Publications: PaleoSynthesis & Team

If possible, we publish 📗 free/open access; if not, 📙 you might have access via your institution, 📘 preprint/submitted

* PaleoSynthesis core team member / in bold: PostDocs and PI’s

Project-related publications

2026

📘 preprint available: “Fossils for Future: the billion-dollar case for palaeontology’s digital infrastructureDowding EM, EM Dunne, KS Collins, K Cryer, K De Baets, D Dimitrijević, SM Edie, S Finnegan, W Kiessling, K Lintulaakso, LH Liow, H Little, L Na, SE Peters, J Renaudie, EE Saupe, B Seuss*, JA Sessa, JA Smith, MD Uhen, JW Williams, ÁT Kocsis* / Nature Ecology & Evolution accepted/2026

2025

📗 “Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven projectJA Smith, EM Dowding et al., ÁT Kocsis*, W Kiessling / Paleobiology (09/2025)

📙 “Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales“ D Fastovich et al, EM Dowding, W Kiessling, ÁT Kocsis*, JA SmithMJ Steinbauer et al / Science (07/2025)

📗 “Data equity in paleobiology: progress, challenges, and future outlook“ EM Dunne, D Chattopadhyay, CD Dean, EM Dillon, EM Dowding, PL Godoy, JA Smith, NB Raja / Paleobiology (04/2025)

📗 “A conceptual framework for measuring ecological novelty“ TJ Staples, J Blois, KL Cramer, ET Cunningham, M Dornelas, SG Haberle, T Heger, W Kiessling, A Magurran, A O’Dea, AM Penny, VC Radeloff, JA Smith, W Thuiller, JW Williams, JM Pandolfi / Global Ecology and Biogeography (02/2025)

2024

📗 “Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time“ W Kiessling, CJ Reddin, EM DowdingD Dimitrijevic, NB Raja, ÁT Kocsis* / Paleobiology (12/2024)

📗 “Fossil constraints on the origin and evolution of Platyhelminthes are surprisingly concordant with modern molecular phylogenies” K de Baets / Zoologica (Curitiba) (11/2024)

📗 “Reef refugia in the aftermath of past episodes of global warmingD Dimitrijevic, N Santodomingo, W Kiessling / Coral Reefs (06/2024)

2023

📗 “Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future” JA Smith, NB Raja, T Clements, D Dimitrijevic, EM Dowding, EM Dunne, BM Gee, PL Godoy, EM Lombardi, LPA Mulvey, PS Nätscher, CJ Reddin, B Shirley, RCM Warnock, ÁT Kocsis*/ Paleobiology (12/2023)

📗 “Revisiting the Phanerozoic rock-diversity relationship“ L Na, Li Q, Krause M, Zhu M, Kiessling W Geological Magazine (12/2023)

📗 “BioDeepTime: a database of biodiversity time series for modern and fossil assemblages” JA Smith, J Gill, M Rillo, ÁT Kocsis*, M Dornelas, D Fastovich, H-H M Huang, L Jonkers, S Meyers, N Lin, A M Penny, K Pippenger, J Renaudie, E Saupe, M Steinbauer, M Sugawara,  A Tomasovych, JW Williams, M Yasuhara, S Finnegan, P Hull / Global Ecology and Biogeography (10/2023)

2022

📗 “What is Conservation Paleobiology? Tracking 20 years of research and development” EM Dillon et al, JA Smith, NB Raja*, D Dimitrijević*, CM Grether*, IE Smith*  (*master and PhD students from the FAU included) / Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (12/2022) (invited contribution (extended to JAS) for Research Topic: Integrating Conservation Biology and Paleobiology to Manage Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World)

📗 “fossilbrush: An R package for automated detection and resolution of anomalies in palaeontological occurrence data” (publication from the Open Research Challenge) JT Flannery-Sutherland, NB Raja, A Kocsis*, W KiesslingMethods in Ecology and Evolution (11/2022)

