• Approaches to pollen taxonomic harmonisation in Quaternary palynology 

      Birks, Harry John Betteley; Bhatta, Kuber Prasad; Felde, Vivian Astrup; Flantua, Suzette; Mottl, Ondrej; Haberle, Simon G.; Herbert, Annika; Hooghiemstra, Henry; Birks, Hilary H; Grytnes, John Arvid; Seddon, Alistair William Robin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Pollen taxonomic harmonisation involves the standardisation of the nomenclature of pollen and fern spores with similar morphotypes at the determination level that is common to all grains or spores with that morphotype ...
    • Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats 

      Biurrun, Idoia; Pielech, Remigiusz; Dembicz, Iwona; Gillet, François; Kozub, Łukasz; Marcenó, Corrado; Reitalu, Triin; Van Meerbeek, Koenraad; Guarino, Riccardo; Chytrý, Milan; Pakeman, Robin J; Preislerová, Zdenka; Axmanová, Irena; Burrascano, Sabina; Bartha, Sándor; Boch, Steffen; Bruun, Hans Henrik; Conradi, Timo; De Frenne, Pieter; Essl, Franz; Filibeck, Goffredo; Hájek, Michal; Jiménez-Alfaro, Borja; Kuzemko, Anna; Molnár, Zsolt; Pärtel, Meelis; Pätsch, Ricarda; Prentice, Honor C.; Roleček, Jan; Sutcliffe, Laura M. E.; Terzi, Massimo; Winkler, Manuela; Wu, Jianshuang; Acíc, Svetlana; Acosta, Alicia T.R.; Afif, Elias; Akasaka, Munemitsu; Alatalo, Juha M.; Aleffi, Michele; Aleksanyan, Alla; Ali, Arshad; Apostolova, Iva; Ashouri, Parvaneh; Bátori, Zoltán; Baumann, Esther; Becker, Thomas; Belonovskaya, Elena; Benito Alonso, José Luis; Berastegi, Asun; Bergamini, Ariel; Bhatta, Kuber Prasad; Bonini, Ilaria; Büchler, Marc-Olivier; Budzhak, Vasyl; Bueno, Alvaro; Buldrini, Fabrizio; Campos, Juan Antonio; Cancellieri, Laura; Carboni, Marta; Ceulemans, Tobias; Chiarucci, Alessandro; Chocarro, Cristina; Conti, Luisa; Csergő, Anna Mária; Cykowska-Marzencka, Beata; Czarniecka-Wiera, Marta; Czarnocka-Cieciura, Marta; Czortek, Patryk; Danihelka, Jiří; de Bello, Francesco; Deák, Balázs; Demeter, László; Deng, Lei; Diekmann, Martin; Doležal, Jiří; Dolnik, Christian; Dřevojan, Pavel; Duprè, Cecilia; Ecker, Klaus; Ejtehadi, Hamid; Erschbamer, Brigitta; Etayo, Javier; Etzold, Jonathan; Farkas, Tünde; Farzam, Mohammad; Fayvush, George; Calzado, Maria Rosa Fernández; Finckh, Manfred; Fjellstad, Wendy Jane; Fotiadis, Georgios; García-Magro, Daniel; García-Mijangos, Itziar; Gavilán, Rosario G.; Germany, Markus; Ghafari, Sahar; Giusso del Galdo, Gian Pietro; Grytnes, John Arvid; Güler, Behlul; Gutiérrez-Girón, Alba; Helm, Aveliina; Herrera, Mercedes; Hüllbusch, Elisabeth