Karl Rudolph´s Laboratory for Palaeoecology ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** "Our aim is to apply the reconstruction of past ecosystems, vegetation and flora to unders longterm dynamics and to link these with present-day processes." ****************************************************************************************** * Offer ****************************************************************************************** - Experience in the field of European and North African palaeoecology - Palaeoecological analyses of sedimentary material - Numerical analysis and interpretation of data, quantitative land cover reconstructions *========================================================================================= * Requirements *========================================================================================= - Quaternary sedimentary sequences containing preserved biological remains - Novel methods in ancient DNA, fossil analysis, leaf wax-derived dD and branched GDGTs - Access to palaeoecological data inaccessible in public databases ****************************************************************************************** * Know-how & Technologies ****************************************************************************************** *========================================================================================= * Ecosystem Dynamics on Long-term Scales; Studying Processes Beyond Observation Leading To of Climate and Human Interactions With Earth’s Systems *========================================================================================= - Quaternary ecosystem dynamics driven by climate change - Archaeobotany of cultural systems - Fire dynamics and disturbance in postglacial ecosystems - Past land cover changes affected by anthropogenic disturbance ****************************************************************************************** * Content of Research ****************************************************************************************** - Holocene land-cover reconstruction: effect of climate, human impact, origin of natural v - Long-term perspective of forest fires within temperate landscape - Post-glacial migration legacies of plant species - Holocene land-use changes *========================================================================================= * Main Capabilities *========================================================================================= - Analysis of plant remains (pollen, macrofossils, charcoal, phytoliths) in natural and an sedimentary environments - Pollen-based quantitative vegetation reconstruction using models of pollen dispersal and - Quaternary ecology and macroecology of forest species - Administration and development of large palaeoecological databases, analysis of large da to answer ecological questions - Species distribution modelling - Description of fire regimes using charcoal record in soil and sedimentary sequences *========================================================================================= * Key Research Equipment *========================================================================================= - Coring equipment for lakes and bogs - Fully equipped laboratory for treatment of palaeoecological samples (pollen, plant macro charcoal, phytoliths) - Microscopic facility *========================================================================================= * Main Projects *========================================================================================= - 2016–2018: EUROPIA Holocene distrurbance dynamics in European Picea abies (Norway spruce implications for conservation and management (Czech Science Foundation, grant No. 16-06915 - 2016–2018: Origin of diversity of Central European ladnscapes: using recent pollen and v to reconstruct historical biodiversity changes (Czech Science Foundation, grant No. 16-101 - 2012–2015: Pollen-based land-cover reconstruction – model testing and its implications f environmental change studies (The Czech Science Foundation, grant No. P504/12/0649) - 2007–2011: Long-term development of cultural landscape of Central Bohemia as a co-evolut impacts and natural processes (Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republ - 2009–2011: Forest wildfire dynamics in Czech sandstone areas and its effect on recent ve Agency of Charles University no. 97609) - 2007–2009: Pollen Database of the Czech Republic (Grant Agency of Charles University no. - Participation in one project funded by the European Research Council *========================================================================================= * Partners and Collaborations *========================================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Academic Partners ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Průhonice and Brno, Czech Republic) of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague | Czech University of Life Science Department of Physical and Applied Geo-logy, Eötvös University, Hungary | Institute of Eco University, Estonia | CNRS GEODE UMR, Toulouse University Le Mirail, France | Department o Planning, University of Liverpool, the United Kingdom *========================================================================================= * Achievements *========================================================================================= Publications in respected international journals with high impact factors: Global Change B Quaternary Science Reviews, Journal of Biogeography, The Holocene, Climate of the Past, Jo Vegetation Science *========================================================================================= * Are you interested in this expertise? *========================================================================================= Please contact CPPT UK Web: www.cppt.cuni.cz/ [ URL "https://cppt.cuni.cz/"] Mail: transfer@cuni.cz Phone: +420 224 491 255 *========================================================================================= * Experts and their department *========================================================================================= Assoc. Prof. RNDr. Petr Kuneš, Ph.D. Department of Botany Web: www.natur.cuni.cz/biology/botany/palaeoecology [ URL "http://www.natur.cuni.cz/biolog palaeoecology"]