📗 “R interface for the GPlates Web Service and the GPlates Application” ÁT Kocsis*, NB Raja, S Williams, EM Dowding CRAN (2021 with updates)

📗 “icosa: global triangular and penta-hexagonal grids based on tessellated icosahedra, R package” ÁT Kocsis* (08/2025)

📗 “BioDeepTime: database and compilation code” JA Smith, MC Rillo, ÁT Kocsis*, M Dornelas, D Fastovich, H-H M Huang, L Jonkers, W Kiessling, Q Li, L-H Liow, M Margulis-Ohnuma, S Meyers, L Na, AM Penny, K Pippenger, J Renaudie, EE Saupe, M Steinbauer, et al / zenodo (01/2023)

📗 “fossilbrush: An R package for automated detection and resolution of anomalies in palaeontological occurrence data” JT Flannery-Sutherland, NB Raja, ÁT Kocsis*, W KiesslingMethods in Ecology and Evolution (06/2022)

📗 “Handout to the R package divDyn v0.8.2 for diversity dynamics using fossil sampling data” ÁT Kocsis*, CJ Reddin, W Kiessling (03/2021)

📗 “Introduction to the ‘chronosphere’ R package” ÁT Kocsis*, NB Raja (06/2020)

📘 “Asymmetric leading vs. trailing edge shifts since the Last Glacial Maximum underpin the modern bimodal latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic foraminifera” TM Khan, MC Rillo, L Jonkers, I Smith, ÁT Kocsis*, W Kiessling / bioRxiv (subm/2025)

📘 “Unique fingerprint of marine ectotherm body size change during hyperthermal crises” PS Nätscher, K De Baets, W Kiessling / bioRxiv (subm/2025)

📘 “Climate outweighs human effects on vegetation properties during the early-to-mid Holocene” VA Felde et al, MJ Steinbauer / Research Square (07/2025)

📗 “Ecological and social perspectives on the management of outdoor sports: the case of bouldering in the Frankenjura, Germany” S Paulus, J Lohmann, V Roder, V Audorff, A Zvigule, MJ Steinbauer / Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (03/2026)

📗 “Mechanical impacts of climbing on cliff vegetation: Contrasting management concepts” IA Österle, S Paulus, A Schwietering, V Audoff, MJ Steinbauer / People and Nature (01/2026)

📗 “Microstructural and geochemical evidence offers a solution to the cephalopod cameral deposits riddle” A Pohle, R Hoffmann, A Nützel, B Seuss, M Aubrechtová, B Kröger, K Stevens, A Immenhauser/ Palaeontology (11,12/2025)

📗 “Census-based estimates of Mediterranean Olicocene-Miocene reef carbonate productionW KiesslingD Dimitrijevic, NB Raja, K Frühbeißer, A Vescogni, FR Bosselini / Facies (12/2025)

📗 “Spatially Heterogeneous Responses of Planktonic Foraminiferal Assemblages Over 700,000 Years of Climate Change” GH Mathes, CJ Reddin, W Kiessling, GT Antell, EE Saupe, MJ Steinbauer / Global Ecology and Biogeography (11/2025)

📗 “Reefal regions were biodiversity hotspots throughout the Phanerozoic” RA Close, RBJ Benson, W Kiessling, EE Saupe / Science Advances (11/2025)

📙 “Testing of Drivers for Plant Species Diversity Along Elevational Gradients on Seven Mountainous Islands in the Subtropics” OR Vetaas, MJ Steinbauer, C Beierkuhnlein, B Robson, R Field, SDH Irl, M Di Musciano, A Chiarucci / Journal of Vegetation Science (07,08/2025)

📗 “Occupancy history influences extinction risk of fossil marine microplankton groups” IA Smith, ÁT Kocsis*, W Kiessling / Biogeosciences (07/2025)

📙 “Devonian palaeogeography and environmental change: an incomplete chronicle” TH Torsvik, LRM Cocks, M Domeier, CM Marcilly, EM Dowding ZDGG (06/2025)

