Wolfgang Kießling
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kießling

- Organization: Geozentrum Nordbayern
- Working group: Chair of Palaeontology (Prof. Dr. Kießling)
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- Email: wolfgang.kiessling@fau.de
- Website: https://www.gzn.nat.fau.de/palaeontologie/team/professors/kiessling/
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91054 ErlangenRoom 1.107 - Office hours: Weekly Thu, 14:00 - 16:00, Room 1.107,
- Temperature-related stresses as a unifying principle in ancient extinctions
(Third Party Funds Group – Sub project)Overall project: FOR 2332: Temperature-related stresses as a unifying principle in ancient extinctions (TERSANE)
Term: 1 Jul 2016 - 30 Jun 2019
Funding source: DFG / Forschergruppe (FOR)
URL: https://www.gzn.fau.de/palaeoumwelt/projects/tersane/index.htmlCombined with local and regional anthropogenic factors, current human-induced climate warming is thought to be a major threat to biodiversity. The ecological imprint of climate change is already visible on land and in the oceans. The imprint is largely manifested in demographic/abundance changes and phenological and distribution shifts, whereas only local extinctions are yet attributable to climate change with some confidence. This is expected to change in the near future owing to direct heat stress, shortage of food, mismatches in the timing of seasonal activities, geographic barriers to migration, and new biological interactions. Additional stressors are associated with climate warming in marine systems, namely acidification and deoxygenation. Ocean acidification is caused by the ocean's absorption of CO2 and deoxygenation is a result of warmer water, increased ocean stratification and upwelling of hypoxic waters. The combination of warming, acidification and deoxygenation is known as the "deadly trio". Temperature is the most pervasive environmental factor shaping the functional characteristics and limits to life and is also central to the generation and biological effects of hypoxic waters and to modulating the effects of ocean acidification, with and without concomitant hypoxia. Due to the key role of temperature in the interaction of the three drivers we termed these temperature-related stressors (TRS). - Biotic consequences of temperature-related stresses across temporal scales
(Third Party Funds Group – Sub project)Overall project: Temperature-related stresses as a unifying principle in ancient extinctions (TERSANE)
Term: 1 Jan 2016 - 1 Jan 2019
Funding source: DFG / Forschergruppe (FOR)Understanding the physiological constraints of extant species is of critical importance to interpret ancient responses to temperature-related stresses (TRS). Likewise, anticipating the biotic responses to current climate change will benefit from an analysis of biotic responses observed in the geological past. Embedded in the Research Unit TERSANE we propose a project, which explicitly combines neontological and paleontological approaches to assess the consequences of warming, ocean acidification, and various degrees of hypoxia for marine life. The project focuses on the compilation and analysis of large datasets and has three main components: (1) A meta-analysis of (a) extant organisms will summarize experimental and observational data on responses and critical limits of marine organisms to quantify the sensitivities of higher, fossilizable taxa to warming, ocean acidification, and hypoxia and their synergies, and (b) a meta-analysis of fossil observations will focus on assessing the veracity of the Lilliput effect, the reduction of body sizes in the aftermath of mass extinctions, which is sometimes thought to be related to TRS. (2) The analysis of primary occurrence data from the fossil record will evaluate the physiological and biogeographic selectivity of the end-Permian and Early Jurassic extinction events to test if the physiological principles derived from modern observations scale up to selective extinction risk in the face of extreme climate change. (3) The assessment of ancient rates of climate and environmental changes from local sections is critical to test if these rates were genuinely lower than over the last 50 years, or if the apparently lower rates observed in the past are just statistical artifacts due to the different time scales. A scaling-adjusted rate estimate will help making our findings relevant for modern climate change ecology. These three components will finally be integrated to evaluate the commonality of patterns and eco-physiological selectivity of extinctions as visible in paleo- and extant data. - FOR 2332: Temperature-related stresses as a unifying principle in ancient extinctions (TERSANE)
(Third Party Funds Group – Overall project)Term: 1 Jan 2016 - 1 Jan 2019
