietze E., Glückler R., Pestryakova L.A., Herzschuh U. (2024): Late Glacial and Holocene vegetation and lake changes in SW Yakutia, Siberia, inferred from sedaDNA, pollen, and XRF data. Frontiers in Earth Science 12, DOI: 10.3389/feart.2024.1354284

  • Sayedi S.S., Abbott B.W., Vannière B., Leys B., Colombaroli D., Romera G.G., Słowiński M., Aleman J.C., Blarquez O., Feurdean A., ... , Glückler R., ... , Daniau A.-L.  (2024): Assessing changes in global fire regimes. Fire Ecology 20, 18, DOI: 10.1186/s42408-023-00237-9

  • Glückler R., Gloy J., Dietze E., Herzschuh U., Kruse S. (2024): Simulating Long-Term Wildfire Impacts on Boreal Forest Structure in Central Yakutia, Siberia, since the Last Glacial Maximum. Fire Ecology 20, DOI: 10.1186/s42408-023-00238-8

  • Baisheva I., Pestryakova L., Glückler R., Biskaborn B., Vyse S., Heim B., Herzschuh U., Stoof-Leichsenring K. (2023): Permafrost-thaw lake development in Central Yakutia: sedimentary ancient DNA and element analyses from a Holocene sediment record. Journal of Paleolimnology, DOI: 10.1007/s10933-023-00285-w

  • Glückler R., Geng R., Grimm L., Baisheva I., Herzschuh U., Stoof-Leichsenring K. R., Kruse S., Andreev A., Pestryakova L., Dietze E. (2022): Holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in Central Yakutia, Siberia, reconstructed from lake-sediment proxies. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10, DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.962906

  • Glückler R., Herzschuh U., Kruse S., Andreev A., Vyse S. A., Winkler B., Biskaborn B. K., Pestryakova L., Dietze E. (2021): Wildfire history of the boreal forest of southwestern Yakutia (Siberia) over the last two millennia documented by a lake-sediment charcoal record. Biogeosciences 18, 4185–4209, DOI: 10.5194/bg-18-4185-2021

Chapters, reports & more

  • Glückler R. (2024): Long-term changes of wildfire regimes in eastern Siberia: An evaluation based on lake sediment indicators and individual-based modeling. Dissertation. University of Potsdam. DOI: 10.25932/publishup-66643 

  • Dietze E., Marlon J., Goring S., Gavin D.G., Bartlein P., Glückler R., Williams J. (2024): First steps toward integrating the Global Paleofire Database with Neotoma. PAGES Magazine, Volume 32. DOI: 10.22498/pages.32.2.140

  • Glückler R. (2023): Holozäne Waldbrände und Vegetationsdynamik in Zentraljakutien, Sibirien: Eine Rekonstruktion anhand von Seesedimenten. In: Geographische Rundschau, Volume 11/2023. Westermann. Available at: https://www.westermann.de/artikel/51231100/Geographische-Rundschau-Feuerlandschaften (in German)

  • Glückler R., Baisheva I., Stieg A., Eder I., Heim B., Wieczorek M., Egorov A., Zakharov E., Stoof-Leichsenring K.R., Ushnitskaya L., Pestryakova L., Herzschuh U. (2023): Setting up a baseline for the Yakutian-Chukotkan Monitoring transect: Lake inventories including water chemistry, lake sediment coring and UAV-surveys. In: Morgenstern A., Heim B., Pestryakova L.A., Bolshiyanov D.Y., Grigoriev M.N., Ayunov D., Dill A., Jünger I. (eds.): Reports on Polar and Marine Research. Russian-German Cooperation: Expeditions to Siberia in 2021. Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Bremerhaven, Deutschland. DOI: 10.57738/BzPM_0772_2023

  • Glückler R., Dietze E., Heim B. (2022): Feuer im Erdsystem. In: REKLIM News und Forschungsthema des Monats, Volume 12/2022. Available at: https://www.reklim.de/forschungsthemen/rt6-landoberflaechen-und-ihre-rueckkopplungsmechanismen/ (in German)

  • Biskaborn B.K., Herzschuh U., Pestryakova L.A., Zakharov E.S., Kahl J., Meucci S., Pestryakov A., Kruse S., Glückler R., Heim B., Ushnitzkaya L. (2021): Lake sediment core retrieval and vegetation analysis at Lake Khamra, Central Siberia: Expedition Khamra 2020. In: Biskaborn B.K., Bolshiyanov D.Y., Grigoriev M.N., Morgenstern A., Pestryakova L.A., Tsibizov L.V., Dill A. (eds.): Reports on Polar and Marine Research. Russian-German Cooperation: Expeditions to Siberia in 2020. Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Bremerhaven, Deutschland. DOI: 10.48433/BzPM_0756_2021

Conference contributions

Only listing contributions where I was presenting lead author. Since 2020, that included 16 international conferences and extra-institutional meetings (two with invited talks):
  • Invited talk at the Junior Forum of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Dortmund, Germany): Glückler R. (2024): Wildfires in boreal eastern Siberia: Reconstructing the past to predict the future.

  • Talk at the Annual Meeting of the German Society for Geomorphology (Leipzig, Germany): Glückler R., Dietze E., Andreev A., Kruse S., Zakharov E.S., Baisheva I., Stieg A., Tsuyuzaki S., Strauss J., Schild L., Pestryakova L.A., Herzschuh U. (2024): Wildfire activity may have been mediated by indigenous land use practices since 800 years in the boreal forest of Central Yakutia, Siberia.

