Paleoecology and Pollen-based vegetation modelling

Our research group investigates how human activities and climate variability have shaped vegetation and landscapes over long timescales, from decades to millennia. We focus on understanding how land use, forest management, and societal development have influenced vegetation composition, landscape openness, and plant diversity throughout the Holocene. Using pollen analysis and quantitative vegetation modelling, combined with tree-ring records, archaeobotanical evidence, and historical and archaeological data, we reconstruct past land cover and land use. Our work provides long-term perspectives on how societies transformed landscapes in the past.

Main contact: Laurent Marquer

Labors: Research Group Vegetation Modelling