Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Martin Zuschin

T: +43-1-4277-53555

martin.zuschin@univie.ac.at

https://palaeontologie.univie.ac.at/forschung/conservation-palaeobiology-and-historical-ecology/team/team-detailansicht/user/zuschim5/inum/1241/backpid/84163/

Summer term 2026

280010 VO Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography

280145 LP Conservation Paleobiology and Historical Ecology

280176 VU Actuopaleontology

280195 PR Individual Research Project Geology, Paleobiology and Geobiology

300220 VO Palaeoecology

300698 UE Palaeontological field methods

Winter term 2025

280140 VO Current Advances in Earth Sciences

280195 PR Individual Research Project Geology, Paleobiology and Geobiology

300041 UE Exercise to Palaeodiversity of Invertebrates

300100 VO Palaeodiversity of Invertebrates

300163 PP Form and function of organisms - Participation in the workgroups

450006 SE Topics in Paleontology

Summer term 2025

280110 EX Earth Science Excursions II

280145 LP Conservation Paleobiology and Historical Ecology

280195 PR Individual Research Project Geology, Paleobiology and Geobiology

300146 SE Preparation for the UE Ecology & Palaeobiology of coral reefs (Red Sea)

300220 VO Palaeoecology

300299 UE Specific Research Project in Ecology

300698 UE Palaeontological field methods

Nawrot R, Peharda M, Macharia S, Uvanović H, Tomašových A, Zuschin M. Fossil evidence for accelerated growth and shorter lifespan in the harvested bivalve Arca noae in the Adriatic Sea. Continental Shelf Research. 2026 Feb;297:1-10. 105628. doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2025.105628

Bachmann B , Nawrot R, Tomašových A, Zuschin M. Holocene records of an irregular echinoid unveil the 19^th century population decline in the northern Adriatic Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 2025 Dec 2.

Berensmeier M, Tomašových A, Nawrot R, Ćosović V, Hasenzagel E, Heinz P et al. Late Holocene changes in the composition of foraminiferal,ostracod and molluscan communities in condensed sediments(northern Adriatic Sea). Geologia Croatica. 2025 Oct 13;78(3):205-220. doi: 10.4154/gc.2025.16

Leonhard I, Jarochowska E, Nawrot R, Lipej L, Zuschin M. Revealing growth increments in fossil and modern otoliths with backscattered electron imaging. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 2025 Oct 3;24(1):e70006. doi: 10.1002/lom3.70006

Nawrot R, Peharda M, Uvanović H, Tomašových A, Zemann S, Zuschin M. Collapse of a bivalve fishery documented by historical records and paleontological data. 2025. doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-12336

Leonhard I, Jarochowska E, Nawrot R, Lipej L, Zuschin M. Surviving the heat: Long-term growth patterns of Adriatic gobies reconsructed from otolith analysis . 2025. doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-11409

Tomašových A, Kowalewski M, Nawrot R, Scarponi D, Zuschin M. Assessing abundance-diversity relationship in the context of time-averaging: implications for evaluating baseline and novel states in conservation paleobiology. 2025. doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-13312

Schweigl L, Nawrot R, Tomašových A, Zuschin M. Effect of Holocene environmental change on the size structure of mollusc indicator species of the northern Adriatic Sea. 2025. doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17629

Hautmann M, Kiel S, Zuschin M , Ostrovsky A, Longfield T, Espi JO. How to survive to the Recent? A case study on Pliocene marine invertebrates of Yule Island (Papua New Guinea). 2025. Paper presented at Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Bern 2025, Bern, Switzerland.

Kiel S, Espi JO, Longfield T, Zuschin M. Paleontology of the Early Pliocene Kairuku Limestone of Yule Island, Papua New Guinea - Part 1: Introduction, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of Geosciences. 2025;100(3).

Koch T, Ivkić A, Jones LA, Scharnhorst VS, Stix CM, Auer A et al. Quantifying diversity and growth form distribution of scleractinian corals, in Mangrove Bay, El Qoseir, Egypt. Biodiversity Data Journal. 2025;13:e134282. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e134282

Kowalewski M, Scarponi D, Tomašových A, Nawrot R , Zuschin M, Kosnik MA. The shape of time averaging: A meta-analysis of age-distribution moments derived from numerical dating of marine invertebrates. 2025. GSA Connects 2025, San Antonio, Texas, United States. doi: 10.1130/abs/2025AM-8757

Zuschin M , Nawrot R, Dengg M, Gallmetzer I, Haselmair A, Kowalewski M et al. Human-driven breakdown of predator–prey interactions in the northern Adriatic Sea. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2024 Sept 25;291(2031):1-11. 20241303. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.1303

Chattopadhyay D, Nawrot R , Zuschin M. Inferring the signature of past intra-predatory competition from drilling predation patterns: insights from Red Sea and Adriatic Sea death assemblages. Palaios. 2024 Aug 31;39(8):264–276. doi: 10.2110/palo.2023.013

Tomašových A, Kowalewski M, Nawrot R, Scarponi D, Zuschin M. Abundance–diversity relationship as a unique signature of temporal scaling in the fossil record. Ecology Letters. 2024 Jul;27(7):e14470. doi: 10.1111/ele.14470

Nawrot R , Zuschin M, Tomašových A, Kowalewski M, Scarponi D. Ideas and perspectives: Human impacts alter the marine fossil record. Biogeosciences. 2024 May 3;21(9):2177-2188. doi: 10.5194/bg-21-2177-2024

Steger J, Bogi C, Lubinevsky H, Galil BS, Zuschin M, Albano PG. Ecological baselines in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea shifted long before the availability of observational time series. Global Change Biology. 2024 Apr;30(4):e17272. doi: 10.1111/gcb.17272

Bachmann B , Nawrot R , Zuschin M. Impact of Holocene environmental change on northern Adriatic populations of Echinocyamus pusillus. 2024. doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-11757

Porz A, Zuschin M, Strotz L, Koskeridou E, Simoens K, Lukić R et al. Controls on long-term changes in bathyal bivalve biomass: The Pleistocene glacial–interglacial record in the eastern Mediterranean. Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 2024 Jan;203:104224. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2023.104224

Zuschin M , Nawrot R, Dengg M, Gallmetzer I, Haselmair A, Kowalewski M et al.. Anthropocene breakdown of predator-prey interactions in the northern Adriatic Sea. 2024. doi: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-14914

Martin Zuschin

Department of Palaeontology
Email: martin.zuschin@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-53555

Administrative duties

Head of the Department of Palaeontology
Director of the study program for PhD studies
Member of the faculty conference

Research interests

Stratigraphic Paleobiology
Historical Ecology and Conservation Paleobiology
Ecology and paleoecology of Recent and Pleistocene coral reefs
Marine anoxia

Editorial work

Co-editor of Palaios
Section editor of Paläontologische Zeitschrift

Memberships

SEPM
Paleontological Society
Paläontologische Gesellschaft
Österreichische Paläontologische Gesellschaft

Curriculum vitae

2011 Professor of Palaeontology
2001 Habilitation in Palaeontology
1999 Max Kade fellowship, Texas A & M University
1998 University Assistent, University of Vienna
1997 PhD in Palaeontology, University of Vienna
1994 MSc in Earth Sciences, University of Vienna

Collapse of a bivalve fishery documented by historical records and paleontological data

Nawrot, R. (Speaker), Peharda, M. (Contributor), Uvanović, H. (Contributor), Tomašových, A. (Contributor), Zemann, S. (Contributor) & Zuschin, M. (Speaker)

29 Apr 2025