Master thesis - LGM-Holocene vegetation dynamics
Image source: Rey et al., 2020
Context: Vegetation dynamics and the land carbon cycle can now be modelled more realistically thanks to a new generation of demography-resolving vegetation models. The succession of vegetation types since the Last Glacial Maximum, as reconstructed paleo-climatic archives, provides a perfect test for these models’ hindcasts of vegetation change and thus also their forecasts of vegetation responses to future climate change.
Aim: Model parameterisations for dominant European plant species will be developed and multi-millennial model simulations evaluated against vegetation reconstructions from lake sediments in the Alpine region.
Methods: BiomeEP, paleo-climate simulation outputs, model parameterisation and evaluation.
Main supervision: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Stocker Co-supervision: Prof. Willy Tinner, Dr. Christoph Schwörer
