Adam Tomašových

Earth Science Institute

Slovak Academy of Sciences

Dubravska cesta 9

Bratislava, 84005, Slovakia

E-mail

ResearchGate

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting

European Geoscience Union General Assembly

Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting

Paleontological Society

Paläontologische Gesellschaft

American Society of Naturalists

Conservation Paleobiology Network

Research interests:

(i) Time averaging, stratigraphic mixing and fossilization dynamic of benthic assemblages (southern California shelf, northern Adriatic shelf)

(ii) Macroecology, biogeography, and evolutionary paleobiology of Mesozoic and Cenozoic marine benthic ecosystems at small, regional and provincial scales, mainly along latitudinal, onshore-offshore, and trophic gradients

(iii) Conservation paleobiology, historical ecology and actualistic paleoecology of marine benthic communities, using the young fossil record (Holocene) of the Southern California Bight and northern Adriatic Sea

(iv) Triassic/Jurassic boundary mass extinction, Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary, Mid-Miocene Climate Transition and Badenian/Sarmatian extinction event

Current projects:

(i) 2023-2027 - Comparative taphonomy of micro- and macroinvertebrates: tracing the intensity of the taphonomically-active zone through time, supported by the Slovak Research Agency for Research and Development (APVV 22/0523) and the Slovakian VEGA Agency 2/0106/23 [2023-2026]

Past projects:

(i) The role of articulate brachiopods in Mesozoic benthic communities (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Grant to Franz T. Fürsich, 2003-2006)

(ii) Global meta-analysis of marine benthic communities (National Science Foundation Grant to Susan Kidwell, 2006-2008)

(iii) Estimating impacts of past natural and anthropogenic disturbances on shelf macrobenthic communities using dead-shell assemblages (University of Southern California Sea Grant Program, 2008-2009) – with Susan Kidwell

(iv) Evaluating and modeling ecological stability and turnover of Jurassic communities of the Tethyan Ocean (Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV-0248-07) and the Slovakian VEGA Agency [2008-2011]

(v) Bivalves in Time and Space: Testing the accuracy of methods to reconstruct ancestral morphology, dates, geography, and diversification patterns (supported by National Science Foundation)

(vi) Assessing taphonomic and geochemical approaches in evaluating spatial and temporal turnover of marine invertebrate paleocommunities – supported by Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV-0644-10) and the Slovakian VEGA Agency [2011-2014]

(vii) Temporal resolution in benthic assemblages: assessing and modeling the roles of burial dynamics, seafloor type, and intrinsic factors using (un)natural experiments, PI – Susan M.Kidwell (University of Chicago) and Clark Alexander (Skidaway Institute of Oceanography), National Science Foundation (NSF EAR 1124318)

(viii) Tracing changes in seawater temperature during the Late Triassic and the Early Jurassic in the western Tethys supported by the BASE-LiNE Earth (https://www.baseline-earth.eu/) and the Slovakian VEGA Agency 02/0136/15 [2015-2018]

(ix) Evaluating preservation potential of benthic responses to hypoxic and anoxic events in the fossil record supported by Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV-0555-17) and the Slovakian VEGA Agency 02/0169/19 [2019-2022]

Mini CV:

Born: 1978

Nationality: Slovak

Comenius University, Department of Geology and Paleontology (Bratislava, Slovakia) – 1996-2002 (MSc)

Würzburg University, Paleontological Institute (Germany) - 2001, 2002 – 2006 (PhD)

University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences, Research Associate - 11/2006-05/2011

Earth Science Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia), Researcher - 05-10/2006, 06/2011-present

Ida Pfeiffer Professorship, University of Vienna,Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy - 03-08/2020

Publications

Tomašových, A., Kidwell, S.M., Dai, R., Alexander, C.R., Kaufman, D.S., Edie, S., Leonard-Pingel, J.S., McNinch, J.E., Parker, T. and Wadman, H.M., 2024. Bioturbation increases time averaging despite promoting shell disintegration: a test using anthropogenic gradients in sediment accumulation and burrowing on the southern California shelf. Paleobiology. PDF https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.39

Zuschin, M., Nawrot, R., Dengg, M., Gallmetzer, I., Haselmair, A., Kowalewski, M., Scarponi, D., Wurzer, S. and Tomašových, A., 2024. Human-driven breakdown of predator–prey interactions in the northern Adriatic Sea. Proceedings of the Royal Society B291, 20241303. PDF Data: https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.xwdbrv1nr

