Projects

Here an overview of my main current and past projects, and R-packages related to my publications.

Active Projects

BIODYNAMICS
The BIODYNAMICS project aims to address the need for predicting biodiversity and ecosystem alteration under global climate change. Life scientists need to be able to predict biodiversity and ecosystem alteration under global climate change. However, scenarios able to predict biodiversity trajectories are wishful thinking as biotic interactions in novel environments or among newly coexisting species are not sufficiently understood. By investigating…

Connect-Evolve project
The páramo, a unique high-altitude ecosystem in the northern Andes, is home to some of the most diverse and rapidly evolving plant communities in the world. Our project investigates how past climate change and landscape connectivity have shaped the extraordinary biodiversity found here today. By combining expertise in ecology, evolutionary biology, and climate science, and using…

Drone-Willow-Bumblebee Project
This pilot project explores how climate-driven shrub expansion affects alpine biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics. Using drone-based remote sensing and fieldwork at Finse (Norway), we map the density and spatial distribution of male and female willow shrubs (Salix spp.) and link these patterns to bumblebee abundance and pollination dynamics.

ECO-SPACE project
ECO-SPACE: Earth Observation and Geospatial Tools for Ecosystem and Environmental Management is a project aimed to our students at BIO and UiB to address a critical gap in Norway’s higher education: the lack of geospatial training for biology and environmental science students that integrates Universal Design (UD) principles. This project aims to develop educational material that will combine GIS, Remote Sensing, and spatial analysis with ecological and environmental applications, ensuring…

Fossilpol workflow
The goal of the FOSSILPOL project is to make it easier for the interdisciplinary researcher to work with big fossil pollen databases. We developed a paper, workflow and R-package to process multiple fossil pollen records to create a comprehensive, standardised dataset compilation, ready for multi-record and multi-proxy analyses at various spatial and temporal scales.

GLACIMONTIS
GLACIMONTIS is an ongoing research project dedicated to understanding the extent of mountain glaciers during past cold periods, with a focus on the Last Glacial Maximum (~21,000 years ago) and the last glacial cycle (the last 130,000 years). The project reconstructs glaciers in mountains worldwide with cutting edge techniques and compiles paleoglacier reconstructions from published studies into a global open-access geodatabase…

Latin American Pollen Database
Since 2009 I have been leading the Latin American Pollen Database (LAPD) and I have been part of Neotoma Paleoecology Database and Community. I’ve facilitated the upload of pollen records to Neotoma from Latin America, and also from Europe and the Indo-Pacific region, together with several collaborators associated to the European Pollen Database and Neotoma.

Pantropical Dynamics
The Pantropical Dynamics is a collaborative network that unifies researchers interested in ecosystem dynamics across Latin America, Africa, and the Indo-Pacific regions. This intercontinental initiative is committed to unraveling the complexities of vegetation ecosystem dynamics since the Last Glacial Maximum (c. 22 ka) using compilations of fossil pollen records.

Children’s book Paramo
An interdisciplinary team that comprises artists, science communicators, evolutionary biologists, and ecologists has crafted a scientific children’s book, “La Minienciclopedia del Páramo”. This book…

PPF-Alpine
Since April-2022 I am leading the project called the The Past, Present and Future of Alpine Biomes Worldwide (PPF…
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Past Projects

R-packages