Humans On Planet Earth - Long-term impacts on biosphere dynamics

Project Information

HOPE

Grant agreement ID: 741413

DOI 10.3030/741413

Project closed

EC signature date 18 April 2017

Start date 1 January 2018

End date 30 June 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 278 884,00

EU contribution € 2 278 884,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN
Norway

Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (37)

Chemical variations in Quercus pollen as a tool for taxonomic identification: Implications for long-term ecological and biogeographical research

Author(s): Florian Muthreich; Boris Zimmerman; H. John B. Birks; Carlos M. Vila-Viçosa; Alistair W.R. Seddon
Published in: Journal of Biogeography, Issue 12, 2020, Page(s) 1298-1309, ISSN 0305-0270
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13817

A pan-Himalayan test of predictions on plant species richness based on primary production and water-energy dynamics

Author(s): Bhatta, Kuber Prasad; Robson, Benjamin Aubrey; Suwal, Madan Krishna; Vetaas, Ole Reidar
Published in: Frontiers of Biogeography, Issue 4, 2021, Page(s) e49459, ISSN 1948-6596
Publisher: International Biogeography Society
DOI: 10.21425/f5fbg49459

Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism

Author(s): Suzette G. A. Flantua, Davnah Payne, Michael K. Borregaard, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Stefan Dullinger, Franz Essl, Severin D. H. Irl, David Kienle, Holger Kreft, Bernd Lenzner, Sietze J. Norder, Kenneth F. Rijsdijk, Sabine B. Rumpf, Patrick Weigelt, Richard Field
Published in: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Issue 29/10, 2020, Page(s) 1651-1673, ISSN 1466-822X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13155

Climate-driven plant response and resilience on the Tibetan Plateau in space and time: a review

Author(s): Bhatarai, P., Zheng, Z., Bhatta, K.P., Adhikari, Y.P. & Zhang, Y.
Published in: Plants, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 480, ISSN 2223-7747
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/plants10030480

Diversification in evolutionary arenas—Assessment and synthesis

Author(s): Nicolai M. Nürk, H. Peter Linder, Renske E. Onstein, Matthew J. Larcombe, Colin E. Hughes, Laura Piñeiro Fernández, Philipp M. Schlüter, Luis Valente, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Vanessa Cutts, Michael J. Donoghue, Erika J. Edwards, Richard Field, Suzette G. A. Flantua, Steven I. Higgins, Anke Jentsch, Sigrid Liede‐Schumann, Michael D. Pirie
Published in: Ecology and Evolution, Issue 10/12, 2020, Page(s) 6163-6182, ISSN 2045-7758
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6313

Trait‐based approaches as ecological time machines: Developing tools for reconstructing long‐term variation in ecosystems

Author(s): Kerry A. Brown; M. Jane Bunting; Fabio Carvalho; Francesco de Bello; Luke Mander; Katarzyna Marcisz; Ondrej Mottl; Triin Reitalu; Jens‐Christian Svenning
Published in: Functional Ecology, Issue 5, 2023, Page(s) 2552-2569, ISSN 0269-8463
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14415

Approaches to pollen taxonomic harmonisation in Quaternary palynology

Author(s): H. John B. Birks; Kuber P. Bhatta; Vivian A. Felde; Suzette G.A. Flantua; Ondřej Mottl; Simon G. Haberle; Annika Herbert; Henry Hooghiemstra; Hilary H. Birks; John-Arvid Grytnes; Alistair W.R. Seddon
Published in: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Issue 12, 2023, Page(s) 104989, ISSN 0034-6667
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.104989

Predicting extinctions with species distribution models

Author(s): Damaris Zurell; Susanne A. Fritz; Anna Rönnfeldt; Manuel J. Steinbauer
Published in: Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 2755-0958
Publisher: Cambridge University
DOI: 10.1017/ext.2023.5

Special feature: measuring components of ecological resilience in long-term ecological datasets

Author(s): Alistair W. R. Seddon
Published in: Biology Letters, Issue 17/1, 2021, Page(s) 20200881, ISSN 1744-9561
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0881

60 years of scientific deep drilling in Colombia: the north Andean guide to the Quaternary

Author(s): Hooghiemstra, Henry; Pérez, Gustavo Sarmiento; Torres Torres, Vladimir; Berrío, Juan Carlos; Lourens, Lucas; Flantua, Suzette G.A.; Stratigraphy and paleontology; Stratigraphy & paleontology
Published in: Scientific Drilling, Issue 30, 2022, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 1816-3459
Publisher: Copernicus
DOI: 10.5194/sd-30-1-2022

Exploring spatio-temporal patterns of palynological changes in Asia during the Holocene.