Tomašových, A., Kowalewski, M., Nawrot, R., Scarponi, D. and Zuschin, M., 2024. Abundance–diversity relationship as a unique signature of temporal scaling in the fossil record. Ecology Letters 27, e14470. PDF Dryad: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.fttdz0903; Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11664933

Kováč, M., Csibri, T., Fordinál, K., Hók, J., Hudáčková, N., Jamrich, M., Joniak, P., Kováčová, M., Ruman, A., Šarinová, K. and Sliva, Ľ., 2025. The Miocene to Quaternary evolution of the Vienna Basin (northeastern part): Geodynamics, eustasy, stratigraphy and depositional systems. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 554. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp554-2024-31

Nawrot, R., Zuschin, M., Tomašových, A., Kowalewski, M. and Scarponi, D., 2024. Ideas and perspectives: Human impacts alter the marine fossil record. Biogeosciences 21, 2177-2188. PDF

Ölveczká, D., Tomašových, A., Reháková, D., Schlögl, J. and Michalík, J., 2024. Assessing temporal transition between microgranular and hyaline tests of calcareous microplankton during the late Jurassic. Marine Micropaleontology 190, 102379.

Aherwar, K., Šujan, M., Amorosi, A., Campo, B., Chyba, A., Tomašových, A., Rózsová, B., Braucher, R., Aumaître, G., Keddadouche, K. and Zaïdi, F., 2024. Low variability of authigenic 10Be/9Be across the Holocene Po Plain parasequences reveals suitability of dating method for highstand deltaic deposits. Quaternary Science Advances 15,100201. PDF

Meister, C., Schlögl, J., Tomašovych, A., Ippolitov, A., Kogutich, S. and Stalennyi, O., 2024. Systematics and biostratigraphy of ammonites across the Sinemurian/Pliensbachian boundary in the Ukrainian Carpathians (Pieniny Klippen Belt). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie-Abhandlungen, 311, 1-111. PDF

Kowalewski, M., Nawrot, R., Scarponi, D., Tomašových, A. and Zuschin, M., 2023. Marine conservation palaeobiology: What does the late Quaternary fossil record tell us about modern-day extinctions and biodiversity threats?. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction 1, e24. PDF https://doi.org/10.1017/ext.2023.22

Lathuilière B., Schlögl J., Tomašových A. and Ivanova D.K., 2023. Coral assemblages and environments from Bajocian reefs in the Western Carpathians. Geobios 79, 17-41. doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2023.06.001 PDF

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., Pippenger K., Renaudie J., Saupe E.E., Steinbauer M.J., Sugawara M., Tomašových A., Williams J.J., Yasuhara M., Finnegan S. and Hull P.M. 2023. BioDeepTime: A database of biodiversity time series for modern and fossil assemblages. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32, 1680-1689. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13735

Dataset: Tomasovych, A., Huang, H.-H. M., & Yasuhara, M. (2022). MARBEN database (Version 01a) [Data set]. Zenodo. zenodo.org/records/8136482

Tomašových A., Kidwell S.M. and Dai, R. 2023. A downcore increase in time averaging is the null expectation from the transit of death assemblages through a mixed layer. Paleobiology 49, 527-562. PDF Script: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7320149 Data: doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9p8cz8wkz

Tomašových A., Dominici S., Nawrot R. and Zuschin M. 2023. Temporal scales, sampling designs and age distributions in marine conservation palaeobiology. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 529, 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP529-2022-361. PDF. Script: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6487005

Tomašových A., García-Ramos D.A., Nawrot R., Nebelsick J.H. and Zuschin M., 2023. Millennial-scale changes in abundance of brachiopods in bathyal environments detected by postmortem age distributions in death assemblage (Bari Canyon, Adriatic Sea). Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 529, 153-174. doi.org/10.1144/SP529-2022-117. PDF Data and script: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6228410

Berensmeier M., Tomašových A., Nawrot R., Cassin D., Zonta R., Koubová I. and Zuschin M., 2023. Stratigraphic expression of the human impacts in condensed deposits of the Northern Adriatic Sea. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 529, 195-222. doi.org/10.1144/SP529-2022-188. PDF Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6342805

Tomašových A., García‐Ramos D.A., Nawrot R., Nebelsick J.H. and Zuschin M. 2022. How long does a brachiopod shell last on a seafloor? Modern mid‐bathyal environments as taphonomic analogues of continental shelves prior to the Mesozoic Marine Revolution. Palaeontology, 65(6), e12631. doi.org/10.1111/pala.12631. PDF Script: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7351217 Data: datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.8w9ghx3qb

