Bianca Perren
Palaeoecologist
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Bianca Perren
Palaeoecologist
Biography
I am a Quaternary paleoecologist with a specialization in Arctic/Antarctic environmental change. Specifically, I use diatoms and other fossil remains in lake sediments to reconstruct changing environmental conditions resulting from eutrophication, 20th and 21st Century climate warming, or Holocene natural variability.
Research interests
Holocene climate variability
Holocene/Anthropocene transitions
Environmental change
Paleolimnology
Arctic (Greenland) environmental history
Subantarctic environmental history
Relative sea level history
Collaborations
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Bichet, V., Gauthier, E., Massa, C., Perren, B. B. 2014. Lake sediments as an archive of land use and environmental change in the Eastern Settlement, southwestern Greenland. Journal of the North Atlantic. 6: 47–63
Balascio, N.L., D’Andrea, W.J., Bradley, R.S., Perren, B. B. 2013. Biogeochemical evidence for hydrologic changes during the Holocene in a lake sediment record from southeast Greenland. The Holocene. 23(10) 1428 –1439
Bichet, V., Gauthier, E., Massa, C., Perren, B.B., Petit, C., Mathieu, O., Richard, H. 2013. History and impacts of South Greenland farming activities: an insight from lake deposits. Polar record, 49(3):210-220,
Perren, B. B., Wolfe, A.P., Cooke, C. A., Kjaer, K.H., Mazzucchi, D., Steig, E. J. 2012. Twentieth century warming revives the world’s northernmost lake. Geology 40 (11), 1003-1006,
Perren, B. B., Massa, C., Bichet, V., Gauthier, E., Mathieu, O., Petit, C., Richard, H. 2012. A paleoecological perspective on 1450 years of human impacts on a lake in southern Greenland. The Holocene 22 (9), 1025-1034.
Perren, B. B., Anderson, N. J., Douglas, M. S. V., Fritz, S. C. 2012. The influence of temperature, moisture, and eolian activity on Holocene lake development in West Greenland. Journal of Paleolimnology 48(1): 223-239.
Massa, C., Perren, B. B., Gauthier, E., Bichet, V., Petit, C., Richard, H. 2012. A 10 ka record of environmental change from Lake Igaliku, South Greenland. Journal of Paleolimnology 48 (1): 241-257.
Masson-Delmotte, V., Swingedouw, D., Landais, A., Seidenkrantz, M.S., Gauthier, E., Bichet, V., Massa, C., Perren, B., Jomelli, V., Adalgeirsdottir, G., Christensen, J.H., Arneborg, J., Bhatt, U., Walker, D. A., Elberling, B., Gillet-Chaulet, F., Ritz, C., Gallée, H., van den Broeke, M., Fettweis, X., de Vernal, A., Vinther, B., 2012. Greenland climate change: from the past to the future. WIRES Climate Change, doi: 10.1002/wcc.186 pdf
Massa, C., Bichet, V., Gauthier, E., Perren, B. B., Mathieu, O., Petit, C., Monna, F., Giraudeau, J., Losno, R., Richard, H. 2012. A 2500 year record of natural and anthropogenic soil erosion in South Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews 32: 119-130.
Balascio, N.L., Zhang, Z., Bradley, R.S., Perren, B., Dahl, S.O., Bakke, J., 2011. A multi-proxy approach to assessing isolation basin stratigraphy from the Lofoten Islands, northwest Norway. Quaternary Research, v. 75, p. 288-300.
Hobbs, W. O., Wolfe, A. P., Telford, R. J., Birks, H. J. B., Saros, J. E., Hazelwinkel, R. R. O., Perren, B. B., Saulnier-Talbot, É. 2010. Quantifying limnological change in the Anthropocene: a comparison of high-altitude and high-latitude ecosystems. PloS One 5 (4):e10026.
Perren, B. B., Douglas, M.S.V., Anderson, N.J. 2009. Diatoms reveal complex spatial and temporal patterns of recent limnological change in West Greenland. Journal of Paleolimnology 42(2): 233-247. DOI: 10.1007/s10933-008-9273-8
Schindler, D.W., Wolfe, A.P., Vinebrooke, R., Crowe, A., Blais, J.M., McSkimmin, B., Freed, R., Perren, B.B. 2008. The cultural eutrophication of Lac la Biche: a paleoecological study. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65: 2211-2223.
