Erik Jan de Boer
Graduate Researcher (Juan de la Cierva Formación)
- Department: Environmental Geology and Geohazards
- Research Group: Environmental Changes in the Geological Record
- Academic degree: Doctor
- Digital CSIC profile
Personal Information
Educational Background
- 2010 – 2014 PhD, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (Netherlands).
- 2007 – 2010 Master Biological Sciences, University of Amsterdam. Track ‘Ecology and Evolution’ (Netherlands).
- 2004 – 2007 Bachelor Biology, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands).
Appointments
- 2017 – 2019 Juan de la Cierva-formación research fellow, Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera (Barcelona, Spain).
- 2016 – 2016 Postdoctoral Researcher, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany).
- 2015 – 2015 Post-excavation analyst, EARTH Integrated Archaeology (Amersfoort,Netherlands)
- 2014 – 2016 Guest researcher, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (Netherlands).
Research Interests
- (Tropical) paleoecology
- Biotic responses to climate change
- Spatial and temporal patterns in island biodiversity following (first) human impact
- Island ecology and biogeography
- Conservation ecology applications of palynology
Active Projects
Outreach
- Blog
- CSI Mauritius, article by Marieke Buijs, Bionieuws Oct 2015.
- Interview on Radio 1 Belgium, program Nieuwe Feiten, May 2015.
- An ancient megadrought turned an African lake into a deadly fecal cocktail, article by Emily Atkin, ThinkProgress May 2015.
- Ancient drought trapped dodos and giant tortoises in massive toilet, article by Janet Fang, IFLScience Apr 2015.
- Ancient megadrought entombed dodos in poisonous fecal cocktail, article by David Shultz, ScienceMag Apr 2015
- Klungelige dodo kon best tegen een stootje, newspaper article by Marlies ter Voorde, Volkskrant Sep 2014.
- Mauritius: van paradijs tot ontbost eiland, en hoe verder?, article by Henry Hooghiemstra and Erik J de Boer, Geo.Brief Jan 2014.
- Mauritius 3D, 3D visualization project by technical 3D-artist Bodo Schütze, 2012-2013.
PUBLICATIONS
2019
Previous selected publications
2017
Gosling, W.D., De Kruif, J., Norder, S.J., De Boer, E.J., Hooghiemstra, H., Rijsdijk, K.F., McMichael, C.N.H., 2017. Mauritius on fire: Tracking historical human impacts on biodiversity loss. Biotropica, DOI: 10.1111/btp.12490.
Hansen, D.M., Austin, J.J. Baxter, R.H., De Boer, E.J., Falcón W., Norder S.J., Rijsdijk, K.F., Thébaud, C., Bunbury, N.J., Warren, B.H., 2017. Origins of endemic island tortoises in the western Indian Ocean: A critique of the human-translocation hypothesis. Journal of Biogeography 44 (6), 1430-1435, DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12893.
Nogue, Sandra, de Nascimento, Lea, Froyd, Cynthia A., Wilmshurst, Janet M., de Boer, Erik J., Coffey, Emily E.D., Whittaker, Robert J., Fernández-Palacios, José María and Willis, Kathy J., 2017. Island biodiversity conservation needs palaeoecology. Nature Ecology & Evolution, DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0181.
Patiño, J., Whittaker, Robert J., Borges, Paolo A.V., De Boer, Erik J., + 25 authors. A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography, 2017. Journal of Biogeography 44, 963-983, DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12986.
2016
Power, M.J., Whitney, B.S., Mayle, F.E., De Boer. E.J., MacLean, K., 2016. Fire, climate and vegetation linkages in the Bolivian Chiquitano seasonally dry forest. Proceedings of the Royal Society-B 371: 20150165.
2015
Rijsdijk, K.F., Hume, J.P., De Boer. E.J., + 35 authors, 2015. A Review of the Dodo and its Ecosystem: Interdisciplinary Research of a Vertebrate Concentration-Lagerstätte in Mauritius. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2015.1113803.
De Boer, E.J., Vélez, M.I., Rijsdijk, K.F., et al., 2015. A deadly cocktail: how a prolonged drought around 4200 cal. yr BP caused mass mortality events at the infamous ‘dodo swamp’ in Mauritius. The Holocene 25, 758-771, https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683614567886.
2014
De Boer, E.J., Tjallingii, R., Vélez, M.I., et al., 2014. Climate variability in the SW Indian Ocean from an 8000-yr long multi-proxy record in the Mauritian lowlands shows a middle to late Holocene shift from negative IOD-state to ENSO-state. Quaternary Science Reviews 86, 175-189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.12.026.
2013
Jansen, B., De Boer, E.J., Cleef, A.M., et al., 2013. Reconstruction of late Holocene forest dynamics in northern Ecuador from biomarkers and pollen in soil cores. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 386, 607-619, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.06.027.
Hooghiemstra, H., Rijsdijk, K.F., De Boer, E.J., et al., 2013. Insular environmental change; climate-forced and system-driven. In J.M. Fernandez-Palacios, L. de Nascimento, J.C. Hernandez, S. Clemente, J.P. Diaz & A. Gonzalez (Eds.), Climate change perspectives from the Atlantic: past, present and future (pp. 51-74). Tenerife: Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de La Laguna.
De Boer, E.J., Slaikovska, M., Hooghiemstra, H., et al., 2013b. Multi-proxy reconstruction of environmental dynamics and colonization impacts in the Mauritian uplands. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 383-384, 42-51, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.04.025.
De Boer, E.J., Hooghiemstra, H., Florens, et al., 2013a. Rapid succession of plant associations on the small ocean island of Mauritius at the onset of the Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 68, 114-125, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.02.005.
2012
Van der Plas, G.W., De Boer, E.J., Hooghiemstra, H., et al., 2012. Mauritius since the last glacial: environmental and climatic reconstruction of the last 38,000 years from Kanaka Crater. Journal of Quaternary Science 7, 159–168, DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1526.