📗 “Taxonomic and ecologic transitions in Triassic marine bivalve communities” X Miao, J Tong, Y Huang, S Zhang, P Li, Y Cao, D Chu, W Kiessling / PeerJ (05/2025)

📗 “Introduction: Fifty years of Paleobiology” M Patzowsky, W Kiessling / Paleobiology (04/2025)

📗 “Europe’s lost landscape sculptors: Today’s potential range of the extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon antiquus F Gaiser, C Müller, P Phan, G Mathes, MJ Steinbauer / Frontiers of Biogeography (04/2025)

📗 “Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic” M García Criado et al, MJ Steinbauer / Nature (04/2025)

📗 “Minor Coral Diversity Loss but Long-Lasting Coral Reef Crises in the Early Paleogene Hothouse” FR Bosellini, A Benedetti, W Kiessling / Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (03/2025)

📗 “Quantifying abrasion of microplastics from mountain bike tires” F Sommer, L Brockmann, MJ Steinbauer, V Audorff / Science of the Total Environment (03/2025)

📙 “The Cretaceous world: plate tectonics, palaeogeography and palaeoclimate” CR Scotese, C Vérard, L Burgener, RP Elling, ÁT Kocsis* / Geological Society London SP (03/2025)

📗 “The effect of climate legacies on extinction dynamics: A systematic review” GH Mathes, C Pimiento, W Kiessling, J-C Svenning, M Steinbauer / Cambridge Prisms (03/2025)

📗 “Cliff ecosystems: A critical yet uncharted frontier for research and conservation” M March-Salas, M Begoña García, IH Lichter-Marck, J Lorit, MJ Steinbauer / Basic and Applied Ecology (03/2025)

📗 “Randomising spatial patterns supports the integration of intraspecific variation in ecological niche models N Preuk, D Romero-Mujalli, D Zurell, MJ Steinbauer, J Kreyling / Ecography (02/2025)

📗 “Ancient frameworks as modern templates: exploring reef rubble consolidation in an ancient reef system” A Godbold, CC James, W Kiessling, N Hohmann, E Jarochowska A Corsetti, DJ Bottjer/ Proceedings B (02/2025)

📗 “Temperature Effects on the Distribution of Aragonitic and Calcite-Secreting Epifaunal Bivalves” K Eichenseer, U Balthasar, CW Smart, W Kiessling / Journal of Biogeography (02/2025)

📙 “Towards a digital ranger: Using data from outdoor platforms to detect rule violations in protected areas and improve visitor management” J Zink, M Mangold, F Porst, MJ Steinbauer, M Heurich / Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (12/2024)

📗 “Niche filling predicts evolutionary trajectories in insular bird communities” P Dufour, F Sayol, MJ Steinbauer, R Cooke, S Faubry / Functional Ecology (12/2024)

📗 “Bioerosion and encrustation in Late Triassic reef corals from Iran” M Burger, D Dimitrijevic, W Kiessling / Facies (08/2024)

📙 “Digitale Outdoorplattformen: Potenziale und Herausforderungen für Naturschutz und Aktivitätsmanagement” A Schwieterling et al, MJ Steinbauer / Natur und Landschaft (08/2024)

📗 “Hazel dormice use reed beds for nocturnal activity and daytime resting” R Wipfler, C Strätz, MJ Steinbauer / Journal of Vertebrate Biology (05/2024)

📙 “Late Pennsylvanian fishes from the Finis Shales of North-Central Texas (USA)” A Ivanov, B Seuss*/ PalZ (04/2024)

📗 “The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds” P Dufour, F Sayol, R Cooke, TM Blackburn, L Gallien, M Griesser, MJ Steinbauer, S Faurby / Proceedings B (04/2024)

