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Sander van der Kaars is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans various domains within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Social Sciences, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to understanding past environments and their changes.

Their frequent areas of study include Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Anthropology, Paleontology, and Global and Planetary Change. The scientist's key topics of work cover:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology

Their recent publications represent multidisciplinary approaches and temporal scales ranging from the Pleistocene to the recent past. Notable papers include:

  • "Interaction of Fire, Vegetation, and Climate in Tropical Ecosystems: A Multiproxy Study Over the Past 22,000 Years" (2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles)
  • "The pollen record from marine core MD03-2607 from offshore Kangaroo Island spanning the last 125 ka; implications for vegetation changes across the Murray-Darling Basin" (2021, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences)
  • "On the timing of megafaunal extinction and associated floristic consequences in Australia through the lens of functional palaeoecology" (2023, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • "Re-evaluating the evidence for late-surviving megafauna at Nombe rockshelter in the New Guinea highlands" (2022, Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania)
  • "Palaeoecological studies at four archaeological sites in the New Guinea Highlands document local vegetation histories and plant use from c. 18,000 cal BP to the recent past" (2025, Journal of Pacific Archaeology)

They have collaborated frequently with researchers such as Yanming Ruan, Mahyar Mohtadi, Lydie M Dupont, Dierk Hebbeln, and Ellen C. Hopmans, reflecting a networked approach to research in related disciplines.

Their work has been published across specialized venues, including:

  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania
  • Journal of Pacific Archaeology

Best Publications

  • Relation between century-scale Holocene arid intervals in tropical and temperate zones

    H. F. Lamb;F. Gasse;A. Benkaddour;A. Benkaddour;N. El Hamouti

  • Late Quaternary climates of the Australian arid zone: a review

    Paul P Hesse;John W Magee;Sander van der Kaars

  • Palaeoenvironmental change in tropical Australasia over the last 30,000 years: a synthesis by the OZ-INTIMATE group

    Jessica M. Reeves;Helen C. Bostock;Linda K. Ayliffe;Timothy T. Barrows

  • Biomass burning in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea: natural and human induced fire events in the fossil record

    Simon G Haberle;Geoffrey S Hope;Sander van der Kaars

  • History of vegetation and habitat change in the Austral-Asian region

    Geoffrey S Hope;Peter Kershaw A Peter Kershaw;Sander van der Kaars;Sun Xiangjun

  • A Late Quaternary palaeoecological record from the Banda Sea, Indonesia: patterns of vegetation, climate and biomass burning in Indonesia and northern Australia

    Sander van der Kaars;Xuan Wang;Peter Kershaw A Peter Kershaw;F Guichard

  • Environmental impact of the 73 ka Toba super-eruption in South Asia

    Martin A.J. Williams;Stanley H. Ambrose;Sander van der Kaars;Carsten Ruehlemann

  • Sea-level and environmental changes since the last interglacial in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia: an overview

    Allan R Chivas;Adriana Garcı́a;Sander van der Kaars;Martine J.J Couapel

  • Holocene climatic change in Morocco: a quantitative reconstruction from pollen data

    R. Cheddadi;H. F. Lamb;J. Guiot;S. van der Kaars

  • Palaeoclimate and the Formation of Sapropel S1: Inferences from Late Quaternary Lacustrine and Marine Sequences in the Central Mediterranean Region

    D. Ariztegui;A. Asioli;J.J. Lowe;F. Trincardi

  • A complete pollen record of the last 230 ka from Lynch's Crater, north-eastern Australia

    Peter Kershaw A Peter Kershaw;Sophie Caroline Lewis Bretherton;Sander van der Kaars

  • A Late Pleistocene and Holocene pollen and charcoal record from peat swamp forest, Lake Sentarum Wildlife Reserve, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Gusti Anshari;Peter Kershaw A Peter Kershaw;Sander van der Kaars

  • Pollen-based reconstructions of biome distributions for Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific (SEAPAC region) at 0, 6000 and 18,000 14C yr BP

    Elizabeth J. Pickett;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison;Geoff Hope;Kate Harle

  • Late Quaternary palaeoecology, palynology and palaeolimnology of a tropical lowland swamp: Rawa Danau, West-Java, Indonesia

    Sander van der Kaars;Daniel Penny;John C Tibby;John C Tibby;Jennie Fluin;Jennie Fluin

  • Determinants of stingless bee nest density in lowland dipterocarp forests of Sabah, Malaysia

    Thomas Eltz;Carsten A. Brühl;Sander van der Kaars;Eduard K. Linsenmair

  • Glacial and deglacial climatic patterns in Australia and surrounding regions from 35 000 to 10 000 years ago reconstructed from terrestrial and near-shore proxy data

    Martin Williams;Ellyn Cook;Sander van der Kaars;Tim Barrows

  • A Record of Fire, Vegetation and Climate through the Last Three Glacial Cycles from Lombok Ridge Core G6-4, Eastern Indian Ocean, Indonesia

    Xuan Wang;Sander van der Kaars;Peter Kershaw A Peter Kershaw;Michael I Bird

  • The status of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and adjacent land at the Last Glacial Maximum

    P De Deckker;N.J Tapper;S van der Kaars

  • A Late Quaternary pollen record from deep-sea core Fr10/95, GC17 offshore Cape Range Peninsula, northwestern Western Australia

    Sander van der Kaars;Patrick De Deckker

  • Late Quaternary Milankovitch-scale climatic change and variability and its impact on monsoonal Australasia

    A.P. Kershaw;S. van der Kaars;P.T. Moss;P.T. Moss

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick De Deckker
Patrick De Deckker Australian National University
Patrick Moss
Patrick Moss University of Queensland
Colin V. Murray-Wallace
Colin V. Murray-Wallace University of Wollongong
David M. Price
David M. Price University of Wollongong
Allan R. Chivas
Allan R. Chivas University of Wollongong
Jan-Berend W Stuut
Jan-Berend W Stuut Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Timothy T. Barrows
Timothy T. Barrows University of New South Wales
Mahyar Mohtadi
Mahyar Mohtadi University of Bremen
Enno Schefuß
Enno Schefuß University of Bremen
Geoffrey Hope
Geoffrey Hope Australian National University

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