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Postdoctoral research fellow The Arctic University Museum of Norway nichola.strandberg@uit.no

Nichola Ann Strandberg

Job description

I am fascinated by the study of long-term vegetation dynamics and the driving forces behind them. Through my research, I have explored past human influences and the impact of natural phenomena such as volcanic eruptions, sea level fluctuations and climate change. Originally from the UK, I completed my Master's degree at Stockholm University in Sweden before completing my PhD at Southampton University back in the UK. My research has primarily involved the use of subfossil pollen grains to investigate the complexities of vegetation change on millennial timescales in Scandinavia, the Mediterranean and various South Pacific islands. My focus has now shifted towards exploring the potential of sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) to improve our understanding of past ecosystems. I am currently focusing on better understanding how sensitive different sedaDNA methods are at detecting plants within the environment and identifying any potential methodological biases.

Publications outside Cristin

  • Strandberg, Nichola A., Manuel J. Steinbauer, Anna Walentowitz, William D. Gosling, Patricia L. Fall, Matiu Prebble, Janelle Stevenson, Janet M. Wilmshurst, David A. Sear, Peter G. Langdon, Mary E. Edwards, and Sandra Nogué. 2024. 'Floristic homogenization of South Pacific islands commenced with human arrival', Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02306-3
  • Strandberg, Nichola A., and Sandra Nogué. 2024. Increases in large-scale plant similarity driven by ancient human impacts. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02321-y
  • Nogué, Sandra, Alvaro Castilla-Beltrán, Lea de Nascimento, Enrique Fernández-Palacios, Nichola A. Strandberg, Janet M. Wilmshurst, and José María Fernández-Palacios. 2024. 'Human Impacts on Islands.' in Samuel M. Scheiner (ed.), Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Third Edition) (Academic Press: Oxford). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822562-2.00062-1
  • Castilla-Beltrán, Alvaro, Ricardo Faustino de Lima, Laura Benitez Bosco, Rosa Delia Castillo Armas, Nichola Strandberg, Tariq Stévart, Lea de Nascimento, José María Fernández-Palacios, and Sandra Nogué. 2023. '14,000 years of climatic and anthropogenic change in the Afromontane forest of São Tomé Island, Gulf of Guinea', Quaternary Science Reviews, 322: 108381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108381
  • Strandberg, Nichola A., Mary Edwards, Joanna C. Ellison, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Anna Walentowitz, Patricia L. Fall, David Sear, Peter Langdon, Shane Cronin, Alvaro Castilla-Beltrán, Ian W. Croudace, Matiu Prebble, William D. Gosling, and Sandra Nogué. 2023. 'Influences of sea level changes and volcanic eruptions on Holocene vegetation in Tonga', Biotropica, 55: 816-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13231
  • Strandberg, Nichola Ann. 2023. 'Palaeoecological responses to environmental changes on South Pacific islands', (PhD thesis) University of Southampton. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/478768/
  • Walentowitz, Anna, Bernd Lenzner, Franz Essl, Nichola Strandberg, Alvaro Castilla-Beltrán, José María Fernández-Palacios, Svante Björck, Simon Connor, Simon G. Haberle, Karl Ljung, Matiu Prebble, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Cynthia A. Froyd, Erik J. de Boer, Lea de Nascimento, Mary E. Edwards, Janelle Stevenson, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Manuel J. Steinbauer, and Sandra Nogué. 2023. 'Long-term trajectories of non-native vegetation on islands globally', Ecology Letters, 26: 729-41. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14196
  • Castilla-Beltrán, Alvaro, Alistair Monteath, Britta J. L. Jensen, Lea de Nascimento, José María Fernández-Palacios, Nichola Strandberg, Mary Edwards, and Sandra Nogué. 2023. 'Taming Fogo Island: Late-Holocene volcanism, natural fires and land use as recorded in a scoria-cone sediment sequence in Cabo Verde', The Holocene, 33: 371-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836221145442
  • Strandberg, Nichola A., David A. Sear, Peter G. Langdon, Shane J. Cronin, Catherine T. Langdon, Ashley E. Maloney, Samantha L. Bateman, Thomas Bishop, Ian W. Croudace, Melanie J. Leng, Julian P. Sachs, Matiu Prebble, William D. Gosling, Mary Edwards, and Sandra Nogué. 2023. 'Island ecosystem responses to the Kuwae eruption and precipitation change over the last 1600 years, Efate, Vanuatu', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1087577
  • Vignola, Cristiano, Martina Hättestrand, Anton Bonnier, Martin Finné, Adam Izdebski, Christos Katrantsiotis, Katerina Kouli, Georgios C. Liakopoulos, Elin Norström, Maria Papadaki, Nichola A. Strandberg, Erika Weiberg, and Alessia Masi. 2022. 'Mid-late Holocene vegetation history of the Argive Plain (Peloponnese, Greece) as inferred from a pollen record from ancient Lake Lerna', PLOS ONE, 17: e0271548. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271548
  • Strandberg, Nichola Ann, Aleftin Barliaev, Helene Martinsson-Wallin, Jan Risberg, Martina Hättestrand, Ian Croudace, Malin Kylander, and Yusuke Yokoyama. 2020. 'Landscape development at Lina myr fen, Eastern Gotland, 9000−2500 cal. yr BP', The Holocene, 30: 1205-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683620913919
  • Katrantsiotis, Christos, Malin E. Kylander, Rienk Smittenberg, Kweku K. A. Yamoah, Martina Hättestrand, Pavlos Avramidis, Nichola A. Strandberg, and Elin Norström. 2018. 'Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate reconstruction over the last 3600 years based on sedimentary n-alkanes, their carbon and hydrogen isotope composition and XRF data from the Gialova Lagoon, SW Greece', Quaternary Science Reviews, 194: 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.008
  • Strandberg, Nichola. 2017. 'The Vegetational and Environmental Development of Lina Mire, Gotland from 6900-400 BC', MSc. student thesis. https://su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1120150&dswid=7605
  • Strandberg, Nichola. 2020. "Melosira westii." In.: International Society for Diatom Research. https://isdr.org/melosira-westii/

 

 

 

 

Research interests

  • Palaeoecology
  • Biogeography
  • Macroecology
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1268-2080

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