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Publications

CURRENT BOTANY AND PLANT SCIENCE ACADEMIC STAFF MEMBERS (AS OF MARCH 2011)

PROFESSOR CHARLES SPILLANE

Books & Monographs

Cooper DC, Spillane C, and Hodgkin T (Eds.) (2000) Broadening the Genetic Bases of Crop Production, IPGRI, FAO: Rome, CABI: Wallingford. 480pp.

van Hintum ThJL., Brown AHD, Spillane C and Hodgkin T (2000) Core collections of Plant Genetic Resources. IPGRI Technical Bulletin No. 3, IPGRI:Rome, 48pp.

Thro AM and Spillane C (1999) Biotechnology assisted participatory plant breeding: Complement or contradiction? CGIAR Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis, Working Document No.4, CIAT: Cali. 150pp. http://www.prgaprogram.org/prga/

FAO (1997a) The State of the World's Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, FAO: Rome, 336pp.

Spillane C, Engels J, Fassil F, Withers L, Gass T, and Cooper D (1999) Strengthening National Programmes for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. IPGRI:Rome, Issues in Genetic Resources No. 8. 65pp.

Spillane C & O’Mahony C (2006) “Plants for the Future in Ireland?”, Discussion document on EPSO/EUROPABIO national consultation on future of plant biotechnology in Ireland.

Research Papers, Reviews and Book Chapters

McKeown PC, Laouielle-Duprat, Prins P, Wolff P, Schmid M, Donoghue MTA, Fort A, Duszynska D, Comte A, Lao NT, Wennblom TJ, Smant G, Kohler C, Grossniklaus U and Spillane C (2011) Identification of imprinted genes subject to parent-of-origin specific expression in Arabidopsis thaliana seeds. BMC Plant Biology (in press).

Simrat Kaur, Mohan C. Kalita, Ravi B. Srivastava and Charles Spillane (2011) Eco-physiological Barriers and Technological Advances for Biodiesel Production from Microalgae. In: Biodiesel, eds. Stoytcheva M., Montero G., Intech Open Access Publisher, Croatia, ISBN 978-953-307-633-1.

Wolff P, Weinhofer I, Seguin J, Roszak P, Beisel C, Donoghue MTA, Spillane C, Nordborg M, Rehmsmeier M and Köhler C (2011) High-Resolution Analysis of Parent-of-Origin Allelic Expression in the Arabidopsis Endosperm. PLOS Genetics Jun;7(6):e1002126

Girum Azmach, Mosisa Worku, Legesse Wolde, Wende Abera, Birhanu Tadesse, Tolera Keno, Temesgen Chibsa, Charles Spillane and Abebe Menkir (2011) Development of Improved Yellow Maize Germplasm in Ethiopia. pp ...-... In B.M. Prasanna ... (ed.) Proceedings of the Third National Maize Workshop of Ethiopia. April 18-20, 2011. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, EIAR/CIMMYT.

de Souza Gomes M, Kumar Muniyappa M, Gonçalves Carvalho S, Guerra-Sá R and Spillane C (2011) Genome-wide identification of novel microRNAs and their target genes in the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni. Genomics (May 26, in press).

Sikora KM, Magee DA, Berkowicz EW, Lonergan P, Evans ACO, Carter F, Comte A, Waters SM, MacHugh DE and Spillane C (2011) Bovine PHLDA2 is a uniparentally expressed imprinted gene. Animal Genetics (in press).

Berkowicz EW, Magee DA, Berry DP, Sikora KM, Howard DJ, Mullen MP, Evans RD, Spillane C and MacHugh DE (2011) Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the imprinted bovine insulin-like growth factor 2 receptor gene (IGF2R) are associated with body size traits in Irish Holstein-Friesian cattle. Animal Genetics (in press).

Donoghue, M.T., Keshavaiah, C., Swamidatta, S.H., and Spillane, C (2011) Evolutionary origins of Brassicaceae specific genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11, 47.

Sikora, K.M., Magee, D.A., Berkowicz, E.W., Berry, D.P., Howard, D.J., Mullen, M.P., Evans, R.D., Machugh, D.E., and Spillane, C. (2011) DNA sequence polymorphisms within the bovine guanine nucleotide-binding protein Gs subunit alpha (Gsalpha)-encoding (GNAS) genomic imprinting domain are associated with performance traits. BMC Genetics 12, 4.

Magee, D.A., Berry, D.P., Berkowicz, E.W., Sikora, K.M., Howard, D.J., Mullen, M.P., Evans, R.D., Spillane, C., and MacHugh, D.E. (2011) Single nucleotide polymorphisms within the bovine DLK1-DIO3 imprinted domain are associated with economically important production traits in cattle. Journal of Heredity 102, 94-101.

Berkowicz, E.W., Magee, D.A., Sikora, K.M., Berry, D.P., Howard, D.J., Mullen, M.P., Evans, R.D., Spillane, C., and MacHugh, D.E. (2011) Single nucleotide polymorphisms at the imprinted bovine insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2) locus are associated with dairy performance in Irish Holstein-Friesian cattle. The Journal of Dairy Research 78, 1-8.

Morris SH and Spillane C (2010) EU GM Crop Regulation: A Road to Resolution or a Regulatory Roundabout? European Journal of Risk Regulation 4:359-369.

Magee, D.A., Sikora, K.M., Berkowicz, E.W., Berry, D.P., Howard, D.J., Mullen, M.P., Evans, R.D., Spillane, C., and MacHugh, D.E. (2010) DNA sequence polymorphisms in a panel of eight candidate bovine imprinted genes and their association with performance traits in Irish Holstein-Friesian cattle. BMC Genetics 11, 93.

Magee, D.A., Berkowicz, E.W., Sikora, K.M., Sweeney, T., Kenny, D.A., Kelly, A.K., Evans, R.D., Wickham, B.W., Bradley, D.G., Spillane, C., and MacHugh, D.E. (2010) High concordance of bovine single nucleotide polymorphism genotypes generated using two independent genotyping strategies. Animal Biotechnology 21, 257-262.

O’Connell MJ, Loughran NB, Walsh TA, Donoghue MTA, Schmid KJ and Spillane C. (2010) A phylogenetic approach to test for evidence of parental conflict or gene duplications associated with protein-encoding imprinted orthologous genes in placental mammals. Mammalian Genome (in press).

Magee DA, Berry DP, Berkowicz EW, Sikora KM, Howard DJ, Mullen MP, Evans RD, Spillane C and Machugh DE (2010) Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms within the Bovine DLK1-DIO3 Imprinted Domain Are Associated with Economically Important Production Traits in Cattle. Journal of Heredity (in press)

Atanassov A, Gheysen G, Murphy DJ, Sanvido O, Schiemann J, Spillane C and Tuberosa R (2010) 1 out of 27-European politicians score poorly in agbiotech. Nature Biotechnology 28: 551-552.

Tessadori F, van Zanten M, Pavlova P, Clifton R, Pontvianne Basten Snoek FL, Millenaar FF, Schulkes RK, van Driel R, Voesenek LACJ, Spillane C, Pikaard CS, Fransz P, Peeters AJM (2009) Phytochrome B and histone deacetylase 6 control light-induced chromatin compaction in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLOS Genetics, Sep;5(9):e1000638

Selcuklu D, Donoghue M and Spillane C (2009) miR-21 as a key regulator of oncogenic processes. Biochem Soc Transactions 37:918-25

Gerlach JQ, Kilcoyne M, McKeown P, Spillane C and Joshi L (2009) Plant produced biopharmaceuticals. In: Kole C, Michler CH, Abbott AG and Hamm TC (Eds.) Biotech Plants: Development, Utilization and Deployment, Springer-Verlag (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York).

Schouest, K., Zitova, A., Spillane, C., and Papkovsky, D.B. (2009). Toxicological assessment of chemicals using Caenorhabditis elegans and optical oxygen respirometry. Environmental Chemistry & Toxicology 28:791-9.

Garnier O, Laoueillé-Duprat S, Spillane C. (2008) Genomic imprinting in plants. Epigenetics. 3:14-20.

Garnier O, Laoueillé-Duprat S, Spillane C. (2008) Genomic imprinting in plants. Adv Exp Med Biol. 626:89-100.

Nembaware V, Lupindo B, Schouest K, Spillane C, Scheffler K and Seoighe C (2008) Genome-wide survey of allele-specific splicing in humans. BMC Genomics 2;9:265

Selcuklu , SD & Spillane C (2008) Translational epigenetics: clinical approaches to epigenome therapeutics for cancer. Epigenetics. 3:107-12.

O’Brien M, Spillane C, Meade C, and Mullins E (2008) Impact of Arable Farming on Irish Biodiversity: A Scarcity of Studies Hinders a Rigorous Assessment. Biology & Environment (in press).

Schouest, K., Coghlan, A. and Spillane, C. (2008). Development of a C.elegans model system for genetic and molecular dissection of epigenetic mechanisms underlying trinucleotide expansion disorders. Ulster Medical Journal. 77(1): 70.

Spillane C, Schmid K, Laouielle-Duprat S, Pien S, Escobar JM, Gheyselinck J, Gagliardini V, Wolfe K, and Grossniklaus U. (2007) The imprinted MEDEA gene is a neo-functional paralog undergoing positive Darwinian selection. Nature 448:349-52.

Martin G, Schouest K, Kovvuru P and Spillane C (2007) Prediction and validation of microRNA targets in animal genomes. J Biosci. 32:1049-52.

Fouhy, Y., Scanlon, K., Schouest, K., Spillane C, Crossman, L., Avison M.B., Ryan, R.P., Dow, J.M. (2007). DSF-dependent cell-cell signaling and virulence in the nosocomial pathogen Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. Journal of Bacteriology. 189:4964-8.

Haun WJ, Laouielle-Duprat S, O’Connell MJ, Spillane C, Grossniklaus U, Phillips AR, Kaeppler SM and Springer NM (2007) Genomic imprinting, methylation and molecular evolution of maize Enhancer of zeste (Mez) homologs. Plant Journal 49:325-37

Garnier O, Laouielle S and Spillane C (2006) Genomic imprinting in plants. In: Wilkins J (ed) Genomic Imprinting, Landes Biosciences: Georgetown, Texas.

Spillane C, Baroux C, Escobar-Restrepo J-M, Page DR, Laouielle S and Grossniklaus U (2005) Transposons and tandem repeats are not involved in the control of genomic imprinting at the MEDEA locus in Arabidopsis. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 69: 1-12.

Spillane C, Curtis MD, and Grossniklaus U (2004) Apomixis technology development – virgin births in farmers’ fields? Nature Biotechnology 22:687-691.

Collinge MA, Spillane C, Köhler C, Gheyselinck J and Grossniklaus U (2004) Genetic interaction of an origin recognition complex subunit and the Polycomb group gene MEDEA during seed development. Plant Cell 16:1035-46.

Köhler C, Hennig L, Spillane C, Pien S, Gruissem W and Grossniklaus U (2003) The Polycomb group protein MEDEA regulates seed development by controlling expression of the MADS-box gene PHERES1. Genes and Development 17:1540-53.

Grossniklaus, U. Moore, J.M., Brukhin, V., Gheyselinck, J., Baskar, R., Vielle-Calzada, J-P., Baroux, C., Page, D.R., and Spillane, C. (2002). Engineering of apomixis in crop plants: what can we learn from sexual model systems. In : Vasil IK (Ed) Plant Biotechnology 2002 & Beyond, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, pp. 309-314.

Baroux C, Spillane C and Grossniklaus U (2002) Evolutionary origins of the endosperm in flowering plants. Genome Biology 3:1026.1-1026.5.

Baroux C, Spillane C and Grossniklaus U (2002) Genomic imprinting during seed development. Advances in Genetics ;46:165-214

Spillane C, Steimer A and Grossniklaus U (2001) Apomixis in agriculture: the quest for clonal seeds. Sexual Plant Reproduction 14:179-187.

Spillane C, Vielle-Calzada JP and Grossniklaus U (2001) APO2001: A sexy apomixer in Como, Meeting Report, Plant Cell 13:1480-91.

Grossniklaus U, Spillane C, Page DR and Koehler C (2001) Genomic imprinting and seed development: endosperm formation with and without sex. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 4, 21-27.

Spillane C, MacDougall C, Stock C, Koehler C, Vielle-Calzada JP, Nunes SM, Grossniklaus U and Goodrich J (2000) Interaction of the Arabidopsis polycomb group proteins FIE and MEA mediates their common phenotypes. Current Biology 10, 1535-1538.

Spillane C, Vielle-Calzada J-P and Grossniklaus U (2000) Parent-of-origin effects and seed development: Genetics and epigenetics. In: Hui TH, Khachatourians GG, McHughen A, Nip WK, Scorza R (Eds) Transgenic Plants and Crops, New York:Marcel-Dekker Inc.

Spillane C and Gepts P (2000) Evolutionary and genetic perspectives on the dynamics of crop genepools. In: Cooper DC, Spillane C and Hodgkin T (Eds.) (2000) Broadening the Genetic Bases of Crop Production, CABI:Wallingford.

Vielle-Calzada JP, Thomas J, Spillane C, Coluccio A, Hoeppner MA, and Grossniklaus U (1999) Maintenance of genomic imprinting at the Arabidopsis medea locus requires zygotic DDM1 activity. Genes and Development 13:2971-2982.

Brown AHD and Spillane C (1999) Implementing core collections - principles, procedures, progress, problems and promise. In: Johnson RC and Hodgkin T (Eds) Core Collections for Today and Tomorrow, Crop Science Society of America: Madison, Wisconsin, p1-10.

Spillane C, Baulcombe DC and Kavanagh TA (1998) Genetic engineering of the potato cultivar Glenroe for increased resistance to potato virus X. Irish Journal of Food and Agriculture 37: 173-182

Spillane C, Verchot J, Kavanagh TA and Baulcombe DC (1997) Concurrent suppression of virus replication and rescue of movement-defective virus in transgenic plants expressing the coat protein of potato virus X. Virology 236:76-84.

Gilbert J, Spillane C, Kavanagh TA and Baulcombe DC (1997) Elicitation of Rx-mediated resistance to PVX in potato does not require new RNA synthesis and may involve a latent hypersensitive response. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 11: 833-835.

Spillane C (1995) Strategies for the Genetic Engineering of Resistance to Potato Virus X. Ph.D. thesis, Trinity College: Dublin, pp211.

Kavanagh TA and Spillane C (1995) Strategies for engineering virus resistance in transgenic plants, Euphytica 85:149-158.

Kavanagh TA and Spillane C (1992) Genes with your greens, Technology Ireland 24: 24-26.

Perspectives, Policy & Outreach-related Reviews and Book Chapters

Morris SH & Spillane C (2008) GM directive deficiencies in the European Union. The current framework for regulating GM crops in the EU weakens the precautionary principle as a policy tool. EMBO Reports. 9:500-4.

O’Mahony C & Spillane C (2004) Open-access publishers: Knowledge brokers in the electronic age. Irish Medical Times.

Spillane C and Doyle A (2004) Poverty alleviation, plant biotechnology and the CGIAR International Agricultural Research Centres. In: Christou P and Klee H (eds) Handbook of Plant Biotechnology, Wiley Europe. ISBN: 0-471-85199-X

Spillane C (2002), Agricultural Biotechnology and Developing Countries: Proprietary Knowledge and Diffusion of Benefits, in T. Swanson (ed.), Biotechnology, Agriculture and the Developing World, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Thro AM and Spillane C (2005) Biotechnology-assisted Participatory Plant Breeding: Opportunity or Oxymoron?, In: Sperling L and Ashby JA (Eds) Participatory Plant Breeding and rural development. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, (in press).

Spillane C and Pinto Y (2001) Biosafety in agricultural biotechnology: Balancing social and environmental impacts. In: Swanson T (ed). The Economics of Managing Biotechnologies, Springer:Netherlands, pp3-49..

Persley GJ, Spillane C, Eggen A, Lehn-Jenszen H, Chiono C, Wagner H and Hammond K (2000) Modern biotechnology and the management of animal genetic resources: policy issues. FAO Animal Biotechnology Working Group, FAO: Rome.

Spillane C and Thro AM (2000) Farmer participatory research and pro-poor agricultural biotechnology. Centre for Development Research: Copenhagen, Den Ny Verden Vol 1 (In Danish), 45pp.

Spillane C (2000) Can agricultural biotechnology contribute to poverty alleviation? CABI AgBiotechNet, Vol 2 March ABN 042 .

Spillane C (1999) Recent developments in biotechnology as they relate to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. FAO Commission on Genetic Resources:Rome, Backg round Study Paper No. 9., pp64.

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Cooper HD, Spillane C, Anishetty M, Griffee P (1998) Promoting the identification, conservation and use of wild food plant for food and agriculture: the FAO Global Plan of Action, Cahiers Options Mediterraneenes, vol 38. ISSN 1022-1379.

Cooper HD, Spillane C, Kermali I and Anishetty M (1996) Harnessing plant genetic resources for sustainable agriculture. Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter 114.

Esquinas JT, Spillane C and Stannard C (1997) Biodiversity and biotechnology for food and agriculture. International action for the conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, Chapter in book on UN Earth Charter.

Brown AHB and Spillane C (1998) Implementing core collections - principles, procedure, progress, problems and promise, In: CSSA/IPGRI (1998) Core collections ’98, Proceedings of Crop Science Society of America Core Collections Workshop, October 1998.

Cooper HD, Spillane C and Anishetty NM (1997) The Global Plan of Action for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Paper presented at BRG/Solagral/IER International Forum on “Sustainable management of plant genetic resources in the African Savannah, Bamako, Mali, 26-28 February, 1997.

Non-authored Government Commissioned Publications

NPBR (2007) Biodiversity Knowledge Programme for Ireland, Irish National Platform for Biodiversity Research, EPA/NPWS.

FAO (2000) Biotechnology, Biosafety and Biodiversity for Sustainable Agriculture. FAO Position paper for UN Commission on Sustainable Development review of Ch14 of Agenda 21, May 2000, UN, New York.

