​The Paleobiology and Paleoecology Group at the University of Minnesota focuses on evolutionary paleoecology. We primarily work on understanding the relative roles of biotic interactions and environmental change in driving the evolution of communities over geological timescales. This requires us to work on both paleoenvironmental reconstruction and ecological change in communities through time, up to and including the modern biota.

We use a variety of tools and approaches to reconstruct environmental and climatic change through time and to characterize the ecology of organisms. These tools include the stable isotope composition of sediments and the tissues of living and extinct organisms, ecomorphological measurements of teeth and skulls of mammals and squamates from high resolution microCT scans, the biogeography of living and extinct organisms in relation to both climate and biome type, and the rock magnetic properties and elemental geochemistry of paleosols.

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News and recent publications from the research group

24 April 2019
Starting to update the site again!

1-12 June 2015
Field work in Meade, KS

19 May 2015
We have a website at last!

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