Author(s): Bhatta, K.P.; Mottl, O.; Felde, V.A.; Flantua, S.G.A.; Birks, H.H.; Cao, X.; Chen, F.; Grytnes, J.-A.; Seddon, A.W.R.; Birks, H.J.B.
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 11, 2023, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1115784

Temperature reconstructions for the last 1.74-Ma on the eastern Tibetan Plateau based on a novel pollen-based quantitative method

Author(s): Yan Zhao, Chen Liang, Qiaoyu Cui, Feng Qin, Zhuo Zheng, Xiayun Xiao, Chunmei Ma, Vivian A. Felde, Yaoliang Liu, Quan Li, Zhiyong Zhang, Ulrike Herzschuh, Qinghai Xu, Haicheng Wei, Maotang Cai, Xianyong Cao, Zhengtang Guo, H. John B. Birks
Published in: Global and Planetary Change, Issue 199, 2021, Page(s) 103433, ISSN 0921-8181
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103433

Reliability of presence-only data for assessing plant community responses to climate warming

Author(s): L. Camila Pacheco-Riaño, Sabine Rumf, Tuija Maliniemi, Suzette G.A. Flantua, John-Arvid Grytnes
Published in: Ecography, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) e01723, ISSN 1600-0587
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.07213

High-elevation limits and the ecology of high-elevation vascular plants: legacies from Alexander von Humboldt

Author(s): Birks, H.J.B.
Published in: Frontiers of Biogeography, 2021, Page(s) e53226, ISSN 1948-6596
Publisher: International Biogeography Society
DOI: 10.21425/f5fbg53226

Fossil pollen data can reconstruct robust spatial patterns of biodiversity in the past

Author(s): Kuber P. Bhatta, Xianyong Cao, Vivian A. Felde, John-Arvid Grytnes, Hilary H. Birks, H. John B. Birks
Published in: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Issue 12, 2024, Page(s) 105175, ISSN 0034-6667
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2024.105175

Potential distributions of pre-Columbian people in Tropical Andean landscapes

Author(s): Rachel K. Sales; Crystal N. H. McMichael; Suzette G. A. Flantua; Kimberley Hagemans; Jesse R. Zondervan; Catalina González-Arango; Warren B. Church; Mark B. Bush
Published in: Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, Issue 12, 2022, Page(s) 2022.0502, ISSN 1471-2970
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0502

Latitudinal gradients in the phylogenetic assembly of angiosperms in Asia during the Holocene

Author(s): Kuber P. Bhatta, Ondřej Mottl, Vivian A. Felde, John-Arvid Grytnes, Triin Reitalu, Hilary H. Birks, H. John B. Birks, Ole R. Vetaas
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-67650-1

Lags in the response of plant assemblages to global warming depends on temperature‐change velocity

Author(s): L. Camila Pacheco‐Riaño; Fride Høistad Schei; Suzette G. A. Flantua; John‐Arvid Grytnes
Published in: Global Ecology and Bioeography, Issue 32/5, 2023, Page(s) 719-733, ISSN 1466-8238
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13653

Editorial: Functional Traits as Indicators of Past Environmental Changes

Author(s): Mariusz Lamentowicz; Alistair W. R. Seddon; Vincent E. J. Jassey
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 9, 2022, Page(s) 827743, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.827743

Reflections on the Use of Ecological Attributes and Traits in Quaternary Botany

Author(s): H. John B. Birks
Published in: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Issue 8, 2020, ISSN 2296-701X
Publisher: Frontiers Media
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00166

