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Post-Doc, Geoscience and Geography
BIODIVERSITÄT UND KLIMA FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM (BIK-F), BIODIVERSITÄT UND KLIMA FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM (BIK-F)
About
My research has concentrated largely on the analysis of mammal communities in relation to environmental and climate change, both in present day and in deep time (mainly during the Neogene, the last 23 million years). During my master thesis work, I developed together with Prof. Forteliu (University of Helsinki) a new way to visualize the development and dynamics of fossil mammal communities. During my PhD studies I developed new ways to measure and understand mammal community dynamics, at different scales, especially in relation to climate. This involved novel ways to synthesize climate model data, paleogeography and plant evidence together with mammal data. As a Post-Doc I have focused on understanding how climatic processes shape the structure and spatial distribution of mammal communities both in present day and deep time, and how we can combine evidence from mammals, plants and climate models.
Recently, I developed for a first time a way to quantitatively estimate precipitation using the dental traits of large herbivorous mammals and showed how we can use tooth morphology to differentiate population-level adaptions caused by regional climate conditions. I have also used climate model data seamlessly together with fossil mammal data to unravel the climatic processes governing the development of fossil assemblages in detail in deep-time. In addition, I have been in the forefront in promoting the use of mammalian traits as environmental proxies, using present-day data for ground-truthing, and applying modern computational methods in their analysis.
