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Research interests
- Evolutionary Palaeoecology
The examination of ecological concepts in the fossil record, the application of palaeontological data in ecological studies, and developing new palaeoecological methods to accurately reconstruct palaeoenvironments
- Palaeoanthropology
The timing, tempo and environmental context of human evolution. My research in this area focuses on East Africa and Southeast Asia. I have been involved with research on the Plio-Pleistocene of Kenya and Tanzania, addressing taphonomic, ecomorphic and palaeoecologic questions as well as conducting fieldwork. In Southeast Asia, I have focused specifically on the environmental context, interaction and biogeography of hominins and associated mammals
- Vertebrate Palaeontology
My research interests in this area are twofold. Firstly, I am interested in the changes in mammal communities in response to Cenozoic climate change in order to be able to provide evidence-based models to predict future community responses to global warming. I am also interested in the evolution of Cenozoic marsupial faunas, especially koalas, wombats and related marsupials such as wynyardiids
Qualifications
Biography
Julien is a vertebrate palaeontologist and palaeoecologist. He received a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Newcastle, Australia and a Bachelor of Sciences (Hons) and PhD from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He completed a three year postdoctoral research assistant position at Liverpool John Moores University, UK, examining the use of taxon-free variables in palaeoecological analyses. Following the completion of this project, he worked for 12 months at the Queensland Museum as curator of Geosciences. He successfully secured a University of Queensland Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2012 with projects examining Australian marsupial palaeontology, particularly Pliocene faunas, as well as community ecology of Pleistocene/Holocene small mammal assemblages. He has also been involved in hominin and large mammal palaeoecological research of the Plio-Pleistocene of East Africa and Southeast Asia. Julien is currently working on the project "From Sunda to Sahul: understanding modern human dispersal, adaptation and behaviour en route to Australia".
Expertise Areas
- Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
- Palaeoecology
- Biogeography and Phylogeography
- Speciation and Extinction
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Network (past 5 years)
Projects
- 3 Finished
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First Contact: Impact Of Pleistocene Hominins On Island Ecosystems (workshop)
5/09/16 → 1/05/17
Project: Research
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Palaeontological and archaeological investigations of Pleistocene cave deposits from Sumatra
Louys, J., Marwick, B., Price, G. & Stevenson, J.
6/02/14 → 1/12/15
Project: Research
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From Sunda to Sahul: Understanding modern human dispersal, adaptation and behaviour en route to Australia
O'Connor, S., Hawkins, S., Hawkins, S., Louys, J., Louys, J. & Maloney, T.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
30/06/13 → 29/06/18
Project: Research
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Author Correction: Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years
Groucutt, H. S., White, T. S., Scerri, E. M. L., Andrieux, E., Clark-Wilson, R., Breeze, P. S., Armitage, S. J., Stewart, M., Drake, N., Louys, J., Price, G. & Shipton, C., 2022, In: Nature. 602, E15, p. 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years
Groucutt, H. S., White, T. S., Scerri, E. M. L., Andrieux, E., Clark-Wilson, R., Breeze, P. S., Armitage, S. J., Stewart, M., Drake, N., Louys, J., Price, G. & Shipton, C., 2021, In: Nature. 597, p. 376-380Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival
Louys, J., Braje, T. J., Chang, C-H., Cosgrove, R., Fitzpatrick, S., Fujita, M., Hawkins, S., Ingicco, T., Kawamura, A., MacPhee, R. D. E., McDowell, M., Meijer, H. J. M., Piper, P., Roberts, P., Simmons, A. H., van den Bergh, G., van der Geer, A., Kealy, S. & O'Connor, S., 2021, In: PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118, 20, p. OnlineResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia
Louys, J. & Roberts, P., 2020, In: Nature. 586, p. 402-406Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Phylogenetic relationships of the cuscuses (Diprotodontia: Phalangeridae) of island Southeast Asia and Melanesia based on the mitochondrial ND2 gene
Kealy, S., Donnellan, S., Mitchell, K. J., Herrera, M. B., Aplin, K., O'Connor, S. & Louys, J., 2020, In: Australian Mammalogy. 42, 3, p. 266-276Research output: Contribution to journal › Article