📗 “Automated visitor and wildlife monitoring with camera traps and machine learning” V Mitterwallner, A Peters, H Edelhoff, GH Mathes, H Nguyen, W Peters, M Heurich, Manuel J Steinbauer / Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (04/2024)

📙 “Palaeontology from Australasia and beyond: Abstracts from Palaeo Down Under 3” Perth, Western Australia, July 2023″ Martin et al., EM Dowding / Alcheringa (04/2024)

📙 “Molecular technology in paleontology and paleobiology: Applications and limitations” AA Abdelhady, B Seuss*, S Jain, D Fathy, M Sami, A Ali, A Elsheikh, MS Ahmed, AMT Elewa, AM Hussain / Quaternary International (03/2024)

📗 “Digitalization of planning and navigating recreational outdoor activities” A Schwietering, MJ Steinbauer, M Mangold, M Sand, V Audorff / German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research (03/2024)

📗 “Global reduction of snow cover in ski areas under climate change” V Mitterwallner, MJ Steinbauer, GH Mathes, A Walentowitz / PLoS One (03/2024)

📗 “Corallite sizes of reef corals: decoupling of evolutionary and ecological trendsD Dimitrijevic, NB Raja, W Kiessling / Paleobiology (02/2024)

📗 “The next frontier for climate change science – Insights from the authors of the IPCC 6th assessment report on knowledge gaps and priorities for research” A Pirani et al, W Kiessling / Technical Report. Publications Office of the European Union, Brussels (02/2024)

📗 “Sustainable development in sport and physical activity—perspectives and challenges” J Lohmann, S Tittlbach, MJ Steinbauer – German Journal of Exercise and Sport Research (02/2024)

📗 “The digitalization of outdoor recreation: Global perspectives on the opportunities and challenges for protected area management” M Mangold, A Schwietering, J Zink, MJ Steinbauer / Journal of Environmental Management (02/2024)

📗 “Floristic homogenization of South Pacific islands commenced with human arrival” NA Strandberg et al, MJ Steinbauer – Nature ecology & evolution (01/2024)

📗 “On Paleozoic platycerate gastropods” A Nützel, JO Ebbestad, B Seuss*, A Munnecke, RH Mapes, AG Cook / Zitteliana (12/2023)

📗 “Response of Siliceous Marine Organisms to the Permian-Triassic Climate Crisis Based on New Findings From Central Spitsbergen, Svalbard” W Foster, G Asatryan, S Rauzi, JP Botting, SZ Buchwald, DB Lazarus, J Renaudie, W Kiessling / Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (12/2023)

📗 “Undiscovered bird extinctions obscure the true magnitude of human-driven extinction waves” R Cooke, F Sayol, T Andermann, TM Blackburn, MJ Steinbauer, A Antonelli, S Faubry  / Nature Communications (12/2023)

📗 “Natur und Mountainbiken Umweltwirkung, Angebotsplanung und BesuchermanagementMJ Steinbauer, M Bachinger, M Sand, F Wölfle / Book (12/2023)

📗 “Survivorship dynamics of the flora of Devonian Angarida” EM Dowding, NI Akulov, IM Mashchuck / ProceedingsB (11/2023)

📗 “Diurnal temperature range as a key predictor of plants’ elevation ranges globally A Gallou, et al, MJ Steinbauer – Nature Communications (11/2023)

📙 “Paleobiogeography of Lower-Middle Devonian Conulariids from southwest Gondwana” VR Ribeiro, EM Dowding, FN Sousa, FA Carbonaro, RP Ghilardi / Journal of South American Earth Sciences (11/2023)

📗 “Effects of climate change on the distribution of plant species and plant functional strategies on the Canary Islands” DM Hanz et al, MJ Steinbauer  / Diversity and Distributions (09/2023)

📗 “Ecological impacts of (electrically assisted) mountain biking” LF Kuwaczka, V Mitterwallner, V Audorff, MJ Steinbauer / Global Ecology and Conservation (08/2023)

