Dr. Angelica Feurdean

Dr Angelica Feurdean

 

Scientific Researcher

Department of Physical Geography, 

Goethe-University

Altenhöferallee 1,60438

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Email: angelica.feurdean@gmail.com 

EDUCATION

PhD (2004)     Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden

M.Sc. (1998)   Ecology, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

B.Sc. (1997)   Biology, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

Direction of research: Towards Understanding Vegetation-Environment Interactions in a Warming World

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr Feurdean is a palaeoecologist who examines how vegetation interacts with its environment across time and space. Her research encompasses diverse ecosystems, including temperate forests, cold environments (alpine, subalpine-alpine, arctic, and boreal), temperate grasslands, and wetlands across Europe, Siberia, and Alaska. Her work addresses terrestrial vegetation dynamics (composition, diversity, turnover, tipping points) in response to climate and disturbance regimes (fire, herbivory, antopogenic impact) and peatland development and its role in carbon storage. She employs various methods such as pollen and plant macrofossil, charcoal morphology, dung fungal spore, sediment geochemistry, stable isotope analyses, and modeling to explore these topics.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Sayedi, S.S., Abbott, B.W., Vannière, B., Leys, B., Colombaroli, D., Romera, G.G., Słowiński, M., Aleman, J.C., Blarquez, O., Feurdean, A., Brown, K., et al., 2024. Assessing changes in global fire regimes. Fire ecology. 20, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-023-00237-9.

Feurdean A, Diaconu AC, Pfeiffer M, Gałka M, Hutchinson SM, Butiseaca G, Gorina N, Tonkov S, Niamir A, Tantau I, Zhang H. 2022. Holocene wildfire regimes in western Siberia: interaction between peatland moisture conditions and the composition of plant functional types. Climate of the Past. 18, 1255–1274, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1255-2022.

Swindles, G.T., Morris, P.J., Mullan, D.J., Payne, R.J., Roland, T.P., Amesbury, M.J., Lamentowicz, M., Turner, T.E., Gallego-Sala, A., Sim, T., Barr, I.D., Blaauw, M., Blundell, A., Chambers, F.M., Charman, D.J., Feurdean, A., Galloway, J.M., Gałka, M., Green, S., Kajukało, K., Karofeld, E., Korhola, A., Lamentowicz, L., Langdon, P., Marcisz, K., Mauquoy, D., Mazei, Y.A., McKeown, M., Mitchell, E.A.D., Novenko, E., Plunkett, G., Roe, H.M., Schoning, K., Sillasoo, Ü., Tsyganov, A.N., van der Linden, M., Väliranta, M., Warner, B. 2019. Widespread drying of European peatlands in recent centuries. Nature Geoscience. 10.1038/s41561-019-0462-z

Feurdean, A., Ruprecht E., Molnar, Zs., Hutchinson, S.M., Hickler, T. 2018. Biodiversity-rich European grasslands: ancient, forgotten ecosystems. Biological Conservation, 228, 224-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.09.022

Feurdean, A., Perşoiu, T., Stevens, S, et al., 2014. Climate variability and associated vegetation response throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) between 60 and 8 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews, 106, 206-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.003

Full list of publication: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JbQQ8PwAAAAJ&hl=en

Courses and seminars

Biogeography of Global Changes (Biogeographie des Globalen Wandels).