Funding source: DFG / Forschergruppe (FOR)Anthropogenic global warming is regarded as a major threat to species and ecosystems worldwide. Predicting the biological impacts of future warming is thus of critical importance. The geological record provides several examples of mass extinctions and global ecosystem pertubations in which temperature-related stresses are thought to have played a substantial role. These catastrophic natural events are potential analogues for the consequences of anthropogenic warming but the Earth system processes during these times are still unexplored, especially in terms of their ultimate trigger and the extinction mechanisms. The Research Unit TERSANE aims at assessing the relative importance of warming-related stresses in ancient mass extinctions and at evaluating how these stresses emerged under non-anthropogenic conditions. An interdisciplinary set of projects will combine high-resolution geological field studies with meta-analyses and sophisticated analysis of fossil occurrence data on ancient (suspect) hyperthermal events to reveal the rate and magnitude of warming, their potential causes, their impact on marine life, and the mechanisms which led to ecologic change and extinction. Geochemistry, analytical paleobiology and physiology comprise our main toolkit, supplemented by biostratigraphy, sedimentology, and modelling. - Exploring biodiversity evolution in tropical seas based on comparisons of the Triassic fauna of the Cassian Formation with modern faunas
(Third Party Funds Single)Term: 1 May 2015 - 1 May 2018
Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH)The Triassic Cassian Formation yields an exceptionally diverse marine tropical invertebrate fauna offering a largely unbiased assessment of the complexity and biodiversity of early Mesozoic ecosystems. The fauna consist of various assemblages from different localities and paleoenvironments, which vary strongly in terms of diversity and composition. Fossil preservation is usually exceptional including primary aragonite and a rich fauna of small species. Based on standardized large-scale bulk-sampling, we want to assess the true within and between community biodiversity, ecological complexity, taxonomic structure, and size distribution of Triassic tropical shallow water assemblages. Comparisons with assemblages of Recent and Quaternary tropical settings will be used to assess biological changes in diversity and complexity over more than 200 million years of evolution. By comparison with modern samples and existing datasets representing diagenetically more strongly altered (`normal´) fossil assemblages, the effect of taphonomy on preserved diversity, size distribution and ecological structure can be tested. Many of the groups, which are highly diverse in recent tropical faunas (e.g., heterodont bivalves and neogastropods) radiated not before the Cretaceous. We aim at testing if similarly diverse and ecologically dominant clades were present in the Triassic or if diversity was more evenly spread among higher taxa. - Biogeographic and community response of reef corals to Pleistocene interglacial warming
(Third Party Funds Single)Term: 1 Sep 2014 - 1 Sep 2017
Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH) - Controls on global biodiversity patterns and skeletal mineralizsation during the Cambrian radiation
(Third Party Funds Group – Sub project)Overall project: FOR 736: The Precambrian-Cambrian Biosphere Revolution: Insights from Chinese Microcontinents
Term: 1 Mar 2011 - 31 Oct 2014
Funding source: DFG / Forschergruppe (FOR)Dieses Projekt zielt darauf ab, die globale Diversitätsdynamik um die Ediacarium-Kambrium- Grenze zuverlässig zu dokumentieren und die Daten für rigoroses Testen von Hypothesen zu verwenden. Eigene Geländestudien in Kasachstan und Südchina werden durch Daten aus der Forschergruppe und publizierte Daten in der Paleobiology Database ergänzt, um einen möglichst repräsentativen Datensatz zu erhalten. Muster der Alpha-, Beta- und Gamma- Diversität werden untersucht, um die relative Rolle von Diversitätsänderungen innerhalb und zwischen Fossilgemeinschaften sowie die Bedeutung biogeographischer Muster zu verstehen. Diese Muster werden verwendet, um Hypothesen zur Ursache der kambrischen Radiation zu testen. Besonders der mögliche Zusammenhang zwischen evolutionärer Innovation auf der einen Seite und Lebensräumen auf der anderen Seite wird in dieser Hinsicht neue Erkenntnisse zur Rolle von Sauerstoff, Nährstoffen und Klimaveränderungen in der kambrischen Radiation liefern. Die Geländearbeit wird sich auf Riffstrukturen im untersten Kambrium und Makroinvertebraten konzentrieren, um Muster der Biomineralisation zu erfassen. - Evolutionary rates of zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate corals and their controlling factors
(Third Party Funds Single)Term: 1 Feb 2011 - 1 Feb 2014
Funding source: DFG-Einzelförderung / Sachbeihilfe (EIN-SBH)Our goal is to identify the underlying causes of evolutionary rates within scleractinian corals. Scleractinians have two fundamentally different ecologies: Those that retrieve a substantial proportion of their nutrition from symbiotic algae in their tissue (zooxanthellate corals) and those that entirely depend on zooplankton for feeding Proposal Kiessling 2 (azooxanthellate corals). We will be analyzing the evolutionary consequences of these different ecological modes and correlated traits such as coloniality and environmental affinity. While photosymbiosis is clearly beneficial at the organismic level, there is a trade-off in terms of evolutionary benefit because zooxanthellate reef corals seem to be more sensitive to environmental change and tended to be affected more strongly by extinction events than other corals. Evolutionary rates are measured by a novel combination of samplingstandardized biodiversity dynamics and molecular methods. The changes in diversification, speciation, and extinction patterns will be compared with global changes in the marine environment and evolutionary changes in ecology to learn more about the circumstances favoring the spread and demise of these different corals. Thereby, we expect to improve estimates of extinction risk of modern corals.