📗 “Oversimplification risks too much: a response to ‘How predictable are mass extinction events?” CJ Reddin, M Aberhan, D DimitrijevicEM Dowding, ÁT Kocsis*, GH Mathes, PS Nätscher, ME Patzowsky, W Kiessling Royal Society Open Science (08/2023)

📗 “Influences of sea level changes and volcanic eruptions on Holocene vegetation in Tonga” NA Strandberg et al, MJ Steinbauer / Biotropica (07/2023)

📗 “Climate Change 2022 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change incl. W Kiessling / IPCC (06/2023)

📗 “Modularity explains large-scale reef booms in Earth’s history” NB Raja, JM Pandolfi, W Kiessling / Facies (06/2023)

📗 “Climate change disrupts core habitats of marine species” D Hodapp et al., ÁT Kocsis*, W Kiessling / Global Change Biology (06/2023)

📗 “Long‐term trajectories of non‐native vegetation on islands globally” A Walentowitz et al, MJ Steinbauer / Ecology Letters (05/2023)

📗 “Coupling of geographic range and provincialism in Cambrian marine invertebrates” L Na, ÁT Kocsis*, W Kiessling / Paleobiology (05/2023)

📙 “Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts” HO Pörtner et al, W Kiessling / Science (04/2023)

📗 “Where and why is landscape considered valuable? Societal actors’ perceptions of ecosystem services across Bavaria (Germany)” L Küchen, TM Schmitt, R Riebl, M Hänsel, MJ Steinbauer, U Fricke, S Redlich, T Koellner / Ecosystems and People (04/2023)

📗 “Links to rare climates do not translate into distinct traits for island endemics” V Cutts et al., MJ Steinbauer / Ecology Letters (04/2023)

📙 “Quantitative methods for the analysis of comparative geological data: Large igneous province barcoding and supercontinent reconstruction” B Michaux, EM Dowding, MC Ebach / Precambrian Research (02/2023)

📗 “Improving the relevance of paleontology to climate change policy“ W KiesslingJA Smith, NB Raja / PNAS (02/2023)

📗 “Predicting extinctions with species distribution models” D Zurell, SA Fritz, A Rönnfeldt, MJ Steinbauer / Cambridge Prisms: Extinction (02/2023)

📗 “Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0” J Dengler et al, MJ Steinbauer / Vegetation Classification and Survey (01/2023)

📗 “Virgilian (Late Pennsylvanian) coiled nautiloids from the Finis Shale Member of the Graham Formation in Texas, southern Midcontinent North America” S Niko, B Seuss*, RH Mapes / Bulletin of the Tohoku University Museum (12/2022)

📗 “Hotspots of Cenozoic Tropical Marine Biodiversity” Yasuhara et al., ÁT Kocsis*, W Kiessling / Oceanography and Marine Biology An Annual Review (12/2022)

📗 “Perceptions of ecosystem services: comparing socio-cultural and environmental influences” M Thiemann, R Riebl, M Haensel, TM Schmitt, MJ Steinbauer, T Landwehr, U Fricke, S Redlich, T Koellner / PLoS One (10/2022)

📗 “Gradual warming prior to the end-Permian mass extinction” J Gliwa, M Wiedenbeck, M Schobben, CV Ullmann, W Kiessling, A Ghaderi, U Struck, D Korn / Palaeontology (09,10/2022)

📗 “The evolution of insular woodiness” A Zizka et al, MJ Steinbauer / PNAS (09/2022)

📗 “Plant dispersal characteristics shape the relationship of diversity with area and isolation” A Walentowitz, C Troiano, JB Christiansen, MJ Steinbauer, AS Barfod / Journal of Biogeography (09/2022)

📗 “Global warming generates predictable extinctions of warm- and cold-water marine benthic invertebrates via thermal habitat loss” CJ Reddin, M Aberhahn, NB Raja, ÁT Kocsis* / Global Change Biology (08/2022)

