Mag. Dr. Johannes Martin Bouchal
Scientific project collaborator (post doc)
Ground floor, room 1
t: +43 (0)1 4277-540 05
m: johannes.martin.bouchal@univie.ac.at
Research interests
- Palynology
- Palaeopalynology
- Botany
- Palaeobotany
- Palaeoclimatology
- Palaeophytogeography
- Köppen signatures
The focus of my research lies on the evolution, climatic preferences, and palaeobiogeography of northern hemispheric plant families (e.g. Fagaceae, Cupressaceae, ….) during the Paleogene and Neogene. In the past few years, I investigated mainly Miocene floras from the Mediterranean region. I am using Köppen signatures, NLR, and CLAMP to reconstruct the climatic signal of fossil floras.
Projects
- Scientific project collaborator FWF-Project P 34303-B "Flower Power: can in-situ pollen link fossil plants to floral visitors?" (Friðgeir Grímsson)
Curriculum Vitae
Current position
- 2022– Scientific project collaborator (post doc) FWF-Project P 34303-B
Education and scientific career
- 2020–2021 Research scientist, senior post doctorial position, Austrian Pollen Information Service, Medical University of Vienna
- 2019 Research scientist, post doctorial position, Palaebiology department, Naturhisoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm
- 2018/10 Dr. rer. nat, University of Vienna: "Miocene palynofloras of the Yatağan Basin, southwestern Turkey: palaeoenvironments and palaeoclimate in the East Mediterranean region" (Supervisors: Prof. Reinhard Zetter, Dr. Thomas Denk)
- 2013–2018 Research assistent, pre doctorial position, Palaebiology department, Naturhisoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm
- 2013/05 Mag. rer. nat., University of Vienna: "The microflora of the uppermost Eocene (Priabonian) Florissant Formation, a combined method approach" (Supervisor: Prof. Reinhard Zetter)
Publications
2023
Vieira, M., Bouchal, J. M., Geier, C., Ulrich, S., Zetter, R., & Grimsson, F. (2023). Earliest fossil pollen records of endemic African Sclerosperma palms and the palaeoecological aspects of the genus. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 317, [104954]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.104954
Alçiçek, H., Gross, M., Bouchal, J. M., Wesselingh, F. P., Neubauer, T. A., Meijer, T., van den Hoek Ostende, L. W., Tesakov, A., Murray, A. M., Mayda, S., & Alçiçek, M. C. (2023). Paleobiodiversity and paleoenvironments of the eastern Paratethys Pleistocene lacustrine-palustrine sequence in the Baklan Basin (SW Anatolia, Turkey). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 626, [111649]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111649
Woutersen, A., Jardine, P. E., Silvestro, D., Bogotá-Angel, R. G., Zhang, H-X., Meijer, N., Bouchal, J., Barbolini, N., Dupont-Nivet, G., Koutsodendris, A., Antonelli, A., & Hoorn, C. (2023). The evolutionary history of the Central Asian steppe-desert taxon Nitraria (Nitrariaceae) as revealed by integration of fossil pollen morphology and molecular data. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 202(2), 195-214. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boac050
Denk, T., Bouchal, J. M., Güner, H. T., Coiro, M., Butzmann, R., Pigg, K. B., & Tiffney, B. H. (2023). Cenozoic migration of a desert plant lineage across the North Atlantic. New Phytologist, 238(6), 2668-2684. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18743
Denk, T., Grimm, G. W., Hipp, A. L., Bouchal, J. M., Schulze, E-D., & Simeone, M. C. (2023). Niche evolution in a northern temperate tree lineage: biogeographic legacies in cork oaks (Quercus sect. Cerris). Annals of Botany, 131(5), 769-787. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad032
Geier, C., Bouchal, J. M., Ulrich, S., Uhl, D., Wappler, T., Wedmann, S., Zetter, R., & Grimsson, F. (2023). Collecting in situ/adhered pollen from fossil compressed angiosperm flowers. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 310, 1-6. [104831]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104831
Geier, C., Bouchal, J. M., Ulrich, S., Wappler, T., & Grimsson, F. (2023). Fossil Onagraceae flower and insects with in situ or adhered pollen from the Eocene of Eckfeld, Germany. In Abstract EGU23 [EGU23-6116] https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6116
