Research Articles and Reviews
2025
| Fastovich, F., Meyers, M., Saupe, S., Williams, W., Dornelas, D., Dowding, D., Finnegan, F., Huang, H., Jonkers, J., Kiessling, K., Kocsis, K., Li, L., Liow, L., Na, N., Penny, P., Pippenger, P., Renaudie, R., Rillo, R., Smith, S., Steinbauer, S., Sugawara, S., Tomašových, T., Yasuhara, Y., & Hull, H. (2025). Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales. Science, 389(6755), 64–68. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adr6700 |
| Scotese, C. R., Vérard, C., Burgener, L., Elling, R. P., & Kocsis, A. T. (2025). The cretaceous world: Plate tectonics, paleogeography, and paleoclimate. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 544(1), SP544–2024. |
| Smith, I. E., Kocsis, Á. T., & Kiessling, W. (2025). Occupancy history influences extinction risk of fossil marine microplankton groups. Biogeosciences, 22(14), 3503–3513. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3503-2025 |
| Smith, J. A., Dowding, E. M., Abdelhady, A. A., Abondio, P., Araújo, R., Aze, T., Balisi, M. A., Buatois, L. A., Carvajal-Chitty, H., Chattopadhyay, D., Coiro, M., Dietl, G. P., González Arango, C., Kevrekidis, C., Kimmig, J., Mychajliw, A. M., Pimiento, C., Regalado Fernández, O. R., Schroeder, K. M., Warnock, R. C. M., Yang, T.-R., Yasuhara, M., Akita, L. G., Allen, B. J., Anderson, B. M., Andréoletti, J., Archuby, F. M., Ballen, G. A., Bari, Md. I., Benton, M. J., Bergh, E. W., Brambilla, L., Brombacher, A., Chan, Y. K. S., Chiarenza, A. A., Chinzorig, T., Coates, K. M., Cordie, D. R., Cortés-Sánchez, M., Cruz-Vega, E. J., Cybulski, J. D., De Baets, K., De Entrambasaguas, J., Dillon, E. M., Du, A., Dunhill, A. M., Erlandson, J. M., Forel, M.-B., Foster, W. J., Gates, T. A., Gavryushkina, A., Grace, M. K., Grossart, H.-P., Hänsel, P., Harnik, P. G., Hopkins, M. J., Hopkins, S. S. B., Hu, K., Huang, H.-H. M., Irmis, R. B., Jaques, V. A. J., Jenkins, X. A., Jukar, A. M., Kelley, P. H., Kihn, R. G., Klompmaker, A. A., Kocsis, Á. T., Kriwet, J., Lazarus, D., Liao, C.-C., Lin, C.-H., Louys, J., Lozano-Fernandez, J., Lozano-Francisco, M. C., Lueders-Dumont, J. A., Malvé, M. E., Martindale, R. C., Mazzini, I., Modenini, G., Mondal, S., Mondini, M., Monferran, M. D., Mulvey, L. P. A., Nanglu, K., Nguyen, J. M. T., Norris, R., O’Dea, A., Ollendorf, A. L., Orihuela, J., Pandolfi, J. M., Pereira, T., Piro, A., Plotnick, R. E., Plaza-Torres, S. M., Porto, A., Prieto-Márquez, A., Punyasena, S. W., Quental, T. B., Raja, N. B., Ranaivosoa, V., Ribas-Deulofeu, L., Rivals, F., Roden, V. J., Rosso, A., Saleh, F., Salvador, R. B., Saupe, E. E., Schneider, S., Sclafani, J. A., Smith, M. R., Souron, A., Steinbauer, M. J., Stewart, M., Tambussi, C. P., Thomas, E., Tschopp, E., Tütken, T., Varela, S., Vezzosi, R. I., Villaseñor, A., Weinkauf, M. F. G., Zanno, L. E., Zhang, C., Zhao, Q., & Kiessling, W. (2025). Identifying the big questions in paleontology: A community-driven project. Paleobiology, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10042 |
2024
| Kiessling, W., Reddin, C. J., Dowding, E. M., Dimitrijević, D., Raja, N. B., & Kocsis, Á. T. (2024). Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time. Paleobiology, 1–15. |
| Smith, J. A., Raja, N. B., Clements, T., Dimitrijević, D., Dowding, E. M., Dunne, E. M., Gee, B. M., Godoy, P. L., Lombardi, E. M., Mulvey, L. P. A., Nätscher, P. S., Reddin, C. J., Shirley, B., Warnock, R. C. M., & Kocsis, Á. T. (2024). Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: Capacity building for the big data future. Paleobiology, 50(2), 165–176. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2023.33 |
2023
| Reddin, C. J., Aberhan, M., Dimitrijević, D., Dowding, E. M., Kocsis, Á. T., Mathes, G., Nätscher, P. S., Patzkowsky, M. E., & Kiessling, W. (2023). Oversimplification risks too much: a response to ‘How predictable are mass extinction events?’. Royal Society Open Science, 10(8), 230400. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230400 |
