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Publications

  • P�rez, L., R. Bugja, J. Massaferro, P. Steeb, R. van Geldern, P. Frenzel, M. Brenner, B. Scharf, and A. Schwalb.  Submitted. Post-Columbian environmental history of Lago Pet�n Itz�, Guatemala.  Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geol�gicas.
  • Day, M.B., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, G.D. Kamenov, T.P. Guilderson, L.C. Peterson, and A.L. Kolata. In Revision.  Origin of the annual flood pulse in Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia.  Journal of Paleolimnology.
  • Kenney, W.F., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and C.L. Schelske.  In Revision.  Identifying sources of organic matter in sediments of shallow lakes using multiple geochemical variables.  Journal of Paleolimnology.
  • Escobar, J., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, F.S. Amselmetti, D. Ariztegui, J.H. Curtis, A. Gilli, D.A. Grzesik, T.J. Guilderson, A.D. Muller, M. Bush, A. Correa-Metrio, and S. Kutterolf. In Press. Proyecto Paleoambiental Lago Peten-Itza: nuevas perspectivas sobre el paleoambiente y el paleoclima de Centroamerica.  Caldisia.
  • Van Eaton, A.R., A.R. Zimmerman, J.M. Jaeger, M. Brenner, W.F. Kenney, and J.R. Schmid.  In press.  A novel application of radionuclides for dating sediment cores from sandy, anthropogenically disturbed estuaries. Marine and Freshwater Research.
  • Bush, M.B., A. Correa-Metrio, D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, A.D. Mueller, J.H. Curtis, D. Grzesik, C. Burton, and A. Gilli. In press. The Last Glacial Maximum in lowland Central America. In: F. Vimeux,  F. Sylvestre, and M. Khodri (Eds.), Past Climate Variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene in South America and Surrounding Regions. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (DPER) Series. Springer, Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.
  • P�rez, L., J. Lorenschat, M. Brenner, B. Scharf, and A. Schwalb. In press (2010). Non-marine ostracodes (Crustacea) of Guatemala. In Cano, E. (ed.), Biodiversidad de Guatemala.  Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.
  • P�rez, L.,  J. Lorenschat, M. Brenner, B. Scharf, and A. Schwalb.  2010. Extant freshwater ostracodes (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from Lago Pet�n Itz�, Guatemala. International Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation/Revista de Biolog�a Tropical 58(3):871-895.
  • Schelske, C.L., E.F. Lowe, W.F. Kenney, L.E. Battoe, M. Brenner, and M.F. Coveney. 2010. How anthropogenic darkening of Lake Apopka induced benthic light limitation and forced the shift from macrophyte to phytoplankton dominance.  Limnology and Oceanography 55:1201-1212.
  • Mueller, A.D, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, J. Escobar, A. Gilli, D.A. Grzesik, D.A. Hodell, T.P. Guilderson, S. Kutterolf, and M.L. Pl�tze.  In press (2010).  Late Quaternary palaeoenvironment of northern Guatemala: evidence from deep drill cores and seismic stratigraphy of Lake Pet�n Itz�.  Sedimentology.
  • Mueller, A.D., G.A. Islebe, F.S. Anselmetti, D.Ariztegui, M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, I. Hajdas, Y. Hamann, G.H. Haug, and D.J. Kennett. 2010. Recovery of the forest ecosystem in the tropical lowlands of northern Guatemala after disintegration of Classic Maya polities.  Geology 38:523-526. DOI: 10.1130/G30797.1
  • P�rez, L., J. Lorenschat, R. Bugja, M. Brenner, B. Scharf and A. Schwalb. 2010. Distribution, diversity and ecology of modern freshwater ostracodes (Crustacea), and
  • hydrochemical characteristics of Lago Pet�n Itz�, Guatemala.  Journal of Limnology 69:146-159. DOI: 10.3274/JL10-69-1-14.

  • Escobar , J., J.H. Curtis, M. Brenner, David A. Hodell, J.A. Holmes. 2010. Isotope measurements of single ostracod valves and gastropod shells for climate reconstruction:  evaluation of within-sample variability and determination of optimum sample size.   Journal of Paleolimnology 43:921-938. DOI 10.1007/s10933-009-9377-9.
  • Kamenov, G.D., M. Brenner, and J.L. Tucker. 2009. Anthropogenic versus natural control on trace element and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope stratigraphy in peat sediments of southeast Florida (USA), ~1500 AD to present.  Geochimica et Cosmochima Acta 73:3549-3567.  DOI 10.1016/j.gca.2009.03.017
  • Gilli, A., D.A. Hodell, G.D. Kamenov, and M. Brenner.  2009.  Geological and archaeological implications of strontium isotope analysis of exposed bedrock in the Chicxulub crater basin, northwestern Yucat�n, Mexico.  Geology 37:723-726.  doi: 10.1130/G30098A.1.
  • Escobar, J., D.G. Buck, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and N. Hoyos.  2009.  Thermal stratification, mixing, and heat budgets of Florida lakes.  Fundamental and Applied Limnology (Archiv f�r Hydrobiologie) 174(4):283-293. DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2009/0174-0283.
