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List of works by Wolfgang Kiessling

A possible link between coral reef success, crustose coralline algae and the evolution of herbivory

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

A tsunami deposit at the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in the Neuquén Basin of Argentina

scientific article published in 2005

Adding fossil occupancy trajectories to the assessment of modern extinction risk

scientific article published on October 2016

Addressing priority questions of conservation science with palaeontological data

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Allogenic succession in Late Ordovician reefs from southeast China: a response to the Cathaysian orogeny

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An early Hettangian coral reef in southern France: Implications for the end-Triassic reef crisis

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Are coral reefs victims of their own past success?

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BioDeepTime: A database of biodiversity time series for modern and fossil assemblages

scientific article published in 2023

Biodiversity dynamics and environmental occupancy of fossil azooxanthellate and zooxanthellate scleractinian corals

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Biodiversity of museum and bulk field samples compared: The Chiampo sponge fauna (Eocene, Lessini Mountains, Italy)

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Biodiversity research: data without theory–theory without data

article by Matthias C. Rillig et al published 5 March 2015 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Cambrian to Lower Ordovician reefs on the Yangtze Platform, South China Block, and their controlling factors

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Climate change and marine life

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Climate change and the latitudinal selectivity of ancient marine extinctions

article published in 2018

Climate change disrupts core habitats of marine species

scientific article published in 2023

Climate velocity and the future global redistribution of marine biodiversity

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Continuous evolutionary change in Plio-Pleistocene mammals of eastern Africa

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Diagenesis of Upper Jurassic Concretions from the Antarctic Peninsula

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Differential niche dynamics among major marine invertebrate clades

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Distribution of Chicxulub ejecta at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

Diversification trajectories and evolutionary life-history traits in early sharks and batoids

scientific article (publication date: 7 March 2009)

Diversity partitioning during the Cambrian radiation

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Drivers of beta diversity in modern and ancient reef-associated soft-bottom environments

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Early Ordovician lithistid sponge– Calathium reefs on the Yangtze Platform and their paleoceanographic implications

scientific article published in 2015

Early Ordovician sponge-Calathium-microbial reefs on the Yangtze Platform margin of the South China Block

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Ecological, taxonomic, and taphonomic components of the post-Paleozoic increase in sample-level species diversity of marine benthos

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Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts

scientific article published in 2022

Environmental determinants of marine benthic biodiversity dynamics through Triassic–Jurassic time

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Environmentally controlled succession in a late Pleistocene coral reef (Sinai, Egypt)

scholarly article by H. Mewis & Wolfgang Kiessling published 18 October 2012 in Coral Reefs

Equatorial decline of reef corals during the last Pleistocene interglacial

scientific article (publication date: 26 December 2012)

Evolutionary diversification of reef corals: a comparison of the molecular and fossil records

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Extinction risk controlled by interaction of long-term and short-term climate change

scientific article published on 18 January 2021

Extinction trajectories of benthic organisms across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary

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Facies characterization of mid-mesozoic deep-water sediments by quantitative analysis of siliceous microfaunas

scientific article published in 1996

Fast-growing species shape the evolution of reef corals

scientific article published on 03 May 2022

Faunal evidence for reduced productivity and uncoordinated recovery in Southern Hemisphere Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary sections

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First record of coralline demosponges in the Pleistocene: implications for reef ecology

Fossil liberation: a model to explain high biodiversity in the Triassic Cassian Formation

scientific article published in 2019

Gaining insights from past reefs to inform understanding of coral reef response to global climate change

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Geographical distribution and extinction risk: lessons from Triassic?Jurassic marine benthic organisms

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Geologic and Biologic Controls on the Evolution of Reefs

scientific article published in 2009

Global imprint of climate change on marine life

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Gradual warming prior to the end‐Permian mass extinction

scientific article published in 2022

Habitat effects and sampling bias on Phanerozoic reef distribution

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History and development of ABCDEFG: a data standard for geosciences

scientific article published in 2018

Increase in marine provinciality over the last 250 million years governed more by climate change than plate tectonics

scientific article published in 2021

Increased extinction in the emergence of novel ecological communities

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Integrated bio- and lithofacies analysis of coarse-grained, tide-dominated deltaic environments across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in Patagonia, Argentina

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Jurassic shift from abiotic to biotic control on marine ecological success

scientific article published in July 2019

Late Jurassic Radiolarians from the Antarctic Peninsula

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Late Jurassic fishes from Longing Gap, Antarctic Peninsula