| Hodapp, D., Roca, I. T., Fiorentino, D., Garilao, C., Kaschner, K., Kesner-Reyes, K., Schneider, B., Segschneider, J., Kocsis, Á. T., Kiessling, W., Brey, T., & Froese, R. (2023). Climate change disrupts core habitats of marine species. Global Change Biology, 29(12), 3304–3317. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16612 |
| Na, L., Kocsis, Á. T., Li, Q., & Kiessling, W. (2023). Coupling of geographic range and provincialism in cambrian marine invertebrates. Paleobiology, 49(2), 284–295. |
| Smith, J., Rillo, M. C., Kocsis, Á. T., Dornelas, M., Fastovich, D., Huang, H.-H. M., Jonkers, L., Kiessling, W., Li, Q., Liow, L. H., Margulis-Ohnuma, M., Meyers, S., Na, L., Penny, A. M., Pippenger, K., Renaudie, J., Saupe, E. E., Steinbauer, M. J., Sugawara, M., Tomašovỳch, A., Williams, J. W., Yasuhara, M., Finnegan, S., & Hull, P. M. (2023). BioDeepTime: A database of biodiversity time series for modern and fossil assemblages. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(10), 1680–1689. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13735 |
2022
| Yasuhara, M., Huang, H.-H. M., Reuter, M., Tian, S. Y., Cybulski, J. D., O’Dea, A., Mamo, B. L., Cotton, L. J., Martino, E. D., Feng, R., Tabor, C. R., Reygondeau, G., Zhao, Q., Warne, M. T., Aye, K. K. T., Zhang, J., Chao, A., Wei, C.-L., Condamine, F. L., Kocsis, A. T., Kiessling, W., Costello, M. J., Tittensor., D. P., Chaudhary, C., Rillo, M. C., Doi, H., Dong, Y., Cronin, T. M., Saupe, E. E., Lotze, H. K., Johnson, K. G., Renema, W., Pandolfi, J. M., Harzhauser, M., Jackson, J. B. C., & Hong, Y. (2022). Hotspots of Cenozoic Tropical Marine Biodiversity. In Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Volume 60 (1st ed., pp. 243–300). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003288602-5 |
| Reddin, C. J., Aberhan, M., Raja, N. B., & Kocsis, Á. T. (2022). Global warming generates predictable extinctions of warm- and cold-water marine benthic invertebrates via thermal habitat loss. Global Change Biology, 28(19), 5793–5807. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16333 |
| Prondvai, E., Kocsis, A. T., Abourachid, A., Adriaens, D., Godefroit, P., Hu, D.-Y., & Butler, R. J. (2022). Radial porosity profiles: A new bone histological method for comparative developmental analysis of diametric limb bone growth. Royal Society Open Science, 9(5), 211893. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211893 |
| Flannery-Sutherland, J. T., Raja, N. B., Kocsis, Á. T., & Kiessling, W. (2022). Fossilbrush: An R package for automated detection and resolution of anomalies in palaeontological occurrence data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13(11), 2404–2418. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13966 |
2021
| Kocsis, Á. T., Reddin, C. J., Scotese, C. R., Valdes, P. J., & Kiessling, W. (2021). Increase in marine provinciality over the last 250 million years governed more by climate change than plate tectonics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1957), 20211342. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1342 |
| Kocsis, Á. T., Zhao, Q., Costello, M. J., & Kiessling, W. (2021). Not all biodiversity richspots are climate refugia. Biogeosciences Discussions, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2021-179 |
| Kocsis, Á. T., & Scotese, C. R. (2021). Mapping paleocoastlines and continental flooding during the Phanerozoic. Earth-Science Reviews, 213, 103463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103463 |
| Reddin, C. J., Kocsis, Á. T., Aberhan, M., & Kiessling, W. (2021). Victims of ancient hyperthermal events herald the fates of marine clades and traits under global warming. Global Change Biology, 27(4), 868–878. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15434 |
2020
| Reddin, C. J., Nätscher, P. S., Kocsis, Á. T., Pörtner, H.-O., & Kiessling, W. (2020). Marine clade sensitivities to climate change conform across timescales. Nature Climate Change, 10(3), 249–253. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0690-7 |
| Sun, Y. D., Orchard, M. J., Kocsis, Á. T., & Joachimski, M. M. (2020). Carnian–Norian (Late Triassic) climate change: Evidence from conodont oxygen isotope thermometry with implications for reef development and Wrangellian tectonics. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 534, 116082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116082 |