FAO (1996a) Draft Global Plan of Action for the Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Document ITCPGR/96/5-Rev1 presented to, (and unanimously adopted by 150 governments), the 4th International Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources, Leipzig, Germany, June 17-23, 1996, p62.

FAO (1995a) Recent International Developments of Relevance to the Draft Code of Conduct for Plant Biotechnology, Document CPGR-6/95/15 of the Sixth Session of the FAO Commission on Plant Genetic Resources, June 19-39, 1995, p13.

Dept of Agriculture (1995) Country Report on the Status of Plant Genetic Resources in the Republic of Ireland, National Report submitted to the FAO by the Irish Department of Agriculture, Dublin, Ireland, p28 (invited contribution).

DR ZOE POPPER

Popper ZA, Sadler IH, Fry SC. 2001. 3- O-Methyl-d-galactose residues in lycophyte primary cell walls. Phytochemistry 57: 711–719.

Popper ZA, Fry SC. 2003. Primary cell wall composition of bryophytes and Charophytes. Annals of Botany 91: 1–12.

Popper ZA, Sadler IH, Fry SC. 2003. a-d-Glucuronosyl-(1®3)-l-galactose, an unusual disaccharide from polysaccharides of the hornwort Anthoceros caucasicus. Phytochemistry 64: 325–335.

Popper ZA, Sadler IH, Fry SC. 2004. 3- O-Methylrhamnose in lower land plant primary cell walls . Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 32: 279–289.

Popper ZA, Fry SC. 2004. Primary Cell Wall Composition of Pteridophytes and Spermatophytes. New Phytologist 164: 165 –174.

Popper ZA, Sadler IH, Fry SC. 2004. Evolution and Composition of Bryophyte primary cell walls (Abstract). Field Bryology 82: 33–34.

Popper ZA, Fry SC. 2005. Widespread occurrence of a covalent linkage between xyloglucan and acidic polysaccharides in suspension-cultured angiosperm cells. Annals of Botany 96: 91–99.

Popper ZA. 2006. The cell walls of Pteridophytes and other green plants - a review. Fern Gazette 17(6,7,8): 315-332.

Tuomivaara ST , Popper ZA, Bootten TJ, O’Neill M, Freshour G, York WS, Hahn MG. 2006. Epitope characterisation of tamarind xyloglucan reactive monoclonal antibodies (Abstract). Glycobiology 16: 1130.

McCann A, Benanti G, Knox JP, Popper ZA. 2007. The occurrence of arabinogalactan proteins in charophytes (stoneworts). Physiologia Plantarum 130: Abstract 125.

Popper ZA. 2008. Evolution and diversity of green plant cell walls (invited review). Current Opinion in Plant Biology 11: 286–292.

Popper ZA, Fry SC. 2008. Xyloglucan-pectin linkages are formed intra-protoplasmically, contribute to wall-assembly, and remain stable in the cell wall. Planta 227: 781–794.

Popper Z.A., Michel G., Hervé C., Domozych D.S., Willats W.G.T., Tuohy M.G., Kloareg B., Stengel D.B. (2011). Evolution and Diversity of Plant Cell Walls: From Algae to Flowering Plants. Annu Rev Plant Biol 62: doi: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042110-103809

DR M. SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON

Books

Carter, R.W.G., Curtis, T.G.F. and Sheehy Skeffington, M.J. (eds.) 1992. Coastal Dunes Geomorphology, Ecology and Management for Consevation. Proceedings of the third European Dune Congress, Galway, Ireland, June 1991. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.

Wyse Jackson, P.S. and Sheehy Skeffington, M.J. 1984. The Flora of Inner Dublin. Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, 173 pp.

Book Chapters

Sheehy Skeffington M.J.and O'Connell C 1998. Peatlands of Ireland. In: P. Giller (ed.) Studies in Irish Limnology. Invited chapter for the Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL) conference, August 1998.

Journal Articles

Ní Bhriain, B., Gormally, M and Sheehy Skeffington, M. 2003. Changes in land use practices at two turloughs, on the east Burren limestones, Co. Galway, with reference to nature conservation. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 103B, 169-176.

Ní Bhriain, B., Sheehy Skeffington, M. and Gormally, M. 2002. Conservation implications of land use practices on the plant and carabid beetle communities of two turloughs in Co. Galway, Ireland. Biological Conservation, 105, 81-92.

Curtis T.G.F. and Sheehy Skeffington M. 1998. The salt marshes of Ireland: an inventory and account of their geographical variation. Biology and Environment, 98B, 87-104.

DR DAGMAR STENGEL

Stengel, D.B. and Dring, M.J. (1997). Morphology and in situ growth rates of plants of Ascophyllum nodosum (Phaeophyta) from different shore levels and responses of plants to vertical transplantation. European Journal of Phycology 32:193-202.

Stengel, D.B. and Dring, M.J. (1998). Seasonal variation in the pigment content and photosynthesis of different thallus regions of Ascophyllum nodosum (Fucales, Phaeophyta) in relation to position in the canopy. Phycologia 37:259-268.

Stengel, D.B., Wilkes, R.J. and Guiry, M.D. (1999). Seasonal growth and recruitment of Himanthalia elongata (Fucales, Phaeophycota) in different habitats on the Irish west coast. European Journal of Phycology 34 (2):213-221.

Stengel, D.B. and Dring, M.J. (2000). Copper and iron concentrations in Ascophyllum nodosum (Fucales, Phaeophyta) from different sites in Ireland and after culture experiments in relation to thallus age and epiphytism. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 246:145-161.

Pfetzing, J., Stengel, D.B., Cuffe, M. M. Savage, A.V. and Guiry, M.D. (2000). Effects of temperature and prolonged emersion on photosynthesis, carbohydrate content and growth of the brown intertidal alga Pelvetia canaliculata. Botanica Marina 43 (4): 399-407.

Loughnane, C. and Stengel, D.B. (2002). Attached Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt found on the west coast of Ireland. Irish Naturalists' Journal 27(2):70-72.