Tomašových A., Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A. and Zuschin M. 2022, Inferring time averaging and hiatus durations in the stratigraphic record of high‐frequency depositional sequences. Sedimentology 69, 1083-1118. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12936. Data. Analyses-code. Model-code. PDF

Müller T., Tomašových A., Correa M.L., Mertz-Kraus R. and Mikuš T., 2022. Mapping intrashell variation in Mg/Ca of brachiopods to external growth lines: Mg enrichment corresponds to seasonal growth slowdown. Chemical Geology 593, 120758. doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.120758 PDF Supplement 1-raw LA-ICP-MS data Supplement 2-scaled LA-ICP-MS data Supplement 3-microprobe data

Nawrot R., Berensmeier M., Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A., Tomašových A. and Zuschin M. 2022. Multiple phyla, one time resolution? Similar time averaging in benthic foraminifera, mollusk, echinoid, crustacean, and otolith fossil assemblages. Geology 50, 902-906, doi.org/10.1130/G49970.1 PDF Supplement Script Data

Zuschin M., Nawrot R., Dengg M., Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A., Wurzer S. and Tomašových A. 2022. Scale dependence of drilling predation in the Holocene of the northern Adriatic Sea across benthic habitats and nutrient regimes. Paleobiology https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2022.6 PDF Data: datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.qfttdz0jj Script: zenodo.org/record/5776278#.Y_iIp3bMKUk

Sabol M., Tomašových A. and Gullár J. 2022. Geographic and temporal variability in Pleistocene lion-like felids: Implications for their evolution and taxonomy. Palaeontologia Electronica, 25, 1-27.

Kokesh B.S., Kidwell S.M., Tomašových A. and Walther S.M., 2022. Detecting strong spatial and temporal variation in macrobenthic composition on an urban shelf using taxonomic surrogates. Marine Ecology Progress Series  682:13-30. doi.org/10.3354/meps13932 PDF

Tomašových A., Berensmeier M., Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A. and Zuschin M. 2021, Pyrite-lined shells as indicators of inefficient bioirrigation in the Holocene-Anthropocene stratigraphic record. Biogeosciences 18, 5929–5965, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-5929-2021. Data. Analyses-code. PDF

Gaspers N., Magna T., Jurikova H., Henkel D., Eisenhauer A., Azmy K. and Tomašových A. 2021. Lithium elemental and isotope systematics of modern and cultured brachiopods: Implications for seawater evolution. Chemical Geology 586, 120566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120566

Haselmair A., Gallmetzer I., Tomašových A., Wieser A.M., Übelhör A. and Zuschin M. 2021. Basin-wide infaunalisation of benthic soft-bottom communities driven by anthropogenic habitat degradation in the northern Adriatic Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 671, 45-65. https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v671/p45-65

Košťák M., Schlögl J., Fuchs D., Holcová K., Hudáčková N., Culka A., Fözy I., Tomašových A., Milovský R., Šurka J. and Mazuch M. 2021. Fossil evidence for vampire squid inhabiting oxygen-depleted ocean zones since at least the Oligocene. Communications Biology 4, article 216. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-01714-0

Simonet Roda, M., Griesshaber, E., Angiolini, L., Harper, D.A., Jansen, U., Bitner, M.A., Henkel, D., Manzanero, E., Müller, T., Tomašových, A. and Eisenhauer, A., 2021. The evolution of thecideide microstructures and textures: traced from Triassic to Holocene. Lethaia 54, 558-577. https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12422

Müller T., Karancz S., Mattioli E., Milovský R., Pálfy J., Schlögl J., Segit T., Šimo V., Tomašových A. 2020. Assessing anoxia, recovery and carbonate production setback in a hemipelagic Tethyan basin during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Western Carpathians). Global and Planetary Change, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103366 PDF

Tomašových, A., Albano, P.G., Fuksi, T., Gallmetzer, I., Haselmair, A., Kowalewski, M., Nawrot, R., Nerlović, V., Scarponi, D. and Zuschin, M., 2020. Ecological regime shift preserved in the Anthropocene stratigraphic record. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 287, 20200695. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0695. PDF. Supplementary information and data.

Müller, T., Jurikova, H., Gutjahr, M., Tomašových, A., Schlögl, J., Liebetrau, V., Duarte, L.V., Milovský, R., Suan, G., Mattioli, E. and Pittet, B., 2020. Ocean acidification during the early Toarcian extinction event: Evidence from boron isotopes in brachiopods. Geology 48, https://doi.org/10.1130/G47781.1 Supplement Data

Albano, P.G., Hua, Q., Kaufman, D.S., Tomašových, A., Zuschin, M. and Agiadi, K., 2020. Radiocarbon dating supports bivalve-fish age coupling along a bathymetric gradient in high-resolution paleoenvironmental studies. Geology 48, 589-593. https://doi.org/10.1130/G47210.1. PDF. Supplement. Data.