📗 “The Impact of Field Courses on Undergraduate Knowledge, Affect, Behavior, and Skills: A Scoping Review“, XA Shinbrot, K Treibergs, LM Arcila Hernández, D Esparza, K Ghezzi-Kopel, M Goebel, OJ Graham, AB Heim, JA Smith, MK Smith / BioScience (08/2022)

📗 “Origin of the Cretaceous olistostromes in the Oman mountains (Sultanate of Oman): Evidence from clay minerals” F Mattern, A Scharf, B Pracejus, ISA Al Shibli, BMS Al Kabani, WYA Al Qasmi, W Kiessling, I Callegari / Journal of African Earth Sciences (07/2022)

📗 “Climatic and biogeographical drivers of functional diversity in the flora of the Canary Islands” DM Hanz et al, MJ Steinbauer / Global Ecology and Biogeography (07/2022)

📗 “Ancient Reef Traits, a database of trait information for reef-building organisms over the Phanerozoic” NB Raja, D Dimitrijevic, MC Krause, W Kiessling / Scientific data (07/2022)

📙 “Assessing the utility of death assemblages as reference conditions in a common benthic index (M-AMBI) with simulations“, JA Smith, MJ Pruden, JC Handley, SR Durham, GP Dietl / Geological Society of London Special Publication: Conservation paleobiology of marine ecosystems: concepts and applications (07/2022)

📗 “Emergence patterns of locally novel plant communities driven by past climate change and modern anthropogenic impacts” TL Staples, W Kiessling, JM Pandolfi / Ecology Letters (06/2022)

📗 “Fast-growing species shape the evolution of reef corals” AC Siqueira, W Kiessling, DR Bellwood / Nature communications (05/2022)

📗 “Stenolaemate bryozoans from the Graham Formation, Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) at Lost Creek Lake, Texas, USA” A Ernst, AL Claußen, B Seuss*, PN Wyse Jackson / Palaeontologia Electronica (05/2022)

📗 “Radial porosity profiles: a new bone histological method for comparative developmental analysis of diametric limb bone growth” E Prondvai, ÁT Kocsis*, A Abourachid, D Adriaens, P Godefroit, D-Y Hu, RJ Butler / Royal Society Open Science (05/2022)

📗 “Benthic foraminifera as bioindicators for assessing reef condition in Kāne ‘ohe Bay, O ‘ahu, Hawai ‘i” GH Mathes, MJ Steinbauer, L Cotton / Pacific Conservation Biology (04/2022)

📗 “Taxonomy and diversity of slit-band gastropods (Order Pleurotomariida) and some slit bearing Caenogastropoda from the Pennsylvanian of the USA” B Karapunar, A Nützel, B Seuss*, RH Mapes / Papers in Palaeontology (03,04/2022)

📗 “Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization” EM Dowding, MC Ebach, EV Mavrodiev / Palaeontology (01,02/2022)

📗 “Marine Biodiversity and Geographic Distributions Are Independent on Large Scales” GT Antell, W Kiessling, M Aberhan, EE Saupe / Current Biology (01/2022)

📗 “Not all biodiversity rich spots are climate refugia” ÁT Kocsis*, Q Zhao, MJ Costello, W Kiessling / EGU Biogeosciences (12/2021)

📗 “Fine-grain beta diversity in Palaearctic open vegetation: variability within and between biomes and vegetation types” I Dembicz et al, MJ Steinbauer / Vegetation Classification and Survey (12/2021)

📗 “Detecting initial aragonite and calcite variations in limestone–marl alternations” T Nohl, MJ Steinbauer, M Sinnesael, E Jarochowska / Sedimentology (12/2021)

📗 “Influence of tree hollow characteristics and forest structure on saproxylic beetle diversity in tree hollows in managed forests in a regional comparison” B Henneberg, S Bauer, M Birkenbach, V Mertl, MJ Steinbauer, H Feldhaar, E Obermeier / Ecology and Evolution (12/2021)