| Nyerges, A., Kocsis, Á. T., & Pálfy, J. (2020). Changes in calcareous nannoplankton assemblages around the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition in the Hungarian Palaeogene Basin (Central Paratethys). Historical Biology, 0(0), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2019.1705295 |
| Seuss, B., Roden, V. J., & Kocsis, A. T. (2020). Biodiversity patterns across the Late Paleozoic Ice Age. PALAEONTOLOGIA ELECTRONICA, 23(2). |
2019
| Kocsis, Á. T., Reddin, C. J., Alroy, J., & Kiessling, W. (2019). The R package divDyn for quantifying diversity dynamics using fossil sampling data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(5), 735–743. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13161 |
| Reddin, C. J., Kocsis, Á. T., & Kiessling, W. (2019). Climate change and the latitudinal selectivity of ancient marine extinctions. Paleobiology, 45(1), 70–84. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2018.34 |
| Vörös, A., Kocsis, Á. T., & Pálfy, J. (2019). Mass extinctions and clade extinctions in the history of brachiopods: Breif review and a post-Paleozoic case study. Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 125(3), 649–662. |
2018
| Kocsis, Á. T., Reddin, C. J., & Kiessling, W. (2018a). The stability of coastal benthic biogeography over the last 10 million years. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(9), 1106–1120. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12771 |
| Kocsis, Á. T., Reddin, C. J., & Kiessling, W. (2018b). The biogeographical imprint of mass extinctions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1878), 20180232. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0232 |
| Reddin, C. J., Kocsis, Á. T., & Kiessling, W. (2018). Marine invertebrate migrations trace climate change over 450 million years. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(6), 701–713. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12732 |
| Roden, V. J., Kocsis, Á. T., Zuschin, M., & Kiessling, W. (2018). Reliable estimates of beta diversity with incomplete sampling. Ecology, 99(5), 1051–1062. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2201 |
| Haas, J., Győri, O., Kocsis, Á. T., Lantos, Z., & Pálfy, J. (2018). A triász és a jura időszak határán lezajlott globális krízis és annak nyomai magyarországi rétegsorokban. Földtani Közlöny, 148(1), 9–26. https://doi.org/10.23928/foldt.kozl.2018.148.1.9 |
2017
| Barbacka, M., Pacyna, G., Kocsis, Á. T., Jarzynka, A., Ziaja, J., & Bodor, E. (2017). Changes in terrestrial floras at the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary in Europe. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 480, 80–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.05.024 |
2016
| Kiessling, W., & Kocsis, Á. T. (2016). Adding fossil occupancy trajectories to the assessment of modern extinction risk. Biology Letters, 12(10). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0813 |
| Vörös, A., Kocsis, Á. T., & Pálfy, J. (2016). Demise of the last two spire-bearing brachiopod orders (Spiriferinida and Athyridida) at the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) extinction event. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 457, 233–241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.06.022 |
2015
| Kiessling, W., & Kocsis, Á. T. (2015). Biodiversity dynamics and environmental occupancy of fossil azooxanthellate and zooxanthellate scleractinian corals. Paleobiology, 41(3), 402–414. |
| Kocsis, Á. T., Sághi, K., & Pálfy, J. (2015). A Paleobiology Database szerepe a modern őslénytani kutatásban. Földtani Közlöny, 145(1), 85–98. |
2014
| Pálfy, J., & Kocsis, Á. T. (2014). Volcanism of the Central Atlantic magmatic province as the trigger of environmental and biotic changes around the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Geological Society of America Special Papers, 505, SPE505–12. https://doi.org/10.1130/2014.2505(12) |
| Kocsis, Á. T., Kiessling, W., & Pálfy, 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. |