Publications & manuscripts

Selected work

Peer-reviewed articles, manuscripts in progress, open-source software, and datasets.

Field notes and sketches by Alfred Russel Wallace, whose fieldwork across the Malay Archipelago laid the foundations of modern biogeography.
Field notes and sketches by Alfred Russel Wallace, whose fieldwork across the Malay Archipelago laid the foundations of modern biogeography. CC BY-NC.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

In press

Linking hierarchical assembly rules and diversity patterns of soil fungi in primary succession. Mori, A., Nishizawa, K., Uchida, M., Naka, M., Masumoto, S., Matsuoka, S., Xu, X., Adaimé, M.-É. Oikos In press

2026

Initial results from a Trans-Amazon Drilling Project core from the Acre Basin of Brazil. Fritz, S.C., Sawakuchi, A.O., Noren, A., … Adaimé, M.-É., et al. Scientific Drilling, 35: 127–157.

doi.org/10.5194/sd-35-127-2026

2025

Pollen morphology, deep learning, phylogenetics, and the evolution of environmental adaptations in Podocarpus. Adaimé, M.-É., Urban, M.A., Kong, S., Jaramillo, C., Punyasena, S.W. New Phytologist, 247: 1460–1473.

doi.org/10.1111/nph.70250

2024

Deep learning approaches to the phylogenetic placement of extinct pollen morphotypes. Adaimé, M.-É., Kong, S., Punyasena, S.W. PNAS Nexus, 3(1): pgad419.

doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad419

2021

Postglacial palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Fury and Hecla Strait region (Nunavut) inferred from microfossils and geochemical proxies. Adaïmé, M.-É., Pienitz, R., Legendre, P., Antoniades, D. Journal of Quaternary Science, 37: 944–958.

doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3287

2020

Remote sensing of lake sediment core particle size using hyperspectral image analysis. Ghanbari, H., Jacques, O., Adaimé, M.-É., Gregory-Eaves, I., Antoniades, D. Remote Sensing, 12: 3850.

doi.org/10.3390/rs12233850

In review

In review

Deep learning of fossil pollen morphology reveals 25,000 years of ecological change in East African grasslands. Adaimé, M.-É., Kong, S., Urban, M.A., Punyasena, S.W., Street-Perrott, A., Verschuren, D. PNAS Under review

Preprint: bioRxiv · doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.23.612957

Manuscripts in preparation

In prep

Deep learning techniques corroborate evidence for earliest C4 grasslands in Early Miocene East Africa. Lloyd, B.A., Adaimé, M.-É., Punyasena, S.W., Gallaher, T.J., Kong, S., Strömberg, C.

In prep

Developmental lability or convergent evolution? The complex origin of fruit-like structures in conifers. Khan, R., Adaimé, M.-É., Leslie, A.B., Hill, R.S., Jordan, G.J., Dörken, V.M., Biffin, E.

In prep

Millennia of Environmental Change in the Coastal Margin of the Arctic's Last Ice Area. Adaimé, M.-É., Bouchard, F., Antoniades, D., Couture, R.-M., Fortier, D., Vincent, W.F.

Software & data releases

2026

Computational Tools for Quantifying Poaceae Pollen Diversity and Inferring Photosynthetic Pathway (C3 or C4) from Superresolution Images (v2.0.0). Adaimé, M.-É., Kong, S., Punyasena, S.W. Zenodo.

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20707741

2025

Pollen of Podocarpus (Podocarpaceae) II: Airyscan confocal superresolution images. Punyasena, S.W., Adaimé, M.-É., Jaramillo, C. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

doi.org/10.13012/B2IDB-9559463_V1

2024

SR-SIM superresolution structured illumination microscopy images of fossil and modern pollen of Poaceae. Punyasena, S.W., Urban, M.A., Adaimé, M.-É., Romero, I.C. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

doi.org/10.13012/B2IDB-1391373_V1

2023

Integrating Molecular Phylogenetic Data and CNN-Derived Morphology for the Evolutionary Placement of Unknown Pollen Types (v1.0.0). Adaimé, M.-É., Kong, S., Punyasena, S.W. Zenodo.

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8128443

2023

Pollen of Podocarpus (Podocarpaceae): Airyscan confocal superresolution images. Punyasena, S.W., Urban, M.A., Adaimé, M.-É., Romero, I., Jaramillo, C. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

doi.org/10.13012/B2IDB-8817604_V1