Smol, J.P., Wolfe, A.P., Birks, H.J.B., Douglas, M.S.V., Jones, V.J., Korhola, A., Pienitz, R., Rühland, K., Sorvari, S., Antoniades, D., Brooks, S.J., Fallu, M-A., Hughes, M., Keatley, B., Laing, T., Michelutti, N., Nazarova, L., Nyman, M., Paterson, A. M., Perren, B., Quinlan, R., Rautio, M., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Siitonen, S., Solovieva, N. and J. Weckström. 2005. Climate-driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A. 102(12): 4397-4402.
Perren, B. B., Bradley, R.S., Francus, P. 2003. Rapid lacustrine response to recent high arctic warming: a diatom record from Sawtooth Lake, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 35: 271-278.
Wolfe, A.P. and Perren, B. B. 2001. Chrysophyte microfossils record marked responses to recent environmental changes in high- and mid-Arctic lakes. Canadian Journal of Botany 79: 742-752.
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2025
Perren, Bianca B. ORCID record for Bianca B. Perren, Kaiser, Jérôme ORCID record for Jérôme Kaiser, Arz, Helge W. ORCID record for Helge W. Arz, Dellwig, Olaf, Hodgson, Dominic A. ORCID record for Dominic A. Hodgson, Lamy, Frank ORCID record for Frank Lamy. (2025) Poleward displacement of the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies in response to Early Holocene warming. Communications Earth & Environment, 6 (). 10 pp. doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02129-z
2023
Vandecrux, B., Box, J.E., Ahlstrøm, A.P., Andersen, S.B., Bayou, N., Colgan, W.T., Cullen, N.J., Fausto, R.S., Haas-Artho, D., Heilig, A., Houtz, D.A., How, P., Enescu, I.I., Karlsson, N.B., Buchholz, R.K., Mankoff, K.D., McGrath, D., Molotch, N.P., Perren, B. ORCID record for B. Perren, Revheim, M.K., Rutishauser, A., Sampson, K., Schneebeli, M., Starkweather, S., Steffen, S., Weber, J., Wright, P.J., Zwally, H.J., Steffen, K.. (2023) The historical Greenland Climate Network (GC-Net) curated and augmented level-1 dataset. Earth System Science Data, 15 (). pp. 10.5194/essd-15-5467-2023
Hodgson, Dominic A. ORCID record for Dominic A. Hodgson, Roberts, Stephen J. ORCID record for Stephen J. Roberts, Izagirre, Eñaut, Perren, Bianca B. ORCID record for Bianca B. Perren, De Vleeschouwer, François, Davies, Sarah J., Bishop, Thomas, McCulloch, Robert D., Aravena, Juan-Carlos. (2023) Southern limit of the Patagonian Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews, 321 (). pp. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108346
Heredia Barión, Pablo A., Strelin, Jorge A., Roberts, Stephen J. ORCID record for Stephen J. Roberts, Spiegel, Cornelia, Wacker, Lukas, Niedermann, Samuel, Bentley, Michael J., Pearson, Emma J., Manograsso Czalbowski, Tamara, Davies, Sarah J., Schnetger, Bernhard, Grosjean, Martin, Arcusa, Stephanie, Perren, Bianca ORCID record for Bianca Perren, Kuhn, Gerhard. (2023) The impact of Holocene deglaciation and glacial dynamics on the landscapes and geomorphology of Potter Peninsula, King George Island (Isla 25 Mayo), NW Antarctic Peninsula. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10 (). 38 pp. 10.3389/feart.2022.1073075
2021
Pinseel, Eveline, Van de Vijver, Bart, Wolfe, Alexander P., Harper, Margaret, Antoniades, Dermot, Ashworth, Allan C., Ector, Luc, Lewis, Adam R., Perren, Bianca ORCID record for Bianca Perren, Hodgson, Dominic A. ORCID record for Dominic A. Hodgson, Sabbe, Koen, Verleyen, Elie, Vyverman, Wim. (2021) Extinction of austral diatoms in response to large-scale climate dynamics in Antarctica. Science Advances, 7 (). 14 pp. 10.1126/sciadv.abh3233