📙 “Electrically assisted mountain biking: Riding faster, higher, farther in natural mountain systems” V Mitterwallner, MJ Steinbauer, A Besold, A Dreitz, M Karl, N Wachsmuth, V Zügler, V Audorff / Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (12/2021)

📗 “Diversity of European habitat types is correlated with geography more than climate and human pressure” M Cervellini, et al, MJ Steinbauer / Ecology and evolution (12/2021)

📗 “The physical damage of climbing activity on sandstone lichen cover” AM Schweizer, L Höschler, MJ Steinbauer / Sustainability (12/2021)

📗 “Loss of functional diversity through anthropogenic extinctions of island birds is not offset by biotic invasions” F Sayol, RSC Cooke, AL Pigot, TM Blackburn, JA Tobias, MJ Steinbauer, A Antonelli, S Faubry / Science Advances (11/2021)

📗 “Rate-of-change analysis in paleoecology revisited: A new approach” O Mottl, JA Grytnes, AWR Seddon, MJ Steinbauer, KP Bhatta, VA Felde, SGA Flantua, HJB Birks / Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology (10/2021)

📗 “Dispersal syndromes are poorly associated with climatic niche differences in the Azorean seed plants” M Leo, MJ Steinbauer, PAV Borges, EB de Azevedo, R Gabriel, H Schaefer, AMC Santos / Journal of Biogeography (09/2021)

📗 “Evolutionary winners are ecological losers among oceanic island plants” JM Fernández‐Palacios, R Otto, MK Borregaard, H Kreft, JP Price, MJ Steinbauer, P Weigelt, RJ Whittaker / Journal of Biogeography (09/2021)

📗 “Deep-time climate legacies affect origination rates of marine genera” GH Mathes, W Kiessling, M Steinbauer/ PNAS (09/2021)

📗 “Increase in marine provinciality over the last 250 million years governed more by climate change than plate tectonics” ÁT Kocsis*, CJ Reddin, DR Scotese, PJ Valdes, W Kiessling / Proceedings B (08/2021)

📗 “Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism” SGA Flantua et al, MJ Steinbauer / Global Ecology and Biogeography (08/2020)

📗 “Human impact, climate and dispersal strategies determine plant invasion on islands” SDH Irl et al, MJ Steinbauer – Journal of Biogeography (08/2021)

📗 “Morphological traits of reef corals predict extinction risk but not conservation status” NB Raja, A Lauchstedt, JM Pandolfi, SW Kim, AF Budd, W Kiessling / Global Ecology and Biogeography (08/2021)

📗 “Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation” I Dembicz et al, MJ Steinbauer / Journal of Vegetation Science (05,06/2021)

📗 “Scientific floras can be reliable sources for some trait data in a system with poor coverage in global trait databases” V Cutts et al, MJ Steinbauer / Journal of Vegetation Science (05,06/2021)”

📙 “Palaeozoic stromatoporoids and chaetetids analysed using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD); implications for original mineralogy and microstructure” U Balthasar, S Kershaw, A-C Da Silva, B Seuss*M Cusack, K Eichenseer, P Chung / Facies (05/2021)

📗 “Outdoor cycling activity affected by COVID-19 related epidemic-control-decisions” AM Schweizer, A Leiderer, V Mitterwallner, GH Mathes, MJ Steinbauer / Plos one (05/2021)

📗 “Out of the extratropics: the evolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient of Cenozoic marine plankton” NB Raja, W Kiessling / Proceedings B (05/2021)

📙 “Endemism increases species’ climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance” S Maes et al., W Kiessling / Biological Conservation (05/2021)

📙 “The human dimension of biodiversity changes on islands” S Nogué, MJ Steinbauer / Science (04/2021)

📙 “Mapping paleocoastlines and continental flooding during the Phanerozoic” ÁT Kocsis*, CR Scotese / Earth-Science Reviews (02/2021)

