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Frank P. Wesselingh is affiliated with the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics of their work cover a range of scientific areas such as:

  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Environmental and Biological Research in Conflict Zones
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Wesselingh has published in multiple scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Science Advances
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geologica Belgica

Some recent publications by Wesselingh include:

  • The other side of sea level change, 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Current extinction rate in European freshwater gastropods greatly exceeds that of the late Cretaceous mass extinction, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Deep drilling reveals massive shifts in evolutionary dynamics after formation of ancient ecosystem, 2020, Science Advances
  • Cyclic sediment deposition by orbital forcing in the Miocene wetland of western Amazonia? New insights from a multidisciplinary approach, 2021, Global and Planetary Change
  • What are the drivers of Caspian Sea level variation during the late Quaternary?, 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews

Wesselingh collaborates frequently with several coauthors, notably:

  • Thomas A. Neubauer
  • Freek S. Busschers
  • Thomas Wilke
  • Vitaliy V. Anistratenko
  • Niels Raes

Best Publications

  • Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity

    C. Hoorn;F. P. Wesselingh;H. ter Steege;M. A. Bermudez

  • Hopping hotspots: global shifts in marine biodiversity.

    Willem Renema;Willem Renema;D. R. Bellwood;Juan Carlos Braga;K. Bromfield

  • Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving

    Josephine C. A. Joordens;Josephine C. A. Joordens;Francesco d’Errico;Francesco d’Errico;Frank P. Wesselingh;Stephen Munro;Stephen Munro

  • Amazonia: landscape and species evolution: a look into the past

    C. Hoorn;F.P. Wesselingh

  • Lake Pebas: a palaeoecological reconstruction of a Miocene, long-lived lake complex in western Amazonia

    F.P. Wesselingh;M.E. Räsänen;G. Irion;H.B. Vonhof

  • Quaternary time scales for the Pontocaspian domain : Interbasinal connectivity and faunal evolution

    W. Krijgsman;A. Tesakov;T. Yanina;S. Lazarev

  • A Miocene perspective on the evolution of the Amazonian biota

    F.P. Wesselingh;J.A. Salo

  • Miocene flooding events of western Amazonia

    Carlos Jaramillo;Ingrid Romero;Ingrid Romero;Carlos D’Apolito;Carlos D’Apolito;German Bayona

  • The development of the Amazonian mega-wetland (Miocene; Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia)

    Carina Hoorn;Frank P. Wesselingh;Jussi Hovikoski;Javier Guerrero

  • A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru

    Pierre Olivier Antoine;M. Alejandra Abello;Sylvain Adnet;Ali J. Altamirano Sierra

  • A Miocene hyperdiverse crocodylian community reveals peculiar trophic dynamics in proto-Amazonian mega-wetlands.

    Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi;John J. Flynn;Patrice Baby;Julia V. Tejada-Lara;Julia V. Tejada-Lara

  • Chronology of Ksar Akil (Lebanon) and implications for the colonization of Europe by anatomically modern humans.

    Katerina Douka;Christopher A. Bergman;Robert E. M. Hedges;Frank P. Wesselingh

  • Solar-forced 2600 BP and Little Ice Age highstands of the Caspian Sea

    S.B. Kroonenberg;G.M. Abdurakhmanov;E.N. Badyukova;K. van der Borg

  • Reconstruction of the Miocene western Amazonian aquatic system using molluscan isotopic signatures.

    H.B Vonhof;F.P Wesselingh;G.M Ganssen

  • Relevance of aquatic environments for hominins: a case study from Trinil (Java, Indonesia )

    J. C. A. Joordens;F. P. Wesselingh;J. de Vos;H. B. Vonhof

  • On the Origin of Amazonian Landscapes and Biodiversity: A Synthesis

    Frank P. Wesselingh;Carina Hoorn;Salomon B. Kroonenberg;Alexandre Antonelli

  • Seasonal Amazonian rainfall variation in the Miocene climate Optimum

    Ronald Johannes Gerardus Kaandorp;Hubert B. Vonhof;Frank Pieter Wesselingh;Frank Pieter Wesselingh;Lidia Romero Pittman

  • Seasonal stable isotope variations of the modern Amazonian freshwater bivalve Anodontites trapesialis

    Ronald Johannes Gerardus Kaandorp;Hubert B. Vonhof;Cahuide Del Busto;Frank Pieter Wesselingh;Frank Pieter Wesselingh

  • Paleogeography of Miocene Western Amazonia: Isotopic composition of molluscan shells constrains the influence of marine incursions

    H.B. Vonhof;F.P. Wesselingh;R.J.G. Kaandorp;G.R. Davies

  • Indirect paleo-seagrass indicators (IPSIs): A review

    S. Reich;E. Di Martino;J.A. Todd;F.P. Wesselingh

  • Quaternary time scales for the Pontocaspian domain: Interbasinal connectivity and faunal evolution

    W. Krijgsman;S. van de Velde;F.P. Wesselingh

Frequent Co-Authors

Hubert B. Vonhof
Hubert B. Vonhof Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Willem Renema
Willem Renema Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Marius Stoica
Marius Stoica University of Bucharest
Wout Krijgsman
Wout Krijgsman Utrecht University
Carina Hoorn
Carina Hoorn University of Amsterdam
Thomas Wilke
Thomas Wilke University of Giessen
Hemmo A. Abels
Hemmo A. Abels Delft University of Technology
Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno
Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno University of Granada
Niels Raes
Niels Raes Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Carlos Jaramillo
Carlos Jaramillo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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