Geier, C., Bouchal, J. M., Ulrich, S., Uhl, D., Wappler, T., Wedmann, S., Zetter, R., Schönenberger, J., & Grimsson, F. (2023). Potential pollinators and paleoecological aspects of Eocene Ludwigia (Onagraceae) from Eckfeld, Germany. Palaeoworld. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2023.07.003
Bouchal, J. M., Geier, C., Ulrich, S., Wilde, V., Lenz, O. K., Zetter, R., & Grimsson, F. (2023). Revisiting the Messel palynoflora using a combined LM and SEM approach. In Abstract EGU23 [EGU23-6499] https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6499
Geier, C., Bouchal, J. M., Nel, A., Ngo-Muller, V., Schönenberger, J., Uhl, D., Ulrich, S., Wappler, T., Wedmann, S., & Grimsson, F. (2023). The history of European Paleogene flower-insect interactions unraveled using fossil flowers and insects and their associated pollen grains. In 24th Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Systematics: Programme and Abstracts (pp. 21-22)
Geier, C., Bouchal, J. M., Nel, A., Ngo-Muller, V., Oberleitner, S., Uhl, D., Ulrich, S., Wappler, T., Wedmann, S., Zimmermann, D., & Grimsson, F. (2023). Tilioideae-Anthophila interactions in the Cenozoic of Europe. In Life and Planet 2023: Full Programme with Abstracts (pp. 63-64)
2022
Adroit, B., Grimsson, F., Suc, J-P., Escarguel, G., Zetter, R., Bouchal, J. M., Fauquette, S., Zhuang, X., & Djamali, M. (2022). Are morphological characteristics of Parrotia (Hamamelidaceae) pollen species diagnostic? Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 307, [104776]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104776
Geier, C., Bouchal, J. M., Ulrich, S., Gross, M., Zetter, R., Denk, T., & Grimsson, F. (2022). Paleovegetation and paleoclimate inferences of the early late Sarmatian palynoflora from the Gleisdorf Fm. at Gratkorn, Styria, Austria. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 307, [104767]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104767
Denk, T., Bouchal, J. M., Guner, T. H., & Coiro, M. (2022). Cenozoic migration of a desert plant lineage across the North Atlantic. In S. McLoughlin (Ed.), 11th European Palaeobotany and Palynology conference: Abstracts, Program, and Proceedings [O.038].
Geier, C., Bouchal, J. M., Wappler, T., & Grimsson, F. (2022). Linking fossil angiosperm flowers and insects using in-situ and adhered pollen. In S. McLoughlin (Ed.), 11th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference: Abstracts, Program, and Proceedings [O.052].
Wuttke, M., Poschmann, M. J., Bouchal, J. M., Geier, C., Ulrich, S., Grimsson, F., & Wappler, T. (2022). Pollen-feeding in a late Oligocene giant pelobatid tadpole from Lake Enspel (Westerwald Mountains, Germany). In Datz-Symposium & 30th International Workshop on Plant Taphonony: Program, Abstracts, Information (pp. 31).
Woutersen, A., Jardine, P. E., Silvestro, D., Bogotá-Angel, R. G., Zhang, H-X., Meijer, N., Bouchal, J. M., Barbolini, N., Dupont-Nivet, G., Koutsodendris, A., Antonelli, A., & Hoorn, C. (2022). The evolutionary bottleneck of the steppe-desert taxon Nitraria L. (Nitrariaceae) at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition in Central Asia, revealed by the integration of fossil pollen morphology and molecular data. In S. McLoughlin (Ed.), 11th European Palaeobotany and Palynology conference: Abstracts, Program, and Proceedings [O.175].
2020
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. https://doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2019.1696400
2017
Bouchal, J. M., Mayda, S., Zetter, R., Grimsson, F., Akgun, F., & Denk, T. (2017). Miocene palynofloras of the Tınaz lignite mine, Muğla, southwest Anatolia: Taxonomy, palaeoecology and local vegetation change. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 243, 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.02.010
Denk, T., Velitzelos, D., Guner, T. H., Bouchal, J. M., Grimsson, F., & Grimm, G. W. (2017). Taxonomy and palaeoecology of two widespread western Eurasian Neogene sclerophyllous oak species: Quercus drymeja Unger and Q-mediterranea Unger. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 241, 98-128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.01.005