Martin ZUSCHIN, Univ. Prof. Mag. Dr.
Room number: 2B410 Geocenter, UZA II | ![]() |
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-5235-0198
Research interests:
Historical Ecology and Conservation Paleobiology
Ecology and paleoecology of Recent and Pleistocene coral reefs
Teaching:
2019S
280013 VO BA_ERD_11 Paläoökologie und Paläobiogeographie (NPI)
280114 UE MA-ERD-17.30 Umweltpaläontologie (PI)
300220 VO Paläoökologie
300698 UE Paläontologische Arbeitsmethoden: Gelände
450006 SE Topics in Palaeontology
2018W
280081 VU MA-ERD-15 Funktionsmorphologie (PI)
300004 UE Übung zu Paläodiversität der Evertebraten
300100 VO Paläodiversität der Evertebraten
300163 PP Form und Funktion von Organismen - Mitarbeit in den paläobiologischen Forschergruppen
2018S
280013 VO BA_ERD_11 Paläoökologie und Paläobiogeographie (NPI)
280080 VU MA-ERD-14 Aktuopaläontologie (PI)
280114 UE MA-ERD-17.30 Umweltpaläontologie (PI)
300220 VO Paläoökologie
300279 EX Paläontologische Exkursion - Highlights 2
300698 UE Paläontologische Arbeitsmethoden: Gelände
Publications:
2019Zuschin, M.,
Harzhauser, M. Hengst, B., Mandic, O., Roetzel, R. 2014, Long-term
ecosystem stability in a Lower Miocene estuarine succession. Geology 42, p.1-4. pdf
Chattopadhyay, D., Zuschin, M., Tomašových, A., 2014, Effects of a high-risk environment on edge-drilling behavior: inference from Recent bivalves from Red Sea. Palaeobiology 40, 34-49. pdf
2013
Blasnig, M., Riedel, B., Zuschin, M., Schiemer, L. and Stachowitsch, M, 2013, Short-term post-mortality predation and scavenging and longer-term recovery after anoxia in the northern Adriatic Sea, Biogeosciences 10, 7647–7659. pdf
Langlet, D., Geslin, E., Baal, C., Metzger, E., Lejzerowicz, F., Riedel, B., Zuschin, M., Pawlowski, J., Stachowitsch, M. and Jorissen, F. J., 2013: Foraminiferal survival after one year of experimentally induced anoxia, Biogeosciences 10, 7463-7480. pdf
Brand, U., Azmy, K. Bitner, M.A., Logan, A., Zuschin, M., Came, R. Ruggiero, E. 2013, Oxygen isotopes and MgCO3 in brachiopod calcite and a new paleotemperature equation. Chemical Geology 359, 23-31. pdf
Weber, K, Zuschin, M. 2013, Delta-associated molluscan life and death assemblages in the northern Adriatic Sea: Implications for palaeoecology, regional diversity and conservation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 370, 77-91. pdf
Schneider, S, Harzhauser, M., Kroh, A., Lukeneder, A. & Zuschin, M.,
2013, Ernstbrunn Limestone and Klentnice Beds (Kimmeridgian-Berriasian;
Waschberg-Ždánice Unit; NE Austria and SE Czech Republic): state of the
art and bibliography. Bulletin of Geosciences 88. 105-130. pdf
Kleemann, K. & Zuschin, M. 2013, Traces of predation on Recent terrestrial gastropod shells of the family Helicidae. Conchylia 43, 41-44. pdf
2012
Harzhauser, M., Neubauer, T., Mandic, O., Zuschin, M.,
2012, A Middle Miocene endemic freshwater mollusc assemblage from an
intramontane Alpine lake (Aflenz Basin, Eastern Alps, Austria).
