Emma Dunne

Dr. Emma Dunne

Geozentrum Nordbayern
Chair of Palaeontology (Prof. Dr. Kießling)

Loewenichstraße 28
91054 Erlangen

Phone number: +49 9131 85-22967
Fax number: +49 9131 85-22690
Email: emma.dunne@fau.de
Website: https://www.gzn.nat.fau.de/palaeontologie/team/wissenschaftler/emma-dunne/

I am a paleobiologist interested in understanding the drivers that shaped tetrapod evolution and biodiversity through deep time. I ask questions at big scales, in both time and space, taking advantage of the increasing availability of analtyical tools and big paleontological and scientometric datasets. Some of my current work includes investigating how past climate change played a role in dinosaur evolution, examining how fossil record (sampling) biases impact our understanding deep-time biodiversity patterns, and performing data-driven analyses of how ethical issues and the legacy of colonialism influence paleontological research.

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

PhD Quantitative Paleobiology – University of Birmingham (2019)
MSc Taxonomy and Biodiversity – Imperial College London (2015)
BA(Mod.) Natural Sciences (Zoology) – Trinity College Dublin (2014)

Publikationen

Journal Articles

Dillon E., Dunne E., Womack T., Kouvari M., Larina E., Claytor JR., Ivkić A., Juhn M., Milla Carmona P., Robson SV., Saha A., Villafaña J., Zill M.:
Challenges and directions in analytical paleobiology
In: Paleobiology (2023)
ISSN: 0094-8373
DOI: 10.1017/pab.2023.3
Farnsworth A., Benson RBJ., Godoy PL., Greene SE., Valdes PJ., Lunt DJ., Butler RJ., Dunne E.:
Climatic controls on the ecological ascendancy of dinosaurs
In: Current Biology 33 (2023), p. 206-+
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.064
Dunne E., Raja NB., Stewens PP., Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein ., Zaw K.:
Ethics, law, and politics in palaeontological research: The case of Myanmar amber
In: Communications Biology 5 (2022), Article No.: 1023
ISSN: 2399-3642
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03847-2
Henderson S., Dunne E., Giles S.:
Sampling biases obscure the early diversification of the largest living vertebrate group
In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 289 (2022), p. 20220916-
ISSN: 0962-8452
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0916
Henderson S., Dunne E., Fasey SA., Giles S.:
The early diversification of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii): hypotheses, challenges and future prospects
In: Biological Reviews (2022)
ISSN: 1464-7931
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12907
Cisneros J., Raja Schoob NB., Ghilardi AM., Dunne E., Pinheiro F., Regalado Fernández OR., Sales M., Rodríguez-de la Rosa R., Miranda-Martínez A., González-Mora S., Bantim R., de Lima F., Pardo J.:
Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil
In: Royal Society Open Science 9 (2022)
ISSN: 2054-5703
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210898
Raja NB., Dunne E., Matiwane A., Khan TFM., Nätscher P., Ghilardi AM., Chattopadhyay D.:
Author Correction: Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity (Nature Ecology & Evolution, (2021), 10.1038/s41559-021-01608-8)
In: Nature Ecology & Evolution (2022)
ISSN: 2397-334X
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01682-6
Foffa D., Dunne E., Nesbitt SJ., Butler RJ., Fraser NC., Brusatte SL., Farnsworth A., Lunt DJ., Valdes PJ., Walsh S., Barrett PM.:
Scleromochlus and the early evolution of Pterosauromorpha
In: Nature (2022)
ISSN: 0028-0836
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05284-x
Raja Schoob NB., Dunne E., Matiwane A., Khan TFM., Nätscher P., Ghilardi AM., Chattopadhyay D.:
Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity
In: Nature Ecology & Evolution (2021)
ISSN: 2397-334X
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01608-8
Close R., Benson R., Alroy J., Carrano M., Cleary T., Mannion P., Dunne E., Uhen M., Butler R.:
The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases
In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 287 (2020)
ISSN: 0962-8452
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0372
Butler RJ., Sennikov AG., Ezcurra MD., Hedrick BP., Maidment SCR., Meade LE., Raven TJ., Gower DJ., Dunne E.:
Cranial anatomy and taxonomy of the erythrosuchid archosauriform ‘Vjushkovia triplicostata’ Huene, 1960, from the Early Triassic of European Russia
In: Royal Society Open Science 6 (2019), Article No.: 191289
ISSN: 2054-5703
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.191289
Close RA., Benson RBJ., Alroy J., Behrensmeyer AK., Benito J., Carrano MT., Cleary TJ., Dunne E., Mannion PD., Uhen MD., Butler RJ.:
Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale
In: Nature Ecology & Evolution 3 (2019), p. 590-597
ISSN: 2397-334X
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0811-8
Dunne E., Close RA., Button DJ., Brocklehurst N., Cashmore DD., Lloyd GT., Butler RJ.:
Diversity change during the rise of tetrapods and the impact of the ‘carboniferous rainforest collapse’
In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 285 (2018), Article No.: 20172730
ISSN: 0962-8452
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2730
Brocklehurst N., Dunne E., Cashmore D., Frӧbisch J.:
Physical and environmental drivers of Paleozoic tetrapod dispersal across Pangaea
In: Nature Communications 9 (2018)
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07623-x

Book Contributions

Raja Schoob NB., Dunne E.:
Fossil Trafficking, Fraud, and Fakery
In: Naomi Oosterman, Donna Yates (ed.): Art Crime in Context, Springer, 2022, p. 61-79 (Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market, Vol.6)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14084-6_5

Conference Contributions

Dunne E., Raja NB.:
Scientometric trends in Burmese amber research
Paleontological Association Annual Meeting (Online, 16. December 2020 - 18. December 2020)
Raja NB., Dunne E., Khan TFM., Nätscher P.:
The overlooked realities of sampling bias
GSA Annual Meeting 2020 (Online, 26. October 2020 - 30. October 2020)
DOI: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-356351
URL: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2020AM/webprogram/Paper356351.html

Miscellaneous

Dunne E., Raja Schoob NB., Stewens P.:
The Return of Fossils Removed Under Colonial Rule
(2022)
DOI: 10.4467/2450050XSNR.22.013.17026
URL: https://www.ejournals.eu/SAACLR/2022/2-2022/art/22616/

Forschungsprojekte

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