Tomašových, A., Schlögl, J., Michalík, J. and Donovalová, L., 2020. Non-condensed shell beds in hiatal successions: instantaneous cementation associated with nutrient-rich bottom currents and high bivalve production. Italian Journal of Geosciences 139, 76-97. doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2019.21. PDF. Supplementary data-Bositra measurements. Supplementary data-microprobe.

Tomašových, A., 2019. Biodiversity gradients emerge. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3, 1376-1377. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0985-0. PDF

Tomašových, A., Kidwell, S.M., Alexander, C.R. and Kaufman, D.S., 2019. Millennial‐scale age offsets within fossil assemblages: result of bioturbation below the taphonomic active zone and out‐of‐phase production. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 34, 954-977. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018PA003553. PDF. Supplementary data: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.900879. Table S1-AAR shell age data. Table S2-radiocarbon data. Table S3-radiochemical data. Table S4-grain size data. Table S5-fits of surface age distributions. Data in R format. Script in R.

Leonard-Pingel, J.S., Kidwell, S.M., Alexander, C.R. and Cadien, D.B., 2019. Gauging benthic recovery from 20th century pollution on the southern California continental shelf using bivalves from sediment cores. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 615, 101-119. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12918. PDF

Gallmetzer, I., Haselmair, A., Tomašových, A., Mautner A.-K., Schnedl S.-M., Cassin D., Zonta R. and Zuschin M. 2019. Tracing origin and collapse of Holocene benthic baseline communities in the northern Adriatic Sea. Palaios 34, 121-145. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2018.068. PDF

Rollion-Bard, C., Garcia, S.M., Burckel, P., Angiolini, L., Jurikova, H., Tomašových, A. and Henkel, D., 2019. Assessing the biomineralization processes in the shell layers of modern brachiopods from oxygen isotopic composition and elemental ratios: Implications for their use as paleonvironmental proxies. Chemical Geology 524, 49-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.05.031.

Ivanova, D.K., Schlögl, J., Tomašových, A., Lathuilière, B. and Golej, M., 2019. Revisiting the age of Jurassic coral bioherms in the Pieniny Klippen Belt (Western Carpathians) on the basis of benthic foraminifers. Geologica Carpathica 70, 113-134. https://doi.org/10.2478/geoca-2019-0007. PDF

Buckeridge, J., Kočí, T., Schlögl, J., Tomašových, A. and Veselská, M.K., 2019. Deep‐water cirripedes colonizing dead shells of the cephalopod Nautilus macromphalus from New Caledonian waters. Integrative Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12389.

Tomašových, A., Gallmetzer, I., Haselmair, A., Kaufman, D.S., Mavrič, B. and Zuschin, M., 2019. A decline in molluscan carbonate production driven by the loss of vegetated habitats encoded in the Holocene sedimentary record of the Gulf of Trieste. Sedimentology 66, 781-807. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12516. Dryad Digital Repository: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rj4cg1t. Open access. PDF

Tomašových A., Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A., Kaufman D., Kralj M., Cassin D., Zonta R., and Zuschin M. 2018. Tracing the effects of eutrophication on molluscan communities in sediment cores: outbreaks of an opportunistic species coincide with reduced bioturbation and high frequency of hypoxia in the Adriatic Sea 44. Paleobiology 44, 575-602. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2018.22. Dryad Digital Repository: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.84g36m4.1. Open access. PDF

Schnedl, S.M., Haselmair, A., Gallmetzer, I., Mautner, A.K., Tomašových, A. and Zuschin, M., 2018. Molluscan benthic communities at Brijuni Islands (northern Adriatic Sea) shaped by Holocene sea-level rise and recent human eutrophication and pollution. Holocene 28, 1801-1817. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0959683618788651. Open access.

Fuksi, T., Tomašových, A., Gallmetzer, I., Haselmair, A. and Zuschin, M., 2018. 20th century increase in body size of a hypoxia-tolerant bivalve documented by sediment cores from the northern Adriatic Sea (Gulf of Trieste). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 135, 361-375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.07.004. Open access.