Paläontologische Zeitschrift 86, 23-41 pdf
Pretterebner, K., Riedel, B., Zuschin, M.,
Stachowitsch, M. 2012, Hermit crabs and their symbionts: reactions to
artificially induced anoxia on a sublittoral sediment bottom. Journal
of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 411, 23-33. pdf
Riedel B., Zuschin M., Stachowitsch M. 2012, Tolerance of benthic macrofauna to hypoxia and anoxia in shallow coastal seas: a realistic scenario. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 458, 39-52. pdf
Kroh, A. & Zuschin, M. 2012, Was bleibt vom Riff? Das Naturhistorische 9/2012, p. 79
2011
Zuschin, M.,
Harzhauser, M. & Mandic, O., 2011, Disentangling palaeodiversity
signals from a biased sedimentary record: An example from the Early to
Middle Miocene of Central Paratethys Sea. In: McGowan, A. & Smith,
A.B. (eds) Comparing the Geological and Fossil Records: Implications
for Biodiversity Studies. Geological Society, London, Special
Publications, 358, 123-139. pdf
Lukeneder S., Zuschin M.,
Harzhauser M., Mandic O., 2011: Spatiotemporal signals and
palaeoenvironments of endemic molluscan assemblages in the marine
system of the Sarmatian Paratethys. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56,
767-784. pdf
Stachowitsch, M., Riedel, B. Zuschin, M.,
2011, The return of shallow shelf seas as extreme environments: anoxia
and macrofauna reactions in the Northern Adriatic Sea. In: Altenbach,
A.V., Bernhard, J.M. and Seckbach, J. (eds). Anoxia: Anoxia: Evidence
for Eukaryote Survival and Paleontological Strategies. Book Series:
Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology (COLE) vol
21, pp353-368. Springer-Verlag. pdf
Zuschin, M.
2011, Book review of "Marine Macroecology" by J.D. Witman & K. Roy
(Eds): Marine Ecology: an evolutionary perspective 32, 256-257. pdf
Janssen, R., Zuschin, M. Baal,
Ch., 2011, Gastropods and their habitats from the northern Red Sea
(Egypt: Safaga) Part 2: Caenogastropoda: Sorbeoconcha and
Littorinimorpha. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien 113A,
373-509. pdf
Sawyer, J.A, & Zuschin, M. 2011. Drilling predation in molluscs from the Early and Middle Miocene of the Central Paratethys. Palaios 26, 284-297. pdf
Kern, A., Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O., Roetzel, R., Coric, S., Bruch, A., Zuschin, M.
2011. Millenium-scale vegetation dynamics in an estuary at the onset of
the Miocene climate optimum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology 304, 247-261. pdf
2010
Haselmair A., Stachowitsch M., Zuschin, M., Riedel B. 2010. Behaviour and mortality of benthic crustaceans in response to experimentally induced hypoxia and anoxia in situ. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 414, 195-208. pdf
Titschack, J., Zuschin, M., Spötl C. Baal. C. 2010. The giant oyster Hyotissa hyotis
from the northern Red Sea as a decadal-scale archive for seasonal
environmental fluctuations in coral reef habitats. Coral Reefs 29,
1061-1075. pdf
Schoepf, V., Herler, J., Zuschin, M. 2010, Microhabitat use and prey selection of the coral-feeding snail Drupella cornus in the northern Red Sea. Hydrobiologia 641, 45-57. pdf
Sawyer, J.A, Zuschin, M.
2010, Intensities of drilling predation from molluscan assemblages
along a transect through the northern Gulf of Trieste ( Adriatic Sea ).
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 285, 152-173. pdf
Wagreich, M. & Zuschin, M. 2010. Sedimentology in Austria. IAS (International Association of Sedimentologists) Newsletter 229, p. 16-20.
2009
Tomasovych, A, Zuschin, M.
2009, Variation in brachiopod preservation along a subtropical
carbonate shelf-basin transect (Red Sea and Gulf of Aden ): Untangling
the effects of shell specific and environmental factors. Palaios 24,
697-716. pdf
Zuschin, M., Mayrhofer, S. 2009. Brachiopods from cryptic coral reef habitats in the Northern Red Sea. Facies 55, 335-344. pdf
Zuschin, M.,
Gebhardt, H. 2009 Octocorals as hosts to serpulid-macroids from the
Cretaceous of the Potiguar Basin (NE Brazil). Lethaia 42,
381-382. pdf
Zuschin, M.,
Janssen, R., Baal, Ch., 2009, Gastropods and their habitats from the
northern Red Sea (Egypt: Safaga) part 1: Patellogastropoda,
Vetigastropoda and Cycloneritimorpha. Annalen des Naturhistorischen
Museums Wien 111A: 74-158, 19 plates. pdf
Sawyer, J.A., Zuschin, M.,
Riedel, B., Stachowitsch, M. 2009. Predator-prey interactions from in
situ time-lapse observations of a sublittoral mussel bed in the Gulf of
Trieste (Northern Adriatic). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and
Ecology 371, 10-19. pdf
Zuschin M.
