Sabrina van de Velde

Sabrina van de Velde

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

 

MSc Sabrina van de Velde

Early Stage Researcher
Marine biodiversity

sabrina.vandevelde@naturalis.nl
+31 (0)71 751 9264
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EU funded PRIDE project: The PRIDE project

Research
interest

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.

Looking for Pontocaspian shells on the Black Sea beach in Romania
Invasive shells on the Black Sea beach

Current
topics

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

Key
publications

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.