Albano, P.G., Gallmetzer, I., Haselmair, A., Tomašových, A., Stachowitsch, M. and Zuschin, M. 2018. Historical ecology of a biological invasion: the interplay of eutrophication and pollution determines time lags in establishment and detection. Biological Invasions, 20, 1417–1430. doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1634-7. PDF

Mautner, A.K., Gallmetzer, I., Haselmair, A., Schnedl, S.M., Tomašových, A. and Zuschin, M., 2018. Holocene ecosystem shifts and human-induced loss of Arca and Ostrea shell beds in the north-eastern Adriatic Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 126, 19-30.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.10.084. PDF

Bajnai, D., Fiebig, J., Tomašových, A., Garcia, S.M., Rollion-Bard, C., Raddatz, J., Löffler, N., Primo-Ramos, C. and Brand, U., 2018. Assessing kinetic fractionation in brachiopod calcite using clumped isotopes. Scientific Reports, 8, article number 533. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17353-7. PDF

Schlögl, J., Kočí, T., Jäger, M., Segit, T., Sklenář, J., Sadki, D., Ibnoussina, M. and Tomašových, A., 2018. Tempestitic shell beds formed by a new serpulid polychaete from the Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) of the Central High Atlas (Morocco). Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 92, 219-240. doi.org/10.1007/s12542-017-0381-5

Košťák, M., Schlögl, J., Culka, A., Tomašových, A., Mazuch, M. and Hudáčková, N., 2018. The unique preservation of Sepia soft tissues in the Miocene deposits (Serravalian, Vienna Basin): Implications for the origin of microbodies in the fossil record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 493, 111-118.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.01.005. PDF

Gallmetzer, I., Haselmair, A., Tomašových, A., Stachowitsch, M. and Zuschin, M., 2017. Responses of molluscan communities to centuries of human impact in the northern Adriatic Sea. PLoS One 12, e0180820. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180820. PDF. Data: journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?type=supplementary&id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0180820.s001

Tomašových A., and Kidwell S.M. 2017. Nineteenth-century collapse of a benthic marine ecosystem on the open continental shelf. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Supplement. Code. PDF. Data: datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.0r76j

Tomašových A., Schlögl J., Biroň A., Hudáčková N., and Mikuš T. 2017. Taphonomic clock and bathymetric dependence of cephalopod preservation in bathyal, sediment-starved environments. Palaios, 32, 135-152. http://palaios.geoscienceworld.org/content/32/3/135. PDF.

Tomašových A., Gallmetzer I., Haselmair A., Kaufman D.S., Vidovic J., and Zuschin M. 2017. Stratigraphic unmixing reveals repeated hypoxia events over the past 500 years in the northern Adriatic Sea. Geology 45. dx.doi.org/10.1130/G38676.1. PDF. Supplement and data.

Tomašových A., and Jablonski D. 2017. Decoupling of latitudinal gradients in species and genus geographic range size: a signature of clade range expansion. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26, 288-303. dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12533. Supplement and code-Dryad. PDF.

Zuschin M., Nawrot R., Harzhauser M., Mandic O. and Tomašových A. 2017.Taxonomic and numerical sufficiency in depth- and salinity-controlled marine paleocommunities. Paleobiology 43. doi.org/10.1017/pab.2016.49

Bizjack M.T., Kidwell S.M., Velarde R.G., Leonard-Pingel J., Tomašových A. 2017. Detecting, sourcing, and age-dating dredged sediments on the open shelf, southern California, using dead mollusk shells. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 114, 448-465. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.10.010

Vidović, J., Nawrot, R., Gallmetzer, I., Haselmair, A., Tomašových, A., Stachowitsch, M., Cosovic V. and Zuschin, M. 2016. Anthropogenically induced environmental changes in the northeastern Adriatic Sea in the last 500 years (Panzano Bay, Gulf of Trieste). Biogeosciences, 13, 5965-5981. http://www.biogeosciences.net/13/5965/2016/ PDF. Environmental data. Abundance data.

Albano, P.G., Filippova, N., Steger, J., Schmidbaur, H., Tomašových, A., Stachowitsch, M. and Zuschin, M., 2016. Contamination patterns and molluscan and polychaete assemblages in two Persian (Arabian) Gulf oilfields. Marine Ecology-an evolutionary perspective, 37, 907-919. dx.doi.org/10.1111/maec.12370

Tomašových A., Schlögl J., Kaufman D.S., Hudáčková N. 2016. Temporal and bathymetric resolution of nautiloid death assemblages in stratigraphically-condensed oozes (New Caledonia). Terra Nova 28, in press. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ter.12218. PDF. Supplement and data.