M.; Ingerpuu, Nele; Jagerbrand, Annika; Jandt, Ute; Janišová, Monika; Jeanneret, Philippe; Jeltsch, Florian; Jensen, Kai; Jentsch, Anke; Kącki, Zygmunt; Kakinuma, Kaoru; Kapfer, Jutta; Kargar, Mansoureh; Kelemen, András; Kiehl, Kathrin; Kirschner, Philipp; Koyama, Asuka; Langer, Nancy; Lazzaro, Lorenzo; Lepš, Jan; Li, Ching-Feng; Yonghong Li, Frank; Liendo, Diego; Lindborg, Regina; Löbel, Swantje; Lomba, Angela; Lososová, Zdeňka; Lustyk, Pavel; Luzuriaga, Arantzazu L.; Ma, Wenhong; Maccherini, Simona; Magnes, Martin; Malicki, Marek; Manthey, Michael; Mardari, Constantin; May, Felix; Mayrhofer, Helmut; Meier, Eliane S.; Memariani, Farshid; Merunková, Kristina; Michelsen, Ottar; Mesa, Joaquín Molero; Moradi, Halime; Moysiyenko, Ivan; Mugnai, Michele; Naqinezhad, Alireza; Natcheva, Rayna; Ninot, Josep M.; Nobis, Marcin; Noroozi, Jalil; Nowak, Arkadiusz; Onipchenko, Vladimir; Palpurina, Salza; Pauli, Harald; Pedashenko, Hristo; Pedersen, Christian; Peet, Robert K.; Pérez-Haase, Aaron; Peters, Jan; Pipenbaher, Nataša; Pirini, Chrisoula; Pladevall-Izard, Eulàlia; Plesková, Zuzana; Potenza, Giovanna; Rahmanian, Soroor; Rodríguez-Rojo, Maria Pilar; Ronkin, Vladimir; Rosati, Leonardo; Ruprecht, Eszter; Rusina, Solvita; Sabovljević, Marko; Sanaei, Anvar; Sánchez, Ana M.; Santi, Francesco; Savchenko, Galina; Sebastia, Maria Teresa; Shyriaieva, Dariia; Silva, Vasco; Skornik, Sonja; Šmerdová, Eva; Sonkoly, Judit; Sperandii, Marta Gaia; Staniaszek-Kik, Monika; Stevens, Carly; Stifter, Simon; Suchrow, Sigrid; Swacha, Grzegorz; Świerszcz, Sebastian; Talebi, Amir; Teleki, Balázs; Tichý, Lubomír; Tölgyesi, Csaba; Torca, Marta; Török, Péter; Tsarevskaya, Nadezda; Tsiripidis, Ioannis; Turisová, Ingrid; Ushimaru, Atushi; Valkó, Orsolya; Van Mechelen, Carmen; Vanneste, Thomas; Vasheniak, Iuliia; Vassilev, Kiril; Viciani, Daniele; Villar, Luis; Virtanen, Risto; Vitasović-Kosić, Ivana; Vojtkó, András; Vynokurov, Denys; Waldén, Emelie; Wang, Yun; Weiser, Frank; Wen, Lu; Wesche, Karsten; White, Hannah; Widmer, Stefan; Wolfrum, Sebastian; Wróbel, Anna; Yuan, Zuoqiang; Zelený, David; Zhao, Liqing; Dengler, Jürgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Aims Understanding fine-grain diversity patterns across large spatial extents is fundamental for macroecological research and biodiversity conservation. Using the GrassPlot database, we provide benchmarks of fine-grain ...
    • Climate-Driven Plant Response and Resilience on the Tibetan Plateau in Space and Time: A Review 