  • Mueller, A.D., G. Islebe, M.B. Hillesheim, D. Grzesik, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, J.A. McKenzie, and K. Venz-Curtis.  2009. Climate drying and associated forest decline in the lowlands of northern Guatemala during the late Holocene. Quaternary Research 71:133-141.
  • Donar, C., E.F. Stoermer, and M. Brenner.  2009.  The Holocene paleolimnology of Lake Apopka, Florida.  Nova Hedwigia 135:58-71.
  • Brenner, M., and J. Escobar.  2009.  Ontogeny of aquatic ecosystems.  Pp. 456-461, In, Encyclopedia of Inland Waters (G. Likens, ed.).  Elsevier, Oxford, UK.
  • Hodell, D.A., F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, A, Gilli, D.A. Grzesik, T.J. Guilderson, A.D. M�ller, M.B. Bush, A. Correa-Metrio, J. Escobar, and S. Kutterolf.  2008.  An 85-ka record of climate change in lowland Central America.  Quaternary Science Reviews 27:1152-1165.   doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.02.008.
  • Escobar, J., T.J. Whitmore, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and W.F. Kenney.  2008.  Thecamoebians as bioindicators in Florida lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology. doi: 10.1007/s10933-008-9195-5.
  • Anselmetti, F.S., D.A. Hodell, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, and M. Rosenmeier.  2007.  Quantification of soil erosion rates related to ancient Maya deforestation.  Geology 35:915-918. doi: 10.1130/G23834A.1.
  • Brenner, M., J.M. Smoak, D.A. Leeper, M. Streubert, and S.M. Baker. 2007.  Radium-226 accumulation in Florida freshwater mussels.  Limnology and Oceanography 52:1614-1623.
  • Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis.  2007.  Climate and cultural history of the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula, Quintana Roo, Mexico.  Climatic Change 83:215-240. doi:10.1007/s10584-006-9177-4.
  • Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, K.V. Kolasa, W.F. Kenney, M.A. Riedinger-Whitmore, and J.H. Curtis.  2006.  Inadvertent alkalization of a Florida lake caused by increased nutrient and solute loading to its watershed.  Journal of Paleolimnology 36:353-370.
  • Brenner, M. T.J. Whitmore, M.A. Riedinger-Whitmore, B. DeArmond, D.A. Leeper. W.F. Kenney, J.H. Curtis, and B. Shumate.  2006. Geochemical and biological consequences of groundwater augmentation in lakes of west-central Florida (USA).  Journal of Paleolimnology 36:371-383.
  • DeArmond, B.S. M. Brenner, W.F. Kenney, D.A. Leeper, J. M. Smoak, J.H. Curtis, B.C. Shumate, and D.G. Buck.  2006.  Radium-226 accumulation in sediments of a groundwater-augmented lake near Tampa, Florida, USA. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 29:1275-1279.
  • Anselmetti, F.S., D. Ariztegui, D.A. Hodell, A. Gilli, M.B. Hillesheim, M. Brenner, and J.A. McKenzie.  2006.  Late Quaternary climate-induced lake level variations in Lake Pet�n Itz�, Guatemala, inferred from seismic stratigraphic analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 230:52-69.
  • Brenner, M. D.A. Hodell, J. H. Curtis, W.F. Kenney, B. Gu, J.M. Newman, and B.W. Leyden.  2006.  Mechanisms for organic matter and phosphorus burial in sediments of a shallow, subtropical, macrophyte-dominated lake.  Journal of Paleolimnology 35:129-148.
  • Riedinger-Whitmore, M.A., T.J. Whitmore, M. Brenner, A. Moore, J.M. Smoak, J.H. Curtis, and C.L. Schelske.  2005.  Cyanobacterial proliferation is a recent response to eutrophication in many Florida lakes: a paleolimnological assessment.  Lake and Reservoir Management 21:423-435.
  • Buck, D.G., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, J.B. Martin, and M. Pagani.  2005.  Physical and chemical properties of hypersaline Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol.  29(2):725-731.
  • Hillesheim, M.B., D.A. Hodell, B.W. Leyden, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, D.G. Buck, T.P. Guilderson, M.F. Rosenmeier, and D.W. Schnurrenberger.  2005.  Lowland neotropical climate change during the late deglacial and early Holocene.  Journal of Quaternary Science 20:363-376.
  • Schelske, C.A., E.F. Lowe, L.E. Battoe, M. Brenner, M.F. Coveney, and W.F. Kenney.  2005. Abrupt biological response to hydrologic and land-use changes in Lake Apopka, Florida, USA.  Ambio 34:192-198.
  • Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis.  2005.  Terminal Classic drought in the northern Maya Lowlands inferred from multiple sediment cores in Lake Chichancanab (Mexico).  Quaternary Science Reviews 24:1413-1427.
  • Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, R. Medina-Gonzalez, M.F. Rosenmeier, T.P. Guilderson, E.I. Chan-Can, and A. Albornaz-Pat.  2005.  Climate change on the Yucatan Peninsula during the Little Ice Age.  Quaternary Research 63:109-121.
  • Rosenmeier, M.F., M. Brenner, W.F. Kenney, T.J. Whitmore, and C.M. Taylor. 2004. Recent eutrophication in the southern basin of Lake Pet�n Itz�, Guatemala: human impact on a large tropical lake. Hydrobiologia 511:161-172.
  • Hodell, D.A., R.L. Quinn, M. Brenner, and G. Kamenov.  2004.  Spatial variation of strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) in the Maya region: a tool for tracking ancient human migration.  Journal of Archaeological Science 31:585-601.
  • Brenner, M., C.L. Schelske, and W.F. Kenney.  2004.  Inputs of dissolved and particulate 226Ra to lakes and implications for 210Pb dating recent sediments.  Journal of Paleolimnology 32:53-66.
  • Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M.F. Rosenmeier, F.S. Anselmetti, and D. Ariztegui. 2003.  Paleolimnological approaches for inferring past climate change in the Maya region: recent advances and methodological limitations. P. 45-75, In A. G�mez-Pompa, M.F. Allen, S.L. Fedick, and J.J. Jim�nez-Osornio (eds.), The Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface.  Haworth Press, Inc., New York.
  • Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J. H. Curtis, and T. P. Guilderson. 2002. A 4000-year lacustrine record of environmental change in the southern Maya lowlands, Peten, Guatemala. Quaternary Research 57:183-190.
  • Kenney, W., M. N. Waters, C.L. Schelske, and M. Brenner.  2002.  Sediment records of phosphorus-driven shifts to phytoplankton dominance in shallow Florida lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology 27:367-377.
  • Brenner, M., Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, and J. H. Curtis.  2002. Paleolimnology of the Maya Lowlands: long-term perspectives on interactions among climate, environment, and humans.  Ancient Mesoamerica 13:141-157.
  • Popenoe de Hatch, E. Ponciano, T. Barrientos Q., M. Brenner, and C. Ortloff.  2002.  Climate and technological innovation at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala. Ancient Mesoamerica 13:103-114.
  • Brenner, M., Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, and J. H. Curtis.  2002.  Paleoclima de la regi�n Maya: s�ntesis del conocimiento basado en registros paleolimnol�gicos. Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya 10 (Tomo 1):248-261.  Universidad Aut�noma de Campeche.
  • Riedinger, M.A., M. Steinitz-Kannan, W.M. Last , and M. Brenner.  2002.  A ~6100 14C yr record of El Ni�o activity from the Gal�pagos Islands. Journal of Paleolimnology 27:1-7.
  • Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, J.B. Martin, F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, and T.P. Guilderson. 2002. Influence of vegetation change on watershed hydrology: implications for paleoclimatic interpretation of lacustrine d18O records. Journal of Paleolimnology 27:117-131.
  • Brenner, M., M. F. Rosenmeier, D. A. Hodell, J. H. Curtis, F. Anselmetti, and D. Ariztegui. 2002. Limnolog�a y paleolimnolog�a de Pet�n, Guatemala. Revista Universidad del Valle de Guatemala 12:2-9.
  • Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M. Rosenmeier, M.W. Binford, and M.B. Abbott. 2001. Abrupt climate change and pre-Columbian cultural collapse. Pp. 87-103, In V. Markraf (ed.), Interhemispheric Climate Linkages. Academic Press.
  • Huang, Y., F.A. Street-Perrott, S.E. Metcalfe, M. Brenner, M. Moreland, and K.H. Freeman.  2001. Climate change as the dominant control on glacial-interglacial variations in C3 and C4 plant abundance.  Science 293:1647-1651.
  • Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J. H. Curtis, and T. P. Guilderson. 2001. Solar forcing of drought frequency in the Maya lowlands. Science 292:1367-1370.
  • Brenner, M., C.L. Schelske, and L.W. Keenan. 2001. Historical rates of sediment and nutrient accumulation in marshes of the Upper St. Johns River Basin, Florida, USA. Journal of Paleolimnology 26:241-257.
  • Curtis, J.H., M. Brenner, and D.A. Hodell. 2001. Climate change in the circum-Caribbean (late Pleistocene-to-Present) and implications for regional biogeography.  Pp. 35-54, In C.A. Woods and F.E. Sergile (eds.), Biogeography of the West Indies. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
  • Brenner, M., B.W. Leyden, M.W. Binford, and D.A. Hodell. 2001. Historia ecol�gica de la regi�n Maya.  Pp. 245-247, In, R. Primack, R. Rozzi, P. Feinsinger, R. Dirzo, and F. Massardo, Fundamentos de Conservaci�n Biol�gica: Perspectivas latinoamericanas.  Fondo de Cultura Econ�mica, Mexico.
  • Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. 2000. Climate change in the northern American tropics since the last ice age: implications for environment and culture. P. 13-38, In D.L. Lentz (ed.), Imperfect Balance: Landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas. Columbia University Press, N.Y.
  • Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, Song X., Long R., D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 2000. Sediment records from Qilu Hu and Xingyun Hu, Yunnan Province, China: late Pleistocene to Present. P. 619-624, In E. H. Gierlowski-Kordesch and K. R. Kelts (eds.), Lake Basins Through Space and Time, American Association of PetroleumGeologists Studies in Geology 46.
  • Brenner, M., J.S. Smoak, M.S. Allen, C.L. Schelske, and D.A. Leeper. 2000. Biological accumulation of 226Ra in a groundwater-augmented Florida lake. Limnology and Oceanography 45:710-715.
  • Kolata, A.L., M.W. Binford, M. Brenner, J.W. Janusek, and C. Ortloff. 2000. Environmental thresholds and the empirical reality of state collapse: a response to Erickson (1999). Antiquity 74:424-426.
  • Brenner, M., B.W. Leyden, J.H. Curtis, R. M. Medina-Gonzalez, and B.H. Dahlin. 2000. Un registro de 8,000 a�os del paleoclima del noroeste de Yucatan, Mexico. Revista de la Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan 213:52-65.
  • Brenner, M., L. Keenan, S.J. Miller, and C.L. Schelske. 1999. Spatial and temporal patterns of sediment and nutrient accumulation in shallow lakes of the upper St. Johns River Basin, Florida. Wetlands Ecology and Management 6:221-240.
  • Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, M.A. Lasi, J. E. Cable, P. H. Cable, and C.L. Schelske. 1999. A multi-proxy trophic state reconstruction for shallow Orange Lake, Florida, USA: possible influence of aquatic macrophytes on limnetic nutrient concentrations. Journal of Paleolimnology 21:215-233.
  • Higuera-Gundy, A., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, B.W. Leyden, and M.W. Binford. 1999. A 10,300 14C-year record of climate and vegetation change from Haiti. Quaternary Research 52:159-170.
  • Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, and C.L. Schelske. 1999. Stable isotope (d13C and d15N) signatures of sedimented organic matter as indicators of historic lake trophic state. Journal of Paleolimnology 22:205-221.
  • Curtis, J.H., M. Brenner, and D. A. Hodell. 1999. Climate change in the Lake Valencia Basin, Venezuela, ~12,600 yr BP to present. The Holocene 9:609-619.
  • Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, S.L. Kanfoush, J.H. Curtis, J.S. Stoner, Song X., Wu Y., and T.J. Whitmore. 1999. Paleoclimate of southwestern China for the past 50,000 yr inferred from lake sediment records. Quaternary Research 52:369-380.
  • Curtis, J.H., M. Brenner, D. A. Hodell, R. A. Balser, G. A. Islebe, and H. Hooghiemstra. 1998. A multi-proxy study of Holocene environmental change in the Maya Lowlands of Peten, Guatemala. Journal of Paleolimnology 19:139-159.
  • Leyden, B.W., M. Brenner, and B.H. Dahlin. 1998. Cultural and climatic history of Cob�, a lowland Maya City in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Quaternary Research 49: 111-122.
  • Steinitz-Kannan, M., M.A. Riedinger, W.M. Last, M. Brenner, and M.C. Miller. 1998. Un registr� de 6000 a�os de manifestaciones intensas del fen�meno de El Ni�o en sedimentos de lagunas de las Islas Gal�pagos. Bull. Inst. fr. �tudes andines 27:581-592.
  • Brenner, M., C.L. Schelske, and T.J. Whitmore. 1997. Radium-226 stratigraphy in Florida lake sediments as an indicator of human disturbance. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 26: 809-813.
  • Steinitz-Kannan, M., M. A. Riedinger, W. Last, M. Brenner and M. C. Miller. 1997. Un registro de 6000 a�os de manifestaciones intensas del fen�meno de El Ni�o en sedimentos de lagunas de las islas Gal�pagos. P. 79-88, In Cadier E. and Galarrage R. (Eds.), Seminario Internacional “Consecuencias Clim�ticas e Hidrol�gicas del Evento El Ni�o a Escala Regional y Local”. Memorias T�cnicas. ORSTOM/ INAMHI.
  • Abbott, M.B., M.W. Binford, M. Brenner, and K.R. Kelts. 1997. A 3500 14C yr high-resolution record of water-level changes in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia/Peru. Quaternary Research 47:169-180.
  • Binford, M.W., A.L. Kolata, M. Brenner, J. Janusek, M.T. Seddon, M. B. Abbott, and J.H. Curtis. 1997. Climate variation and the rise and fall of an Andean civilization. Quaternary Research 47:235-148.
  • Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, Jiang Z., J.H. Curtis, A.M. Moore, D.R. Engstrom, and Wu Y. 1997. Water quality and sediment geochemistry in lakes of Yunnan Province, southern China. Environmental Geology 32:45-55.
  • Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, and C.L. Schelske. 1996. Highly variable sediment distribution in shallow, wind-stressed lakes: a case for sediment mapping surveys in paleolimnological studies. Journal of Paleolimnology 15:207-221.
