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Florida Museum of Natural History
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kowalewski@ufl.edu
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Other Affiliations
Biological Sciences, University of Florida
Geological Sciences, University of Florida
Interdisciplinary Ecology, University of Florida
Education
Ph.D., University of Arizona
M.S., University of Warsaw
Research Interests
Paleoecology, taphonomy, geochronology, stratigraphy, quantitative methods, marine ecology, conservation biology, mollusks, echinoids, brachiopods
Publications
Research News
Paleontologists go back to the future, reconstruct fossilized functional diversity to inform conservation goals
Key points Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that functional diversity can be accurately inferred from the marine fossil…
Scientists use fossils to assess the health of Florida’s largest remaining seagrass bed
The seagrass is greener along Florida’s Nature Coast … figuratively, that is. A new study published in the journal Marine…
Fossils from the Adriatic Sea show a recent and worrying reversal of fortunes
If you’d stopped monitoring the Adriatic Sea’s marine life in the mid-20th century, the outlook would have been promising. Snails…
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