📗 “Victims of ancient hyperthermal events herald the fates of marine clades and traits under global warming” CJ Reddin, ÁT Kocsis*, M Aberhahn, W Kiessling / Global Change Biology (02/2021)

📗 “Changes in calcareous nannoplankton assemblages around the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition in the Hungarian Palaeogene Basin (Central Paratethys)” A Nyerges, ÁT Kocsis*, J Pálfy / Historical Biology (01/2021)

📙 “Extinction risk controlled by interaction of long-term and short-term climate change” GH Mathes, J van Dijk, W Kiessling, MJ Steinbauer / Nature Ecology & Evolution (01/2021)

📙 “A first glimpse on the taphonomy and sedimentary environment of the Eocene siliceous sponges from Chiampo, Lessini Mts, NE Italy” V Frisone et al, W Kiessling / Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana (12/2020)

📙 “Paleoenvironmental significance of the monospecific biostromes in the Campanian-Maastrichtian Duwi Formation (Eastern Desert, Egypt)” AA Abdelhady, B Seuss*, FT Fürsich, A Ali, KHM Abdel-Raheem, RSA Mohamed / Sedimentary Geology (10/2020)

📗 “A possible link between coral reef success, crustose coralline algae and the evolution of herbivory” S Teichert, M Steinbauer, W Kiessling / Scientific Reports (10/2020)

📙 “Increased extinction in the emergence of novel ecological communities” JM Pandolfi, TL Staples, W Kiessling / Science (09/2020)

📗 “Biodiversity patterns across the Late Paleozoic Ice Age” B Seuss*, VJ Roden, ÁT Kocsis*/ Palaeontologie Electronica (07/2020)

📙 “Revisiting reef models in the oligocene of northern Italy (venetian southern alps)” FR Bosellini, A Vescogni, W Kiessling, A Zoboli, D Di Giuseppe, CA Pappazzoni / Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana (07/2020)

📙 “Reef-building red algae from an uppermost Permian reef complex as a fossil analogue of modern coralline algal ridges” W Chen, Y Wang, Y Huang, T Wang, Z Yi, W Kiessling / Facies (08/2020)

📗 “Climate controls plant life‐form patterns on a high‐elevation oceanic island” SDH Irl, A Obermeier, C Beierkuhnlein, MJ Steinbauer / Journal of Biogeography (08/2020)

📗 “Past and future decline of tropical pelagic biodiversity” M Yasuhara et al, W Kiessling / PNAS (05/2020)

📗 “Drivers of beta diversity in modern and ancient reef-associated soft-bottom environments” VJ Roden, M Zuschin, A Nützel, IM Hausmann, W Kiessling / PeerJ (05/2020)

📙 “Carnian–Norian (Late Triassic) climate change: Evidence from conodont oxygen isotope thermometry with implications for reef development and Wrangellian tectonics” YD Sun, MJ Orchard, ÁT Kocsis*, MM Joachimski / Earth and Planetary Science Letters (03/2020)

📗 “Marine clade sensitivities to climate change conform across timescales” CJ Reddin, PS Nätscher, ÁT Kocsis*, HO Pörtner, W Kiessling / Nature Climate Change (02/2020)

📗 “Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds” F Sayol, MJ Steinbauer, et al. / Science Advances (02/2020)

📗 “Marine Biodiversity and Geographic Distributions Are Independent on Large Scales” GT Antell, W Kiessling, M Aberhan, EE Saupe / Current Biology (01/2020)

📗 “Fossil liberation: a model to explain high biodiversity in the Triassic Cassian Formation” VJ Roden, IM Hausmann, A Nützel, B Seuss*, M Reich, M Urlichs, H Hagdorn, W Kiessling / Palaeontology (01/2020)

📗 “Species–area relationships in continuous vegetation: Evidence from Palaearctic grasslands” J Dengler et al, MJ Steinbauer / Journal of Biogeography (01/2020)

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