Boglárka Erdei

Position: 
Curator/museologist
Department: 
Department of Botany
Collection: 
Palaeobotany Collection
Address: 
H-1087 Könyves Kálmán krt. 40., Budapest, Hungary
Mailing address: 
H-1431 Budapest, Pf. 137.
Telephone: 
36 1 4131381
Email: 
erdei.boglarka@nhmus.hu
Postgraduate/doctoral degrees: 
PhD
Research interest: 

Palaeobotany, taxonomic, palaeoecological and climatological study of Cenozoic and Cretaceous floras

Actual research: 

Taxonomic, palaeoecological and climatological study of the Paleogene floras of the Carpathian Basin
Taxonomic study and evolution of fossil cycads and palms

Expeditions and study trips: 

1997: Senckenberg Museum and Institute, Frankfurt, Germany, DAAD, 5 months
2000: University of Tübingen, Senckenberg Museum and Institute, Frankfurt, Germany, DAAD, 2 months
2000-2002: Izmir, Ankara, Turkey, Bilateral Academic Exchange Program, 3 months
2010: Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, Florida, USA, Fulbright, 4 months
2012: Steinmann Institute, Bonn, Germany, DAAD, 3 months 
2013/2014: Montgomery Botanical Center, Miami, Florida, USA, HAESF, 12 months

Teaching: 

Lectures on palaeobotanical research, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, 2013-2016
Paleobotany course, AGH (University of Science and Technology), Cracow, Poland, 2017

Exhibitions: 

2003: "A Föld nagy élőhelyei a múltban, a jelenben és a jövőben" permanent exhibition, screen writing, Hungarian Natural History Museum
2020: „museum piece” of the month, temporary exhibition

Museum pedagogy: 

Museum summer camps 2020

Science dissemination: 

ERDEI B. 2020: Vénséges ifjak. – Élet és Tudomány 44: 1385–1387.

ERDEI B. 2020: Hottentották kenyere és társaik. – Élet és Tudomány 35:1097–1099.


ERDEI B. 2019: Trópusi erdők archívuma: a paleobotanikai gyűjtemény. Dulai A. (szerk.): Eocén élővilág a Kárpát-medencében. Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum. Budapest. 86–91.

ERDEI B. 2019: Mangrove mocsarak és társaik: eocén növénymaradványok. Dulai A. (szerk):  Eocén élővilág a Kárpát-medencében. Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum. Budapest. 133–144.

ERDEI B. 2014: A cikászok különös világa 1.-2. – Élet és Tudomány, 69 (4sz.,5sz.).

Selected publications: 

https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=10010431&view=simpleList

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Boglarka_Erdei/publications

 

ERDEI B. & HABLY L. 2020: Fossil Gordonia (s.l.)–like (Theaceae) winged seeds from the early Miocene of the Mecsek Mts, W Hungary. – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, Special Issue, in press.

ERDEI, B. & WILDE, V. 2020. The Eocene flora of Tatabánya “marl-mine”(N Hungary). – Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100(3):1–17.

ERDEI B., COIRO M., MILLER I., JOHNSON K. R., GRIFFITH M. P. & MURPHY, V. 2019: First cycad seedling foliage from the fossil record and inferences for the Cenozoic evolution of cycads. – Biology letters 15(7), 20190114. 

ERDEI B., CALONJE M., HENDY A. & ESPINOZA N. 2018:  A review of the Cenozoic fossil record of the genus Zamia L. (Zamiaceae, Cycadales) – evolution and biogeographic inferences. – Bulletin of Geosciences 93(2):185–204.

HENROT A., UTESCHER T., ERDEI B., DURY M., HAMON N., RAMSTEIN G., KRAPP M., HEROLD N., GOLDNER A., FAVRE E., MUNHOVEN G. & FRANÇOIS L. 2017: Middle Miocene climate and vegetation models and their validation with proxy data. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 467:95–119.

ERDEI B. & MANCHESTER S. 2015: Ctenis clarnoensis sp. n., an unusual cycadalean foliage from the Eocene Clarno Formation, Oregon. – International Journal of Plant Sciences 176(1):31–43.

ERDEI B., MANCHESTER S. & KVAČEK Z. 2012: Dioonopsis Horiuchi et Kimura leaves from the Eocene of western North America—a cycad shared with the Paleogene of Japan. – International Journal of Plant Sciences 173(1):81–95.

ERDEI B., AKGÜN F, BARONE LUMAGA M.R. 2010: Pseudodioon akyoli nov. gen. et sp., an extinct member of Cycadales from the Turkish Miocene. – Plant Systematics and Evolution 285:33–49.

ERDEI B., DOLEZYCH M. & HABLY L. 2009. The buried Miocene forest at Bükkábrány. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 155:69–79.

ERDEI B., HABLY L., KÁZMÉR M., UTESCHER T. & BRUCH A. 2007: Neogene flora and vegetation development of the Pannonian domain in relation to palaeoclimate and palaeogeography. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 253:115–140.