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Books

Wisshak M & Wisshak S (2026) Burren: Land of Limestone. speleo-photo editions, Friedeburg, 200 p.
https://www.speleo-photo.de/books/burren

Wisshak M & Barton HA (eds.) (2022) Lechuguilla Cave: Discoveries in a Hidden Splendor. speleo-photo editions, Friedeburg, 240 p.
https://www.lechuguilla-cave.info

Wisshak M & Wisshak S (2020) New Zealand Karst: a Voyage across Limestone Landscapes into the Subterranean Realm of Caves. speleo-photo editions, Friedeburg, 256 p.
https://www.speleo-photo.de/books/new-zealand-karst

Wisshak M & Tapanila L (eds) (2008) Current Developments in Bioerosion. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 500 p.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77598-0

Wisshak M (2008) Inside Mother Earth: Magische Höhlenwelten, Magic Caves, Grottes Magiques. Edition Reuss, Aschaffenburg, 152 p.
https://www.speleo-photo.de/books/inside-mother-earth

Wisshak M (2006) High-Latitude Bioerosion: The Kosterfjord Experiment. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences 109, 202 p. [Staedtler Award].
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36849-6

Menne B, Wisshak M & Wolf A (eds)(2005) Berchtesgadener Alpen. Höhle und Karst 2004/2005, Verband Deutscher Höhlen- und Karstforscher e.V. München, 237 p.
https://www.vdhk.de

 

Peer Reviewed Articles

Wisshak M (2026) Die Grenzgänge: das grenzübergreifende „Missing Link“ im Wagendrischelhorn (Reiteralm, Berchtesgadener Alpen)? Die Höhle 77:3-20. https://hoehle.org/?!=ed/2026_GRG

Wisshak M, Birkenstock J, Schröder-Ritzrau A, Frank N, Barton HA, DuChene HR (2026) Exceptional variety of baryte-celestine-series speleothems in Lechuguilla Cave (New Mexico, USA). International Journal of Speleology 55: article ijs2585.
https://doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.ijs2585

Gabsteiger M, Pyko I, Wisshak M, Teichert S (2025) Quantifying floridean starch storage patterns in Arctic rhodoliths: blue carbon implications. Polar Research 44:article 10992.
https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v44.10992

Knaust D, Wisshak M (2025) Bioerosion of the upper Jurassic lithographic limestone of Solnhofen (Germany) by mycorrhizal roots during the Cenozoic karstification. Facies 71:article 15.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-025-00707-3

Uchman A, Wisshak M, Madeira P, Melo CS, Sacchetti C, Ávila GC, Ávila S (2025) A new attachment trace of a verrucid barnacle on Pliocene bivalve shells, Santa Maria Island, Azores. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70:143-157.
https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01222.2024

Büscher J, Juva K, Flögel S, Wisshak M, Rüggeberg A, Riebesell U, Form A (2024) Water mass characteristics and hydrodynamics at an inshore versus an offshore mid-Norwegian cold-water coral reef habitat. Frontiers in Marine Science 11: article1363542.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1363542

Wisshak M, Meyer S, Raddatz J (2026) Is accessory baryte in carbonate speleothems more common than previously thought? Insights from caves in Germany. Carbonates and Evaporites 41: article 54. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13146-026-01258-6

Pyko I, Wisshak M, Teichert S (2025) Depth-related controls on the quantitative composition of rhodolith matrices in the High Arctic. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 45: article e70045.  https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.70045

Berning B, Wisshak M (2024) Cheilostomatida (Bryozoa) from settlement panels deployed in the Azores (central North Atlantic). Marine Biodiversity 54: article 72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-024-01459-z

Teichert S, Reddin CJ, Wisshak M (2024) In situ decrease in rhodolith growth associated with Arctic climate change. Global Change Biology 30: e17300.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17300

Straube E, Neumann H, Wisshak M, Mathes G, Teichert S (2024) Bayesian analysis of biodiversity patterns via beam trawl versus video transect—a comparative case study of Svalbard rhodolith beds. Biodiversity and Conservation 33: 1099-1123.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-02788-y

