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W.O. van der Knaap

W.O. van der Knaap

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
47
Citations
8301
World Ranking
5794
National Ranking
142

Overview

W.O. van der Knaap is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has contributed significantly to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specific focus on subfields including Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Anthropology, and Plant Science.

The research topics covered by van der Knaap encompass various aspects of geological and ecological sciences. Key areas of work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Van der Knaap has published extensively in a range of scientific journals. Frequent venues of publication include:

  • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
  • Quaternary International
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Biological Conservation

Their recent papers cover diverse ecological and paleoenvironmental studies, such as:

  • Pollen and plant diversity relationships in a Mediterranean montane area, 2020, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
  • Föhn, fire and grazing in Southern Tibet? A 20,000-year multi-proxy record in an alpine ecotonal ecosystem, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • A range-wide postglacial history of Swiss stone pine based on molecular markers and palaeoecological evidence, 2023, Journal of Biogeography
  • Holocene vegetation, fire and land use dynamics at Lake Svityaz, an agriculturally marginal site in northwestern Ukraine, 2021, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
  • Original plant diversity and ecosystems of a small, remote oceanic island (Corvo, Azores): Implications for biodiversity conservation, 2024, Biological Conservation

Van der Knaap frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Jacqueline F. N. van Leeuwen
  • Simon Connor
  • Matthew Adesanya Adeleye
  • Michela Mariani
  • Willy Tinner

Best Publications

  • A new scenario for the Quaternary history of European beech populations: palaeobotanical evidence and genetic consequences

    Donatella Magri;Giovanni G. Vendramin;Isabelle Dupanloup

  • History of Atmospheric Lead Deposition Since 12,370 14C yr BP from a Peat Bog, Jura Mountains, Switzerland

    W. Shotyk;D. Weiss;P. G. Appleby;A. K. Cheburkin

  • Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks

    M. J Gaillard;S. Sugita;F. Mazier;F. Mazier;A. K Trondman

  • Genetic consequences of glacial survival and postglacial colonization in Norway spruce: combined analysis of mitochondrial DNA and fossil pollen.

    Mari Mette Tollefsrud;Roy Kissling;Felix Gugerli;Øystein Johnsen

  • A 22,000 14C year BP sediment and pollen record of climate change from Laguna Miscanti (23°S), northern Chile

    M Grosjean;J.F.N van Leeuwen;W.O van der Knaap;M.A Geyh

  • Holocene environmental and climatic changes at Gorgo Basso, a coastal lake in southern Sicily, Italy

    Willy Tinner;Willy Tinner;Jacqueline F.N. van Leeuwen;Daniele Colombaroli;Elisa Vescovi

  • Late Quaternary expansion of Norway spruce Picea abies (L.) Karst. in Europe according to pollen data

    Małgorzata Latałowa;W.O. van der Knaap

  • Holocene vegetation succession and degradation as responses to climatic change and human activity in the Serra de Estrela, Portugal

    W.O. van der Knaap;J.F.N. van Leeuwen

  • Late Glacial and Holocene vegetational changes on the Ulagan high-mountain plateau, Altai Mountains, southern Siberia

    T.A Blyakharchuk;H.E Wright;P.S Borodavko;W.O van der Knaap

  • Late Glacial and Holocene vegetational history of the Altai Mountains (southwestern Tuva Republic, Siberia)

    T.A. Blyakharchuk;H.E. Wright;P.S. Borodavko;W.O. van der Knaap

  • The expansion of hazel (Corylus avellana L.) in the southern Alps: a key for understanding its early Holocene history in Europe?

    Walter Finsinger;Walter Finsinger;Willy Tinner;W.O. van der Knaap;Brigitta Ammann

  • Late Glacial and early Holocene vegetation succession, altitudinal vegetation zonation, and climatic change in the Serra da Estrela, Portugal

    W.O. van der Knaap;J.F.N. van Leeuwen

  • Accumulation rates and predominant atmospheric sources of natural and anthropogenic Hg and Pb on the Faroe Islands

    W. Shotyk;Michael Evan Goodsite;F. Roos-Barraclough;N. Givelet

  • Towards mapping the late Quaternary vegetation change of Europe

    Thomas Giesecke;Basil Davis;Simon Brewer;Walter Finsinger

  • The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project

    Basil A S Davis;Marco Zanon;Pamella Collins;Achille Mauri

  • Migration and population expansion of Abies, Fagus, Picea, and Quercus since 15000 years in and across the Alps, based on pollen-percentage threshold values

    W.O. van der Knaap;Jacqueline F.N. van Leeuwen;Walter Finsinger;Erika Gobet

  • Fossil pollen as a guide to conservation in the Galapagos.

    Jacqueline F. N. van Leeuwen;Cynthia A. Froyd;W. O. van der Knaap;Emily E. Coffey

  • The palaeoecological history of the Praz-Rodet bog (Swiss Jura) based on pollen, plant macrofossils and testate amoebae (Protozoa)

    E. A.D. Mitchell;W. O. van der Knaap;J. F.N. van Leeuwen;A. Buttler

  • Regional climate model simulations for Europe at 6 and 0.2 k BP: sensitivity to changes in anthropogenic deforestation

    G. Strandberg;E. Kjellstrom;Anneli Poska;S. Wagner

  • Vegetation responses to rapid warming and to minor climatic fluctuations during the Late-Glacial Interstadial (GI-1) at Gerzensee (Switzerland)

    Brigitta Ammann;Jacqueline F. N. van Leeuwen;Willem Oscar van der Knaap;Heike Lischke

  • High-resolution AMS 14C dating of post bomb peat archives of atmospheric pollutants

    Michael E Goodsite;Werner Rom;Jan Heinemeier;Todd Lange

Frequent Co-Authors

Brigitta Ammann
Brigitta Ammann University of Bern
Willy Tinner
Willy Tinner University of Bern
William Shotyk
William Shotyk University of Alberta
Edward A. D. Mitchell
Edward A. D. Mitchell University of Neuchâtel
Daniele Colombaroli
Daniele Colombaroli Royal Holloway University of London
Walter Finsinger
Walter Finsinger University of Montpellier
Herbert E. Wright
Herbert E. Wright University of Minnesota
Ralph Fyfe
Ralph Fyfe Plymouth University
Jed O. Kaplan
Jed O. Kaplan University of Calgary

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