  • Islebe, G., H. Hooghiemstra, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell. 1996. A Holocene vegetation history from lowland Guatemala. The Holocene 6:265-271.
  • Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, B.H. Dahlin, and B.W. Leyden. 1996. Holocene climatic and human influences on lakes of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: an interdisciplinary, palaeolimnological approach. The Holocene 6:273-287.
  • Gu, B., C.L. Schelske, and M. Brenner. 1996. Relationships between sediment and plankton isotope ratios (d13C and d15N) and primary productivity in Florida lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 53:875-883.
  • Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, and C.L. Schelske. 1996. Paleolimnological evaluation of historical trophic state conditions in hypereutrophic Lake Thonotosassa, Florida, USA. Hydrobiologia 331:143-152.
  • Curtis, J.H., D.A. Hodell, and M. Brenner. 1996. Climate variability on the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) during the past 3500 years, and implications for Maya cultural evolution. Quaternary Research 46:37-47.
  • Binford, M.W., M. Brenner, and B.W. Leyden. 1996. Paleoecology and Tiwanaku Ecosystems. P. 89-108, In A. Kolata (ed.), Tiwanaku and its Hinterland: Archaeological and Paleoecological Investigations in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Bolivia. Smithsonian Institution Press.
  • Leyden, B.W., M. Brenner, T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, D.R. Piperno, and B.H. Dahlin. 1996. A record of long- and short-term climatic variation from northwest Yucatan: Cenote San Jose Chulchaca. P. 30-50, In S.L. Fedick (ed.), The Managed Mosaic: Ancient Maya Agriculture and Resource Use. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
  • Brenner, M. 1995. Comment: A call for paleolimnology studies in the tropics. Journal of Paleolimnology 13:89-92.
  • Hodell, D.A., J.H. Curtis, and M. Brenner. 1995. Possible role of climate in the collapse of Classic Maya civilization. Nature 375:391-394.
  • Brenner, M., R. Medina Gonzalez, and C. Zetina Moguel. 1995. Water resources of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: special concerns and management priorities. Land and Water, November/December: 18-20.
  • Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, and C.L. Schelske. 1995. Historical ecology of a hypereutrophic Florida lake. Lake and Reservoir Management 11:255-271.
  • Brenner, M. 1994. Lakes Salpeten and Quexil, Peten, Guatemala, Central America. Pp. 377-380, In E. Gierlowski-Kordesch and K. Kelts (eds.), Global Geological Record of Lake Basins, Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press.
  • Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, and Song X. 1994. Environmental implications of the late Quaternary diatom history from Xingyun Hu, Yunnan Province, China. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 17:525-538.
  • Brenner, M., J.H. Curtis, A. Higuera-Gundy, D.A. Hodell, G.A. Jones, M.W. Binford, and K.T. Dorsey. 1994. Lake Miragoane, Haiti (Caribbean). Pp. 403-405, In E. Gierlowski-Kordesch and K. Kelts (eds.), Global Geological Record of Lake Basins, Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press.
  • Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, D.R. Engstrom, and Song X. 1994. Accelerated soil erosion in watersheds of Yunnan Province, China. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 49:67-72. (Selected for Honorable Mention Award by the Soil and Water Conservation Society).
  • Brenner, M., A.J. Peplow, and C.L. Schelske. 1994. Disequilibrium between 226Ra and supported 210Pb in a sediment core from a shallow Florida lake. Limnology and Oceanography 39:1222-1227.
  • Schelske, C.L., A. Peplow, M. Brenner, and C.N. Spencer. 1994. Low-background gamma counting: applications for 210Pb dating of sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology 10:115-128.
  • Leyden, B.W., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 1994. Orbital and internal forcing of climate on the Yucatan Peninsula for the past ca. 36 ka. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 109:193-210.
  • Song, X., Wu, Y., Jiang, Z., Long, R., Li, B., M. Brenner, T.J. Whitmore, D.R. Engstrom, and A. Moore. 1994. Paleolimnological studies on the limestone district in central Yunnan, China. Yunnan Science and Technology Publishing, Kunming, PRC. 114 p, 10 plates.
  • Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, M.S. Flannery, and M.W. Binford. 1993. Paleolimnological methods for defining target conditions in lake restoration: Florida case studies. Lake and Reservoir Management 7:209-217.
  • Leyden, B.W., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 1993. Late Pleistocene climate in the Central American lowlands. American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 78:165-178.
  • Binford, M.W., M. Brenner, and D.R. Engstrom. 1992. Temporal sedimentation patterns in the nearshore littoral of Lago Hui�aimarca. Pp. 27-36, In C. Dejoux and A. Iltis (eds.), Lake Titicaca: A Synthesis of Limnological Knowledge. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Hague. Spanish – Binford, M.W., M. Brenner, and D.R. Engstrom. 1991. Patrones de sedimentaci�n temporal en la zona litoral del Hui�aimarca. Pp. 47-58, In C. Dejoux and A. Iltis (eds.) El Lago Titicaca: s�ntesis del conocimiento limnol�gico actual. ORSTOM, Paris.
