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Wolfgang Kiessling

Researcher at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Publications -  170
Citations -  12063

Wolfgang Kiessling is an academic researcher from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The author has contributed to research in topics: Reef & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 148 publications receiving 10087 citations. Previous affiliations of Wolfgang Kiessling include Humboldt University of Berlin & Museum für Naturkunde.

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The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

TL;DR: Records of the global stratigraphy across this boundary are synthesized to assess the proposed causes of the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary and conclude that the Chicxulub impact triggered the mass extinction.
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Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new data set of fossil occurrences representing 3.5 million specimens was presented, and it was shown that global and local diversity was less than twice as high in the Neogene as in the mid-Paleozoic.