Prof. dr. A.F. Lotter

Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University
Position: Chair of Palaeoecology 

Professional Activities

Since 2008: Editor-in-Chief,  Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
1997-2008: Associate Editor, Journal of Paleolimnology
Since 2003: Associate Editor, Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
Since 2008: Member of the editorial board, Aquatic Sciences

• 1991 - 2008: Member of the Executive Committee, European Pollen Database (EPD)

• Dutch partner of the 6^th EU  Framework Programme Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems project GLOCHAMORE: Global Change in Mountain Regions

• Member of the POLLANDCAL (Pollen & Landscape calibration) Network

• Member of the International Society for Diatom Research

• Member of the International Paleolimnology Association (IPA) International Advisory Committee

• 2005-2009 Chairman of the Institute of Environmental Biology (IEB)

Research

• Present and past interaction between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems

• Resilience and response of ecosystem to disturbances such as climate change or human impact

• Palaeoecology in mountain regions

• Environmental dynamics in the past

• Quantitative Palaeoecology