Authored Books
- Simpson, C., & Kießling, W. (2010). Diversity of Life through Time. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
Journal Articles
- Reddin, C.J., Kocsis, Á., & Kießling, W. (2018). Climate change and the latitudinal selectivity of ancient marine extinctions. Paleobiology, 1–15. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2018.34
- Reddin, C.J., Kocsis, Á., & Kießling, W. (2018). Marine invertebrate migrations trace climate change over 450 million years. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(6), 704-713. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12732
- Kocsis, Á., Reddin, C.J., & Kießling, W. (2018). The biogeographical imprint of mass extinctions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 285(1878). https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0232
- Kießling, W., Schobben, M., Ghaderi, A., Hairapetian, V., Leda, L., & Korn, D. (2018). Pre-mass extinction decline of latest Permian ammonoids. Geology, 46(3), 283-286. https://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G39866.1
- Petersen, M., Glöckler, F., Kießling, W., Döring, M., Fichtmüller, D., Laphakorn, L.,... Hoffmann, J. (2018). History and development of ABCDEFG: a data standard for geosciences. FOSSIL RECORD, 21(1), 47-53. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/fr-21-47-2018
- Kocsis, Á., Reddin, C.J., & Kießling, W. (2018). The stability of coastal benthic biogeography over the last 10 million years. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(9), 1106-1120-1120. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12771
- Vulpius, S., & Kießling, W. (2018). New constraints on the last aragonite-calcite sea transition from early Jurassic ooids. Facies, 64(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10347-017-0516-x
- Roden, V., Kocsis, Á., Zuschin, M., & Kießling, W. (2018). Reliable estimates of beta diversity with incomplete sampling. Ecology, 99(5), 1051-1062. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2201
- Lauchstedt, A., Pandolfi, J., & Kießling, W. (2017). Towards a new paleotemperature proxy from reef coral occurrences. Scientific Reports, 7. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-10961-3
- Li, Q., Li, Y., & Kießling, W. (2017). The oldest labechiid stromatoporoids from intraskeletal crypts in lithistid sponge Calathium reefs. Lethaia, 50(1), 140-148. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/let.12182
- Kiessling, W., & Kocsis, Á. (2016). Adding fossil occupancy trajectories to the assessment of modern extinction risk. Biological Letters, 12(10). https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0813
- Zhang, Y., Li, Q., Li, Y., Kießling, W., & Wang, J. (2016). Cambrian to Lower Ordovician reefs on the Yangtze Platform, South China Block, and their controlling factors. Facies, 62, No 17 (18 pages). https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10347-016-0466-8
- Molinos, J.G., Halpern, B.S., Schoeman, D.S., Brown, C.D., Kießling, W., Moore, P.J.,... Burrows, M.T. (2016). Climate velocity and the future global redistribution of marine biodiversity. Nature Climate Change, 6, doi:10.1038/nclimate2769. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2769
- Renema, W., Pandolfi, J., & Kießling, W. (2016). Are coral reefs victims of their own past success? Science advances, 2(4). https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500850
- Vandenbroucke, T.R., Kießling, W., Emsbo, P., Munnecke, A., Nuns, N., Duponchel, L.,... Servais, T. (2015). Metal-induced malformations in early Palaeozoic plankton are harbingers of mass extinction. Nature Communications, 6. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8966
- Kießling, W., Aberhan, M., & Kiessling, W. (2015). Persistent ecological shifts in marine molluscan assemblages across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(23), 7207-7212. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1422248112
- Na, L., & Kießling, W. (2015). Diversity partitioning during the Cambrian radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(15), 4702-4706. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1424985112
- Li, Q., Li, Y., & Kießling, W. (2015). The first sphinctozoan-bearing reef from an Ordovician back-arc basin. Facies, 61(17), 9pp.. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10347-015-0444-6
- Bibi, F., & Kießling, W. (2015). Continuous evolutionary change in Plio-Pleistocene mammals of eastern Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(34), 10623-10628. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504538112
