Research interests:

(i) Ecology and evolution of marine benthic ecosystems with brachiopods and mollusks

(ii) Modeling time-averaging and preservation/fossilization dynamics of skeletal assemblages (southern California shelf and global database of marine living and death assemblages)

(iii) Macroecology and biogeography of mollusks (bivalves) at global scales

(iv) Triassic/Jurassic boundary mass extinction

Current projects:

(i) 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]

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

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]

Education

M.S. degree in Geology/Paleontology (2002), Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Ph.D in Geology/Paleontology (2006), University of Würzburg, Germany.

Mini CV:

Born: 1978

Nationality: Slovak

Comenius University (Bratislava, Slovakia) - 1996-2002

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

Affiliation:

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

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

Publications

Berke, S.K., D. Jablonski, A. Z. Krug, K. Roy, A. Tomašových, J. W. Valentine. 2012. Beyond Bergmann’s Rule: size-latitude relationships in marine Bivalvia worldwide. Global Ecology and Biogeography in press.

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, DOI: 10.1007/s10347-012-0296-2.

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.