Compositional turnover and variation in Eemian pollen sequences in Europe

Author(s): Vivian A. Felde, Suzette G. A. Flantua, Cathy R. Jenks, Blas M. Benito, Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Petr Kuneš, Donatella Magri, Dorota Nalepka, Bjørg Risebrobakken, Cajo J. F. ter Braak, Judy R. M. Allen, Wojciech Granoszewski, Karin F. Helmens, Brian Huntley, Ona Kondratienė, Laimdota Kalniņa, Mirosława Kupryjanowicz, Małgorzata Malkiewicz, Alice M. Milner, Małgorzata Nita, Bożena Noryśk
Published in: Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Issue 29/1, 2020, Page(s) 101-109, ISSN 0939-6314
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-019-00726-5

Contributions of Quaternary botany to modern ecology and biogeography

Author(s): H. John B. Birks
Published in: Plant Ecology & Diversity, Issue 12/3-4, 2019, Page(s) 189-385, ISSN 1755-0874
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2019.1646831

A new modern pollen dataset describing the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Author(s): Vincent Montade, Marie-Pierre Ledru, Thomas Giesecke, Suzette GA Flantua, Hermann Behling, Odile Peyron
Published in: The Holocene, Issue 29/8, 2019, Page(s) 1253-1262, ISSN 0959-6836
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0959683619846981

Using species attributes to characterize late‐glacial and early‐Holocene environments at Kråkenes, western Norway

Author(s): Vivian Astrup Felde, Hilary Helen Birks
Published in: Journal of Vegetation Science, Issue 30/6, 2019, Page(s) 1228-1238, ISSN 1100-9233
Publisher: Opulus Press AB
DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12804

Evolution of vegetation and climate variability on the Tibetan Plateau over the past 1.74 million years

Author(s): Yan Zhao, Polychronis C. Tzedakis, Quan Li, Feng Qin, Qiaoyu Cui, Chen Liang, H. John B. Birks, Yaoliang Liu, Zhiyong Zhang, Junyi Ge, Hui Zhao, Vivian A. Felde, Chenglong Deng, Maotang Cai, Huan Li, Weihe Ren, Haicheng Wei, Hanfei Yang, Jiawu Zhang, Zicheng Yu, Zhengtang Guo
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 6/19, 2020, Page(s) eaay6193, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aay6193

Ecological memory at millennial time‐scales: the importance of data constraints, species longevity and niche features

Author(s): Blas M. Benito, Graciela Gil‐Romera, H. John B. Birks
Published in: Ecography, Issue 43/1, 2020, Page(s) 1-10, ISSN 0906-7590
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.04772

distantia: an open‐source toolset to quantify dissimilarity between multivariate ecological time‐series

Author(s): Blas M. Benito, H. John B. Birks
Published in: Ecography, Issue 43/5, 2020, Page(s) 660-667, ISSN 0906-7590
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.04895

Rate-of-change analysis in paleoecology revisited: A new approach

Author(s): Ondřej Mottl, John-Arvid Grytnes, Alistair W.R. Seddon, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Kuber P. Bhatta, Vivian A. Felde, Suzette G.A. Flantua, H. John B. Birks
Published in: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Issue 293, 2021, Page(s) 104483, ISSN 0034-6667
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104483

The human dimension of biodiversity changes on islands

Author(s): Sandra Nogué, Ana M. C. Santos, H. John B. Birks, Svante Björck, Alvaro Castilla-Beltrán, Simon Connor, Erik J. de Boer, Lea de Nascimento, Vivian A. Felde, José María Fernández-Palacios, Cynthia A. Froyd, Simon G. Haberle, Henry Hooghiemstra, Karl Ljung, Sietze J. Norder, Josep Peñuelas, Matthew Prebble, Janelle Stevenson, Robert J. Whittaker, Kathy J. Willis, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Manuel J
Published in: Science, Issue 372/6541, 2021, Page(s) 488-491, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abd6706

Diurnal temperature range as a key predictor of plants' elevation ranges globally