Mono P, Hoffmann R, Wisshak M, Lokier SW, Pederson CL, Hennhofer D, Diaz MR, Swart PK, Nehrke G, Immenhauser A (2024) Microborings reveal alternating agitation, resting and sleeping stages of modern marine ooids. Sedimentology 71: 359-382:24 pp.
https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13149

Wisshak M, Schneider S, Mikuláš R, Richiano S, Ramil F, Wilson M (2023) Putative hydroid symbionts recorded by bioclaustrations in fossil molluscan shells: a revision and reinterpretation of the cecidogenus Rodocanalis. Papers in Palaeontology 9: e1484.
https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1484

Cordova-Gonzalez A, Birgel D, Wisshak M, Urich T, Brinkmann F, Marcon Y, Bohrmann G, Peckmann J (2023) A carbonate corrosion experiment at a marine methane seep: The role of aerobic methanotrophic bacteria. Geobiology 21: 491-506.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12549

Wisshak M, Neumann C, Sanna G, Nielsen KSS, Milàn J (2023) Suspected foraminiferan parasitism on a Late Cretaceous echinoid host recorded by the new attachment trace fossil Solichnus aestheticus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68: 13-22.
https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01028.2022

Bertling M, Buatois LA, Knaust D, Laing B, Mángano MG, Meyer N, Mikulás R, Minter NJ, Neumann C, Rindsberg AK, Uchman A, Wisshak M (2022) Names for trace fossils 2.0: theory and practice in ichnotaxonomy. Lethaia 55: 1-19.
https://doi.org/10.18261/let.55.3.3

Wisshak M, Knaust D, Vallon LH, Rindsberg AK (2022) Defining and refining principles in ichnotaxonomy: Markus Bertling (1959-2022). Ichnos 29: 102-105
https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2022.2057481

Wisshak M, Barton HA, Bender K, DuChene HR (2022) The barite conundrum: active growth of non-hydrothermal BaSO₄ speleothems in Lechuguilla Cave (New Mexico, USA). Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Speleology – Savoie Mont Blanc 2022, Karstologia Mémoires 25, Volume V: 177-180.
https://uis-speleo.org/index.php/proceedings-of-the-international-congress-of-speleology-ics/

Büscher JV, Form AU, Wisshak M, Kiko R, Riebesell U (2022 ) Cold-water coral ecosystems under future ocean change: Live coral performance vs. framework dissolution and bioerosion. Limnology and Oceanography 67:2497-2515.
https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12217

Ineson JR, Lauridsen BW, Lode S, Sheldon E, Sørensen HO, Wisshak M, Anderskouv K (2022) A condensed chalk–marl succession on an Early Cretaceous intrabasinal structural high, Danish Central Graben: Implications for the sequence stratigraphic interpretation of the Munk Marl Bed. Sedimentary Geology 440: article 106234.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2022.106234

Meyer N, Wisshak M, Edinger EN, Azetsu-Scott K, Freiwald A (2022) Ichnodiversity in the eastern Canadian Arctic in the context of polar microbioerosion patterns. Polar Research 41: article 8083.
https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v41.8083

Wisshak M, Meyer N, Kuklinski P, Rüggeberg A & Freiwald A (2021) ‘Ten Years After’ – a long-term settlement and bioerosion experiment in an Arctic rhodolith bed (Mosselbukta, Svalbard). Geobiology 20: 112-136.
https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12469

Schätzle P-K, Wisshak M, Bick A, Freiwald A & Kieneke A (2021) Exploring confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and fluorescence staining as a tool for imaging and quantifying traces of marine microbioerosion and their trace-making microendoliths. Journal of Microscopy 284: 118-131.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jmi.13046

Schleinkofer N, Evans D, Wisshak M, Büscher JV, Fiebig J, Freiwald A, Härter S, Marschall HR, Voigt S & Raddatz J, (2021) Host-influenced geochemical signature in the parasitic foraminifera Hyrrokkin sarcophaga. Biogeosciences 18: 4733-4753.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-4733-2021

Teichert S, Löder MGJ, Pyko I, Mordek M, Schulbert C, Wisshak M & Laforsch C (2021) Microplastic contamination of the drilling bivalve Hiatella arctica in Arctic rhodolith beds. Scientific Reports 11: article 14574, 12 p.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93668-w

