Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kiessling

Address
Museum für Naturkunde
Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity
Invalidenstrasse 43
10115 Berlin
Germany

E-Mail wolfgang.kiessling(at)mfn-berlin.de

Visiting Scientist

• Research in evolutionary paleoecology and biodiversity
• Former Spokesperson of the Museum's Science Program Diversity Dynamics
• Representation of GBIF-D Paleontology
• Pool of Reviewers of the European Science Foundation
• Editor of the journal Biogeosciences
• Advisory Board of the Paleobiology Database
  
  

• Reef development through the Phanerozoic
• Diversity dynamics and evolutionary rates
• Mass extinctions and reef crises
  
  

• Controls on global biodiversity patterns and skeletal mineralization during the Cambrian radiation (DFG)
• Evolutionary rates of zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate corals and their controlling factors (DFG)
• Predicting Coral Reef Response to Climate Change: Past and Present Comparisons (DAAD)
• SYNTHESYS II, NA3: Extending content cover with ABCD (EU)
• Controls of ecological stability of marine ecosystems over long temporal scales (Volkswagenstiftung)
  
  

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Burrows, M.T., Schoeman, D.S., Buckley, L.B., Moore, P., Poloczanska, E.S., Brander, K.M., Brown, C., Bruno, J.F., Duarte, C.M., Halpern, B.S., Holding, J., Kappel, C.V., Kiessling, W., O’Connor, M.I., Pandolfi, J.M., Parmesan, C., Schwing, F.B., Sydeman, W.J., and Richardson, A.J., 2011, The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems: Science, v. 334, p. 652-655.

Simpson, C., Kiessling, W., Mewis, H., Baron-Szabo, R.C., and Müller, J., 2011, Evolutionary diversification of reef corals: a comparison of the molecular and fossil records: Evolution, v. 65, p. 3274-3284.

Kiessling, W., and Simpson, C., 2011, On the potential for ocean acidification to be a general cause of ancient reef crises: Global Change Biology, v. 17, p. 56-67.

Kiessling, W., C. Simpson, and M. Foote. 2010. Reefs as cradles of evolution and sources of biodiversity in the Phanerozoic. Science 327:196-198.

Kiessling, W., M. Aberhan, and L. Villier. 2008. Phanerozoic trends in skeletal mineralogy driven by mass extinctions. Nature Geoscience 1:527-530.

Kiessling, W. 2005. Long-term relationships between ecological stability and biodiversity in Phanerozoic reefs. Nature 433:410-413.