Organismic responses to past global change at multiple time scales
Vulnerability of organisms and ecosystems to climate impacts
Biodiversity dynamics
Evolution of biodiversity in space and time
Development of the international Paleobiology Database and other computational infrastructure
Paleoenvironmental reconstructions: Interactions between environmental change (such as climate) and the biosphere in earth history
Kießling is a lead author of the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Sixth Assessment Report to be published in 2021. As a member of Working Group II on ‘Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability# he is contributing to two chapters assessing past, current and projected impacts of climate change (https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-ii/).
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