In this paper we present new proxy‐based sea‐level reconstructions for southern New Zealand spanning the last millennium. These palaeo sea‐level records usefully complement sparse Southern Hemisphere proxy and tide‐gauge sea‐level datasets and, in combination with instrumental observations, can test hypotheses about the drivers of 20th century global sea‐level change, including land‐based ice melt and regional sterodynamics. W...

We test whether vegetation community composition from a 10‐year climate manipulation experiment on a Welsh peat bog resembles vegetation communities during periods of climate change inferred from a peat core. Experimentally warmed and combined warmed and droughted treatments drove significant increases in ericaceous shrubs but Sphagnum was unaffected. Similarly, Calluna vulgaris seeds increase during inferred warmer periods in...