Our research and teaching are deeply rooted in organismal biology, i.e. the study of structure, function, and evolution at the level of the organism. We focus on questions of plant diversity – How have key structural features such as the angiosperm flower evolved? How is morphological diversity distributed among taxa? How are different structural features correlated with one another? Why are certain morphologies common and have evolved repeatedly while others are rare? We address these and related questions across a broad range of taxa and apply state-of-the art techniques as well as novel theoretical approaches to answer them.
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Recent Publications 2019-2021
2021
Wedmann, S., Hörnschemeyer, T., Engel, M. S., Zetter, R., & Grimsson, F. (2021). The last meal of an Eocene pollen-feeding fly. Current Biology, 31, 2020-2026. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.025
Bochorny, T., Bacci, L. F., Dellinger, A. S., Michelangeli, F. A., Goldenberg, R., & Brito, V. L. G. (2021). Connective appendages in Huberia bradeana (Melastomataceae) affect pollen release during buzz pollination. Plant Biology. doi.org/10.1111/plb.13244
Grimsson, F., Denk, T., & Zetter, R. (2021). Cenozoic Vegetation and Phytogeography of the Sub-arctic North Atlantic. In E. Panagiotakopulu, & J. P. Sadler (Eds.), Biogeography in the Sub‐Arctic: The Past and Future of North Atlantic Biota (First Edition ed., pp. 29-49). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.. doi.org/10.1002/9781118561461.ch2
Chartier, M., von Balthazar-Schönenberger, A. M. L., Sontag, S., Löfstrand, S., Palme, T., Jabbour, F., Sauquet, H., & Schönenberger, J. (2021). Global patterns and a latitudinal gradient of flower disparity: perspectives from the angiosperm order Ericales. New Phytologist, 230(2), 821-831. doi.org/10.1111/nph.17195
Grimsson, F., Ulrich, S., Coiro, M., Graham, S. A., Jacobs, B. F., Currano, E. D., Xafis, A., & Zetter, R. (2021). Hagenia from the early Miocene of Ethiopia: Evidence for possible niche evolution? Ecology and Evolution, 11(10), 5164-5186. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7408
Xafis, A., Mayda, S., Alçiçek, C. M., Kaya, T., Halaçlar, K., Grimsson, F., & Nagel, D. (2021). Large giraffids (Mammalia, Ruminantia) from the new late Miocene fossiliferous locality of Kemiklitepe-E (Western Anatolia, Turkey). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments.
Dellinger, A. S., Pérez-Barrales, R., Michelangeli, F. A., Penneys, D. S., Fernández-Fernández, D. M., & Schönenberger, J. (Accepted/In press). Low bee visitation rates explain pollinator shifts to vertebrates in tropical mountains. New Phytologist, n/a(n/a). doi.org/10.1111/nph.17390
Pokorny, R., Fialová, V., Grimsson, F., & Koutecky, V. (2021). Mineral Resources in Iceland: Coal mining. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Quan, Y., Ahmed, S. A., Menezes da Silva, N., Al-Hatmi, A. M. S., Mayer, V., Deng, S., Kang, Y., Sybren de Hoog, G., & Shi, D. (2021). Novel black yeast-like species in chaetothyriales with ant-associated life styles. Fungal Biology, 125(4), 276-284. doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2020.11.006
Kanduth, L., Chartier, M., Schönenberger, J., & Dellinger, A. S. (2021). Red and white clover provide food resources for honeybees and wild bees in urban environments. Nordic Journal of Botany, 39(3). doi.org/10.1111/njb.03005
Dellinger, A. S., Artuso, S., Fernández-Fernández, D. M., & Schönenberger, J. (Accepted/In press). Stamen dimorphism in bird-pollinated flowers – investigating alternative hypotheses on the evolution of heteranthery. Evolution, n/a(n/a). doi.org/10.1111/evo.14260
Singh, A., Mayer, V., Zytynska, S. E., Hesse, B., & Weisser, W. W. (2021). The Efficiency of Plant Defense: Aphid Pest Pressure Does Not Alter Production of Food Rewards by Okra Plants in Ant Presence. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, 1-13. [627570]. doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.627570
Reich, D., Gutermann, W., Bardy, K., Rainer, H., Raus, T., Sonnleitner, M., Tan, K., & Lachmayer, M. (2021). The type specimens in Eugen von Halácsy´s Herbarium Graecum. Phytotaxa, 493(1), 001-156. doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.493.1.1
2020
Hrusevar, D., Bakrac, K., Miko, S., Ilijanic, N., Hasan, O., Mamic, M., Puljak, T., Vucic, A., Malovec, K. H., Weber, M., & Mitic, B. (2020). Environmental history in Central Croatia for the last two millennia - vegetation, fire and hydrological changes under climate and human impact. Prilozi instituta za arheologiju u zagrebu, 37, 117-164. doi.org/10.33254/piaz.37.5
