Ecosystem and vegetation responses to climatic change, disturbance and land use
Paleoecology and Vegetation Dynamics
We use a long-term perspective to address questions about the ecological and societal consequences of climatic change. Our group studies environmental dynamics on annual to millennial time scales with evidence preserved in sedimentary sequences (e.g., pollen, macrofossils, charcoal, diatoms, and chironomids) and model simulations. Research projects are investigating the long-term responses of vegetation to climatic changes; causes and consequences of fire-regime changes; land-use changes in a climatic context; and assessing the natural qualities of vegetation for nature conservation and environmental management.
Research topics
Mediterranean Ecosystems
Forest potentials
Island ecology
Fire effects on tropical African ecosystems
Alaskan Ecosystems
Climate-vegetation-land use linkages in Europe
Interdisciplinary
Vegetation Ecology and Population Biology
Nature Conservation and Forest Management
Climate Sciences
Archaeology and Archaeobotany
Earth and Quaternary Sciences
