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Emma Dunne

Dr. 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 (vertebrate) paleobiologist investigating how various environmental, physical, and historical factors drive patterns of deep-time biodiversity. I use a range of statistical tools and phylogenetic methods alongside fossil spatiotemporal distributions, environmental data, and bibliometric information to investigate topics such as: (1) the influence of climate on dinosaur evolution; (2) the impact of sampling biases on terrestrial vertebrate (tetrapod) biodiversity through deep-time; and (3) ethical issues and the legacy of colonialism in paleontological research.

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

  • MSc Taxonomy and Biodiversity – Imperial College London (2015)
  • BA(Mod.) Natural Sciences (Zoology) – Trinity College Dublin (2014)
  • Publikationen

    Journal Articles

    • 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
    • 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
    • Roger A. Close, Roger B.J. Benson, John Alroy, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Juan Benito, Matthew T. Carrano, Terri J. Cleary, Emma M. Dunne, Philip D. Mannion, Mark D. Uhen, Richard J. Butler:
      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

    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

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