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Mónica Carvalho is an Assistant Professor in Earth Environmental Sciences and Assistant Curator of Museum Paleontology at the University of Michigan. Her research aims to understand plants in tropical ecosystems over geological time. Mónica collects and studies plant fossils from tropical South America, utilizing both observational and experimental approaches to deepen our understanding of paleobiology and the evolution of tropical rainforests. Her work documents interactions between plants and insect herbivores, focusing on recorded leaf damage and the form-function relationships of leaves. Additionally, she investigates acclimation responses of tropical plants to climate change, informing our knowledge of ecosystem function through deep time.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science