Dr Baran Karapunar has joined the Palaeo@Leeds group as a Research Fellow. Baran will be working on the recently NERC/NSF-funded Pushing the Frontiers project entitled “Community And Structural CollApse During mass Extinctions (CASCaDE)”.
Baran will use novel food web modelling approaches to investigate how marine communities respond to environmental stress across different mass extinction and environmental change events through geological history and will explore why there hasn’t been a major mass extinction during the Cenozoic Era – is it because more modern marine communities are more structurally robust than more ancient Palaeozoic and Mesozoic communities?
DeepBio@Leeds 