Palaeontology

In the Department of Palaeontology, we study the evolution of ecosystems over long timescales. We deduce the environmental factors which significantly influenced the emergence and disappearance of communities throughout Earth’s history, alongside predicting the effects of modern day anthropogenic climate change on future ecosystems. To achieve this we combine geological fieldwork, state-of-the-art analytical methods, palaeobiological databases and statistical analysis.

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Invitation to the NATworks – June 12, 2019, from 17.00 – 19.00, Hörsaal A, Staudtstr. 5, Erlangen

Category: Allgemein, GZN News, Pal, Pal News 11. June 2019

The Faculty of Natural Sciences cordially invites interested scientists from its own faculty to the NATworks series of events.
In order to improve the networking of research at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, short presentations from various departments are planned, followed by a get-together to ... Continue

Guest scientist Radouane Sadji from University of Oran 2, Algeria

Category: Pal, Pal News 16. May 2019

Radouane is a guest Ph.D student from University of Oran 2. At the FAU, his work focuses on three axes of research about the Upper Jurassic of the Ouarsenis Mountains North West of Algeria:

the evolution of the carbonates deposits during a rifting phase;

origin of red nodular limestones(Ammo... Continue

Guest scientist Shenyang Yu from Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, China

Category: Pal, Pal News 6. May 2019

Shenyang is a guest Ph.D student from Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China. At the FAU, his work focuses on the following two topics:
1. Shelly fauna recoveries and their geographic pattern aftermath of the latest... Continue

Research

Global Change Palaeobiology

Global Change Palaeobiology interprets the response of organisms and ecosystems had to environmental changes in the past, placing emphasis on changes in climate seawater chemistry.This topic is related to the new field of Conservation Palaeobiology, but is broader in that it studies deep time in addition to the recent past. It studies patterns on both regional and global scales, and is interdisciplinary through the merging of ecology and evolution.More

Dynamics of Biodiversity

Understanding the evolutionary and ecological processes that influence the diversity of life is essential to our society and is one of the most intriguing fields of research of our time. We contribute towards internationally significant databases and develop new methods of analysis to provide insights into fundamental mechanisms.More

Carbonate Sedimentology and Facies Analysis

Research into carbonate systems has been a focus in Erlangen for decades. Through this, the internationally acclaimed “Flügel Course” on microfacies analysis developed, alongside the publication of the international magazine “FACIES” in Springer-Verlag, one of the world’s most renowned geoscience journals.More