- Kießling, W., Kemp, D.B., Eichenseer, K., & Kiessling, W. (2015). Maximum rates of climate change are systematically underestimated in the geological record. Nature Communications, 6(No. 8890), (6 Seiten). https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9890
- Kießling, W. (2015). Fuzzy seas. Geology, 43(2), 191-192. https://dx.doi.org/10.1130/focus022015.1
- Rillig, M.C., Kießling, W., Borsch, T., Gessler, A., Greenwood, A.D., Hofer, H.,... Jeltsch, F. (2015). Biodiversity research: data without theory – theory without data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2015.00020
- O'Connor, M., Holding, J., Kappel, C., Duarte, C.M., Brander, K., Brown, C.J.,... Richardson, A.J. (2015). Strengthening confidence in climate change impact science. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24(1), 64-76. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12218
- Kießling, W., & Kocsis, Á. (2015). Biodiversity dynamics and environmental occupancy of fossil azooxanthellate and zooxanthellate scleractinian corals. Paleobiology, 41(3), 402-414. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2015.6
- Kießling, W., Li, Q., Li, Y., & Wang, J. (2015). Early Ordovician lithistid sponge-Calathium reefs on the Yangtze Platform and their paleoceanographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 425, 84-96. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.02.034
- Li, Q., Li, Y., & Kießling, W. (2015). Allogenic succession in Late Ordovician reefs from southeast China: a response to the Cathaysian orogeny. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 64(1), 68-73. https://dx.doi.org/10.3176/earth.2015.12
- Aberhan, M., & Kießling, W. (2014). Rebuilding biodiversity of Patagonian marine molluscs after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. PLoS ONE, 9(7), e102629. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102629
- Hopkins, M., Simpson, C., & Kießling, W. (2014). Differential niche dynamics among major marine invertebrate clades. Ecology Letters, 17(3), 314-323. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12232
- Li, Q., Lin, Y., & Kießling, W. (2014). Early Ordovician sponge-Calathium-microbial reefs on the Yangtze Platform margin of the South China Block. Gff, 136(1), 157-161. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2013.862852
- Kocsis, Á., Kießling, W., & Palfy, J. (2014). Radiolarian biodiversity dynamics through the Triassic and Jurassic: implications for proximate causes of the end-Triassic mass extinction. Paleobiology, 40(4), 625--639. https://dx.doi.org/10.1666/14007
- Kocsis, A.T., Kießling, W., & Palfy, J. (2014). Radiolarian biodiversity dynamics through the Triassic and Jurassic: implications for proximate causes of the end-Triassic mass extinction. Paleobiology, 40(4), 625-639. https://dx.doi.org/10.1666/14007
- Pandolfi, J., & Kießling, W. (2014). Gaining insights from past reefs to inform understanding of coral reef response to global climate change. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 7, 52-58. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2013.11.020
- Burrows, M.T., Schoeman, D.S., Richardson, A.J., Molinos, J.G., Hoffmann, A., Buckley, L.B.,... Poloczanska, E.S. (2014). Geographical limits to species-range shifts are suggested by climate velocity. Nature, 507(7493), 492-495. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12976
- Kießling, W., Poloczanska, E.S., Brown, C.J., Sydeman, W.J., Kiessling, W., Schoeman, D.S.,... Richardson, A.J. (2013). Global imprint of climate change on marine life. Nature Climate Change, 3, 919-925. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1958
- Mcgowan, A.J., & Kießling, W. (2013). Using abundance data to assess the relative role of sampling biases and evolutionary radiations in Upper Muschelkalk ammonoids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 58(3), 561-572. https://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2010.0040
- Mewis, H., & Kießling, W. (2013). Environmentally controlled succession in a late Pleistocene coral reef (Sinai, Egypt). Coral Reefs, 32, 49-58. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-012-0968-y
- Tietje, M., & Kießling, W. (2013). Predicting extinction from fossil trajectories of geographical ranges in benthic marine molluscs. Journal of Biogeography, 40, 790-799. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12030
- Nakrem, H.A., & Kießling, W. (2012). Late Jurassic (Volgian) radiolarians from Central Spitsbergen - A preliminary study. Norwegian Journal of Geology, 92, 149-155.
- Hoenisch, B., Ridgwell, A., Schmidt, D.N., Thomas, E., Gibbs, S.J., Sluijs, A.,... Williams, B. (2012). The geological record of ocean acidification. Science, 335, 1058-1063. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1208277
- Richardson, A.J., Brown, C.D., Brander, K., Bruno, J.F., Buckley, L., Burrows, M.T.,... Poloczanska, E.S. (2012). Climate change and marine life. Biology Letters. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0530
- Königshof, P., Suttner, T.J., & Kießling, W. (2012). Klimawandel und Veränderung der Biodiversität in der Erdgeschichte. Natur, Forschung, Museum.
- Scasso, R.A., Aberhan, M., Ruiz, L., Weidemeyer, S., Medina, F.A., & Kießling, W. (2012). Integrated bio- and lithofacies analysis of coarse-grained, tide-dominated deltaic environments across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in Patagonia, Argentina. Cretaceous Research, 36, 37-56. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2012.02.002
- Aberhan, M., Nuernberg, S., & Kießling, W. (2012). Vision and the diversification of Phanerozoic marine invertebrates. Paleobiology, 38(2), 187-204. https://dx.doi.org/10.1666/10066.1
- Kießling, W., Simpson, C., Beck, B., Mewis, H., & Pandolfi, J.M. (2012). Equatorial decline of reef corals during the last Pleistocene interglacial. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(52), 21378-21383. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1214037110
- Kießling, W. (2011). Patterns and processes of ancient reef crises. The Paleontological Society Papers, 17, 1-14.
- Simpson, C., Kießling, W., Mewis, H., Baron-Szabo, R., & Müller, J. (2011). Evolutionary diversification of reef corals: a comparison of the molecular and fossil records. Evolution, 65(11), 3274-3284. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01365.x
- Kießling, W., & Simpson, C. (2011). On the potential for ocean acidification to be a general cause of ancient reef crises. Global Change Biology, 17(1), 56-67. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02204.x
- Kießling, W., Pandey, D., Schemm-Gregory, M., Mewis, H., & Aberhan, M. (2011). Marine benthic invertebrates from the Upper Jurassic of northern Ethiopia and their biogeographic affinities. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 59, 195-214. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2010.10.006
- Kießling, W. (2011). The pace of shifting climate in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Science, 334, 652-655. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1210288
- Kießling, W., & Danelian, T. (2011). Trajectories of Late Permian Jurassic radiolarian extinction rates: no evidence for an end-Triassic mass extinction. Fossil Record, 14(1), 95-101. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mmng.201000017
- Kießling, W. (2010). Evolutionszentrum Korallenriff. GIT Labor-Fachzeitschrift.
- Kießling, W., & Nützel, A. (2010). German paleontology in the early 21st century. Palaeontologia Electronica.
- Kießling, W. (2010). The Devonian Nekton Revolution. Lethaia, 43, 465-477. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3931.2009.00206.x
- Kießling, W. (2010). The Chicxulub asteroid impact and mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Science, 327(5970), 1214-1218. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1177265
- Kießling, W. (2010). Promoting origination. Nature Geoscience, 3, 388-389.
- Kießling, W., Simpson, C., & Foote, M. (2010). Reefs as cradles of evolution and sources of biodiversity in the Phanerozoic. Science, 327, 196-198. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1182241
- Kießling, W. (2010). Response. Science, 328(5981), 975-976. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.328.5981.975
- Kießling, W. (2010). Reef expansion during the Triassic: Spread of photosymbiosis balancing climatic cooling. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 290, 11-19. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.03.020
- Simpson, C., & Kießling, W. (2010). The role of extinction in large-scale diversity-stability relationships. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 277, 1451-1456. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.2062
- Kießling, W. (2009). Diversification trajectories and evolutionary life-history traits in early sharks and batoids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 276, 945-951. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1441
- Kießling, W. (2009). Phanerozoic trends in the global geographic disparity of marine biotas. Paleobiology, 35(4), 612-630. https://dx.doi.org/10.1666/0094-8373-35.4.612
- Kießling, W. (2009). First record of coralline demosponges in the Pleistocene: implications for reef ecology. Coral Reefs, 28(4), 867-870. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00338-009-0549-x
- Kießling, W. (2009). Geologic and biologic controls on the evolution of reefs. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, 40, 173-192. https://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.110308.120251
- Bucur, I.I., Kießling, W., & Scasso, R.A. (2009). Re-description and neotypification of Archamphiroa jurassica Steinmann 1930, a calcareous red alga from the Jurassic of Argentina. Journal of Paleontology, 83(6), 962-968.
- Kießling, W., Roniewicz, E., Villier, L., Léonide, P., & Struck, U. (2009). An early Hettangian coral reef in southern France: Implications for the end-Triassic reef crisis. Palaios, 24, 657-671. https://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2009.p09-030r
- Alroy, J., Aberhan, M., Fürsich, F., Bottjer, D., Foote, M., Harries, P.,... Kießling, W. (2008). Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates. Science, 321, 97-100. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1156963
- Kießling, W. (2008). Sampling-standardized expansion and collapse of reef building in the Phanerozoic. Fossil Record, 11(1), 7-18.
- Kießling, W. (2008). Phanerozoic trends in skeletal mineralogy driven by mass extinctions. Nature Geoscience, 1(8), 527-530. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo251
- Kießling, W., Aberhan, M., Brenneis, B., & Wagner, P. (2007). Extinction trajectories of benthic organisms across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 244(1-4), 201-222. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.06.029
- Kießling, W. (2007). Entwicklung der marinen Biodiversität. Humboldt-Spektrum.
- Kießling, W. (2007). Geographical distribution and extinction risk: Lessons from Triassic-Jurassic marine benthic organisms. Journal of Biogeography, 34(9), 14731489. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01709.x
- Kießling, W., & Aberhan, M. (2007). Environmental determinants of marine benthic biodiversity dynamics through Triassic-Jurassic times. Paleobiology, 33(3), 414-434. https://dx.doi.org/10.1666/06069.1
- Wagner, P., Aberhan, M., Hendy, A., & Kießling, W. (2007). The effects of taxonomic standardization on occurrence-based estimates of diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 274, 439-444.
- Kießling, W. (2007). Faunal evidence for reduced productivity and uncoordinated recovery in Southern Hemisphere Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary sections. Geology, 35(3), 227-230. https://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G23197A.1
- Kießling, W. (2006). Response to comments on "Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates. Science, 314, 925.
- Kießling, W. (2006). Towards an unbiased estimate of fluctuations in reef abundance and volume during the Phanerozoic. Biogeosciences, 3, 15-27.
- Kießling, W. (2006). Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates. Science, 312, 897-900. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1123591
- Aberhan, M., Kießling, W., & Fürsich, F. (2006). Testing the role of biological interactions for the evolution of mid-Mesozoic marine benthic ecosystems. Paleobiology, 32, 259-277. https://dx.doi.org/10.1666/05028.1
- Kießling, W. (2006). Life's complexity cast in stone. Science, 314, 1254-1255.
- Kowalewski, M., Kießling, W., Aberhan, M., Fürsich, F., Scarponi, D., Barbour, S.L., & Hoffmeister, A.P. (2006). Ecological, taxonomic, and taphonomic components of the post-Paleozoic increase in sample-level species diversity of marine benthos. Paleobiology, 32, 533-561. https://dx.doi.org/10.1666/05074.1
- Kießling, W., Scasso, R.A., Aberhan, M., Ruiz, L., & Weidemeyer, S. (2006). A Maastrichtian microbial reef and associated limestones in the Roca Formation of Patagonia. Fossil Record, 9(2), 183-197. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mmng.200600007
- Kießling, W. (2005). Long-term relationships between ecological stability and biodiversity in Phanerozoic reefs. Nature, 433, 410-413. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature03152
- Scasso, R.A., Concheyro, A., Kießling, W., Aberhan, M., Hecht, L., Medina, F.A., & Tagle, R. (2005). A tsunami deposit at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Argentina. Cretaceous Research, 26(2), 283-297. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2004.12.003
- Kießling, W. (2005). Habitat effects and sampling bias on Phanerozoic reef distribution. Facies, 51, 27-35. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10347-004-0044-3
- Kießling, W. (2005). Massive corals in Paleocene siliciclastic sediments of Chubut (Patagonia, Argentina). Facies, 51, 233-241.
- Arratia, G., Scasso, R.A., & Kießling, W. (2004). Late Jurassic fishes from Longing Gap, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24(1), 41-55.
- Kießling, W. (2004). Extinction and recovery patterns of scleractinian corals at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2014(3), 195-223. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2004.05.025
- Kießling, W., Lazarus, D., & Zeller, U. (2004). Mesozoic–Cenozoic bioevents. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
- Kießling, W. (2003). The Permian-Triassic boundary interval as a model for forcing marine ecosystem collapse by long-term atmospheric oxygen drop. Geology, 31(11), 961-964. https://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G19891.1
- Kießling, W. (2003). Patterns of Phanerozoic carbonate platform sedimentation. Lethaia, 36(3), 195-225. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00241160310004648
- Kießling, W. (2002). Sectioning of radiolarians under continuous observation. Fossil Record, 5, 43-48.
- Kießling, W. (2002). Radiolarian faunal characteristics in Oligocene sediments of the Kerguelen Plateau, Leg 183, Site 1138. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program: Scientific Results, 183, 48pp..
- Kießling, W. (2002). Radiolarian diversity patterns in the latest Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 187(1-2), 179-206. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00529-1
- Kießling, W. (2001). Geographie des Todes. Theatrum naturae, 1, 4-6.
- Kießling, W. (2001). Paleoclimatic significance of Phanerozoic reefs. Geology, 29, 751-754.
- Kießling, W. (2001). Diagenesis of Upper Jurassic concretions from the Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 71(1), 88-100.
- Kießling, W. (2000). Late Paleozoic and Late Triassic limestones from North Palawan Block (Philippines): Microfacies and paleogeographical implications. Facies, 43, 39-78.
- Kießling, W., Scasso, R.A., Zeiss, A., Riccardi, A., & Medina, F.A. (1999). Combined radiolarian-ammonite stratigraphy for the Late Jurassic of the Antarctic Peninsula: Implications for radiolarian stratigraphy. Geodiversitas, 21(4), 687-713.
- Kießling, W. (1999). Late Jurassic radiolarians from the Antarctic Peninsula. Micropaleontology, 45(supl. 1), 1-96.
- Kießling, W. (1999). Paleoreef Maps: Evaluation of a comprehensive database of Phanerozoic reefs. Aapg Bulletin, 84, 1552-1587.
- Kiessling, W., & Kießling, W. (1996). Facies characterization of Mid-Mesozoic deep-water sediments by quantitative analysis of siliceous microfaunas. Facies, 35, 237-274.
- Kießling, W. (1995). New radiolarians from the earliest Cretaceous of the Sultanate of Oman (Wahrah Formation, Jebel Buwaydah). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift, 69, 321-342. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02987798
- Kießling, W. (1992). Palaeontological and facial features of the Upper Jurassic Hochstegen Marble (Tauern Window, Eastern Alps). Terra Nova, 4(2), 184-197. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3121.1992.tb00471.x
Book Contributions
- Aberhan, M., & Kießling, W. (2012). Phanerozoic marine biodiversity: a fresh look at data, methods, patterns and processes. Global biodiversity, extinction intervals and biogeographic perturbations through time. In Talent, J.A. (Eds.), Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time (pp. 3-22). Berlin: Springer.
- Kießling, W., & Heiss, G.A. (2011). Coral Reefs. In A. Djoghlaf and F. Dodds (Eds.), Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity: A planet in peril Earthscan.