  • Talk at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (Vienna, Austria): Glückler R., Dietze E., Kruse S., Andreev A., Biskaborn B.K., Zakharov E.S., Baisheva I., Stieg A., Tsuyuzaki S., Stoof-Leichsenring K., Pestryakova L.A., Herzschuh U. (2024): Fire, permafrost, and people: Late Holocene fire regimes and their impacts on lake systems in Yakutia, Siberia. EGU General Assembly 2024. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-16263

  • iPoster at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (San Francisco, USA): Glückler R., Herzschuh U., Dietze E., Kruse S., Tsuyuzaki S., Stoof-Leichsenring K., Pestryakova L.A., Yamashita Y. (2023): Tracking Wildfire Intensity in Earth’s Coldest Inhabited Region: 5000 Years of Sedimentary BPCAs and Charcoal in the Mountains of Eastern Yakutia, Siberia.

  • Invited talk at the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting (Chiba, Japan): Glückler R., Tsuyuzaki S., Yamashita Y., Dietze E., Kruse S., Zakharov E.S., Egorov A., Baisheva I., Stieg A., Eder I., Stoof-Leichsenring K., Pestryakova L.A., Herzschuh U. (2023): Wildfire activity of past millennia in Central Yakutia, Siberia, reconstructed with multiple new sedimentary records of charcoal and BPCAs.

  • Talk at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (online): Glückler R., Gloy J., Dietze E., Herzschuh U., Kruse S. (2023): Simulating wildfire impacts on boreal forest structure over the past 20,000 years since the Last Glacial Maximum in Central Yakutia, Siberia. EGU General Assembly 2023. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-13603

  • Poster at DEUQUA (Potsdam, Germany): Glückler R., Geng R., Grimm L., Baisheva I., Herzschuh U., Stoof-Leichsenring K., Kruse S., Andreev A., Pestryakova L., Dietze E. (2022): Holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in Central Yakutia, Siberia, reconstructed from lake-sediment proxies.

  • Talk at the PAGES Open Science Meeting (online): Glückler R., Geng R., Grimm L., Baisheva I., Herzschuh U., Stoof-Leichsenring K., Kruse S., Andreev A., Vyse S., Pestryakova L., Dietze E. (2022): Could fewer trees lead to more severe wildfires? Evidence from Holocene fire-vegetation dynamics at Lake Satagay, Central Yakutia, Siberia.

  • Talk at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (Vienna, Austria): Glückler R., Geng R., Grimm L., Baisheva I., Herzschuh U., Kruse S., Andreev A., Böhmer T., Vyse S., Pestryakova L., Dietze E. (2022): Fires and forests: A reconstruction of Holocene fire-vegetation relationships in Central Yakutia, Siberia. EGU General Assembly 2022. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-499

  • Poster at the Galileo Conference GC9-Fire of the European Geosciences Union (Bad Belzig, Germany): Glückler R., Geng R., Grimm L., Herzschuh U., Kruse S., Andreev A., Böhmer T., Vyse S., Pestryakova L., Dietze E. (2022): Thermokarst lakes as long-term wildfire archives: A reconstruction of Holocene wildfire and vegetation dynamics in Central Yakutia, Russia.

  • Talk at the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting (online): Glückler R., Kruse S., Herzschuh U., Dietze E. (2021): Wildfires in boreal eastern Siberia: Reconstructing the past to predict the future.

  • Poster at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (online): Glückler R., Dietze E., Gloy J., Herzschuh U., Kruse S. (2021): Towards a better understanding of Siberian wildfires: linking paleoenvironmental fire reconstructions with an individual-based spatially explicit fire-vegetation model. EGU General Assembly 2021. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10840

  • Poster at the IAWF Fire Safety Summit (online): Glückler R., Herzschuh U., Kruse S., Dietze E. (2021): Lessons From the Past: How Can Paleoenvironmental Fire Reconstructions Help to Inform Future Fire Management in Siberia?

  • Talk at the IASC Arctic Science Summit Week (online): Glückler R., Dietze E., Herzschuh U., Gloy J., Kruse S. (2021): Subarctic Eurasia in flames: A new perspective on wildfire impacts from an individual-based fire-vegetation model for eastern Siberia.

  • Talk at the Annual Meeting of the German Society for Geomorphology (online): Glückler R., Herzschuh U., Pestryakova L., Kruse S., Vyse S., Andreev A., Dietze E. (2020): Late Holocene fire history documented at Lake Khamra, SW Yakutia (Eastern Siberia).

  • Poster at the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (online): Glückler R., Herzschuh U., Pestryakova L., Kruse S., Vyse S., Andreev A., Dietze E. (2020): Late Holocene fire history documented at Lake Khamra, SW Yakutia (Eastern Siberia). EGU General Assembly 2020. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-1018

Data & code 

I believe that the code and data behind my research should be openly accessible - you can find it in the PANGAEA and Zenodo repositories! Data from paleofire studies with sedimentary charcoal is additionally deposited in the Global Paleofire Database. The model code for LAVESI-FIRE (Glückler et al. 2024, Fire Ecology) is available via GitHub. Let me know if you are looking for something or have any questions regarding these products.

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