Tomašových A., Kennedy J.D., Betzner T.J., Bitler Kuehnle N., Edie S., Kim S., Supriya K., White A.E., Rahbek, C., Huang S., Price T.D., and Jablonski D. 2016. Unifying latitudinal gradients in range size and richness across marine and terrestrial systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 20153027. dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.3027. Supplement. PDF.

Tomašových A., Kidwell S.M., and Foygel Barber R. 2016. Inferring skeletal production from time-averaged assemblages: skeletal loss pulls the timing of production pulses towards the modern period. Paleobiology 42, 54-76. dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2015.30. PDF. Supplement. Data. Code.

Albano, P. G., Tomašových, A., Stachowitsch, M., and Zuschin, M. 2016. Taxonomic sufficiency in a live–dead agreement study in a tropical setting. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 449, 341-348. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.02.031.

Albano, P.G., Filippova, N., Steger, J., Kaufman, D.S., Tomašových, A., Stachowitsch, M. and Zuschin, M. 2016. Oil platforms in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf: Living and death assemblages reveal no effects. Continental Shelf Research. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2015.12.007. Supplement data-composition. Supplement data-age.

Chattopadhyay, D., Zuschin, M. and Tomasovych, A., 2015. How effective are ecological traits against drilling predation? Insights from Recent bivalve assemblages of the northern Red Sea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 440, 659-670. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.09.047

Tomašových A., Jablonski D., Berke S.K., Krug Z.A. and Valentine J.W. 2015. Nonlinear thermal gradients shape broad-scale patterns in geographic range size and can reverse Rapoport's rule. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24, 257-267 dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12242. PDF. Supplement. Code for range expansion. Code for range shuffling.

Tomašových A., Dominici S., Zuschin M. and Merle D. 2014. Onshore–offshore gradient in metacommunity turnover emerges only over macroevolutionary time-scales. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281, 20141533. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1795/20141533.short. Supplement. PDF.

Tomašových A., Kidwell S.M., Foygel Barber R., Kaufman D.S. 2014. Long-term accumulation of carbonate shells reflects a 100-fold drop in loss rate. Geology 42, 9, 819-822. geology.geoscienceworld.org/content/42/9/819 Data Repository with source codes. Raw data. PDF-free-link: http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/full/42/9/819?ijkey=05gfBfIxuHCc2&keytype=ref&siteid=gsgeology

Chattopadhyay D., Zuschin M., and Tomašových A. 2014. Effects of a high-risk environment on edge-drilling behavior: inference from Recent bivalves from the Red Sea. Paleobiology 40, 34-49. PDF-Free. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1666/13024

Vollstaedt H., Eisenhauer A., Wallmann K., Bohm F., Fietzke J., Liebetrau V., Krabbenhift A., Farkas J., Tomašových A., Raddatz J., and Veizer J. 2014. The Phanerozoic δ^88/86Sr record of seawater: New constraints on past changes in oceanic carbonate fluxes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 128, 249-265. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703713005620

Kidwell S.M. And Tomašových A. 2013. Implications of time-averaged death assemblages for ecology and conservation biology. Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 44: 539-563. PDF-Free. http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135838

Jablonski, D., Belanger, C.L., Berke, S.K., Huang, S., Krug, A.Z., Roy, K., Tomasovych, A., Valentine, J.W. 2013. Out of the tropics, but how? Fossils, bridge species, and thermal ranges in the dynamics of the marine latitudinal diversity gradient. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110, 10487-10494. http://www.pnas.org/content/110/26/10487.abstract.PDF-Free.

Berke, S.K., D. Jablonski, A. Z. Krug, K. Roy, A. Tomašových, J. W. Valentine. 2013. Beyond Bergmann’s Rule: size-latitude relationships in marine Bivalvia worldwide. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22, 173-183. PDF-Free. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2012.00775.x/abstract

Šimo V. and Tomašových A. 2013. Trace-fossil assemblages with a new ichnogenus in “spotted” (Fleckenmergel-Fleckenkalk) deposits: a signature of oxygen-limited benthic communities. Geologica Carpathica 64, 355-374.PDF-Free. www.geologicacarpathica.sk

Reolid, M., García-García. F., Tomašových, A., Soria, J.M, 2012. Thick brachiopod shell concentrations from prodelta and siliciclastic ramp in a Tortonian Atlantic-Mediterranean Strait (Miocene, Guadix Basin, Southern Spain). Facies 58, 549-571. PDF-Free. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10347-012-0296-2