& Stachowitsch M., 2009, Epifauna-dominated benthic shelf
assemblages: lessons from the modern Adriatic Sea. Palaios 24, 148-158.
pdf
Zuschin, M.
2009, Book Review of “Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca” by
Ponder, W.F. & Lindberg, D.R. Marine Ecology: an evolutionary
perspective 30, 269. pdf
Zuschin, M.
& Hofmann, T. (eds.) 2009, 15. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen
Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, 9. – 10- Oktober 2010, Tagungsprogramm,
Abstracts, Exkursion. Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 81, 49 p.
pdf
2008
Harzhauser, M., Kern, A., Soliman, A., Minati, K, Piller, W.E., Danielopol, D., Zuschin, M.
2008. Centennial- to decadal-scale environmental shifts in and around
Lake Pannon (Vienna Basin) related to a major Late Miocene lake-level
rise. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 270, 202-215. pdf
Riedel B., Zuschin M.,
Stachowitsch M. 2008. Dead zones: a future worst-case scenario for
Northern Adriatic biodiversity. In: Climate warming and related changes
in Mediterranean marine biota. F. Briand (ed.). CIESM
Workshop Monograps 35: 73-77. pdf
Riedel B., Zuschin M., Haselmair
A., Stachowitsch M., 2008,. Oxygen depletion under glass: behavioural
responses of benthic macrofauna to induced anoxia in the Northern
Adriatic. Journal of Exp Marine Biology and Ecology 367, 17-27. pdf
Riedel, B., Stachowitsch, M, Zuschin, M.
2008, Sea anemones and brittle stars: unexpected predatory interactions
during induced in situ oxygen crises. Marine Biology 153, 1075-1085, pdf
Logan, A., Tomasovych, A., Zuschin, M., Grill, B., 2008, Recent brachiopods from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Fossils and Strata 54, 299-309. pdf
Zuschin, M.
& Stachowitsch, M. 2008, Book review of "The northern Adriatic
ecosystem: deep time in a shallow sea" by Frank K. McKinney: Marine
Ecology: an evolutionary perspective 29, 411-412. pdf
Zuschin, M.
& Hofmann, T. (eds.) 2008, 14. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen
Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, 15.-18. Mai 2008, Tagungsprogramm,
Abstracts, Exkursion. Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 75, 59 p.
pdf
2007
Stachowitsch M., Riedel, B, Zuschin, M.,
Machan, R. 2007, Oxygen depletion and benthic mortalities: the first in
situ experimental approach to documenting an elusive phenomenon.
Limnology & Oceanography: Methods 5, 344-352. pdf
Zuschin, M. 2007b, Review of "The oceans and climate", by Grant Bigg. Palaios 22. pdf
Zuschin, M. 2007a, Review of "Echinoidea neogenica", by Andreas Kroh. Lethaia 40, p. 199. pdf
Dominici, S. & Zuschin, M. 2007. Sea-level change and the structure of marine ecosystems. Palaios 22, 225-227. pdf
Zuschin, M.,
Baal, Ch., 2007, Large gryphaeid oysters as habitats for numerous
sclerobionts: a case study from the northern Red Sea. Facies 53,
319-327. pdf
Zuschin, M. Stachowitsch,
M. 2007, The distribution of molluscan assemblages and their postmortem
fate on coral reefs in the Gulf of Aqaba (northern Red Sea). Marine
Biology 151, 2217-2230. pdf
Zuschin, M.,
Harzhauser, M. and Mandic, O. 2007. The stratigraphic framework of
fine-scale gradual and disjunct faunal replacements in the Middle
Miocene of the Vienna basin (Austria). Palaios 22, 286-297. pdf
Zuschin M. 2007. Evolutionäre
Paläoökologie mariner Lebensräume. In: Gusenleitner, F., Aubrecht, G.,
Aescht, E., Pfosser, M. (eds). Evolution-Phänomen Leben. Denisia 20, p.
139-148. pdf
2006
Zuschin, M.,
Harzhauser, M. and Sauermoser, K. 2006. Patchiness of local species
richness and its implication for large-scale diversity patterns: an
example from the middle Miocene of the Paratethys. Lethaia 39, 65-78. pdf
Harzhauser, M., Wanzenböck, G. & Zuschin, M. (eds.)
2006, 12. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Paläontologischen
Gesellschaft, Tagungsprogramm, Abstracts, Exkursion. Eigenverlag,
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, 64 pages, pdf
Zuschin, M.