Stengel, D.B. and Morrison, L. (2003). Environmental fingerprinting using seaweed. Irish Scientist Year Book. http://www.irishscientist.ie/2004/

Stengel, D.B., Macken, A., Morrison, L. and Morley, N. (2004). Zn concentrations in marine macroalgae and a lichen from western Ireland in relation to phylogenetic grouping, habitat and morphology. Marine Pollution Bulletin 48: 902-909.

Varela-Alvarez, E., Stengel, D.B., and Guiry, M.D. (2004). The use of image processing in assessing conchocelis growth and conchospore production in Porphyra linearis. Phycologia 43 (3): 282-287.
Stengel, D.B. (2004). Algal ecophysiology and ecotoxicology at NUIG. Irish Scientist Year Book. www.irishscientist.ie/2004/

Varela-Alvarez, E., Stengel, D.B., Rindi, F. and Guiry, M.D. (2005). Alternation of nuclear phases and chromosome numbers in Porphyra linearis (Rhodophyta) from the western Ireland and Maine, USA. Phycologia 44(1): 61-65.

Stengel, D.B., McGrath, H., and Morrison, L.J. (2005). Tissue Cu, Fe and Mn concentrations in different-aged and different functional thallus regions of three brown algae from western Ireland. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 65(4): 687-696.

Stengel, D.B. (2005). Marine Biota - Algal-atmosphere interactions and feedback on climate. In: SOLAS - Ireland National Report (C. O'Dowd, Ed.). Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Studies Ireland. Proceedings of 1st Irish SOLAS Workshop. 11-12.

Stengel, D.B., O'Reilly, S., and O'Halloran, J. (2006). Contaminants and Pollutants. In: The ecology of transportation: managing mobility for the environment. p. 361-389. Eds. J. Davenport & J. Davenport. Environmental Pollution Series, Springer Verlag.

Stengel, D.B. (2006). Seaweeds as sensitive indicators of human impact and climate change. Irish Scientist Year Book.

Stengel, D.B. (2006). Algal Responses to Environmental Change: Seaweed-environment interactions and their applications. In: SOLAS – Ireland National Report 2006 (C. O’Dowd, Ed.). Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Studies Ireland. ISBN: 978-0-9553862-2-0. Proceedings of 2^nd Irish SOLAS Workshop, 40-46.

Varela-Alvarez, E., Stengel, D.B. and Guiry, M.D. (2007). Seasonal growth and phenotypic variation in Porphyra linearis (Rhodophyta) populations on the west coast of Ireland. Journal of Phycology 43(1), 90-100.

Morrison, L., Baumann, H.A. and Stengel, D.B. (2007). An assessment of metal contamination along the Irish coast using the seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum (Fucales, Phaeophyceae). Environmental Pollution, 152, 293-303.

Loughnane, C., McIvor, L.M., Rindi, F., Stengel, D.B. and Guiry, M.D. (2008). Morphology, RBCL Phylogeny and distribution of distromatic Ulva (Ulvophyceae, Chlorophyta) in Ireland and sourthern Britain. Phycologia, 47(4), 416-429.

Stengel, D.B., Zacharias, M. and Connan, S. (2008). Exchange at the Air-Sea Interface: Air Quality and Climate ImpactS (EASI-AQCIS) - Marine algal biological cycling. SOLAS – Ireland National Report 2008 (B.Ward, Ed.). Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Studies Ireland. ISBN: 978-0-9553862-4-4. pp. 27-35.

Baumann, H.A., Morrison, L. and Stengel, D.B. (2009). Metal accumulation and toxicity measured by PAM-Chlorophyll fluorescence in seven species of marine macroalgae. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 72, 1063-1075.

Morrison, L., Feely, M., Stengel, D.B., Blamey, N., Dockery, P., Sherlock, A. and Timmins, E. (2009). Seaweed attachment to bedrock: biophysical evidence for a new geophycology paradigm. Geobiology, 7, 1-11.

Nitschke, U., Ruth, A., Dixneuf, S. and Stengel, D.B (2010). Molecular iodine emission rates and photosynthetic performance of different thallus parts of Laminaria digitata (Phaeophyceae) during emersion. Planta: doi 10.1007/s00425-010-1334-3.

Baer, J. and D. B. Stengel (2010). Variability in growth, development and reproduction of the non-native seaweed Sargassum muticum (Phaeophyceae) on the Irish west coast. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 90(4): 185-194.

Nitschke, U., Ruth, A., Dixneuf, S. and Stengel, D.B (2010). Molecular iodine emission rates and photosynthetic performance of different thallus parts of Laminaria digitata (Phaeophyceae) during emersion. Planta: doi 10.1007/s00425-010-1334-3.

Popper Z.A., Michel G., Hervé C., Domozych D.S., Willats W.G.T., Tuohy M.G., Kloareg B., Stengel D.B. (2011). Evolution and Diversity of Plant Cell Walls: From Algae to Flowering Plants. Annu Rev Plant Biol 62: doi: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042110-103809.

Connan S. and Stengel D.B. (2011). Impacts of ambient salinity and copper on brown algae: 1. Interactive effects on photosynthesis, growth, and copper accumulation. Aquatic Toxicology (accepted).

Connan S. and Stengel D.B. (2011). Impacts of ambient salinity and copper on brown algae: 2. Interactive effects on phenolic pool and assessment of metal binding capacity of phlorotannin. Aquatic Toxicology (accepted).

Steevensz, A.J., MacKinnon S., Hankinson R., Craft C., Connan S., Stengel D.B., and Melanson J.E. 2012. Profiling Phlorotannins in Brown Macroalgae by Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry. Phytochemical Analysis DOI 10.1002/pca.2354

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PROFESSOR MICHAEL O'CONNELL

Molloy, K., Feeser, I. and O’Connell, M. (accepted). A new pollen record from east Galway: fresh insights into farming and woodland dynamics in mid-western Ireland from the Neolithic to recent times. In: Living Landscapes: Exploring Neolithic Ireland and its Wider Context. Archaeopress (BAR), Oxford. (expected publication date: 2010).

Feeser, I. and O’Connell, M. 2010. Late Holocene land-use and vegetation dynamics in an upland karst region based on pollen and coprophilous fungal spore analyses: an example from the Burren, western Ireland. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, published online: DOI 10.1007/s00334-009-0235-5; Jan 2010; 18 pp.