Tomašových A., and Kidwell S.M. 2011. Accounting for the effects of biological variability and temporal autocorrelation in assessing the preservation of species abundance. Paleobiology 37:332-354. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1666/09506.1 PDF-Free

Tomašových A., and Kidwell S.M. 2010. Predicting the effects of increasing temporal scale on species composition, diversity, and rank-abundance distributions. Paleobiology 36:672-695. www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1666/08092.1 PDF-Free

Tomašových A., and Kidwell S.M. 2010. The effects of temporal resolution on species turnover and on testing metacommunity models. American Naturalist 175:587-606.PDF-Free www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100402115102.htm www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/651661

Tomašových A., and Zuschin M. 2009. Variation in brachiopod preservation along a carbonate shelf-basin transect (Red Sea and Gulf of Aden): environmental sensitivity of taphofacies. Palaios 24:697-716. www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2110/palo.2009.p09-018r PDF-Free

Tomašových A., and Kidwell S.M. 2009. Fidelity of variation in species composition and diversity partitioning by death assemblages: time averaging transfers diversity from beta to alpha levels. Paleobiology 35:97-121.www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1666/08024.1 PDF-Free

Tomašových A., and Kidwell S.M. 2009. Preservation of spatial and environmental gradients by death assemblages. Paleobiology 35:122-148.www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1666/07081.1 PDF-Free

Schlögl, J., Mangold, C., Tomašových A., and Golej, M. 2009. Early and Middle Callovian ammonites from the Pieniny Klippen Belt (Western Carpathians) in hiatal successions: unique biostratigraphic evidence from sediment-filled fissure deposits. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 252:55-79. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/njbgeol/2009/00000252/00000001/art00004 PDF-Free

Tomašových A., Carlson, S.J., and LaBarbera M. 2008. Ontogenetic niche shift in the brachiopod Terebratalia transversa: relationship between the loss of rotation ability and allometric growth. Palaeontology 51:1471-1496.www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121526826/abstract PDF-Free

Tomašových A. and J. Schlögl. 2008. Analyzing variations in cephalopod abundances in shell concentrations: the combined effects of production and density-dependent cementation rates. Palaios 23:648-666.www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2110/palo.2008.p08-033r PDF-Free

Tomašových A. 2008: Substrate exploitation and resistance to biotic disturbance in the brachiopod Terebratalia transversa and the bivalve Pododesmus macrochisma. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 363: 157-170. www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v363/p157-170/ PDF-Free

Tomašových A. 2008: Evaluating neutrality and escalation hypothesis in brachiopod communities from shallow, high-productivity habitats. Evolutionary Ecology Research 10: 667-698.www.evolutionary-ecology.com/v1.html PDF-Free

Hautmann, M., Benton, M.J., and Tomašových A. 2008. Catastrophic ocean acidification at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 249: 119-127. PDF-Free. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/njbgeol/2008/00000249/00000001/art00009

Yanes Y., Tomašových A., Kowalewski M., Castillo C., Aguirre J., Alonso M.R., and Ibáñez M. 2008. Taphonomy and compositional fidelity of Quaternary fossil assemblages of terrestrial gastropods from carbonate-rich environments of the Canary Islands. Lethaia 41:235-256. PDF-Free www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120173775/abstract

Alroy J., and 34 coauthors. 2008. Phanerozoic Trends in the Global Diversity of Marine Invertebrates. Science 5885: 97-100. www.sciencemag.org/content/321/5885/97.abstract

Tomašových A. 2008. Composition and distribution of Hettangian brachiopod communities in the West Carpathians: recovery after the end-Triassic mass extinction event. Fossils and Strata 54: 173-181. PDF-Free

van de Schootbrugge, B., Payne, J.L., Tomašových A., Pross, J., Fiebig, J., Benbrahim, M., Föllmi, K.B., Quan, T.M., 2008. Carbon cycle peturbation and stabilization in the wake of the Triassic-Jurassic boundary mass-extinction event. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, v. 9, 10.1029/2007GC001914. Available at AGU - G3 home. PDF-free.

