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Nussaibah Raja Schoob

Nussaibah Raja Schoob

Nussaibah Raja Schoob

Nussaibah Raja Schoob

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

Loewenichstraße 28
91054 Erlangen
  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-23489
  • Email: nussaibah.raja.schoob@fau.de
  • Website: https://www.gzn.fau.de/palaeoumwelt/palaeoumwelt-home/

Research interests

Scientific career

  • 2019 – MSc in Geosciences (with a Paleobiology Major), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 2016 – MSc in Physical Geography, Ankara University
  • Projects

    • CoralTrace – A new approach to understanding climate-induced reef crises

      (Third Party Funds Group – Sub project)

      Overall project: FOR 2332: Temperature-related stresses as a unifying principle in ancient extinctions (TERSANE)
      Term: 1. October 2019 - 30. September 2022
      Funding source: DFG / Forschergruppe (FOR)
      Abstract

      Coral reefs are perhaps the most threatened marine ecosystems from current climate-related stressors (CRS). The modern reef crisis manifests itself in an increased frequency of mass-bleaching, reduced calcification rates of corals, and elevated coral mortalities. Although extinction risk is also high among reef-building corals, reef decline is driven by reduced net calcium carbonate production of existing species, rather than extirpation or extinction. Nevertheless, extinctions are a major concern, because these are irreversible and thus preventing the recovery of reefs from CRS-driven crises.Using the Paleobiology Database and the Erlangen PaleoReefs Database together with a new fossil trait database on extinct reef builders, this project aims to reveal the interplay of individualistic evolutionary fate and whole ecosystem changes in reefs over time. Specifically, we test three main hypotheses: (1) Reefs are more sensitive to CRS than reef building species. A global reef crisis can occur without mass extinction, simply because the net calcium carbonate production is reduced. An important implication of this hypothesis is that reef crisis may be an early warning sign of a forthcoming biodiversity crisis. (2) Both the reef-building capacity and the extinction risk of reef building taxa can be predicted from their traits. Although not all potentially relevant life-history traits can be derived from fossils (e.g., nature of photosymbionts), preservable traits such as growth morphology and habitat breadth have been shown to be correlated with coral extinction risk and reef growth today. (3) Mesophotic and mid-latitude environments are suitable environments for reefal refugia and recovery after climate induced crises.Hypothesis testing will be performed in a multivariate statistical framework and machine learning focussing on preserved reefal volume and extinction as dependent variables. Independent variables such as magnitude and duration of warming, anoxia and acidification will be taken from published sources and accompanying TERSANE projects. Tests will be conducted at the level of specific time slices (end-Permian, end-Triassic, early Jurassic) as well as in a time-series context. To be feasible and relevant to TERSANE’s goals, CoralTrace will focus on Permian to Neogene reef systems.