Krzywinski, K., O’Connell, M. and Küster, H. (eds). 2009. Cultural Landscapes of Europe. Fields of Demeter, Haunts of Pan. Aschenbeck Media, Bremen, 217 pp.
German edition: Europäische Kulturlandschaften. Wo Demeter ihre Felder hat und Pan zu Hause ist.
Norwegian edition (in press): Europas kulturlandskaper. Pans rike, Demeters åkrer.

Feeser, I. and O’Connell, M. 2009. Fresh insights into long-term changes in flora, vegetation, land use and soil erosion in the karstic environment of the Burren, western Ireland. Journal of Ecology 97, 1083–1100 [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01533.x]

Overland , A. and O’Connell, M. 2009. Palaeoecological investigations in the Barrees Valley. In: O’Brien, W. (ed.) Local worlds. Early settlement landscapes and upland farming in south-west Ireland. Collins Press, Cork, pp. 285-322.

Overland , A. and O’Connell, M. 2008. Fine-spatial paleoecological investigations towards reconstructing late Holocene environmental change, landscape evolution and farming activity in Barrees, Beara Peninsula, southwestern Ireland. Journal of the North Atlantic, 1, 37-73.

Molloy, K. 2008. Pollen analytical investigations towards the reconstruction of the local environment and land use at Chancellorsland. In: Doody, M. (Ed.). The Ballyhoura Hills Project (Discovery Programme Monograph No. 7). Wordwell, Bray, pp. 479-507.

Molloy, K. 2008. Palaeoenvironment. In: Doody, M. (Ed.). The Ballyhoura Hills Project (Discovery Programme Monograph No. 7). Wordwell, Bray, pp. 23-30.

Dillon, M., Newman, C., Molloy, K. and O’Connell, M. 2008. Environment and ritual in a late Iron Age context: an example from Raffin Fort, Co. Meath, Ireland. In: Charcoals from the past: cultural and palaeoenvironmental implications (eds G. Fiorentino and D. Magri). BAR International Series, 1807, 75-92.

Holmes, J., Jones, R., Haas, J.N, McDermott, F., Molloy, K. and O’Connell, M. 2007. Multi-proxy evidence for Holocene lake-level and salinity changes at An Loch Mór, a coastal lake on the Aran Islands, western Ireland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26, 2436-2462.

Molloy, K. and O’Connell, M. 2007. Fresh insights into long-term environmental change on the Aran Islands based on palaeoecological investigations of lake sediments from Inis Oírr. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 59, 1-17.

Newman, C., O’Connell, M., Dillon, M. and Molloy, K. 2007. Interpretation of charcoal and pollen data relating to a late Iron Age ritual site in eastern Ireland: a holistic approach. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 16, 349-365. (published Online in 2006)

Molloy, K. 2007. Reconstruction of past vegetation history on Clare Island: palaeoenvironmental investigations undertaken in conjunction with the archaeological investigations. In: Gosling, P., Manning, C. and Waddell, J. (eds.). New survey of Clare Island. Volume 5: Archaeology. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, pp. 297-310

O’Connell, M. 2007. European cultural landscapes: a view from Ireland informed by PAN (EU 5fp network). Kulturlandschaft. Administrativ – digital – touristisch (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt: Initativen zum Umweltschutz, Vol. 67). Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin, pp. 113-130.

Schettler, G., Romer, R.L., O’Connell, M. and Molloy, K. 2006. Holocene climatic variations and postglacial sea-level rise geochemically recorded in the sediments of the brackish karst lake An Loch Mór, western Ireland. Boreas, 35, 674-692.

Molloy, K. 2006. Palaeoenvironmental investigations at Rinnaraw Cashel/Byre-house site, Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal (pp. 115-120). In: Comber, M. 2006. Tom Fanning’s excavations at Rinnaraw Cashel, Portnablagh, Co. Donegaly. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 106C, 67-124.

Molloy, K. 2005. Holocene vegetation and land-use history at Mooghaun, south-east Clare, with particular reference to the Bronze Age. In: Grogan E. (ed.), The North Munster Project, Vol. 1. The later prehistoric landscape of south-east Clare. Discovery Programme Monographs 6. Wordwell, Bray, pp 255-301.

O’Connell, M. and Molloy, K. 2005. Native woodland composition and dynamics: a long-term perspective based on a Holocene pollen profile from Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, western Ireland. In: Doyle, C. and Little, D. (eds) Ireland’s Native Woodlands (on CD-ROM). Woodlands of Ireland, Dublin, pp 20-47.

Hunt, J., Chambers, F., O’Connell, M. and Molloy, K. 2004. Developing the tephrochronology of An Loch Mór, Inis Oírr, western Ireland. Quaternary Newsletter, No. 104, 49-51.

Chambers, F.M., Daniell, J.R.G., Hunt, J.B., Molloy, K. and O’Connell, M. 2004. Tephrostratigraphy of An Loch Mór, Inis Oírr, W. Ireland: implications for Holocene tephrochronology in the northeastern Atlantic region. The Holocene, 14, 703-720.

Molloy, K. and O’Connell, M. 2004. Holocene vegetation and land-use dynamics in the karstic environment of Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, western Ireland: pollen analytical evidence evaluated in the light of the archaeological record. Quaternary International, 113, 41-64.

Diefendorf, A.F., Patterson, W.P., Mullins, H.T., Martini, A.M. and O'Connell, M. 2003. High-resolution Holocene climate variability at Lough Inchiquin, western Ireland: evidence from stable carbon and oxygen isotope values of lacustrine sediment. Conference Proceedings, The Geological Society of America, 2003. Seattle Annual Meeting (Nov 2–5, 2003).

Fuller, J.L. 2002. Past vegetation and land-use dynamics in Mayo Abbey, central Mayo. Archaeology Ireland, 16 (3), 20-23.

Huang, C.C. 2002. Holocene landscape development and human impact in the Connemara uplands, western Ireland. Journal of Biogeography, 29, 153-165.

O’Connell, M. and Molloy, K. 2002. Neolithic impact in Ireland and its environmental contexts. Terra Nostra, 2002/6, 250-257.