Logan A., Tomašových A., Zuschin M. and Grill B. 2008. Recent brachiopods from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Fossils and Strata 54: 299-309. PDF-Free

Tomašových A. and Siblik M. 2007. Evaluating compositional turnover of brachiopod communities during the end-Triassic mass extinction (Northern Calcareous Alps): removal of dominant groups, recovery and community re-assembly.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 244: 170-200. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.06.028 PDF-Free

Tomašových A. 2006. Brachiopod and bivalve ecology in Late Triassic (Alps, Austria): onshore-offshore replacements caused by variations in sediment and nutrient supply. PALAIOS 21, 344-368 (Paleobiology Database Publication 35). Available at Bioone. PDF-Free

Tomašových A., Fürsich F.T., and Wilmsen M. 2006. Preservation of autochthonous shell beds by positive feedback between increased hardpart-input rates and increased sedimentation rates. Journal of Geology 114: 287-312. Available online via the University of Chicago Press. PDF-Free

Tomašových A. 2006. Linking taphonomy to community-level abundance: insights into compositional fidelity of the Upper Triassic shell concentrations (Eastern Alps). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 235: 355-381. Available at Elsevier. PDF-Free

Tomašových A., Fürsich F. T., and Olszewski T. D. 2006. Modeling shelliness and alteration in shell beds: variation in hardpart-input and burial rates leads to opposing predictions. Paleobiology 32: 278-298. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1666/0094-8373(2006)32%5B278:MSAAIS%5D2.0.CO;2 PDF-Free

Tomašových A. 2006. A new Early Jurassic rhynchonellid brachiopod from the western Tethys and implications for systematics of rhynchonellids from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Journal of Paleontology 80: 212-228. Available at Bioone. PDF-Free

Tomašových A. and Rothfus T.A. 2005. Differential taphonomy of modern brachiopods (San Juan Islands, Washington State): effect of intrinsic factors on damage and community-level abundance. Lethaia 38: 271-292. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1080/00241160510013358/abstract PDF-Free

Tomašových A. and Farkaš J. 2005. Cathodoluminescence of Late Triassic terebratulid brachiopods: implications for growth patterns. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 216, 215-233. linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0031018204005656 PDF-Free

Tomašových A. 2004, Postmortem durability and population dynamics affecting the fidelity of size-frequency distributions. PALAIOS 19, 477-496. Bioone. PDF-Free

Tomašových A. 2004, Effect of extrinsic factors on biofabric and brachiopod alteration in a shallow intraplatform carbonate setting (Upper Triassic, West Carpathians). PALAIOS 19, 349-371. Bioone. PDF-Free

Tomašových A. 2004, Microfacies and depositional environment of an Upper Triassic intra-platform carbonate basin: the Fatric Unit of the West Carpathians (Slovakia). Facies 50, 77-105. Availaible at springerlink.com. PDF-Free

Kowalewski M., Carroll M., Casazza L., Gupta N., Hannisdal B., Hendy A., Krause R. A. Jr., LaBarbera M., Lazo D.G., Messina C., Puchalski S., Rothfus T. A., Sälgeback J., Stempien J., Terry R.C., Tomašových A. 2003, Quantitative fidelity of brachiopod-mollusk assemblages from modern subtidal environments of San Juan Islands, USA. Journal of Taphonomy 1, 43-65. Available at www.journaltaphonomy.com. PDF-Free

Gazdzicki A., Michalík J. and Tomašových A. 2000, Parafavreina coprolites from the Uppermost Triassic of the Western Carpathians. Geologica Carpathica, 51, 245-250. PDF-Free

Short Contributions and NON-ISI publications:

Tomašových A. 2007, Stratigraphic sequences in a storm-dominated, Late Triassic intra-shelf environment of the West Carpathians: implications for correlations with the Eastern Alps. Beringeria 37: 203-216. PDF-Free

A. von Hillebrandt, Krystyn L., Kuerschner W.M., Bown P.R., McRoberts C., Ruhl M., Simms M., Tomasovych A., and Urlichs M. 2007. A candidate GSSP for the base of the Jurassic in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Kuhjoch section, Karwendel Mountains, Tyrol, Austria). International Subcommission on Jurassic Stratigraphy Newsletter 34: 2-20.

Tomašových A. 2000, Lagoonal-peritidal sequences in the Fatra Formation (Rhaetian): an example from the Velká Fatra Mountains (Western Carpathians). Slovak Geological Magazine, 6, 256-259.

Tomašových A. and Michalík J. 2000, Rhaetian/Hettangian passage beds in the carbonate development in the Krížna Nappe (central Western Carpathians, Slovakia). Slovak Geological Magazine, 6, 241-249.

Schlögl J., Aubrecht R. and Tomašových A. 2000, The first find of the Orava Unit in the Púchov section of the Pieniny Klippen Belt (Western Slovakia). Mineralia Slovaca, 32, 45-54.

Tomašových A. 1998, Badenian molluscs from the Devínska Nová Ves - claystone pit (Bratislava, Slovakia). Mineralia Slovaca, 30, 357 - 386.