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VU University Amsterdam

Datasets

TitleStart dateEnd date
Habitat type controls microarthropod community changes across a Magellanic sub-Antarctic elevation gradient2020-01-222022-01-29
Warming impacts on potential germination of non-native plants on the Antarctic Peninsula2019-01-012020-04-14
Invasion engineering in Antarctica2015-12-122016-01-01
Meta data penguin and elephant seal footprints2014-01-012017-02-02
Development of tree ring like proxy on arctic shrubs Cassiope tetragona to reconstruct polar climate2008-01-152012-01-14
Diversity Changes in Soil Mesofauna (Springtails and Oribatid Mites) in the Subarctic (Abisko Swedish Lapland)2007-05-152007-08-05
Long term studies of effects of climate manipulations on subarctic ecosystems2000-06-012020-12-31
Glacial geology of Northern and Central Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land1988-01-011999-12-31

Publications

Bokhorst, S., 2021. Warming impacts potential germination of non-native plants on the Antarctic Peninsula. Communications Biology 4 (403)

Sangiorgi, F., Bijl, P.K., et al., 2018. Southern Ocean warming and Wilkes Land ice sheet retreat during the mid-Miocene. Nature Communications 9 (1)

Bokhorst, S., Huiskes, A.H.L., et al., 2011. Microclimate impacts of passive warming methods in Antarctica: implications for climate change studies. Polar Biology 34 (10), 1421-1435

Weijers, S., Broekman, R., & Rozema, J., 2010. Dendrochronology in the High Arctic: July air temperatures reconstructed from annual shoot length growth of the circumarctic dwarf shrub Cassiope tetragon. Quaternary Science Reviews 29 (27), 3831-3842

Wookey, P.A., Aerts, M.A.P.A., et al., 2009. Ecosystem feedbacks and cascade processes: understanding their role in the responses of Arctic and alpine ecosystems to environmental change. Global Change Biology 15 (5), 1153-1172

Aerts, M.A.P.A., Callaghan, T.V., et al., 2009. Seasonal climate manipulations result in species-specific changes in leaf nutrient levels and isotopic composition in a sub-arctic bog. Functional Ecolog 23 (4), 680-688

Lang, S.I., Cornelissen, J.H.C., et al., 2009. Determinants of cryptogam composition and diversity in Sphagnum-dominated peatlands: the importance of temporal, spatial and functional scales. Journal of Ecolog 97 (2), 299-310

Rozema, J., Weijers, S., et al., 2009. Annual growth of Cassiope tetragona as a proxy for Arctic climate: developing correlative and experimental transfer functions to reconstruct past summer temperature on a millennial time scale. Global Change Biology 15 (7), 1703-1715

Dorrepaal, E., Toet, S., et al., 2009. Carbon respiration from subsurface peat accelerated by climate warming in the subarctic. Nature 460 (7255), 616-619

Bokhorst, S., Huiskes, A.H.L., et al., 2008. Climate change effects on soil arthropod communities from the Falkland Islands and the Maritime Antarctic. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40 (7), 1547-1556

Bokhorst, S., Huiskes, A.H.L., et al., 2007. The effect of environmental change on vascular plant and cryptogam communities from the Falkland Islands and the Maritime Antarctic. BMC ecology 7 (1), 15

Bokhorst, S., Huiskes, A.H.L., et al., 2007. Climate change effects on organic matter decomposition rates in ecosystems from the Maritime Antarctic and Falkland Islands. Global Change Biology 13 (12), 2642-2653

Bokhorst, S., Huiskes, A.H.L., et al., 2007. External nutrient inputs into terrestrial ecosystems of the Falkland Islands and the Maritime Antarctic region. Polar Biology 30 (10), 1315-1321

Bokhorst, S., Ronfort, C., et al., 2007. Food choice of Antarctic soil arthropods clarified by stable isotope signatures. Polar Biology 30 (8), 983-990

Dorrepaal, E., Cornelissen, J.H.C., & Aerts, M.A.P.A., 2007. Changing leaf litter feedbacks on plant production across contrasting sub-arctic peatland species and growth forms. Oecologia 151 (2), 251-261

Dorrepaal, E., Aerts, M.A.P.A., et al., 2006. Sphagnum modifies climate change impacts on sub-arctic vascular bog plants. Functional Ecology 20 (1), 31-41

Aerts, M.A.P.A., Cornelissen, J.H.C., & Dorrepaal, E., 2006. Plant performance in a warmer world: general responses of plants from cold, northern biomes and the importance of winter and spring events. Plant Ecology 182 (1), 65-77

Dorrepaal, E., Aerts, M.A.P.A., et al., 2004. Summer warming and increased winter snow cover affect Sphagnum fuscum growth, structure and production in a sub-arctic bog. Global Change Biology 10 (1), 93-104