2020
Perren, Bianca B. ORCID record for Bianca B. Perren, Hodgson, Dominic A. ORCID record for Dominic A. Hodgson, Roberts, Stephen J. ORCID record for Stephen J. Roberts, Sime, Louise ORCID record for Louise Sime, Van Nieuwenhuyze, Wim, Verleyen, Elie, Vyverman, Wim. (2020) Southward migration of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds corresponds with warming climate over centennial timescales. Communications Earth & Environment, 1 (). 8 pp. 10.1038/s43247-020-00059-6
2019
Berg, Sonja, White, Duanne, Jivcov, Sandra, Melles, Martin, Leng, Melanie ORCID record for Melanie Leng, Rethemeyer, Janet, Allen, Claire ORCID record for Claire Allen, Perren, Bianca ORCID record for Bianca Perren, Bennike, Ole, Viehberg, Finn. (2019) Holocene glacier fluctuations and environmental changes in sub-Antarctic South Georgia inferred from a sediment record from a coastal inlet. Quaternary Research, 91 (). pp. 10.1017/qua.2018.85
Whittle, Alex, Amesbury, Matthew J., Charman, Dan J., Hodgson, Dominic A. ORCID record for Dominic A. Hodgson, Perren, Bianca B. ORCID record for Bianca B. Perren, Roberts, Stephen J. ORCID record for Stephen J. Roberts, Gallego-Sala, Angela V.. (2019) Salt-enrichment impact on biomass production in a natural population of peatland dwelling Arcellinida and Euglyphida (testate amoebae). Microbial Ecology, 78 (). pp. 10.1007/s00248-018-1296-8
2018
Saunders, Krystyna M., Roberts, Stephen J. ORCID record for Stephen J. Roberts, Perren, Bianca ORCID record for Bianca Perren, Butz, Christoph, Sime, Louise ORCID record for Louise Sime, Davies, Sarah, Van Nieuwenhuyze, Wim, Grosjean, Martin, Hodgson, Dominic A. ORCID record for Dominic A. Hodgson. (2018) Holocene dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds and possible links to CO2 outgassing. Nature Geoscience, 11 (). pp. 10.1038/s41561-018-0186-5
de Wet, Gregory A., Balascio, Nicholas L., D'Andrea, William J., Bakke, Jostein, Bradley, Raymond S., Perren, Bianca ORCID record for Bianca Perren. (2018) Holocene glacier activity reconstructed from proglacial lake Gjøavatnet on Amsterdamøya, NW Svalbard. Quaternary Science Reviews, 183 (). pp. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.018
Gjerde, Martha, Bakke, Jostein, D'Andrea, William, Balascio, Nicholas, Bradley, Raymond, Vasslog, Kristian, Olafsdottir, Saedis, Rother, Torgeir, Perren, Bianca ORCID record for Bianca Perren, Hormes, Anne. (2018) Holocene multi-proxy environmental reconstruction from Lake Hakluytvatnet, Amsterdamøya Island, Svalbard (79.5°N). Quaternary Science Reviews, 183 (). pp. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.02.017
2017
Perren, Bianca ORCID record for Bianca Perren, Axford, Yarrow, Kaufman, Darrell. (2017) Alder, Nitrogen, And Lake Ecology: Terrestrial-Aquatic Linkages In The Postglacial History Of Lone Spruce Pond, SW Alaska. PLOS One, 12 (). 14 pp. 10.1371/journal.pone.0169106
2016
Sime, Louise S. ORCID record for Louise S. Sime, Hodgson, Dominic ORCID record for Dominic Hodgson, Bracegirdle, Thomas J. ORCID record for Thomas J. Bracegirdle, Allen, Claire ORCID record for Claire Allen, Perren, Bianca ORCID record for Bianca Perren, Roberts, Stephen ORCID record for Stephen Roberts, de Boer, Agatha M.. (2016) Sea ice led to poleward-shifted winds at the Last Glacial Maximum: the influence of state dependency on CMIP5 and PMIP3 models. Climate of the Past, 12 (). pp. doi:10.5194/cp-12-2241-2016
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