Schlüter M, Pyko I, Wisshak M, Schulbert C, Teichert S (2021) Growth interruptions in Arctic rhodoliths correspond to water depth and rhodolith morphology. Minerals 11: article 538.
https://doi.org/10.3390/min11050538

Schleinkofer N, Raddatz J, Evans D, Gerdes A, Flögel S, Büscher JV, Wisshak M (2021) Compositional variability of Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca, and Na/Ca in the deep-sea bivalve Acesta excavata (Fabricius, 1779). Plos One 16:e0245605
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245605

Meyer N, Wisshak M & Freiwald A (2021) Bioerosion ichnodiversity in barnacles from the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Polar Biology 44: 667-682
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-021-02825-4

Hetzinger S, Halfar J, Zajacz Z, Möller M & Wisshak M (2021) Late twentieth century increase in northern Spitsbergen (Svalbard) glacier‑derived runoff tracked by coralline algal Ba/Ca ratios. Climate Dynamics: 56 3295-3303
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05642-x

Teichert S, Voigt N, Wisshak M (2020) Do skeletal Mg/Ca ratios of Arctic rhodoliths reflect atmospheric CO₂ concentrations? Polar Biology 43:2059-2069.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02767-3

Meyer N, Wisshak M, Freiwald A (2020). Ichnodiversity and bathymetric range of microbioerosion traces in polar barnacles of Svalbard. PolarResearch 39. https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v39.3766

Buatois LA, Mángano MG, Minter NJ, Zhou K, Wisshak M, Wilson MA, Olea RA (2020) Quantifying ecospace utilization and ecosystem engineering during the early Phanerozoic –The role of bioturbation and bioerosion. Science Advances 6: eabb0618.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb0618

Wisshak M, Neumann C (2020) Dead urchin walking: resilience of an arctic Strongylocentrotus to severe skeletal damage. Polar Biology 43:391-396.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02634-1

Wisshak M, Barton HA, Bender K, DuChene HR (2020) Active growth of non-hydrothermal subaqueous and subaerial barite (BaSO₄) speleothems in Lechuguilla Cave (New Mexico, USA). International Journal of Speleology 49:11-26.
https://doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.49.1.2280

Mayoral E, Santos A, Vintaned JAG, Wisshak M, Neumann C, Uchman A, Nel A (2020) Bivalve bioerosion in Cretaceous-Neogene amber around the globe, with implications for the ichnogenera Teredolites and Apectoichnus. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 538:109410.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109410

Haugen MN, Novosel M, Wisshak M, Berning B (2020) The genus Reptadeonella (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida) in European waters: There’s more in it than meets the eye. Bryozoan Studies 2019 – Proceedings of the 18^th International Bryozoology Association Conference, Liberec, Czech Republic, pp. 59-68.

Wisshak M, Neumann H, Rüggeberg A, Büscher JV, Linke P, Raddatz J (2019) Epibenthos dynamics and environmental fluctuations in two contrasting polar carbonate factories (Mosselbukta and Bjørnøy-Banken, Svalbard). Frontiers in Marine Science 6: article 667, 31 p.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00667

Wisshak M, Hüne L (2019) The new encrusting microproblematicum Circumpodium enigmaticum and its attachment trace Circumpodichnus serialis from the Middle Jurassic of Normandy (France). Fossil Record 22:77-90.
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-22-77-2019

Büscher JV, Wisshak M, Form AU, Titschack J, Nachtigall K, Riebesell U (2019) In situ growth and bioerosion rates of Lophelia pertusa in a Norwegian fjord and open shelf cold-water coral habitat. PeerJ 7: e7586, 36 p.
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7586

Forel M-B, Thuy B, Wisshak M (2019) Digging into the ancestral stocks of Jurassic lineages: ostracods (Crustacea) from Carnian (Late Triassic) sponge mounds from the Maantang Formation (South China). BSGF – Earth Sciences Bulletin 190: article 9, 29 p.
https://doi.org/10.1051/bsgf/2019009

Hetzinger S, Halfar J, Zajacz Z, Wisshak M (2019) Early start of 20th-century Arctic sea-ice decline recorded in Svalbard coralline algae. Geology 47:963-967.
https://doi.org/10.1130/G46507.1

