Wolfgang Kiessling

Jan 20, 2025 | biorxiv.org | Roger Close |Roger Benson |Wolfgang Kiessling |Erin E. Saupe

AbstractReefs are important hotspots of marine biodiversity today, and acted as cradles of diversification in the geological past. However, we know little about how the diversity of reef-supporting regions varied through deep time, and how this differed from other regions. We quantified regional diversity patterns in reef-supporting and non-reef-supporting regions in the fossil record of Phanerozoic marine invertebrates.

Nov 5, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kilian Eichenseer |Uwe Balthasar |Christopher Smart |Wolfgang Kiessling

1 Introduction With increasing ocean warming and acidification (OWA) (IPCC 2019, 2021), great efforts are undertaken to understand how marine organisms respond to anthropogenic climate change (Poloczanska et al. 2016). Ocean acidification particularly threatens calcifying organisms, as the rising pCO2 and falling pH increase the solubility of their calcium carbonate (CaCO3) skeletons (Orr et al.