- Perrin, C., & Kießling, W. (2010). Latitudinal trends in Cenozoic reef patterns and their relationship to climate. Carbonate Systems during the Oligocene-Miocene climatic transition. In IAS Special Publications (pp. 17-34).
- Kießling, W. (2010). Krisen als Chance: Lernen aus der Evolution. In K.-S. Otto and T. Speck (Eds.), Darwin meets Business Gabler.
- Kießling, W. (2008). Auf und Nieder - die wechselvolle Entwicklungsgeschichte von Riffen in der Tiefenzeit. In R. Leinfelder, G. Heiß and U. Moldrzyk (Eds.), Abgetaucht Konradin Verlag.
- Kießling, W. (2007). Aufbruch und Untergang: Vom Werden und Vergehen des Lebens. In M. Glaubrecht, A. Kinitz and U. Moldrzyk (Eds.), Als das Leben laufen lernte Prestel.
- Kenkmann, T., & Kießling, W. (2007). Wechselspiel der Sphären: Fein verzahnte Kreisläufe steuern das System Erde. In M. Glaubrecht, A. Kinitz and U. Moldrzyk (Eds.), Als das Leben laufen lernte Prestel.
- Kießling, W. (2003). Reefs. In Encyclopedia of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks (pp. 557-560). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic.
- Kießling, W. (2003). Riffdiversität in der Erdgeschichte - Fossilbericht und Interpretationen. In Gradstein, S. R., Willmann, R. & Zizka, G. (Eds.), Biodiversitätsforschung - Die Entschlüsselung der Artenvielfalt in Raum und Zeit. Schweizerbart.
- Flügel, E., & Kießling, W. (2002). Patterns of Phanerozoic reef crises. In Phanerozoic reef patterns (pp. 691-734). Tulsa: -.
- Kießling, W. (2002). PaleoReef - a database on Phanerozoic reefs. In SEPM Special Publication (pp. 77-94).
- Golonka, J., & Kießling, W. (2002). Phanerozoic time scale and definition of time slices. In Phanerozoic Reef Patterns (pp. 11-20). Tulsa: SEPM.
- Kießling, W., Flügel, E., & Golonka, J. (2002). From patterns to processes: The future of reef research. In Phanerozoic reef patterns (pp. 735-744). Tulsa: -.
- Kießling, W. (2002). Earliest Cretaceous high latitude reefs in Tres Lagunas (Chubut Province, Argentina). In Actas del XV Congreso Geológico Argentino (pp. 754-759).
- Kießling, W. (2002). Distribution of Chicxulub ejecta at the KT boundary. Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions. In GSA Special Paper (pp. 55-68).
- Kießling, W. (2002). Secular variations in the Phanerozoic reef ecosystem. In Phanerozoic Reef Patterns (pp. 625-690). Tulsa: SEPM.
- Flügel, E., & Kießling, W. (2002). A new look at ancient reefs. In Phanerozoic reef patterns (pp. 3-20). Tulsa: -.
- Kießling, W. (2001). Phanerozoic reef trends based on the Paleoreefs database. In The History and Sedimentology of Ancient Reef Systems (pp. 41-88). NewYork: Plenum Press.
- Kießling, W., & Claeys, P. (2001). A geographic database approach to the KT boundary. In Geological and biological effects of impact events (pp. 83-140). Berlin: Springer.
- Kießling, W., Flügel, E., & Golonka, J. (2000). Fluctuations in the carbonate production of Phanerozoic reefs. In Carbonate platform systems: components and interactions (pp. 191-215). London: Geological Society Publishing House.
Edited Volumes
- Kießling, W., Flügel, E., & Golonka, J. (Eds.) (2002). Phanerozoic Reef Patterns. Tulsa: Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM).
Conference Contributions
- Roden, V., Hausmann, I.M., Seuß, B., Nützel, A., & Kießling, W. (2018). High diversity in the Triassic Cassian Formation. Paper presentation at GeoBonn2018, Living Earth, Bonn.
Unpublished Publications
- Kocsis, Á., Reddin, C.J., Alroy, J., & Kießling, W. (2019). The R package divDyn for quantifying diversity dynamics using fossil sampling data. (Unpublished, In review).