O’Connell, M. and Molloy, K. 2001. Farming and woodland dynamics in Ireland during the Neolithic. Biology and Environment (Proc R Ir Acad , Ser B), 101, 99-128.

O’Connell, M. 2001. Neolithic impact in Atlantic Europe: timing, intensity and environmental contexts. Monsoon 3, 78-82. (Extended Abstract, ALDP Meeting, ’Environmental Changes and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations’, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto; Nov. 2001).

McCarthy, T.K. Barbiero, R., Doherty, D., Cullen, P., Ashe, P., O’Connell, M., Guiry, M., Sheehy-Skeffington, M., King, J., O’Connor, B. 2001. Investigation of eutrophication processes in the littoral zones of western Irish lakes. Final Report. Environmental Protection Agency, Wexford. 333 pp.

O’Connell, M., Molloy, K. and McMahon, H. 2001. Reconstructing prehistoric farming activity and human impact at a fine spatial resolution: palaeoecological investigations at Mooghaun, Co. Clare, western Ireland. In: Schauer, P. (ed.), Beiträge zur Siedlungsarchäologie und zum Landschaftswandel. Regensburger Beiträge zur Prähistorischen Archäologie, 7, 161-186.

O’Connell, M., Molloy, K., Holmes, J.A., Jones, R., Leuenberger, M., Eicher, U. Saarinen, T., Schettler, G., McDermott, F., van der Plicht, J., Chambers, F.M., Daniell, J.R.G., Hunt, J.B., van Geel, B., Haas, J.N. and Dalton, C. 2001. Evidence from the TIMECHS project for climatic instability during the early Holocene at the Atlantic fringe of Europe. Terra Nostra, 2001, 159-161.

O’Connell, M., Molloy, K., Holmes, J.A., Jones, R., Saarinen, T., Roberts, M., McDermott, F., Hawkesworth, C.J., Barton, K., Leuenberger, M., Eicher, U., Chambers, F.M., Hunt, J.B., van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., Schettler, G., Dalton, C., Battarbee, R.W., Dörfler, W., Usinger, H. and Haas, J.N. 2000. Timing and mechanisms of Holocene climate change in NW Europe (TIMECHS): multidisciplinary investigations of calcareous, lake sediments from Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, W. Ireland. In: Proceedings of European Climate Science Conference, Vienna (19-23, October 1998). CD-ROM, EU Commission, Brussels.

Huang, C.C. and O’Connell, M. 2000. Recent land-use and soil-erosion history within a small catchment in Connemara, western Ireland: evidence from lake sediments and documentary sources. Catena, 41, 293-335.

O’Connell, M., Molloy, K., Saarinen, T., Schettler, G., McDermott, F., Hawkesworth, C.J., Huang, Y., Holmes, J.A., Jones, R., Leuenberger, M., Chambers, F.M., Hunt, J.B., Daniell, J., van der Plicht, J., Heijnis, H., van Geel, B., Barton, K., Haas, J.N. and Dalton, C. 2000. Human impact and climate change at the western fringe of Europe: multidisciplinary studies of calcareous sediments from An Loch Mór, Aran Islands, W. Ireland. Terra Nostra, 2000, 77-81.

Molloy, K., Fuller, J. and Conaghan, J. 2000. Vegetation and land-use history on High Island: the results of preliminary investigations. In: White Marshall, J. and Rourke G.D. High Island. An Irish Monastery in the Atlantic, Townhouse, Dublin, pp. 233-243.

Feehan, J., 2000. Fraoch Mór Mháigh Rechet: The Great Heath of Maryborough, Dúchas, Dublin (palaeoenvironmental contribution by M. O’Connell and D. McCarthy, pp. 14-17).

O’Connell, M., Huang, C.C. and Eicher, U. 1999. Multidisciplinary investigations, including stable-isotope studies, of thick Late-glacial sediments from Tory Hill, Co. Limerick, western Ireland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 147, 169-208.

Barton, K. and Molloy, K. (Eds) 1998. South Central Mayo. Field Guide No. 22. Irish Association for Quaternary Studies, Dublin.

Fuller, J.L. and O’Connell, M. 1998. Long-term vegetation dynamics and human activity at Mayo Abbey, central Mayo. In: Barton, K. and Molloy, K. (Eds.). South Central Mayo. Field Guide No. 22. Irish Association for Quaternary Studies, Dublin.

O’Connell, M. 1998. [Contributions] Assemblage zone (pp. 58-59); Biostratigraphic unit (p. 94); Biostratigraphy (pp. 94-95); Chronostratigraphy (pp. 130-131); Chronozone (p. 131); Fossil assemblage (p. 288); Palaeoclimatic reconstruction (pp. 517-520); Pluvial (p. 568); Spread (p. 715). In: The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management (Eds Calow, P., Falk, D.A., Grace, J., Moore, P.D. and Stearns, S.C.). Blackwell Science, Osney Mead.

Molloy, K. 1997. Prehistoric farming at Mooghaun - a new pollen diagram from Mooghaun Lough. Archaeology Ireland, 11, 22-26.

O'Connell, M., Molloy, K., Usinger, H. and Dörfler, W. 1997. Coring deep calcareous lakes in south-east Clare and Inis Oírr (Inisheer), western Ireland, towards the reconstruction of Late-glacial and Holocene environments. Würzburger Geographische Manuskripte, 41, 151-152.

Huang, C.C. and O'Connell, M. 1996. Radiometric dating of the recent lake sediment from Ballydoo Lough, Cornamona, Co. Galway, Ireland. In: Liu, T., Luo, L., Huang, C.C., Guo, Y. and Zhang, D. (Eds). Environmental Change and Quaternary Research - Proceedings of International Conference on Quaternary High Mountainous Regions (ICQMR). Southwest China Normal University Press, Chongqing, pp. 15-22.

Mitchell, F.J.G., Bradshaw, R.H.W., Hannon, G.E., O'Connell, M., Pilcher, J.R. and Watts, W.A. 1996. Ireland. In: Berglund, B.E., Birks, H.J.B., Ralska-Jasiewiczowa, M. and Wright, H.E. (Eds.). Palaeoecological Events During the Last 15 000 Years. Regional Syntheses of Palaeoecological Studies of Lakes and Mires in Europe. Wiley, Chichester, pp. 1-13.

