PhD Candidate in Global Change Ecology affiliated with the Terrestrial Ecology research group and the Mountains in Motion research groups within the Department of Biological Sciences and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research at the University of Bergen. Lotta Schultz's research interests include:
- Biodiversity within and across mountain regions.
- Integrating environmental, land use, and other spatial datasts to understand macroecological biodiversity patterns.
Research Projects
Past, Present and Future of Alpine Biomes Worldwide (PPF-Alpine): Elucidating the Quaternary history (last 2.6 million years) of alpine biomes, based on the notion that their dynamic past may hold key insights for their future resilience. Hence, looking into the past can provide the empirical foundation for anticipating ecological responses to global warming and perhaps provide evidence for a more optimistic Future. To decipher the biogeographical history of alpine diversity, PPF-Alpine has two underlying principles:
- We incorporate cross-disciplinary lines of research into one joint research project integrating expertise, tools, and data from paleoecology, biogeography, macroecology, and landscape modelling. This integration is essential to address one of the most important questions in biogeography, namely… ‘What causes global patterns of alpine biodiversity?
- We promote research that acknowledges and quantifies the legacy of long-term dynamics of the past in present-day biodiversity.