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  • 1999 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Henry Hooghiemstra is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans a wide range of topics, with a focus on geology, paleoclimatology, plant diversity, and ecological dynamics.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Their subfields of study highlight an emphasis on atmospheric and ecological sciences as well as paleontology and conservation:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Paleontology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Henry Hooghiemstra has published numerous papers, with notable recent publications including:

  • "Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years" (2021, Science)
  • "The human dimension of biodiversity changes on islands" (2021, Science)
  • "The Andes through time: evolution and distribution of Andean floras" (2022, Wiardi Beckman Foundation)
  • "Identifying drivers of forest resilience in long-term records from the Neotropics" (2020, Biology Letters)
  • "Approaches to pollen taxonomic harmonisation in Quaternary palynology" (2023, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology)

They have frequently published in journals such as:

  • Science
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Palynology
  • Wiardi Beckman Foundation

The scientist's collaborative work often involves a number of recurring co-authors, including:

  • Suzette G. A. Flantua
  • Juan Carlos Berrío
  • Vivian A. Felde
  • Simon Haberle
  • Carina Hoorn

Henry Hooghiemstra received recognition from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. Their career centers on interdisciplinary research that integrates long-term environmental records with biodiversity and ecological changes over millennia.

Best Publications

  • Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity

    C. Hoorn;F. P. Wesselingh;H. ter Steege;M. A. Bermudez

  • Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity

    A. Antonelli;W.D. Kissling;S.G.A. Flantua;S.G.A. Flantua;Bermúdez

  • The last 1.35 million years at Tenaghi Philippon: revised chronostratigraphy and long-term vegetation trends

    P.C. Tzedakis;H. Hooghiemstra;H. Pälike

  • Neogene and Quaternary history of vegetation, climate, and plant diversity in Amazonia

    Thomas van der Hammen;Henry Hooghiemstra

  • Tropical climates at the Last Glacial Maximum: a new synthesis of terrestrial palaeoclimate data. I. Vegetation, lake-levels and geochemistry

    I. Farrera;S. P. Harrison;I. C. Prentice;G. Ramstein

  • Rapid environmental change in African and South American tropics around 4000 years before present: a review

    Robert Marchant;Henry Hooghiemstra

  • Neogene and Quaternary development of the neotropical rain forest: the forest refugia hypothesis, and a literature overview

    Henry Hooghiemstra;Thomas van der Hammen

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E.J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H.A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

  • Comparison of terrestrial and marine records of changing climate of the last 500,000 years

    P.C. Tzedakis;V. Andrieu;J.-L. de Beaulieu;S. Crowhurst

  • A multi-proxy study of Holocene environmental change in the Maya Lowlands of Peten, Guatemala

    Jason H. Curtis;Mark Brenner;David A. Hodell;Richard A. Balser

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

    Ondrej Mottl;Suzette Flantua;Suzette Flantua;Kuber Prasad Bhatta;Vivian Astrup Felde;Vivian Astrup Felde

  • A Holocene vegetation history from lowland Guatemala

    Gerald A. Islebe;Henry Hooghiemstra;Mark Brenner;Jason H. Curtis

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E. J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H. A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

  • Quaternary Ice-Age dynamics in the Colombian Andes: developing an understanding of our legacy.

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  • Climatic forcing of asymmetric orogenic evolution in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia

    Andrés Mora;Mauricio Parra;Manfred R. Strecker;Edward R. Sobel

  • The flickering connectivity system of the north Andean páramos

    Suzette G.A. Flantua;Suzette G.A. Flantua;Aaron O'Dea;Renske E. Onstein;Catalina Giraldo

  • Distribution and ecology of parent taxa of pollen lodged within the Latin American Pollen Database

    Robert Marchant;Lucia Almeida;Hermann Behling;Juan Carlos Berrio

  • Late Quaternary palynology in marine sediments: A synthesis of the understanding of pollen distribution patterns in the NW African setting

    Henry Hooghiemstra;Anne-Marie Lézine;Suzanne A G Leroy;Lydie M Dupont

  • Vegetational and climatic changes at the northern fringe of the Sahara 250,000-5000 years BP : evidence from 4 marine pollen records located between Portugal and the Canary Islands

    Henry Hooghiemstra;Hartmut Stalling;Chiori O.C. Agwu;Lydie M. Dupont

  • Holocene Amazon rainforest-savanna dynamics and climatic implications: high-resolution pollen record from Laguna Loma Linda in eastern Colombia

    Hermann Behling;Henry Hooghiemstra

  • Comparison of changes in vegetation in northeast Greece with records of climate variability on orbital and suborbital frequencies over the last 450 000 years

    P.C. Tzedakis;J.F. McManus;H. Hooghiemstra;D.W. Oppo

  • Establishing a terrestrial chronological framework as a basis for biostratigraphical comparisons.

    P.C. Tzedakis;V. Andrieu;J.-L. de Beaulieu;H.J.B. Birks;H.J.B. Birks

Frequent Co-Authors

Hermann Behling
Hermann Behling University of Göttingen
Rob Marchant
Rob Marchant University of York
Eric C. Grimm
Eric C. Grimm University of Minnesota
Polychronis C Tzedakis
Polychronis C Tzedakis University College London
Marie-Pierre Ledru
Marie-Pierre Ledru Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Arnoud Boom
Arnoud Boom University of Leicester
B. van Geel
B. van Geel University of Amsterdam
Joost F. Duivenvoorden
Joost F. Duivenvoorden University of Amsterdam
William D. Gosling
William D. Gosling University of Amsterdam
Fabienne Marret
Fabienne Marret University of Liverpool

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