Author(s): Arnaud Gallou, Alistair S. Jump, Joshua S. Lynn, Richard Field, Severin D.H. Irl, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Jan-Chang Chen, Chang-Hung Chou, Andreas Hemp, Yohannes Kidane, Christian König, Holger Kreft, Alireza Naqinezhad, Arkadiusz Nowak, Jan-Niklas Nuppenau, Panayiotis Trigas, Jonathan P. Price, Carl A. Roland, Andreas H. Schweiger, Patrick Weigelt, Suzette G.A. Flantua, John-Ar
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 12, 2023, Page(s) 7890, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43477-8

Anthropogenic pollen indicators: global food plants and Latin American human indicators in the pollen record

Author(s): Suzette G. A. Flantua; Henry Hooghiemstra
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 10, 2023, Page(s) 721, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02613-1

Understanding climate change impacts on biome and plant distributions in the Andes: Challenges and opportunities.

Author(s): Carolina Tovar; Andrea F. Carril; Alvaro G. Gutiérrez; Antje Ahrends; Lluis Fita; Pablo Zaninelli; Pedro Flombaum; Ana M. Abarzúa; Diego Alarcón; Valeria Aschero; Selene Báez; Agustina Barros; Julieta Carilla; M. Eugenia Ferrero; Suzette G. A. Flantua; Paúl Gonzáles; Claudio G. Menéndez; Oscar A. Pérez‐Escobar; Aníbal Pauchard; Romina C. Ruscica; Tiina Särkinen; Anna A. Sörensson; An
Published in: Journal of Biogeography, Issue 49/8, 2022, Page(s) 1420-1442, ISSN 1365-2699
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.14389

A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large-scale syntheses using fossil pollen

Author(s): Suzette G. A. Flantua; Ondrej Mottl; Vivian A. Felde; Kuber P. Bhatta; Hilary H. Birks; John‐Arvid Grytnes; Alistair W. R. Seddon; H. John B. Birks
Published in: Global Ecology and Biogeography, Issue 5, 2023, Page(s) 1377-1394, ISSN 1466-8238
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13693

Cycles of grazing and agricultural activity during the historical period and its relationship with climatic and societal changes in northern China

Author(s): Jun Zhang, Xiaozhong Huang, Shengrui Zhang, Xiuxiu Ren, Yulin Xiao, Jiale Wang, Lixiong Xiang, Qinghai Xu, Harry John Betteley Birks
Published in: Land Degradation & Development, Issue 18, 2021, Page(s) 3315-3325, ISSN 1085-3278
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.4007

Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years

Author(s): Ondřej Mottl, Suzette G. A. Flantua, Kuber P. Bhatta, Vivian A. Felde, Thomas Giesecke, Simon Goring, Eric C. Grimm, Simon Haberle, Henry Hooghiemstra, Sarah Ivory, Petr Kuneš, Steffen Wolters, Alistair W. R. Seddon, John W. Williams
Published in: Science, Issue 372/6544, 2021, Page(s) 860-864, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abg1685

Ecosystem services show variable responses to future climate conditions in the Colombian páramos

Author(s): Mauricio Diazgranados, Carolina Tovar, Thomas R. Etherington, Paula A. Rodríguez-Zorro, Carolina Castellanos-Castro, Manuel Galvis Rueda, Suzette G.A. Flantua
Published in: PeerJ, Issue 6, 2021, Page(s) e11370, ISSN 2167-8359
Publisher: PeerJ
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11370

Patterns of modern pollen and plant richness across northern Europe

Author(s): Reitalu, Triin; Bjune, Anne E.; Blaus, Ansis; Giesecke, Thomas; Helm, Aveliina; Matthias, Isabelle; Peglar, Sylvia M.; Salonen, J. Sakari; Seppä, Heikki; Väli, Vivika; Birks, H. John B.
Published in: Journal of Ecology, Issue 1, 2019, Page(s) 1662-1667, ISSN 0022-0477
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13134

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Quaternary palaeoecology meets deep-time palaeobiology

Author(s): H. John B. Birks
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, Issue 54, 2023, Page(s) e2316233120, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2316233120