2006. Review of: "Bivalvia neogenica (Soenoidea-Clavagelloidea)" di
Schultz Ortwin. - Notiziario S.I.M., Pubblicazione quadrimestrale della
Società Italiana di Malacologia, 24/1-4: 29/Recensioni. - Milano.
Zuschin, M. & Harzhauser, M. 2006. Report on the “The 12th Congress R.C.M.N.S.”. IAS (International Association of Sedimentologists) Newsletter 202, p. 8-9.
2005
Zuschin, M.
& Oliver, P.G. 2005. Diversity patterns of bivalves in a coral
dominated shallow-water bay in the northern Red Sea – high species
richness on a local scale. Marine Biology Research 1, 396-410. pdf
Taylor, J.D., Glover, E.M., Zuschin, M., Dworschak, P.C., Waitzbauer, W. 2005. Another bivalve with dreadlocks: living Rasta lamyi from Aqaba, Red Sea (Bivalvia: Lucinidae). Journal of Conchology 38, 489-497.
Dominici, S. & Zuschin, M. 2005. Infidelities of fossil assemblages. Lethaia 39, 381-382. pdf
Zuschin, M.,
M. Harzhauser and O. Mandic. 2005. Influence of size-sorting on
diversity estimates from tempestitic shell beds in the middle Miocene
of Austria.- Palaios 20, 142-158. pdf
2004
Coric,
S., Harzhauser, M., Hohenegger, J., Mandic, O., Pervesler, P., Roetzel,
R., Rögl, F., Scholger, R., Spezzaferri, S., Stingl, K., Svabenicka,
L., Zorn, I. & Zuschin, M.
2004. Stratigraphy and correlation of the Grund Formation in the
Molasse Basin, northeastern Austria (Middle Miocene, Lower Badenian):
Geologica Carpathica 55, 207-215. pdf
Pervesler, P. & Zuschin, M. 2004. A lucinoid bivalve trace fossil Saronichnus abeli
igen. et isp. nov. from the Miocene molasse deposits of Lower Austria,
and its environmental significance. Geologica Carpathica 55, 111-115. pdf
Zuschin, M.,
Harzhauser, M. & Mandic, O. 2004. Spatial variability within a
single parautochthonous Paratethyan tidal flat deposit (Karpatian,
Lower Miocene – Kleinebersdorf, Lower Austria): Courier
Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 246, 153-168. pdf
Zuschin, M.,
Harzhauser, M. & Mandic, O. 2004. Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of
the Lower Badenian (Middle Miocene) molluscan assemblages at Grund
(Lower Austria): Geologica Carpathica 55, 117-128. pdf
2003
Zuschin, M. & Oliver, P.G. 2003. Bivalves and bivalve habitats in the northern Red Sea. Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums, Wien, 304p, 57plates.
Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O., Zuschin, M. 2003.
Changes in Paratethyan marine molluscs at the Early/Middle Miocene
transition: diversity, paleogeography and paleoclimate. – Acta
Geologica Polonica 53, 323-339. pdf
Zuschin, M.
& Oliver, P.G. 2003. Fidelity of molluscan life and death
assemblages on sublittoral hard substrata around granitic islands of
the Seychelles. Lethaia 36, 133-150. pdf
Zuschin, M.,
Stachowitsch, M. & Stanton, R.J., Jr. 2003. Patterns and processes
of shell fragmentation in modern and ancient marine environments.
Earth-Science Reviews 63, 33-82. pdf
Zuschin, M.
2003. Report on the “First Austrian Reef Workshop”. IAS (International
Association of Sedimentologists) Newsletter 188, p. 9-10.
2002
Zuschin, M.
& Stanton, R.J., Jr. 2002. Paleocommunity Reconstruction from Shell
Beds - A Case Study from the Main Glauconite Bed, Eocene, Texas.
Palaios 17, 602-614. pdf
Mandic, O.; Harzhauser, M.; Spezzaferri, S. & Zuschin, M.
2002. The paleoenvironment of an early Middle Miocene Paratethys
sequence in NE Austria with special emphasis on paleoecology of
mollusks and foraminifera. - Geobios, Mémoire spécial 24, 193-206. pdf
Zuschin, M.
2002. Review of: Bivalvia neogenica (Nuculacea-Unionacea), by Ortwin
Schultz, 2001, In Catalogus Fossilium Austriae, Vol 1, Part 1. Verlag
der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien. Lethaia 35, p.
