Wolfgang Kiessling (biologist)

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Wolfgang Kiessling (born April 6, 1965 in Coburg ) is a German paleobiologist and has held the Chair of Paleobiology in Erlangen since 2012.

Life

Kiessling studied geology / paleontology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , where he at the Institute of Paleontology his 1992 diploma made. In 1995 he received his doctorate from Erik Flügel , the founder of the Erlangen Institute . In 2005 he qualified as a professor at the Free University of Berlin in historical geology and paleontology.

From 2011 to 2012 he was Professor of Evolutionary Palecology at the Museum of Natural History at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

He headed the research area Diversity Dynamics at the Leibniz Institute Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin.

Kiessling's early work dealt with radiolarians . The focus of his research is the investigation of global patterns of biodiversity in the history of the earth, especially in the marine area . Kiessling is particularly concerned with the development and evolution of coral reefs and their control factors. Kiessling also investigates the causes and evolutionary consequences of mass extinctions and reef crises.

Kiessling is one of the editors-in-chief of the trade journal Facies .

Fonts

  • 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.
  • Simpson, C., and W. Kiessling. 2010. The role of extinction in large-scale diversity-stability relationships. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277, 1451-1456.
  • 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.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paleontology - Our Journals gzn.nat.fau.de. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Kiessling, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg