List of publications published in peer-review journals

Published

January 2, 2026

2025

Mottl, O., Gaiser, F., Šímová, I. Flantua S.G.A. (2025) VegVault dataset: linking global paleo-, and neo-vegetation data with functional traits and abiotic drivers. Scientific Data 12: 1923 .
Rentier E.S., Mottl O., Pacheco-Riaño L.C., Schultz L., Seguinot J., Wiersma A.T., Grytnes J., Flantua S.G.A. (2025) Global variability in LGM cooling amongst paleoclimate datasets affects biome reconstructions in mountains. Frontiers of Biogeography 18: e135871.
Gillson, L., Seddon, A., Mottl, O., Zhang, K., Kirsten, K., Gell, P., Marchant, R.A., Schwörer, C., Razanatsoa, E., Lane, P.J., Courtney-Mustaphi, C.J. and Dearing, J. (2025), Exploring the Interface Between Planetary Boundaries and Palaeoecology. Global Change Biology 31: e70017.

Herbert, A.V., Haberle, S.G., Flantua, S.G.A., Mottl,O., Blois, J.L., Williams, J.W., George, A., Hope, G.S. (2024) The Indo-Pacific Pollen Database - a Neotoma constituent database, Climate of the Past 20: 2473-2485.
Bhatta, K.P., Mottl O., Felde V.A., Grytnes J., Reitalu T., Birks H.H., Birks, H.J.B., Vetaas O.R. (2024), Latitudinal gradients in the phylogenetic assembly of angiosperms in Asia during the Holocene. Scientific Reports 14.1: 17940.

Birks, H.J.B., Bhatta, K.P., Felde, V.A., Flantua, S.G., Mottl, O., Haberle, S.G., Herbert A., Hooghiemstra H., Birks, H.H., Grytnes, J., Seddon, A.W.R. (2023), Approaches to pollen taxonomic harmonisation in Quaternary palynology. Palaeobotany and Palynology 319: 104989.
Moses, J., Peters, M. K., Tiede, Y., Mottl, O., Donoso, D. A., Farwig, N., Fayle, T. M., Novotny, V., Sanders, N. J., & Klimes, P. (2023). Nutrient use by tropical ant communities varies among three extensive elevational gradients: A cross-continental comparison. Global Ecology and Biogeography 00: 1-18.
Brown, K. A., Bunting, M. J., Carvalho, F., de Bello, F., Mander, L., Marcisz, K., Mottl, O., Reitalu, T., & Svenning, J.-C. (2023), Trait-based approaches as ecological time machines: Developing tools for reconstructing long-term variation in ecosystems. Functional Ecology 00: 1-18.
Flantua S.G. & Mottl, O. & Felde, V.A. & Bhatta, K.P., Birks, H.H., Grytnes, J., Seddon, A.W.R., Birks, H.J.B. (2023), A guide to the processing and standardisation of global palaeoecological data for large-scale syntheses using fossil pollen. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32: 1377-1394.
Bhatta, K.P., Mottl, O., Felde, V.A., Flantua S.G., Birks, H.H., Cao, X., Chen, F., Grytnes, J., Seddon, A.W. R., Birks, H.J.B. (2023), Exploring spatio-temporal patterns of palynological changes in Asia during the Holocene. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1115784

Houska Tahadlova, M., Mottl, O., Jorge, L.R., Koane, B., Novotny, V., & Sam, K. (2022), Trophic cascades in tropical rainforests: Effects of vertebrate predator exclusion on arthropods and plants in Papua New Guinea. Biotropica 55: 70-80.

Mottl, O. & Flantua, S.G.A., Bhatta K.B., Felde, V.A., Giesecke, T., Goring, S., Grimm, E.C., Haberle, S., Hooghiemstra H., Ivory, S., Kuneš, P., Wolters, S., Seddon A.W.R, Williams J.W. (2021), Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years. Science 372: 860-864.
Mottl, O., Grytnes, J., Seddon, A.W.R, Steinbauer, M.J., Bhatta, K.P., Felde, V.A., Flantua, S.G.A, Birks H.J.B (2021), Rate-of-change analysis in paleoecology revisited: A new approach. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 293.
Mottl, O., Yombai, J., Novotný, V., Leponce, M., Weiblen, G.D. and Klimeš, P. (2021), Inter-specific aggression generates ant mosaics in canopies of primary tropical rainforest. Oikos 130: 1087.
Leponce, M., Dejean, A., Mottl, O., Klimes, P. (2021), Rapid assessment of the three-dimensional distribution of dominant arboreal ants in tropical forests. Insect Conserv. Divers. 14: 426-438
Yombai, J., Klimeš, P., Dargusch, P., Posman, A., Mottl, O., Mani A., Novotny V. (2021), Ant Species Diversity, Distribution, and Community Composition in Different Forest Types in Papua New Guinea. Case Studies in the Environment 5: 1342727.

Mottl, O., Fibich, P., Klimes, P., Volf, M., Tropek, R., Anderson-Teixeira, K., Auga, J., Blair, T., Butterill, P., Carscallen, G., Gonzalez-Akre, E., Goodman, A., Kaman, O., Lamarre, G.P.A., Libra, M., Losada, M.E., Manumbor, M., Miller, S.E., Molem, K., Nichols, G., Plowman, N.S., Redmond, C., Seifert, C.L., Vrana, J., Weiblen, G.D., Novotny, V. (2020), Spatial covariance of herbivorous and predatory guilds of forest canopy arthropods along a latitudinal gradient. Ecology Letters 23: 1499-1510.
Mottl, O., Yombai, J., Fayle, T.M., Novotný, V., Klimeš, P. (2020), Experiments with artificial nests provide evidence for ant community stratification and nest site limitation in a tropical forest. Biotropica 52: 277-287.
Plowman, N.S., Mottl, O., Novotny, V., Idigel, C., Philip, F.J., Rimandai, M. and Klimes, P. (2020), Nest microhabitats and tree size mediate shifts in ant community structure across elevation in tropical rainforest canopies. Ecography 43: 431-442.

Mottl, O., Plowman, N. S., Novotny, V., Gewa, B., Rimandai, M., and Klimes, P. (2019), Secondary succession has surprisingly low impact on arboreal ant communities in tropical montane rainforest. Ecosphere 10: e02848.
Volf M., Klimeš P., Lamarre G.P.A., Redmond C.M., Seifert C.L., Abe, T., Auga, J., Anderson-Teixeira, K., Basset, Y., Beckett, S., Butterill, P.T., Drozd P., Gonzalez-Akre E.,, Kaman O., Kamata N.,, Laird-Hopkins, B., Libra, M., Manumbor, M., Miller, S.E., Molem, K., Mottl, O., Murakami M.,, Nakaji, T., Plowman, N.S., Pyszko, P., Šigut, M., Šipoš, J., Tropek, R., Weiblen, G.D., Novotny V. (2019), Quantitative assessment of plant-arthropod interactions in forest canopies: A plot-based approach. PLOS ONE 14: e0222119.