Wisshak M, Knaust D, Bertling M (2019) Bioerosion ichnotaxa: review and annotated list. Facies 65: article 24, 39 p.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-019-0561-8

Schönberg CHL, Gleason FH, Meyer N, Wisshak M (2019) Close encounters in the substrate: when macroborers meet microborers. Facies 65: article 22, 9 p.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-019-0567-2

Meyer N, Wisshak M, Schönberg CHL (2019) Sponge bioerosion versus aqueous pCO₂: morphometric assessment of chips and etching issures. Facies 65: article 27, 20 p.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-019-0558-3

Berning B, Achilleos K, Wisshak M (2019) Revision of the type species of Metroperiella (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida), with the description of two new species, Journal of Natural History 53:141-158.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2019.1582725

Wizemann A, Nandini SD, Stuhldreier I, Sánchez-Noguera C, Wisshak M, Westphal H, Rixen T, Wild C, Reymond CE (2018) Rapid bioerosion in a tropical upwelling coral reef. PLoS ONE 13:e0202887.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202887

Uchman A, Wisshak M, Rodríguez-Tovar FJ (2018) The bivalve boring Cuenulites amygdaloides nov. isp. in siliceous sponges from the Upper Cretaceous of Germany. Geobios 51:481-486.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2018.08.005

Wisshak M, Meyer N, Radtke G & Golubic S (2018) Saccomorpha guttulata – a new marine fungal microbioerosion trace fossil from cool- to cold-water settings. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 92:525-533.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-018-0407-7

Wisshak M, Neumann C (2018) Large dendrinids meet giant clam: the bioerosion trace fossil Neodendrina carnelia igen. et isp. n. in a Tridacna shell from Pleistocene-Holocene coral reef deposits, Red Sea, Egypt. Fossil Record 21:1-9.
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-21-1-2018

Wisshak M (2017) Taming an ichnotaxonomical Pandora’s box: Revision of dendritic and rosetted microborings (ichnofamily: Dendrinidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 390:1-99.
https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.390

Schönberg CHL, Tribollet A, Fang JKH, Carreiro-Silva M & Wisshak M (2017) Viewpoints in bioerosion research—are we really disagreeing? Ar eply to the comment by Silbiger and DeCarlo (2017). ICES Journal of Marine Science 74:2494-2500.
https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsx167

Wisshak M, Titschack J, Kahl W-A & Girod P (2017) Classical and new bioerosion trace fossils in Cretaceous belemnite guards characterised via micro-CT. Fossil Record 20:173-199.
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-20-173-20
Dataset at PANGAEA
http://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.875121

Schönberg CHL, Fang JKH, Carreiro-Silva M, Tribollet A & Wisshak M (2017) Bioerosion: the other ocean acidification problem. ICES Journal of Marine Science 74:895-925.
https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsw254

Breton G, Wisshak M, Néraudeau D & Morel N (2017) Parasitic gastropod bioerosion trace fossils on Cenomanian oysters from Le Mans, France and its ichnologic and taphonomic context. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62:45-57.
https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00304.2016

Wisshak M, Neumann C, Knaust D & Reich M (2017) Rediscovery of type material of the bioerosional trace fossil Talpina von Hagenow, 1840 and its ichnotaxonomical implications. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 91:127-135.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-017-0335-y

Buatois LA, Wisshak M, Wilson MA & Mángano MG (2017) Categories of architectural designs in trace fossils: A measure of ichnodisparity. Earth-Science Reviews 164:102-181.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.08.009

Färber C, Titschack J, Schönberg CHL, Ehrig K, Boos K, Baum D, Illerhaus B, Asgaard U, Bromley RG, Freiwald A & Wisshak M(2016) Long-term macrobioerosion in the Mediterranean Sea assessed by micro-computed tomography. Biogeosciences 13:3461-3474.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3461-2016

Seuss B, Wisshak M, Mapes RH, Hembree DI & Landman NH (2016) Microbial bioerosion of erratic sub-fossil Nautilus shells in a karstic cenote (Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia). Ichnos 23:108-115.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2015.1030074

Wisshak M, Kroh, A, Bertling M, Knaust D, Nielsen JK, Jagt JWM, Neumann, C & Nielsen KSS (2015) In defence of an iconic ichnogenus – Oichnus Bromley, 1981. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 85:445-451.
https://doi.org/10.14241/asgp.2015.029

