Researcher with a background in archaeology and biology, now focussing on the biodiversity of shells through space and time in the Pontocaspian (Black Sea and Caspian Sea) area.
Keywords
Conservation palaeobiology, Mollusca, gastropods, bivalves, biodiversity, Pontocaspian, Quaternary
Researchinterest
The main focus of my research are fossil shells which I use to analyse biodiversity through time and to reconstruct past environments
Here we are on the Black Sea beach searching for Black Sea endemic mollusc species between all the invasive species, like the Rapana venosa shell you can see in the middle of the picture on the right.
Currenttopics
A selection of the topics I am working on currently:
- Mollusc biodiversity in the Holocene environment of the Caspian Sea
- Mollusk faunas from the late Pleistocene Black Sea until now
- Mollusk biodiversity of the Late Pleistocene North Caspian Sea
Keypublications
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Velde S. van de, Yanina T., Neubauer T., Wesselingh F.P. 2019. A Late Pleistocene mollusk fauna from Selitrennoye (Astrakhan province, Russia): a natural baseline for endemic Caspian Sea faunas. Journal of Great Lakes Research [submitted]
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Velde S. van de, Jorissen E.L., Neubauer T.A., Radan S., Pavel A.B., Stoica M., Baak C.G.C., Martínez Gándara A., Popa L., Stigter H. de, Abels H.A., Krijgsman W., Wesselingh F.P. 2019. A conservation palaeobiological approach to assess faunal response of threatened biota under natural and anthropogenic environmental change. Biogeoscience [accepted for open discussion]
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Lazarev S., Jorissen E. L, Velde S. van de, Rausch L., Stoica M., Wesselingh F. P., Baak C. van, Yanina T., Aliyeva E., Krijgsman W. 2019. Magneto- biostratigraphic age constraints on the palaeoenvironmental evolution of the South Caspian Basin during the Early-Middle Pleistocene (Kura Basin, Azerbaijan), Quaternary Science Reviews [submitted]
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Wesselingh F. P., Neubauer T.A., Anistratenko V.V., Vinarski M., Yanina T.A., Poorten J. J. ter, Kijashko P., Albrecht C., Anistratenko O.Y., D'Hont A., Frolov P., Martínez Gándara A., Gittenberger A., Gogaladze A.,Karpinsky M., Lattuada M., Popa L., Sands A. F., Velde, S. van de, Vandendorpe J., Wilke T. 2019. Mollusc species from the Pontocaspian region – an expert opinion list. Zookeys, 827: 31-124.
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Krijgsman W., Tesakov A., Yanina T., Lazarev S., Danukalova G., Van Baak C. G. C., Agustí J., Alçiçek M.C., Aliyeva E., Bista D., Bruch A., Büyükmeriçk Y., Bukhsianidzel M., Flecker R., Frolov P., Hoyle T.M., Jorissen E.L., Kirscher U., Koriche S.A., Kroonenberg S.B., Lordkipanidze D., Oms O., Rausch L., Singarayer J., Stoica M., Velde S. van de, Titov V.V., Wesselingh F.P. 2018. Quaternary time scales for the Pontocaspian domain: interbasinal connectivity and faunal evolution. Earth-Science Reviews, 188, 1-40.
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Neubauer T.A., Velde S. van de, Yanina T.A., Wesselingh F.P. 2018. A late Pleistocene gastropod fauna from the northern Caspian Sea with implications for Pontocaspian gastropod taxonomy. ZooKeys, 770: 43-103.