Publications

Flantua, S. G. A., Mottl, O., Felde, V. A., Bhatta, K. P., Birks, H. H., … Birks, H. J. B. (2023). A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large‐scale syntheses using fossil pollen. Global Ecology and Biogeography, geb.13693. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13693

Van Der Sande, M. T., Bush, M. B., Åkesson, C. M., Berrio, J. C., Correia Metrio, A., Flantua, S. G. A., …Gosling, W. D. (2023). Warming, drought, and disturbances lead to shifts in functional composition: A millennial‐scale analysis for Amazonian and Andean sites. Global Change Biology, gcb.16818. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16818

Pacheco‐Riaño, L. C., Høistad Schei, F., Flantua, S. G. A., & Grytnes, J. (2023). Lags in the response of plant assemblages to global warming depends on temperature‐change velocity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(5), 719–733. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13653

Pacheco-Riaño, L. C., Flantua, S. G. A., & Grytnes, J.-A. (2023). Can Plants “Move” Fast Enough to Escape Climate Change? Frontiers for Young Minds, 11, 947230. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2023.947230

Albert, J. S., Carnaval, A. C., Flantua, S. G. A., Lohmann, L. G., Ribas, C. C., … Nobre, C. A. (2023). Human impacts outpace natural processes in the Amazon. Science, 379(6630), eabo5003. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abo5003

Here are more other relevant studies of our research group. To request a pdf of any publication, please write to suzette.flantua at uib.no.

Mountain biodiversity

Flantua, S.G.A., Payne, D., Borregaard, M.K., Beierkuhnlein, C., Steinbauer, M.J., Dullinger, S., Essl, F., Irl, S.D.H., Kienle, D., Kreft, H., Lenzner, B., Norder, S.J., Rijsdijk, K.F., Rumpf, S.B., Weigelt, P., Field, R., 2020. Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29, 1651–1673. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13155 (open access)

Antonelli, A., Kissling, W.D., Flantua, S.G.A., Bermúdez, M.A., Mulch, A., Muellner-Riehl, A.N., Kreft, H., Linder, H.P., Badgley, C., Fjeldså, J., Fritz, S.A., Rahbek, C., Herman, F., Hooghiemstra, H., Hoorn, C., 2018. Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity. Nature Geoscience 11, 718–725. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0236-z

Flantua, S.G.A., Hooghiemstra, H., 2018. Historical connectivity and mountain biodiversity, in: Hoorn, C., Perrigo, A., Antonelli, A. (Eds.), Mountains, Climate and Biodiversity. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, pp. 171–185. link

Paleoreconstructions of ecosystems

Mottl, O., Flantua, S.G.A., Bhatta, K.P., Felde, V.A., Giesecke, T., Goring, S., Grimm, E.C., Haberle, S., Hooghiemstra, H., Ivory, S., Kuneš, P., Wolters, S., Seddon, A.W.R., Williams, J.W., 2021. Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years. Science 372, 860–864. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg1685

Flantua, S.G.A., O’Dea, A., Onstein, R.E., Giraldo, C., Hooghiemstra, H., 2019. The flickering connectivity system of the north Andean páramos. Journal of Biogeography 46, 1808–1825. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13607 (open access)

Mountain ecosystems and current and future climate change

Tovar, C., Carril, A.F., Gutierrez, A.G., Ahrends, A., Fita, L., Zaninelli, P., Flombaum, O., Abarzua, A.M., Alarcon, D., Aschero, V., Baez, S., Barros, A., Carilla, J., Eugenia Ferrero, M., Flantua S.G.A., Gonzáles, P., Menéndez C.G., Pérez-Escobar, O.A., Pauchard, A., Ruscica, R.C., Sarkinen, T., Sörensson, A.A., Srur, A., Villalba, R., Hollingsworth, P.M. 2022. Understanding climate change impacts on plant distributions in the Andes: challenges and opportunities. Journal of Biogeography link

Diazgranados, M., Tovar, C., Etherington, T.R., Rodríguez-Zorro, P.A., Castellanos-Castro, C., Rueda, M.G., Flantua, S.G.A., 2021. Ecosystem services show variable responses to future climate conditions in the Colombian páramos. PeerJ 9, e11370. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11370 (open access)