Dr Sabine Prader

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Research Topic: The role of fire, climate, and land-use change as drivers of forest-fynbos dynamics in the Western Cape and its implications for Fire Management and Ecosystem Services

Background

Sabine is an experienced palynologist. Her postdoctoral research focus lies on the role of fire, climate, and land-use change as drivers of forest-fynbos dynamics in the Western Cape and its implications for Fire Management and Ecosystem Services. To undertake the research question she is using pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs, charcoal and isotopes from recovered cores sediments.

Before joining the PCU, she was working as a melissopalynologist for QSI, Bremen (Germany).

Sabine received her PhD at the University of Hamburg, Centre of Natural History and Department of Geology. Her research focused on the paleovegetation and climate dynamics in the New Jersey hinterland during deep geological time intervals.

Her Diploma in Biology with specialisation in Botany was obtained from the University of Vienna.

Publications

  1. Prader, S., Gillson L, Strauss P, Privett SDJ and Hoffman MT (2024) A paleoecological context for forest distribution and restoration in Grootbos Nature Reserve, Agulhas Plain, South Africa. Front. Conserv. Sci. 5:1357711. doi: 10.3389/fcosc.2024.1357711
  2. Prader, S., Gillson, L., Chase, B.M. and Hoffman, M.T., (2023). Late-Holocene fynbos-forest dynamics in Orange Kloof, Table Mountain National Park, South Africa. The Holocene, p.09596836231151823
  3. Prader, S., Kotthoff, U., McCarthy, F.M.G., Schmiedl, G., Donders, T.H., David R. Greenwood, D.R., 2020. New Jersey's palaeoflora and climate through Palaeogene-Neogene warm phases. Review of Palynology and Palaeobotany 279, 104-224. doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2020.104224.
  4. Prader, S., Kotthoff, U., McCarthy, F.M.G., Schmiedl, G., Donders, T. H., Greenwood, D.R., 2017. Vegetation and climate development of the New Jersey hinterland during the Late middle Miocene (IODP Expedition 313 Site M0027A). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 485, 854-868. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.07.028
  5. Kotthoff, U., McCarthy, F.M.G., Greenwood, D.R., Müller-Navarra, K., Prader, S., Hesselbo, S.P., 2014. Vegetation and climate development on the Atlantic Coastal Plain from 33 to 13 million years ago (IODP expedition 313). Climate of the Past 10, 1523-1539.
  6. Prader, S., 2013. Pollenmorphologie und Ultrastruktur ausgewählter Taxa der Saxifragaceae. Diplomarbeit, Universität Wien. (othes.univie.ac.at/29347/).