Barboni Doris

As a micropalaeontologist specialising in the study of pollen and phytoliths, and a paleoecologist, I am interested in the impact of changes in vegetation on the evolution of fauna and man since the Miocene, as well as the current processes governing plant, vegetation and climate interactions, and the influence of these three factors on botanical markers for tracing changes in climate and plant communities in the past. In general, I am interested in all proxies (biological, geochemical, organic, sedimentological) and all approaches (observational, experimental, modelling, etc.) used to characterise palaeoenvironments and palaeoclimates.