  • Fisher, M.M., M. Brenner, and K.R. Reddy. 1992. A simple, inexpensive piston corer for collecting undisturbed sediment/water interface profiles. Journal of Paleolimnology 7:157-161.
  • Long R., Li B., M. Brenner, and Song. X. 1991. A study of late Pleistocene to Holocene vegetation in Jilu lake area of central Yunnan. Yunnan Geology 10:105-118.
  • Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, B.E. Rood, K.E. Japy. 1991. Deoxygenation of a Florida lake during winter mixing. Limnology and Oceanography 36:577-585.
  • Brenner, M., K. Dorsey, Song X., Wang Z., Long R., M.W. Binford, T.J. Whitmore, and A.M. Moore. 1991. Paleolimnology of Qilu Hu, Yunnan Province, China. Hydrobiologia 214:333-340.
  • Hodell, D.A., J.H. Curtis, G.A. Jones, A. Higuera-Gundy, M. Brenner, M. W. Binford, and K. Dorsey. 1991. Reconstruction of Caribbean climate change over the past 10,500 years. Nature 352:790-793.
  • Brenner, M., M.W. Binford and E.S. Deevey. 1990. Lakes. Pp. 364-391, In R.L. Myers and J.J. Ewel (eds.), Ecosystems of Florida. University of Central Florida Press, Orlando.
  • Brenner, M., B.W. Leyden, and M.W. Binford. 1990. Recent sedimentary histories of shallow lakes in the Guatemalan savannas. Journal of Paleolimnology 4:239-252.
  • Binford, M.W. and M. Brenner. 1989. Resultados de estudios del primer a�o de la limnolog�a en los ecosistemas de Tiwanaku. Pp. 213-236, In A.L. Kolata (ed.), Arqueolog�a de Lukurmata, Vol. II. Instituto Nacional de Arqueolog�a y Producciones Puma Punku. La Paz, Bolivia.
  • Brenner M., and M.W. Binford. 1988. Relationships between concentrations of sedimentary variables and trophic state in Florida lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 45:294-300.
  • Binford, M.W. and M. Brenner. 1988. Reply to comment by Benoit and Hemond. Limnology and Oceanography 33:304-310.
  • Brenner, M. and M.W. Binford. 1988. A sedimentary record of human disturbance from Lake Miragoane, Haiti. Journal of Paleolimnology 1:85-97.
  • Deevey, E.S., M. Brenner, A.M. Moore, M.W. Binford, K.T. Dorsey, Song X., Wang Z., and Hu Z. 1988. Paleolimnology and limnology of Qilu Hu, Tonghai County, Yunnan -preliminary results. Journal of Yunnan University 10 (supplement): 57-62.
  • Moore, A.M., M. Brenner, M.W. Binford, E.S. Deevey, and Ou X. 1988. Field notes on a paleolimnological expedition to five lakes on the Yunnan plateau. Journal of Yunnan University 10 (supplement): 28-36.
  • Binford, M.W., M. Brenner, T.J. Whitmore, A. Higuera-Gundy, E.S. Deevey and B.W. Leyden. 1987. Ecosystems, paleoecology and human disturbance in subtropical and tropical America. Quaternary Science Reviews 6:115-128.
  • Binford, M.W. and M. Brenner. 1986. Dilution of 210Pb by organic sedimentation in lakes of different trophic states, and application to studies of sediment-water interactions. Limnology and Oceanography 31:584-595.
  • Deevey, E.S., M.W. Binford, M. Brenner, and T.J. Whitmore. 1986. Sedimentary records of accelerated nutrient loading in Florida lakes. Hydrobiologia 143:49-53.
  • Brenner, M. and M.W. Binford. 1986. Material transfer from water to sediment in Florida lakes. Hydrobiologia 143:55-61.
  • Brenner, M. 1983. Paleolimnology of the Peten Lake District, Guatemala II. Mayan population density and sediment and nutrient loading of Lake Quexil. Hydrobiologia 103:205-210.
  • Deevey, E.S., M. Brenner, and M.W. Binford. 1983. Paleolimnology of the Peten Lake District, Guatemala III. Late Pleistocene and Gamblian environments of the Maya area. Hydrobiologia 103:211-216.
  • Deevey, E.S., M. Brenner, M.S. Flannery, and G.H. Yezdani. 1980. Lakes Yaxha and Sacnab, Peten, Guatemala: Limnology and hydrology. Archiv f�r Hydrobiologie Supplement 57:419-460.
  • Deevey, E.S., G.B. Deevey, and M. Brenner. 1980. Structure of zooplankton communities in the Peten lake district, Guatemala. Pp. 669-678, In W.C. Kerfoot (ed.), Evolution and ecology of zooplankton communities. Univ. Press New England, Hanover, NH, 793 p.
  • Deevey, E.S., D.S. Rice, P.M. Rice, H.H. Vaughan, M. Brenner, and M.S. Flannery. 1979. Mayan urbanism: Impact on a tropical karst environment. Science 206:298-306.