      Bhattarai, Prakash; Zheng, Zhoutao; Bhatta, Kuber Prasad; Adhikari, Yagya Prasad; Zhang, Yangjian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Climate change variation on a small scale may alter the underlying processes determining a pattern operating at large scale and vice versa. Plant response to climate change on individual plant levels on a fine scale tends ...
    • Does tree canopy closure moderate the effect of climate warming on plant species composition of temperate Himalayan oak forest? 

      Bhatta, Kuber Prasad; Vetaas, Ole Reidar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-09)
      Question: We ask if there are significant changes in plant species composition after 20 yr of documented temperature increase (~1 °C), and if the temporal changes are different in closed temperate oak forest compared to ...
    • Downhill shift of alpine plant assemblages under contemporary climate and land-use changes 

      Bhatta, Kuber Prasad; Grytnes, John-Arvid; Vetaas, Ole Reidar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-01-10)
      Compositional changes in Himalayan vegetation in response to the major drivers of biodiver- sity loss, climate change and land-use change, are barely documented. We quantify temporal changes in the alpine vegetation of ...
    • Exploring spatio-temporal patterns of palynological changes in Asia during the Holocene 

      Bhatta, Kuber Prasad; Mottl, Ondrej; Felde, Vivian Astrup; Flantua, Suzette; Birks, Hilary H; Cao, Xianyong; Chen, Fahu; Grytnes, John Arvid; Seddon, Alistair William Robin; Birks, Harry John Betteley (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-05)
      Historical legacies influence present-day ecosystem composition and dynamics. It is therefore important to understand the long-term dynamics of ecosystems and their properties. Analysis of ecosystem properties during the ...
    • Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years 

      Mottl, Ondrej; Flantua, Suzette; Bhatta, Kuber Prasad; Felde, Vivian Astrup; Giesecke, Thomas; Goring, Simon; Grimm, Eric C.; Haberle, Simon G.; Hooghiemstra, Henry; Ivory, Sarah J; Kuneš, Petr; Wolters, Steffen; Seddon, Alistair William Robin; Williams, John W. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Global vegetation over the past 18,000 years has been transformed first by the climate changes that accompanied the last deglaciation and again by increasing human pressures; however, the magnitude and patterns of rates ...
    • A guide to the processing and standardization of global palaeoecological data for large-scale syntheses using fossil pollen 

      Flantua, Suzette; Mottl, Ondrej; Felde, Vivian Astrup; Bhatta, Kuber Prasad; Birks, Hilary H; Grytnes, John Arvid; Seddon, Alistair William Robin; Birks, Harry John Betteley (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Aim: Palaeoecological data are crucial for comprehending large-scale biodiversity patterns and the natural and anthropogenic drivers that influence them over time. Over the last decade, the availability of open-access ...
    • A pan-Himalayan test of predictions on plant species richness based on primary production and water-energy dynamics 

      Bhatta, Kuber Prasad; Robson, Benjamin Aubrey; Suwal, Madan Krishna; Vetaas, Ole Reidar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Spatial variation in plant species diversity is well-documented but an overarching first-principles theory for diversity variation is lacking. Chemical energy expressed as Net Primary Production (NPP) is related to a ...
    • Rate-of-change analysis in palaeoecology revisited: a new approach 

      Mottl, Ondrej; Grytnes, John Arvid; Seddon, Alistair William Robin; Steinbauer, Manuel; Bhatta, Kuber Prasad; Felde, Vivian Astrup; Flantua, Suzette; Birks, Harry John Betteley (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Dynamics in the rate of compositional change (rate-of-change; RoC), preserved in paleoecological sequences, are thought to reflect changes due to exogenous (climate and human forcing) or endogenous (local dynamics and ...
    • Spatiotemporal dynamics of plant assemblages under changing climate and land-use regimes in central Nepal Himalaya 

      Bhatta, Kuber Prasad (Doctoral thesis, 2018-08-31)
      The trajectories of vegetation and landscape dynamics have been redirected globally by climate change and land-use change. The drivers and mechanisms of the spatiotemporal changes are likely scale dependent and are most ...
    • Weighted average regression and environmental calibration as a tool for quantifying climate-driven changes in vegetation 

      Bhatta, Kuber Prasad; Birks, Harry John Betteley; Grytnes, John-Arvid; Vetaas, Ole Reidar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Aims: Studies of the climatic responses of plant assemblages via vegetation-based environmental reconstructions by weighted averaging (WA) regression and calibration are a recent development in modern vegetation ecology. ...