Schönenberger, J., von Balthazar-Schönenberger, A. M. L., Lopez Martinez, A., Albert, B., Prieu, C., Magallon, S., & Sauquet, H. (2020). Phylogenetic analysis of fossil flowers using an angiosperm-wide data set: proof-of-concept and challenges ahead. American Journal of Botany: the journal for all plant biologists, 107(10), 1433-1448. doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1538
Huang, H., Morley, R., Licht, A., Dupont-Nivet, G., Grimsson, F., Zetter, R., Westerweel, J., Win, Z., Aung, D. W., & Hoorn, C. (2020). Eocene palms from central Myanmar in a South-East Asian and global perspective: evidence from the palynological record. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 194(2), 177-206. doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boaa038
Xafis, A., Saarinen, J., Bastl, K., Nagel, D., & Grímsson, F. (2020). Palaeodietary traits of large mammals from the middle Miocene of Gračanica (Bugojno Basin, Bosnia-Herzegovina). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 100, 457–477. doi.org/10.1007/s12549-020-00435-2
Grímsson, F., Bouchal, J. M., Xafis, A., & Zetter, R. (2020). Combined LM and SEM study of the middle Miocene (Sarmatian) palynoflora from the Lavanttal Basin, Austria. Part V. Magnoliophyta 3–Myrtales to Ericales. Grana, 59(2-3), 127-193. doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2019.1696400
Leme, F. M., Schönenberger, J., Staedler, Y. M., & Teixeira, S. P. (2020). Comparative floral development reveals novel aspects of structure and diversity of flowers in Cannabaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 193, 64-83. doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boaa004
Ferguson, D. K., Grímsson, F., & Weber, M. (2020). Reinhard Zetter, an appreciation. Grana, 59(1), 1-6. doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2019.1695910
Götz, A., Nikzad-Langerodi, R., Städler, Y., Bellaire, A., & Saukel, J. (2020). Apparent penetration depth in attenuated total reflection Fourier-transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy of Allium cepa L. epidermis and cuticle. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 224, [117460]. doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2019.117460
Currano, E. D., Jacobs, B. F., Bush, R. T., Novello, A., Feseha, M., Grimsson, F., McInerney, F. A., Michel, L. A., Pan, A. D., Phelps, S. R., Polissar, P., Strömberg, C. A. E., & Tabor, N. J. (2020). Ecological dynamic equilibrium in an early Miocene (21.73 Ma) forest, Ethiopia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 539, [109425]. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109425
Xiao, N., Bock, P., Antreich, S. J., Staedler, Y. M., Schönenberger, J., & Gierlinger, N. (2020). From the Soft to the Hard: Changes in Microchemistry During Cell Wall Maturation of Walnut Shells. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, [466]. doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00466
Reich, D., Berger, A., von Balthazar, M., Chartier, M., Sherafati, M., Schönenberger, J., Manafzadeh, S., & Staedler, Y. M. (2020). Modularity and evolution of flower shape: the role of function, development, and spandrels in Erica. New Phytologist, 226, 267-280. doi.org/10.1111/nph.16337
Weber, M., Ulrich, S., Ciarallo, A., Henneberg, M., & Henneberg, R. J. (2020). Pollen analysis of volcanic ash in Pompeian human skeletal remains. Grana, 59(1), 107-113. doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2019.1638448
Dellinger, A. S. (2020). Pollination syndromes in the 21st century: where do we stand and where may we go? New Phytologist, 228, 1193-1213. doi.org/10.1111/nph.16793
Ulrich, S., & Grímsson, F. (2020). The single-grain method: adding TEM to the equation. Grana, 59(1), 44-57. doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2019.1666915
Martinetto, E., Boonchai, N., Grimsson, F., Grote, P. J., Jordan, G., Kovácová, M., Kunzmann, L., Kvaček, Z., Liu, C. Y-S., Momohara, A., Huang, Y-J., Palazzesi, L., Pole, M., & Salzmann, U. (2020). Triumph and Fall of the Wet, Warm, and Never-More-Diverse Temperate Forests (Oligocene-Pliocene). In Nature Through Time: Virtual Field Trips Through the Nature of the Past (pp. 55-81). Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35058-1_2
Fernández-Fernández, D. M., Jost, L., & Dellinger, A. S. (2020). Two new species of Meriania (Melastomataceae) from eastern Ecuador. Phytotaxa, 458(1), 1-14. doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.458.1.1
2019
Dellinger, A. S., Artuso, S., Pamperl, S., Michelangeli, F. A., Penneys, D. S., Fernández-Fernández, D. M., Alvear, M., Almeda, F., Armbruster, W. S., Städler, Y., & Schönenberger, J. (2019). Modularity increases rate of floral evolution and adaptive success for functionally specialized pollination systems. Communications Biology, 2(1), [453]. doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0697-7