Suzette Flantua

Member 1

Researcher in Global Change Ecology affiliated with the Ecological and Environmental research group within the Department of Biological Sciences and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research at the University of Bergen.

Research Interests

  • Biodiversity patterns in mountain ranges by studying historical environmental factors and human influences.
  • Geospatial analysis applied to climate–biodiversity dynamics in mountains and the tropics.

Research Projects

Past, Present and Future of Alpine Biomes Worldwide (PPF-Alpine): understanding the present-day alpine biodiversity from a long-term and interdisciplinary perspective.

Ecological Spatial Competence and Education (ECO-SPACE): new course on Earth Observation and Geospatial tools for Ecosystem and Environmental Management.

Global Human Impact Project: uncovering the profound relationship between human activity and ecological processes during the Holocene.

Pantropical Dynamics: unraveling the complexities of vegetation ecosystem dynamics since the Last Glacial Maximum (c. 22 ka) using fossil pollen records across Latin America, Africa and the Indo-Pacific regions.

Fossilpol Workflow: improving accessibility of fossil pollen bigdata to interdisciplinary researchers through the development of an R-package.

Latin American Pollen Database (LAPD): leading the LAPD and facilitating the upload of pollen records to Neotoma.

Humans on Planet Earth (HOPE): understanding the impact of prehistoric people on the biosphere and its dynamics.