Marcela Cosarinsky, PhD
Laboratorio de Icnología
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “B. Rivadavia”
Angel Gallardo 470
CP1405 - Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Email: marce_irene@yahoo.com.ar
http://www.marcelacosarinsky.blogspot.com/
Research Overview
Marcela Cosarinsky investigates on Soil Micromorphology, with special reference to the effects of insect activity on soils, in particular ants and termites. It is a branch of the Edaphology that studies soils and sediments at a microscope scale. It employs undisturbed, oriented samples in which the original components and their geometrical relationships can be observed, described and interpreted. Micromorphology offers a unique mechanism for studying the interaction between soil animals and soil structure, being a very helpful tool for soil ecologists and ichnologists.
About Marcela Cosarinsky
In 2003, she received a Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Parallely, she completed her academic preparation with post-graduate courses on Edaphology and Soil Micromorphology in the University of La Plata (Argentina). Since 1998 she takes part in research projects on continental ichnology in the Laboratory of Ichnology of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires. In addition, she participated in projects on behavioral ecology of social insects carried out by the Institute of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology of the University of Würzburg, Germany.
Publications
Cosarinsky Marcela I. 2003. Micromorphology of the nest of Cornitermes cumulans Kollar (Isoptera, Termitidae). In: Icnología: Hacia una convergencia entre geología y biología. Publicación Especial 9 de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina. Editores: Luis A. Buatois & Maria Gabriela Mangano. Pages 53-64.
Cosarinsky M.I. 2004. Nest micromorphology of the neotropical termite Termes saltans (Isoptera, Termitidae). Sociobiology, 43 (3):501-511.
Cosarinsky M.I. 2004. Nest Micromorphology of the Termite Cortaritermes fulviceps in Different Types of Soils. Sociobiology, 44 (1):1-18.
Cosarinsky M.I., Bellosi E.S., Genise J.F. 2005. Micromorphology of Modern Epigean Termite Nests and Posible Termite Ichnofossils: A comparative Analisys (Isoptera). Sociobiology, 45 (3):745-778.
Cosarinsky M.I. 2005. Comparative Micromorphology of Arboreal and Terrestrial Cartón Nests of the Neotropical Termite Nasutitermes aquilinus (Isoptera:Termitidae). Sociobiology, 45 (3):839-852.
Genise J.F., Bellosi E.S., Melchor R.N., Cosarinsky M.I. 2005. Comment-Advanced Early Jurassic Termite (Insecta: Isoptera) Nests: Evidence from Clarens Formation in the tuli Basin, Southern Africa (Bordy et al., 2004). Palaios, 20:303-308.
Cosarinsky M.I. 2006. Nest micromorphology of the neotropical mound building ants Camponotus punctulatus and Solenopsis sp. Sociobiology, 47 (2): 329-344.
Cosarinsky M.I., Roces F. 2007. Neighbour leaf cutting ants and mound building termites: A comparative nest micromorphology. Geoderma 141: 224-234.