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Long-term relationships between ecological stability and biodiversity in Phanerozoic reefs

scientific article published in January 2005

Marine Biodiversity and Geographic Distributions Are Independent on Large Scales

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

Marine benthic invertebrates from the Upper Jurassic of northern Ethiopia and their biogeographic affinities

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Marine clade sensitivities to climate change conform across timescales

Marine invertebrate migrations trace climate change over 450 million years

scholarly article by Carl J. Reddin et al published 3 April 2018 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Marine invertebrate migrations trace climate change over 450 million years

scientific article published in 2020

Massive corals in Paleocene siliciclastic sediments of Chubut (Argentina)

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Maximum rates of climate change are systematically underestimated in the geological record

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

Mesozoic–Cenozoic bioevents

scholarly article by Wolfgang Kiessling published in November 2004

Metal-induced malformations in early Palaeozoic plankton are harbingers of mass extinction

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Morphological traits of reef corals predict extinction risk but not conservation status

scientific article published on 18 May 2021

New constraints on the last aragonite–calcite sea transition from early Jurassic ooids

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On the potential for ocean acidification to be a general cause of ancient reef crises

Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

scientific article published on 21 April 2023

Palaeontological and facial features of the Upper Jurassic Hochstegen Marble (Tauern Window, Eastern Alps)

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Paleoecology. Life's complexity cast in stone

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Past and future decline of tropical pelagic biodiversity

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

Patterns of Phanerozoic carbonate platform sedimentation

article published in 2003

Permian-Triassic boundary interval as a model for forcing marine ecosystem collapse by long-term atmospheric oxygen drop

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Persistent ecological shifts in marine molluscan assemblages across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

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Phanerozoic trends in skeletal mineralogy driven by mass extinctions

scholarly article by Wolfgang Kiessling et al published 11 July 2008 in Nature Geoscience

Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates

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Phanerozoic trends in the global geographic disparity of marine biotas

Predicting extinction from fossil trajectories of geographical ranges in benthic marine molluscs

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2012)

Pre–mass extinction decline of latest Permian ammonoids

scholarly article

RESEARCH FOCUS: Fuzzy seas

scholarly article

Radiolarian biodiversity dynamics through the Triassic and Jurassic: implications for proximate causes of the end-Triassic mass extinction

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Radiolarian diversity patterns in the latest Jurassic–earliest Cretaceous

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Rebuilding biodiversity of Patagonian marine molluscs after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

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Reef expansion during the Triassic: Spread of photosymbiosis balancing climatic cooling

scientific article published in 2010

Reef-building red algae from an uppermost Permian reef complex as a fossil analogue of modern coralline algal ridges

scientific article published on 5 August 2020

Reefs as cradles of evolution and sources of biodiversity in the Phanerozoic

scientific article

Reliable estimates of beta diversity with incomplete sampling

scientific article published on 8 March 2018

Response to Comments on "Statistical Independence of Escalatory Ecological Trends in Phanerozoic Marine Invertebrates"

scientific article published in Science

Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates

scientific article published in May 2006

Strengthening confidence in climate change impact science

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Testing the role of biological interactions in the evolution of mid-Mesozoic marine benthic ecosystems

The Chicxulub asteroid impact and mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

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The Devonian nekton revolution

scientific article published in 2010

The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems

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The R package divDyn for quantifying diversity dynamics using fossil sampling data

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The biogeographical imprint of mass extinctions

scholarly article by Ádám T. Kocsis et al published 16 May 2018 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

The effects of taxonomic standardization on sampling-standardized estimates of historical diversity

scientific article (publication date: 7 February 2007)

The first sphinctozoan-bearing reef from an Ordovician back-arc basin

scientific article published in 2015

The geological record of ocean acidification

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The oldest labechiid stromatoporoids from intraskeletal crypts in lithistid sponge–Calathium reefs

scholarly article

The r package divDyn for quantifying diversity dynamics using fossil sampling data

scientific article published in 2019

The rise and fall of novel ecological communities

The role of extinction in large-scale diversity-stability relationships

scientific article (publication date: 7 May 2010)

The stability of coastal benthic biogeography over the last 10 million years

scholarly article by Ádám T. Kocsis et al published September 2018 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Towards a new paleotemperature proxy from reef coral occurrences

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Trajectories of Late Permian - Jurassic radiolarian extinction rates: no evidence for an end-Triassic mass extinction

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Using abundance data to assess the relative role of sampling biases and evolutionary 2 radiations in Upper Muschelkalk ammonoids

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Victims of ancient hyperthermal events herald the fates of marine clades and traits under global warming

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Vision and the diversification of Phanerozoic marine invertebrates