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    Publications

    Journal Articles

    • Dillon EM., Pier JQ., Smith JA., Raja Schoob NB., Dimitrijevic D., Austin EL., Cybulski JD., De Entrambasaguas J., Durham SR., Grether C., Haldar HS., Kocáková K., Lin CH., Mazzini I., Mychajliw AM., Ollendorf AL., Pimiento C., Regalado Fernánde OR., Smith I., Dietl GP.:
      What is conservation paleobiology? Tracking 20 years of research and development
      In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10 (2022)
      ISSN: 2296-701X
      DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1031483
    • 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
    • Flannery-Sutherland JT., Raja NB., Kocsis Á., Kießling W.:
      fossilbrush: An R package for automated detection and resolution of anomalies in palaeontological occurrence data
      In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2022)
      ISSN: 2041-210X
      DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13966
    • Raja Schoob NB., Dimitrijevic D., Krause MC., Kießling W.:
      Ancient Reef Traits, a database of trait information for reef-building organisms over the Phanerozoic
      In: Scientific Data 9 (2022)
      ISSN: 2052-4463
      DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01486-0
    • Reddin CJ., Aberhan M., Raja NB., Kocsis Á.:
      Global warming generates predictable extinctions of warm- and cold-water marine benthic invertebrates via thermal habitat loss
      In: Global Change Biology (2022)
      ISSN: 1354-1013
      DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16333
    • 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
    • Raja NB.:
      Colonialism shaped today’s biodiversity
      In: Nature Ecology & Evolution (2022)
      ISSN: 2397-334X
      DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01903-y
    • 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
    • Cisneros J., Ghilardi AM., Raja Schoob NB., Stewens P.:
      The moral and legal imperative to return illegally exported fossils
      In: Nature Ecology & Evolution (2021)
      ISSN: 2397-334X
      DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01588-9
    • Raja NB., Lauchstedt A., Pandolfi JM., Kim SW., Budd AF., Kießling W.:
      Morphological traits of reef corals predict extinction risk but not conservation status
      In: Global Ecology and Biogeography (2021), Article No.: geb.13321
      ISSN: 1466-822X
      DOI: 10.1111/geb.13321
    • Raja NB., Kießling W.:
      Out of the extratropics: the evolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient of Cenozoic marine plankton
      In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 288 (2021), Article No.: rspb.2021.0545
      ISSN: 0962-8452
      DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0545
    • Aydin O., Raja NB.:
      Spatial-temporal analysis of precipitation characteristics in Artvin, Turkey
      In: Theoretical and Applied Climatology (2020)
      ISSN: 0177-798X
      DOI: 10.1007/s00704-020-03346-6
    • Raja NB., Aydin O., Cicek I., Turkoglu N.:
      A reconstruction of Turkey's potential natural vegetation using climate indicators
      In: Journal of Forestry Research 30 (2019), p. 2199-2211
      ISSN: 1007-662X
      DOI: 10.1007/s11676-018-0855-7
    • Kießling W., Raja NB., Roden V., Turvey ST., Saupe EE.:
      Addressing priority questions of conservation science with palaeontological data
      In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 374 (2019), p. 20190222
      ISSN: 0962-8436
      DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0222
    • Raja NB., Aydin O.:
      Trend analysis of annual precipitation of Mauritius for the period 1981–2010
      In: Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics 131 (2019), p. 789-805
      ISSN: 0177-7971
      DOI: 10.1007/s00703-018-0604-7
    • Raja NB., Aydin O.:
      Regionalization of precipitation in Mauritius: a statistical approach
      In: Meteorological Applications (2019)
      ISSN: 1350-4827
      DOI: 10.1002/met.1798

    Conference Contributions

    • Dimitrijevic D., Raja Schoob NB., Kießling W.:
      Changes in corallite sizes of scleractinian corals across major hyperthermal events
      Progressive Palaeontology 2021 - Online (University College London (UCL) - Online, 17. June 2021 - 19. June 2021)
    • Dimitrijevic D., Raja Schoob NB., Kießling W.:
      Coral community shifts across major reef crises
      ICRS 2021, 14th International Coral Reef Symposium (Bremen Virtual, 19. July 2021 - 23. July 2021)
    • Kocsis Á., Raja NB.:
      Chronosphere: Earth System History Variables
      GSA 2020 Connects Online (Online, 26. October 2020 - 30. October 2020)
      DOI: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-357374
      URL: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2020AM/webprogram/Paper357374.html
    • Dimitrijevic D., Raja NB., Kießling W.:
      Corallite sizes and their link to extinction risk of scleractinian corals across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary
      GSA 2020 Connects Online (Online, 26. October 2020 - 30. October 2020)
      DOI: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-357201
      URL: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2020AM/webprogram/Paper357201.html
    • Raja NB., Lauchstedt A., Pandolfi JM., Kim SW., Budd AF., Kießling W.:
      Mismatches of threat status and actual extinctions in Quaternary reef corals
      GSA 2020 Connects Online (, 26. October 2020 - 30. October 2020)
      DOI: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-349407
      URL: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2020AM/webprogram/Paper349407.html
    • 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
    • Pye F., Raja Schoob NB., Shirley B., Kocsis Á., Hohmann N., Murdock DJ., Jarochowska E.:
      ImageJ and 3D Slicer : open source 2 / 3D morphometric software
      Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society (Paläontologische Gesellschaft) 2019 (Munich, 15. September 2019 - 18. September 2019)
      In: Open Data and Analysis: from morphology to evolutionary patterns 2019
      DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27998
    • Almomani A., Awai EP., Bonn A., de Barros IA., Friedly C., Gharesifard M., Hecker S., Kartika EC., Kraft A., Matthus E., Peter M., Raja Schoob NB., Richter A., Rouet-Leduc J., Schade S.:
      How does Citizen Science matter for policy? Analyzing the impact of citizen science in policy making
      iDiv Annual Conference 2019 (Leipzig, 29. August 2019 - 30. August 2019)
      DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3405334
    • Raja NB., Kießling W.:
      Origination and dispersal dynamics of Cenozoic marine plankton
      Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society (Paläontologische Gesellschaft) 2019 (Munich, 15. September 2019 - 18. September 2019)
    • Raja Schoob NB., Kießling W.:
      Revisiting the long-term biodiversity dynamics of reef builders in a novel Bayesian framework
      13th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria (Modena, 3. September 2019 - 6. September 2019)
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