Williams, D.M. and O'Connell, M. 1996. Cave-like tunnels within boulder clay in Galway City, western Ireland. Irish Naturalists' Journal, 25, 263-266.

Molloy, K. and O'Connell, M. 1995. Palaeoecological investigations towards the reconstruction of environment and land-use changes during prehistory at Céide Fields, western Ireland. Probleme der Küstenforschung im südlichen Nordseegebiet, 23, 187-225.

Coxon, P. and O'Connell, M. (Eds) 1994. Clare Island and Inishbofin. Field Guide No. 17. Irish Association for Quaternary Studies, Dublin.

O'Connell, M. (Ed.) 1994. Burren, Co. Clare. Field Guide No. 18. (2nd ed.) Irish Association for Quaternary Studies, Dublin.

O'Connell, M. 1994. Connemara. Vegetation and Land Use since the Last Ice Age. Dublin, Office of Public Works.

O'Connell, M. 1994. Main area: Ireland [Site data]. In: Frenzel, B. (Ed.). Palaeoclimate Research, Vol. 12. Evaluation of Land Surfaces cleared from Forests in the Roman Iron Age and the Time of the migrating Germanic Tribes based on Regional Pollen Diagrams. Stuttgart, Gustav Fischer, pp. 50-54.

Walker, M.J.C., Bohncke, S.J.P., Coope, G.R., O'Connell, M., Usinger, H. and Verbruggen, C. 1994. The Devensian/Weichselian Late-glacial in northwest Europe (Ireland, Britain, north Belgium, The Netherlands, northwest Germany). Journal of Quaternary Science, , 109-118.

Andrieu, V., Huang, C.C., O'Connell, M. and Paus, A. 1993. Lateglacial vegetation and environment in Ireland: first results from four western sites. Quaternary Science Reviews, 12, 681-705.

Molloy, K. and O'Connell, M. 1993. Early land use and vegetation history at Derryinver Hill, Renvyle Peninsula, Co. Galway, Ireland. In: Chambers, F.M. (Ed.). Climate Change and Human Impact on the Landscape. London, Chapman and Hall, pp. 185-199.

O'Connell, M. 1993. Report on the 8th International Palynological Congress, Aix-en-Provence, 1992. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 1, 259-260.

Huang, C.C. and O'Connell, M. 1992. Recent land-use history in eastern Connemara: a palaeoecological case study at Ballydoo Lough, Cornamona, Co. Galway. In: Feehan, J. (Ed.). Environment and Development in Ireland. Dublin, The Environmental Institute, University College Dublin, pp. 318-330.

Jelicic, L. and O'Connell, M. 1992. History of vegetation and land use from 3200 B.P. to the present in the north-west Burren, a karstic region of western Ireland. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 1, 119-140.

Molloy, K. and O'Connell, M. 1991. Palaeoecological investigations towards the reconstruction of woodland and land-use history at Lough Sheeauns, Connemara, western Ireland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 67, 75-113.

O'Connell, M. 1991. Early environments and the first settlers. The Neolithic environment. The environmental and human activity in Bronze Age Ireland. In: Ryan, M. (Ed.). The Illustrated Archaeology of Ireland. Dublin, Town House Publishers, pp. 32/44/66-33/47/68.

O'Connell, M. (Ed.) 1991. The Post Glacial Period (10,000-0 B.P.): Fresh Perspectives. Dublin, Irish Association for Quaternary Studies. [Extended abstracts].

Mooney, E.P. and O'Connell, M. 1990. The phytosociology and ecology of the aquatic and wetland plant communities of the Lower Corrib basin, County Galway. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 90B, 57-97.

O'Connell, M. 1990. Early land use in north-east County Mayo ) the palaeoecological evidence. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 90C, 259-279.

O'Connell, M. 1990. Origins of Irish lowland blanket bog. In: Doyle, G.J. (Ed.). Ecology and Conservation of Irish Peatlands. Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, pp. 49-71.

Lockhart, N.D., O'Connell, M., Sheehy Skeffington, M. and Van Doorslaer, L. 1989. Scraw ( Schwingmoor) plant communities at Loch an Chorcail, Carna, Co Galway. Irish Naturalists' Journal, 23, 128-134.

O'Connell, M. and Warren, W.P. (Eds) 1988. Connemara. Field Guide No. 11. Irish Association for Quaternary Studies, Dublin.

Molloy, K. and O'Connell, M. 1988. Neolithic agriculture - fresh evidence from Cleggan, Connemara. Archaeology Ireland, 2, 67-70.

O'Connell, M., Molloy, K. and Bowler, M. 1988. Post-glacial landscape evolution in Connemara, western Ireland with particular reference to woodland history. In: Birks, H.H., Birks, H.J.B., Kaland, P.E. and Moe, D. (Eds.). The Cultural Landscape - Past, Present and Future. Cambridge University Press, pp. 487-514.

Molloy, K. and O'Connell, M. 1987. The nature of the vegetational changes at about 5000 B.P. with particular reference to the elm decline: fresh evidence from Connemara, western Ireland. New Phytologist, 106, 203-220.

O'Connell, M. 1987. Early cereal-type pollen records from Connemara, western Ireland and their possible significance. Pollen et Spores, 29, 207-224.

O'Connell, M., Mitchell, F.J.G., Readman, P.W., Doherty, T.J. and Murray, D.A. 1987. Palaeoecological investigations towards the reconstruction of the post-glacial environment at Lough Doo, County Mayo, Ireland. Journal of Quaternary Science, 2, 149-164.

O'Connell, M. 1986. Pollenanalytische Untersuchungen zur Vegetations- und Siedlungsgeschichte aus dem Lengener Moor, Friesland (Niedersachsen). Probleme der Küstenforschung, 16, 171-193.

O'Connell, M. 1986. Reconstruction of local landscape development in the post-Atlantic based on palaeoecological investigations at Carrownaglogh prehistoric field system, County Mayo, Ireland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 49, 117-176.

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