Seuss B, Hembree DI, Wisshak M, Mapes RH & Landman NH (2015) Taphonomy of backshore versus deep-marine collected Nautilus macromphalus conchs (New Caledonia). Palaios 30:503-513.
https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2014.057

Neumann C, Wisshak M, Aberhan M, Girod P, Rösner T, Bromley R (2015) Centrichnus eccentricus revisited: A new view on anomiid bivalve bioerosion. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60:539-549.
https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00079.2014

Färber C, Wisshak M, Pyko I, Bellou N, Freiwald A (2015) Effects of Water Depth, Seasonal Exposure, and Substrate Orientation on Microbial Bioerosion in the Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean). PLoS ONE 10:e0126495
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126495

Seuss B, Wisshak M, Mapes RH, Landman NH (2015) Syn-Vivo Bioerosion of Nautilus by Endo- and Epilithic Foraminiferans (New Caledonia and Vanuatu). PLoS ONE 10:e0125558.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125558

Wisshak M, Berning B, Jakobsen J & Freiwald A (2015) Temperate carbonate production: Biodiversity of calcareous epiliths from intertidal to bathyal depths (Azores). Marine Biodiversity 45:87-112.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-014-0231-6

Thuy B, Kiel S, Dulai A, Gale AS, Kroh A, Lord AR, Numberger-Thuy LD, Stöhr S, Wisshak M (2014) First glimpse into Lower Jurassic deep-sea biodiversity: in situ diversification and resilience against extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281:20132624.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2624

Wisshak M, Schönberg CHL, Form A & Freiwald A (2014) Sponge bioerosion accelerated by ocean acidification across species and latitudes? Helgoland Marine Research 68:253-262.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10152-014-0385-4
Dataset at PANGAEA:
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.831657

Wisshak M, Alexandrakis E, Hoppenrath M (2014) The diatom attachment scar Ophthalmichnus lyolithon igen. et isp. n. Ichnos 21:111-118.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2014.907572

Golubic S, Radtke G, Campbell S, Lee S-J, Vogel K, Wisshak M (2014) The complex fungal microboring trace Saccomorpha stereodiktyon isp. nov. reveals the growth strategy of its maker. Ichnos 21:100-110.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940.2014.888301

Schönberg CHL, Wisshak M (2014) Marine Bioerosion. In: Goffredo S, Dubinsky Z (eds) The Mediterranean Sea: Its History and Present Challenges. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 449-461.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6704-1_26

Teichert S, Woelkerling W, Rüggeberg A, Wisshak M, Piepenburg D, Meyerhöfer M, Form A & Freiwald A (2014) Arctic rhodolith beds and their environmental controls (Spitsbergen, Norway). Facies 60:15-37.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-013-0372-2

Wisshak M, Schönberg CHL, Form A & Freiwald A (2013) Effects of ocean acidification and global warming on reef bioerosion – lessons from a clionaid sponge. Aquatic Biology 19:111-127.
https://doi.org/10.3354/ab00527
Dataset at PANGAEA:
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.831660

Kennedy E, Perry CT, Halloran PR, Iglesias-Prieto R, Schönberg CHL, Wisshak M, Form AU, Carricart-Ganivet JP, Fine M, Eakin CM, Mumby PJ (2013) Avoiding coral reef functional collapse requires local and global action. Current Biology 23:912-918.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.04.020

Marali S, Wisshak M, López Correa M & Freiwald A (2013) Skeletal microstructure and stable isotope signature of three bathyal solitary cold-water corals from the Azores. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 373:25-38.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.06.017

Wisshak M, Schönberg CHL, Form A & Freiwald A (2012) Ocean acidification accelerates reef bioerosion. PLoS ONE 7(9):e45124.
https://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045124
Dataset at PANGAEA:
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.831694

Schönberg CHL and Wisshak M (2012) The perks of being endolithic. Aquatic Biology 17:1-5.
https://doi.org/10.3354/ab00473

Wisshak M (2012) Microbioerosion. In: Knaust D & Bromley R (eds) Trace Fossils as Indicators of Sedimentary Environments. Developments in Sedimentology 64, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 213-243.
https://store.elsevier.com/Trace-Fossils-as-Indicators-of-Sedimentary-Environments/isbn-9780444538130/
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-53813-0.00008-3

