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  • 2011 - Hellman Fellow

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Cindy V. Looy is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Geophysics.

The main topics covered in their work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology.

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Influence of temporally varying weatherability on CO 2 -climate coupling and ecosystem change in the late Paleozoic, 2020, published in Climate of the past
  • The base of the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, predates the end-Permian marine extinction, 2020, published in Nature Communications
  • The environmental implications of upper Paleozoic plant-fossil assemblages with mixtures of wetland and drought-tolerant taxa in tropical Pangea, 2021, published in Geobios
  • Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time, 2020, published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Inferring the Total-Evidence Timescale of Marattialean Fern Evolution in the Face of Model Sensitivity, 2021, published in Systematic Biology

Frequent co-authors in their research include William A. DiMichele, J. W. Geissman, Amelia Villaseñor, Nicholas J. Gotelli, and S. Kathleen Lyons.

Their publications have appeared multiple times in key venues such as:

  • Nature Communications
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Climate of the past

In recognition of their work, Cindy V. Looy received the Hellman Fellow award in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Rapid and synchronous collapse of marine and terrestrial ecosystems during the end-Permian biotic crisis

    Richard J. Twitchett;Cindy V. Looy;Ric Morante;Henk Visscher

  • Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Anthony D. Barnosky;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Patrick Gonzalez;Patrick Gonzalez;Jason Head

  • The terminal Paleozoic fungal event: evidence of terrestrial ecosystem destabilization and collapse.

    Henk Visscher;Henk Brinkhuis;David L. Dilcher;William C. Elsik

  • Life in the end-Permian dead zone

    Cindy V. Looy;Richard J. Twitchett;David L. Dilcher;Johanna H. A. Van Konijnenburg-Van Cittert

  • Catastrophic soil erosion during the end-Permian biotic crisis

    Mark A. Sephton;Cindy V. Looy;Henk Brinkhuis;Paul B. Wignall

  • The delayed resurgence of equatorial forests after the Permian–Triassic ecologic crisis

    C. V. Looy;W. A. Brugman;D. L. Dilcher;H. Visscher

  • Environmental mutagenesis during the end-Permian ecological crisis

    Henk Visscher;Cindy V. Looy;Margaret E. Collinson;Henk Brinkhuis

  • Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

    S. Kathleen Lyons;Kathryn L. Amatangelo;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Antoine Bercovici

  • Multiple Organic Carbon Isotope Reversals across the Permo‐Triassic Boundary of Terrestrial Gondwana Sequences: Clues to Extinction Patterns and Delayed Ecosystem Recovery

    Maarten J. de Wit;Joy G. Ghosh;Stephanie de Villiers;Nicolas Rakotosolofo

  • Portrait of a Gondwanan ecosystem: A new late Permian fossil locality from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Rose Prevec;Conrad C. Labandeira;Conrad C. Labandeira;Johann Neveling;Robert A. Gastaldo

  • Incised channel fills containing conifers indicate that seasonally dry vegetation dominated Pennsylvanian tropical lowlands

    Howard J. Falcon-Lang;W. John Nelson;Scott Elrick;Cindy V. Looy

  • Is the vertebrate-defined Permian-Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, the terrestrial expression of the end-Permian marine event?

    Robert A. Gastaldo;Sandra L. Kamo;Johann Neveling;John W. Geissman

  • UV-B–induced forest sterility: Implications of ozone shield failure in Earth’s largest extinction

    Jeffrey P. Benca;Ivo A. P. Duijnstee;Cindy V. Looy

  • Influence of temporally varying weatherability on CO 2 –climate coupling and ecosystem change in the late Paleozoic

    Jon D. Richey;Isabel P. Montañez;Yves Goddéris;Cindy V. Looy

  • The so-called "Paleophytic-Mesophytic" transition in equatorial Pangea — Multiple biomes and vegetational tracking of climate change through geological time

    William A. DiMichele;Hans Kerp;Neil J. Tabor;Cynthia V. Looy

  • Changes in biomarker abundances and sulfur isotopes of pyrite across the Permian-Triassic (P/Tr) Schuchert Dal section (East Greenland)

    Stephen Fenton;Kliti Grice;Richard J. Twitchett;Michael E. Böttcher;Michael E. Böttcher

  • A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary

    Jessica L. Blois;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;J. Tyler Faith

  • A potential biomarker for the Permian-Triassic ecological crisis

    Kliti Grice;Richard J. Twitchett;Richard J. Twitchett;Robert Alexander;C.B. Foster

  • The Base of the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, Predates the end-Permian Marine Extinction

    Robert A. Gastaldo;Sandra L. Kamo;Johann Neveling;John W. Geissman

  • Fungal virulence at the time of the end-Permian biosphere crisis?

    Henk Visscher;Mark A. Sephton;Cindy V. Looy

  • Synchronous record of δ13C shifts in the oceans and atmosphere at the end of the Permian

    Mark A. Sephton;Cindy V. Looy;Ruben J. Veefkind;Henk Brinkhuis

  • Extending the Range of Derived Late Paleozoic Conifers: Lebowskia gen. nov. (Majonicaceae)

    Cindy V. Looy

  • The late Paleozoic ecological-evolutionary laboratory, a land-plant fossil record perspective

    Cindy V. Looy;Hans Kerp;Ivo A. P. Duijnstee;William A. DiMichele

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. DiMichele
William A. DiMichele Smithsonian Institution
Henk Visscher
Henk Visscher Utrecht University
Conrad C. Labandeira
Conrad C. Labandeira Smithsonian Institution
Robert A. Gastaldo
Robert A. Gastaldo Colby College
Mark A. Sephton
Mark A. Sephton Imperial College London
John W. Geissman
John W. Geissman The University of Texas at Dallas
Gary R. Graves
Gary R. Graves National Museum of Natural History
Jussi T. Eronen
Jussi T. Eronen University of Helsinki
Spencer G. Lucas
Spencer G. Lucas New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Anna K. Behrensmeyer National Museum of Natural History

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