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Dr. Eva-Maria Sadowski

Dr. Eva-Maria Sadowski
  • Publications

    Sadowski E-M, Hofman C-C. 2023. The largest amber-preserved flower revisited. Scientific Reports 13: 17.

    Sadowski E-M, Schmidt AR, Kunzmann L. 2022. The hyperdiverse conifer flora of the Baltic amber forest. Palaeontographica B 304: 1–148.

    Schmidt AR, Korall P, Krings M, Weststrand S, Bergschneider L, Sadowski E-M, Bechteler J, Rikkinen J, Regalado L. 2022. Selaginella in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar. Willdenowia 52: 179-245. https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.52.52203

    Schmidt AR, Steuernagel L, Behling H, Seyfullah LJ, Beimforde C, Sadowski E-M, Rikkinen J, Kaasalainen U. 2022. Fossil evidence of lichen grazing from Palaeogene amber. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 302: 104664.

    Sadowski E-M, Schmidt AR, Seyfullah LJ, Solórzano-Kraemer MM, Neumann C, Perrichot V, Hamann C, Milke R, Nascimbene PC. 2021. Conservation, preparation and imaging of diverse ambers and their inclusions. Earth-Science Reviews 220: 103653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103653

    Sadowski E-M, Schmidt AR, Denk T. 2021. Staminate inflorescences with in situ pollen from Eocene Baltic amber reveal high diversity in Fagaceae (oak family). Willdenowia 50(3): 405–517. doi: https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.50.50303

    Wang B, Shi G, Xu C, Spicer RA, Perrichot V, Schmidt AR, Feldberg K, Heinrichs J, Chény C, Pang H, Liu X, Gao T, Wang Z, Slipinski A, Solórzano-Kraemer MM, Heads SW, Thomas MJ, Sadowski E-M, Szwedo J, Azar D, Nel A, Liu Y, Chen J, Zhang Q, Zhang Q, Luo C, Yu T, Zheng D, Zhang H, Engel MS. 2021. The mid-Miocene Zhangpu biota reveals an outstandingly rich rainforest biome in East Asia. Science Advances 7: eabg0625.

    Schmidt AR, Regalado L, Weststrand S, Korall P, Sadowski E-M, Schneider H,  Jansen E, Bechteler J, Krings M, Müller P, Wang B, Wang X, Rikkinen J, Seyfullah LJ. 2020. Selaginella was already hyperdiverse in the Cretaceous. New Phytologist 228: 1176–1182. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16600

    Sadowski E-M, Seyfullah LJ, Regalado L, Skadell LE, Gehler A, Gröhn C, Hoffeins C, Hoffeins HW, Neumann C, Schneider H, Schmidt AR. 2019. How diverse were ferns in the Baltic amber forest? Journal of Systematics and Evolution 57: 305-328. doi: 10.1111/jse.12501

    Sadowski E-M, Hammel JU, Denk T. 2018. Synchrotron X-ray imaging of a dichasium cupule of Castanopsis from Eocene Baltic amber. American Journal of Botany 105: 2025–2036. doi:10.1002/ajb2.1202

    Kettunen E, Sadowski E-M, Seyfullah LJ, Dörfelt H, Rikkinen J, Schmidt AR. 2018. Caspary's fungi from Baltic amber: historic specimens and new evidence. Papers in Palaeontology 5: 365–389. doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1238.

    Schmidt AR, Kaulfuss U, Bannister JM, Baranov V, Beimforde C, Bleile N, Borkent A, Busch A, Conran JG, Engel MS, Harvey M, Kennedy EM, Kerr PH, Kettunen E, Kiecksee AP, Lengeling F, Lindqvist JK, Maraun M, Mildenhall DC, Perrichot V, Rikkinen J, Sadowski E-M, Seyfullah JS, Stebner F, Szwedo J, Ulbrich P, Lee DE. Amber inclusions from New Zealand. 2018. Gondwana Research 56: 135-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2017.12.003

    Sadowski E-M, Schmidt AR, Seyfullah LJ, Kunzmann L. 2017. Conifers of the ‘Baltic amber forest’ and their palaeoecological significance. Stapfia 106: 1-73.

    Sadowski E-M, Seyfullah LJ, Wilson CA, Calvin CL, Schmidt AR. 2017. Diverse early dwarf mistletoes (Arceuthobium), ecological keystones of the Eocene Baltic amber biota. American Journal of Botany 104: 694-718.

    Sadowski E-M, Schmidt AR, Kunzmann L, Gröhn C, Seyfullah LJ. 2016. Sciadopitys cladodes from Eocene Baltic amber. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 180: 258-268.

    Sadowski E-M, Schmidt AR, Rudall PJ, Simpson DA, Gröhn C, Wunderlich J, Seyfullah LJ. 2016. Graminids from Eocene Baltic amber. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 233: 161-168.

    Kettunen E, Grabenhorst H, Gröhn C, Dörfelt H, Sadowski E-M, Rikkinen J, Schmidt AR. 2015. The enigmatic hyphomycete Torula sensu Caspary revisited. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 219: 183-193.

    Sadowski E-M, Seyfullah LJ, Sadowski F, Fleischmann A, Behling H, Schmidt AR. 2015. Carnivorous leaves from Baltic amber. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112: 190-195.

    Seyfullah LJ, Sadowski E-M, Schmidt AR. 2015. Species-level determination of closely related araucarian resins using FTIR spectroscopy and its implications for the provenance of New Zealand amber. PeerJ 3:e1067; DOI 10.7717/peerj.1067.

    Sadowski E-M, Beimforde C, Gube M, Rikkinen J, Singh H, Seyfullah LJ, Heinrichs J, Nascimbene PC, Reitner J, Schmidt AR. 2012. The anamorphic ascomycete genus Monotosporella from Eocene amber and from modern Agathis resin. Fungal Biology 116: 1099-111.

  • https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/science/amber-forests

  • Tasks

    Postdoctoral researcher

    Research interests

    I am interested in the evolution of seed plants. I use fossil and extant plant material in order to understand the morphological-anatomical evolution of plants from the Mesozoic to the Recent. Specifically, I am focused on the evolution of terrestrial palaeoecosystems and their biodiversity through time and space. By using plant fossils, I aim to reconstruct habitats, their structure and climate, as well as palaeoecological interactions. This gives new insights into how biodiversity and the environment changed in the past and which processes caused these changes. Moreover, fossil floras help to understand distribution changes of specific plant lineages, as well as the biogeographic and climatic causes. My research is primarily focused on inclusions in amber (fossilized resin), which is a valuable source for exquisitely, three-dimensionally preserved plant organs. I study these plant inclusions with standard light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and new state-of-the-art X-ray based imaging techniques. I use identified plant taxa as indicators for specific habitat types and structure, as well as for the paleoclimate, facilitating the reconstruction of the ‘amber forests’ the amber derives from.

    Research topics

    • Evolution of terrestrial palaeoecosystems in the Cretaceous and Cenozoic
    • Reconstruction of palaeoecosystems: habitats, structure, vegetation, diversity, climate
    • Evolutionary morphology of seed plants
    • Evolution and systematics of seed plants
    • Biogeography of seed plants

    Lab website (MfN)