278
2001
Zuschin, M.,
Mandic, O., Harzhauser, M. & Pervesler, P. 2001. Fossil
evidence for chemoautotrophic bacterial symbiosis in the thyasirid
bivalve Thyasira michelottii from the Middle Miocene (Badenium) of Austria.- Historical Biology 15: 223-234.
Zuschin, M.
& Stanton, R.J., Jr. 2001. Experimental measurement of shell
strength and its taphonomic interpretation.- Palaios 16, 161-170. pdf
Zuschin, M.,
Hohenegger, H., Steininger, F.F. 2001. Molluscan assemblages on coral
reefs and associated hard substrata in the northern Red Sea.- Coral
Reefs 20, 107-116.pdf
Grill, B. & Zuschin, M. 2001.
Modern shallow- to deep-water bivalve death assemblages in the Red Sea
– ecology and biogeography.- Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology 168: 75-96. pdf
Oliver, P.G., & Zuschin, M. 2001. Minute Veneridae and Kelliellidae from the Red and Arabian Seas with a redescription of Kellia miliacea Issel, 1869.- Journal of Conchology, 37(2): 213-230. pdf
Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O., Zuschin, M.,
Piller, W. Hofmann, T. 2001. From the Paratethys Sea to Lake Pannon.
Vienna Basin and Eisenstradt-Sopron Basin. Field guide World Congress
of Malacology 2001, Vienna, Austria. 16 pages, 4 plates.
2000
Zuschin, M.,
Hohenegger, H., Steininger, F.F. 2000. A comparison of living and dead
molluscs on coral reef associated hard substrata in the northern Red
Sea – implications for the fossil record.- Palaeogeography,
Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 159: 167-190. pdf
Oliver, P.G., & Zuschin, M.
2000. Additions to the bivalve fauna of the Red Sea with descriptions
of new species of Limopsidae, Limidae, Semelidae, and Veneridae.-
Journal of Conchology, 37(1), 17-38. pdf
1999
Zuschin, M.,
Stachowitsch, M. Pervesler, P & Kollmann, H. 1999. Structural
features and taphonomic pathways of a high-biomass epifauna in the
northern Gulf of Trieste, Adriatic Sea.- Lethaia 32, 299-317. pdf
Schlaf, J., Zuschin, M.
& Piller, W.E. 1999. Origin and paleoenvironment of thick coquina
accumulations on a Lower Norian (Upper Triassic) carbonate slope
(Julian Alps, Slovenia).- Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie,
Teil I, 1997 (7-9): 1153-1166.
Roetzel, R., Pervesler, P., Daxner-Höck, G., Harzhauser, M., Mandic, O., Zuschin, M. and Cicha, I. 1999. C4 Grund - Kellergasse. Field guide Arbeitstagung der Geologischen Bundesanstalt. Retz – Hollabrunn: 328-334.
1998Zuschin, M. & Hohenegger, J., 1998. Subtropical coral-reef associated sedimentary facies characterized by molluscs, Northern Bay of Safaga, Red Sea, Egypt.- Facies 38, 229-254. pdf
1997
Schlaf, J. & Zuschin, M., 1997. Sediment compaction as formational process for nodular limestones of the Anisian (Middle Triassic) Han Bulog Formation (Hydra; Greece).- Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I, 1996 (5/6): 609-618.
Zuschin, M. & Piller, W.E., 1997. Molluscan Hard-Substrate Associations in the Northern Red Sea.- PSZNI: Marine Ecology, 18, 361-378
Zuschin, M. & Piller, W.E., 1997. Gastropod shells recycled - an example from a rocky tidal flat in the northern Red Sea.- Lethaia, 30, 127-134.pdf
Zuschin, M. & Piller, W.E., 1997. Bivalve distribution on coral carpets in the northern Bay of Safaga (Red Sea, Egypt) and its relation to environmental parameters.- Facies, 37, 193-204. pdf
1996Zuschin, M. & Pervesler, P., 1996 Secondary hardground-communities in the Northern Gulf of Trieste, Adriatic Sea.- Senckenbergiana marit., 28(1/3): 53-63
Zuschin, M., 1996. Influence of autochthonous biogenic material on textural characteristics of fine-grained terrigenous sediments.- Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie Teil I, 1995 (1/2): 387-398.
1994
Zuschin, M. &. Piller, W.E., 1994. Sedimentology and facies zonation along a transect through the Gulf of Trieste, Northern Adriatic Sea.- Beiträge zur Paläontologie, 18:75-114. pdf