Miscellaneous Publications:

  • Brenner, M.  2008. New co-Editor for Journal of Paleolimnology. Journal of Paleolimnology.  DOI 10.1007/s10933-008-9229-z.
  • Brenner, M.  2008.  Journal of Paleolimnology: looking back/looking ahead. Journal of Paleolimnology 39:1-3.
  • Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, et al.  2007.  Proyecto Paleoambiental  Lago Pet�n-Itz�.   Pet�nItz� 48:24-26.  (Spanish).
  • Hodell, D.A, F.S. Anselmetti,  M. Brenner,  and D. Ariztegui,  and the PISDP Scientific Party.  2006.  The Lake Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Project.  Scientific Drilling 3:25-29.
  • Hodell, D.A., F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J. Curtis, and members of the Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Party.  2006.  1.3 km of Sediment Recovered by the Lake Peten Itza Scientific Drilling Party.  DOSECC Newsletter 4 (1):1-2.
  • Hodell, D.A., F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J. Curtis, and members of the Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Party.  2006.  Preliminary Results of the Lake Peten Itza Scientific Drilling Project.  DOSECC Newsletter 4 (2): 5-6.
  • Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, and C.L. Schelske. 1995. Paleolimnological evaluation of historical trophic state conditions in hypereutrophic Lake Thonotosassa. Florida Lake Management Society Combined Annual Proceedings 1994 & 1995 Conferences. P. 92-109.
  • Brenner, M. 1990. Edward S. Deevey, 1914-1988. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 78:383-385.
  • Rice, P.M., and M. Brenner. 1989. Edward Smith Deevey, Jr., 1914-1988. Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin 12:2.
  • Livingstone, D.A., and M. Brenner. 1989. Resolution of Respect: Edward S. Deevey, 1914-1988. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 70:137-140.
  • Brenner, M., and P.M. Rice. 1989. Edward Smith Deevey, Jr., December 3, 1914-November 29, 1988. Radiocarbon 31:iv-viii.

Book Reviews:

  • Brenner, M. 1991. Review of S.-O. Ryding and W. Rast (eds.), The Control of Eutrophication of Lakes and Reservoirs, The Parthenon Publishing Group, Inc., Park Ridge, NJ. 314 p. Journal of Environmental Quality 20:498.

Reports:

  • Brenner, M., W.F. Kenney, and J.H. Curtis.  2010.  Recent sediment accumulation in Padgett Creek, Middle St. Johns River Basin.  Report for the Florida Department of Transportation, Deland, FL.
  • Brenner, M., J.H. Curtis, T.J. Whitmore, A. Zimmerman, W.F. Kenney, and M. Riedinger-Whitmore.  2009.  Sediment accumulation rate and past water quality in Lochloosa Lake. Final Report for St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, Florida. 57 p. + tables, figures, & appendix.
  • Brenner, M., J.H. Curtis, W.F. Kenney, and T.J. Whitmore.  2004.  Sedimentation in Davis Lake (Tsala Apopka Chain of Lakes). Final Report for Citrus County Aquatic Services, Lecanto, FL, and Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL.  58 p. + appendices.
  • Brenner, M., W.F. Kenney, B. DeArmond, J.H. Curtis, and B. Shumate.  2004. Effect of groundwater augmentation on 226Ra activity in surface sediments and biota of Florida lakes. Final Report for Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL.  44 p.
  • Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, W.F. Kenney, B. DeArmond, J.H. Curtis, and B. Shumate.  2004.  Paleolimnology of four groundwater-augmented lakes (Charles, Crystal, Little Hobbs, Saddleback). Final Report for Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL.  63 p. + appendix.
  • Brenner, M., W.F. Kenney, J.H. Curtis, B. Shumate, and B. DeArmond.  2003.  Bulk sedimentation and nutrient accumulation rates in Lakes Poinsett and Winder of the Upper St. Johns River Basin. Final Report for St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, Florida.  78 p.
  • Brenner, M., M.S. Allen, and J.M. Smoak.  2002.  Radium-226 in sediments and biota of groundwater-augmented lakes.  Final Report for Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 12 p. + tables.
  • Whitmore, T.J., and M. Brenner.  2002.  Paleolimnological characterization of pre-disturbance water quality conditions in EPA-defined Florida Lake Regions.  Final Report for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.  29 p. + tables & appendices.
  • Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H Curtis, and W.F. Kenney.  2002.  Investigation of long-term stability and phosphorus accretion by an aquatic system with a long history of submerged aquatic vegetation dominance. Final Report for South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL.  42 p.
  • Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell.  2002.  Lake Hancock: A Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Past Trophic State Conditions.  Final Report for Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 31 p. + tables, figures and appendices.
  • Hornsby, A., C. Arnold, R. Aalberg, M. Brenner, J. Capece, R. Carriker, L. Christenberry, W.D. Graham, W.T. Haller, F.J. Mazzotti, L.R. Parsons, and W. Seaman, Jr. 1999. Water Resources (Quantity and Quality). P. 57-67, In Florida FIRST Base Papers, Focusing IFAS Resources on Solutions for Tomorrow. University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, FL.
