Dr. Paulina Nätscher

• Body size change as a response of marine ectotherms to climate warming (i.e. cephalopods, ostracods)
• Physiological, ecological, and evolutionary mechanisms affecting growth and body size of marine ectotherms
• Methodological integration of palaeobiology and ecology

Body size changes of marine ectotherms as a response to climate warming in the Earth's history.

Using 3D geometric morphometrics in fossil and recent cephalopods to identify acidification-induced growth changes.
 

Smith, J. A., Raja, N. B., Clements, T., Dimitrijević, D., Dowding, E. M., Dunne, E. M., Gee, B. M., Godoy, P. L., Lombardi, E. M., Mulvey, L. P. A., Nätscher, P. S., Reddin, C. J., Shirley, B., Warnock, R. C. M. & Kocsis, Á. T. (2024). Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future. Paleobiology, 50(2), 165-176.

Reddin, C. J., Aberhan, M., Dimitrijević, D., Dowding, E. M., Kocsis, Á. T., Mathes, G., Nätscher, P. S., Patzkowsky, M. E. & Kiessling, W. (2023). Oversimplification risks too much: a response to ‘How predictable are mass extinction events?'. Royal Society Open Science, 10(8), 230400.

Nätscher, P. S., Gliwa, J., De Baets, K., Ghaderi, A., & Korn, D. (2023). Exceptions to the temperature–size rule: no Lilliput Effect in end‐P ermian ostracods (Crustacea) from Aras Valley (northwest Iran). Palaeontology, 66(4), e12667.

Reddin, C. J., Decottignies, P., Bacouillard, L., Barillé, L., Dubois, S. F., Echappé, C., Gernez, P., Jesus, B., Méléder, V., Nätscher, P. S., Turpin, V., … & Cognie, B. (2022). Extensive spatial impacts of oyster reefs on an intertidal mudflat community via predator facilitation. Communications Biology, 5(1), 250.

Raja, N. B., Dunne, E. M., Matiwane, A., Khan, T. M., Nätscher, P. S., Ghilardi, A. M., & Chattopadhyay, D. (2022). Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity. Nature ecology & evolution, 6(2), 145-154.

De Baets, K., Nätscher, P. S., Rita, P., Fara, E., Neige, P., Bardin, J., ... & Weis, R. (2021). The impact of the Pliensbachian–Toarcian crisis on belemnite assemblages and size distribution. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 140(1), 25.

Nätscher, P. S., Dera, G., Reddin, C. J., Rita, P., & De Baets, K. (2021). Morphological response accompanying size reduction of belemnites during an Early Jurassic hyperthermal event modulated by life history. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 14480.

Reddin, C. J., Nätscher, P. S., Kocsis, Á. T., Pörtner, H. O., & Kiessling, W. (2020). Marine clade sensitivities to climate change conform across timescales. Nature Climate Change, 10(3), 249-253.

Rita, P., Nätscher, P., Duarte, L. V., Weis, R., & De Baets, K. (2019). Mechanisms and drivers of belemnite body-size dynamics across the Pliensbachian–Toarcian crisis. Royal Society open science, 6(12), 190494.

Production of a mini series on YouTube about climate warming throughout the Earth's history and it's effects on marine organisms

Organisation of outreach events such as the “Girl's Day” and the “Long Night of Sciences” in Erlangen.