Aerts, M.A.P.A., Cornelissen, J.H.C., et al., 2004. Effects of experimentally imposed climate scenarios on flowering phenology and flower production of subarctic bog species. Global Change Biology 10 (9), 1599-1609

Lud, D., Huiskes, A.H.L., et al., 2001. The effects of altered levels of UV-B radiation on an Antarctic grass and lichen. Responses of Plants to UV-B Radiation 18

van der Wateren, F.M., Dunai, T.J., et al., 1999. Contrasting Neogene denudation histories of different structural regions in the Transantarctic Mountains rift flank constrained by cosmogenic isotope measurement. Global and Planetary Change 23 (1), 145-172

van der Wateren, F.M. & Verbers, A.L.L.M., 1999. Feedbacks of lithosphere dynamics and environmental change of the Cenozoic West Antarctic Rift System. Global and Planetary Change 23 (1), 1-24

Huiskes, A.H.L., Lud, D., et al., 1999. Impact of UV-B radiation on Antarctic terrestrial vegetation. UV-B and Terrestrial Ecosystems , 313-333

Hindmarsh, R., van der Wateren, F.M., & Verbers, A.L.L.M., 1998. Sublimation of ice through sediment in Beacon Valley, Antarctica. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography 80 (3-4), 209-219

Passchier, S., Verbers, A.L.L.M., et al., 1998. Provenance, geochemistry and grain-sizes of glacigene sediments, including the Sirius Group, and Late Genozoic Glaciol history of the southern Prince Albert Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Annals of Glaciology 27 (1), 290-296

van der Wateren, F.M., Verbers, A.L.L.M., et al., 1996. Glaciation and deglaciation of the uplifted margins of the Cenozoic West Antarctic rift system, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Geologisches Jahrbuch Reihe B (6), 123-156

van der Wateren, F.M. & Hindmarsh, R., 1995. Stabilists strike again. Nature 376 (6539), 389-391

van der Wateren, F.M., Luyendyk, B.P., et al., 1994. Landscape Evolution Model of the West Antarctic Rift System Relating Tectonic and Climatic Evolutions of the Rift Margins. Terra Antarctica 1 (2)

Verbers, A.L.L.M. & van der Wateren, F.M., 1992. A glacio-geological reconnaissance of the southern Prince Albert Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Recent Progress in Antarctic Earth Science , 715-719

van der Wateren, F.M. & Verbers, A.L.L.M., 1992. Cenozoic glacial geology and mountain uplift in northern Victoria Land. Antarctic earth sciences , 707-714

Projects

TitleFunding idPeriod
Fires pushing trees North016.Vidi.189.0702018-10-01 - 2023-09-30
Aliens in the polar regions: Impacts of invasive species and invasion engineers on polar terrestrial ecosystems866.16.0062018-06-01 - 2022-03-31
Permafrost thaw impacts on Arctic river flows 866.16.0142017-12-01 - 2021-11-30
Defining the temperature sensitivity of arctic soil microbial communities866.16.0422017-10-15 - 2022-09-30
Quantifying shallow and deep permafrost changes using radar remote sensingALW-GO/16-132017-03-01 - 2020-02-29
Impacts of marine vertebrates on Antarctic terrestrial food webs and nutrient cycling in an era of climate change866.14.1022014-11-01 - 2018-02-15
Climate change and biodiversity in the Arctic, an international field campaign to improve predictability851.30.0232008-07-01 - 2011-10-31
Jaargroei van blad en stengel van Empetrum rubrum in response op opwarming met Open Top Chambers op de Falkland Islands, als proxy voor temperatuurreconstructies in de subantarctische klimaatzone851.20.0422008-02-01 - 2009-12-23
How trait spectra of bryophytes, vascular plants and invertebrates interact to control carbon turnover in arctic tundra: mechanisms underlying climate change impacts851.40.0602007-05-15 - 2010-12-31
Long-lived evergreen shrubs from polar ecosystems as monitors of present and past climate change: reconstruction of annual polar temperature and Arctic Oscillation phase changes with a new climate multiproxy (wintermark T, 18O and 2H in plant segments)851.40.0512007-01-01 - 2010-12-31
Northern High Latitude Climate variability during the past 2000 years: implications for human settlement851.40.0062007-01-01 - 2009-12-31
Reconstruction of past UV-B: py GC MS analysis of pollen grains, moss spores and macrofossil plant remainders of peat cores from the subantarctic Marion Island851.20.0342006-03-01 - 2007-10-17
Longterm exposure to enhanced UV-B: responses of antarctic plants to stratospheric ozone depletion on Signy Island, key to reconstruct historic UV-B and ozone levels851.20.0352005-10-27 - 2007-10-17