  • Whitmore, T.J., and M. Brenner. 1999. Paleolimnological Reconstruction of Water Quality in Lake Persimmon, Highlands County, Florida. Final Report for Highlands County Board of County Commissioners, Highlands Soil and Water Conservation District, Sebring, FL, and Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 59 p.
  • Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1998. Historical sediment and nutrient accumulation rates and past water quality in Newnans Lake. Final Report for St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, FL. 85 p.
  • Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1998. Historical trophic state conditions in the Hillsborough Reservoir. Final report for City of Tampa Water Dept. Engineering Division, Tampa, FL, and the Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL.
  • Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1998. Historic Ecology of Lakes in the Upper St. Johns River Basin. Final Report for St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, FL. 71 p.
  • Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1998. Paleolimnological Reconstruction of Water Quality for Lakes Dosson, Halfmoon and Round in Hillsborough County, Florida. Final Report for Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 158 p.
  • Whitmore, T.J., and M. Brenner. 1997. Historic water quality assessment of Little Lake Jackson, Highlands County, Florida. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL.
  • Brenner, M. 1996. Site selection: selecting lakes and coring sites within lakes. P. 2-1 to 2-4, In, D. Porcella (EPRI Project Manager), Protocol for estimating historic atmospheric mercury deposition. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Final Report TR-106768 3297.
  • Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1996. Historical sediment and nutrient accumulation rates and past water quality in Orange Lake. Final Report for St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, FL. 121 p.
  • Whitmore, T.J., and M. Brenner. 1996. Sedimentary analyses and historical assessment. Section IX, In, Lake Mariana Diagnostic/Feasibility Study. Southwest Florida Water Management District, Polk County Water Resources Division.
  • Brenner, M. 1996. Bulk sedimentation and nutrient accumulation rates in lakes of the Upper St. Johns River Basin. Final Report for St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, FL. 110 p.
  • Brenner, M., and C.L. Schelske. 1995. Historical sedimentation and nutrient storage rates in the Blue Cypress Marsh Conservation Area. Final Report. Special Publication SJ95-SP3, St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, FL. 177 p.
  • Whitmore, T.J., and M. Brenner. 1995. Historic water quality assessment of selected lakes in the Winter Haven chain of lakes. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL.
  • Brenner, M., C.L. Schelske, and A.J. Peplow. 1994. Historical sedimentation and nutrient storage rates in the Blue Cypress Marsh Conservation Area, Part I. Final Report prepared for the St. Johns River Water Management District.
  • Whitmore, T.J., and M. Brenner. 1994. Assessment of historical changes in water quality and sedimentation rates in Lake Thonotosassa. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District. 78 p.
  • Whitmore, T.J., and M. Brenner. 1993. Sedimentary analyses and historical assessment of Lake Marianna, Polk Co., Florida. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District. 100 p.
  • Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1992. Lake Parker Sediments and Historical Ecology. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District. 49 p.
  • Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1992. Lake Hollingsworth Sediments and Historical Ecology. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District. 53 p.
  • Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1992. Clear Lake sediment mapping and analysis. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District. 46 p.
  • Brenner, M., M.M. Fisher and K.R. Reddy. 1991. Sediment Mapping and Characterization. In, Lake Maggiore Environmental Assessment Phase II. Final Report prepared by CH2M Hill for the City of St. Petersburg. 41 p + appendix.
  • Brenner, M., and T.J. Whitmore. 1991. Lake Seminole sediment characterization and analysis. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District. 73 p.
  • Brenner, M., and T.J. Whitmore. 1991. Collection and analysis of a sediment core taken from Lake Lucerne. Phase I report to the United States Geological Survey (Tampa Office). 19 p.
  • Reddy, K.R. et al. 1989. Lake Okeechobee phosphorus dynamics study. Biogeochemical processes in sediments. Annual Report prepared for the South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, Florida. 154 p. + appendix.
  • Reddy, K.R., D.A. Graetz, M. Brenner, M.M. Fisher, D. Ivanoff, O. Olila, and C.D. Pollman. 1988. Internal nutrient budget for Lake Apopka. Task 1. Physio-chemical properties of Lake Apopka sediments. Prepared for the St. Johns Water Management District, Palatka, Florida. 125 p.
  • Binford, M.W., M. Brenner, and B.W. Leyden. 1988. Paleolimnology of Tiwanaku Ecosystems: results of second-year studies. Report to Dr. Alan Kolata (University of Illinois at Chicago) for consulting done under NSF Project BNS-8607541. 33 p. + appendix.
  • Binford, M.W., and Mark Brenner. 1987. Results of first-year studies of the limnology of Tiwanaku ecosystems. Report to Dr. Alan Kolata (University of Illinois at Chicago) for consulting done under NSF project BNS-8607541. 25 p. + appendix.
  • Deevey, E.S. and M. Brenner. 1978. Sedimentary history of Spanish Pond. Appendix E, In, L.D. Harris (ed.), El Pantano de los Espa�oles. 10 p. U.S. Natl. Park Serv. CX 5000041666.