Teichert S, Woelkerling W, Rüggeberg A, Wisshak M, Piepenburg D, Meyerhöfer M, Form A, Büdenbender J & Freiwald A (2012) Rhodolith beds (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) and their physical and biological environment at 80°31’N in Nordkappbukta (Nordaustlandet, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway). Phycologia 51:371-390.
https://doi.org/10.2216/11-76.1

Wisshak M, Tribollet A, Golubic S, Jakobsen J & Freiwald A (2011) Temperate bioerosion: Ichno- and biodiversity from intertidal to bathyal depths (Azores). Geobiology 9:492-520.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4669.2011.00299.x

Van Rooij D, De Mol L, Le Guilloux L, Wisshak M, Huvenne VAI, Moeremans R & Henriet J-P (2010) Environmental setting of deep-sea oysters in the Bay of Biscay. Deep-Sea Research I 57:1561-1572.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2010.09.002

Wisshak M, Form A, Jakobsen J & Freiwald A (2010) Temperate carbonate cycling and water mass properties from intertidal to bathyal depths (Azores). Biogeosciences 7:3279-2396.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-7-2379-2010

Wisshak M, Form A, Jakobsen J & Freiwald A (2010) Temperate carbonate cycling and water mass properties from intertidal to bathyal depths (Azores, N-Atlantic). Biogeosciences Discussssions 7:3297-3333.
https://doi.org/10.5194/bgd-7-3297-2010

Wisshak M & Jantschke H (2010) Im Höhlenruinenniveau der Reiteralm (Berchtesgadener Alpen)? Beibelkareishöhle (1337/42) und Prünzlkopfhöhle (1337/57). Die Höhle 201:39-47.
https://www.hoehle.org

Wisshak M, López Correa M, Zibrowius H, Jakobsen J & Freiwald, A (2009) Skeletal reorganisation affects geochemical signals, exemplified in the stylasterid hydrocoral Errina dabneyi (Azores Archipelago). Marine Ecology Progress Series 397:197-208.
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps08165

Neumann C & Wisshak M (2009) Gastropod parasitism on Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene holasteroid echinoids – evidence from Oichnus halo isp. n. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 284:115-119.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.09.010

Wisshak M, Neumann C, Jakobsen J & Freiwald A (2009) Reply to the Comment on „The ‘living-fossil community’ of the cyrtocrinoid Cyathidium foresti and the deep-sea oyster Neopycnodonte zibrowii (Azores Archipelago). [Palaeontology Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 271:77-83]“. Palaeontology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 279:235-236.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.05.012

Wisshak M, Neumann C, Jakobsen J & Freiwald A (2009) The ‘living-fossil community’ of the cyrtocrinoid Cyathidium foresti and the deep-sea oyster Neopycnodonte zibrowii (Azores Archipelago). Palaeontology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 271:77-83.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.09.015

Wisshak M, López Correa M, Gofas S, Salas C, Taviani M, Jakobsen J & Freiwald A (2009) Shell architecture, element composition, and stable isotope signature of the giant deep-sea oyster Neopycnodonte zibrowii sp. n. from the NE Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research I 56:374-404.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2008.10.002

Heindel K, Westphal H & Wisshak M (2009) Data report: bioerosion in the reef framework, IODP Expedition 310 off Tahiti (Tiarei, Maraa, and Faaa sites). Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Volume 310.
https://publications.iodp.org/proceedings/310/310toc.htm

Heindel K, Wisshak M & Westphal H (2009) Microbioerosion in Tahitian reefs: A record of environmental change during the last deglacial sea-level rise (IODP #310). Lethaia 42:322-340.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00140.x

Volohonsky E, Wisshak M, Blomeier D, Seilacher A & Snigirevsky S (2008) A new helical trace fossil from the Lower Devonian of Spitsbergen (Svalbard) and its palaeoenvironmental significance. Palaeontology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 267:17-20.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.04.011

Davies AJ, Wisshak M, Orr JC & Roberts JM (2008) Predicting suitable habitat for the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa(Scleractinia). Deep-Sea Res I 55:1048-1062.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2008.04.010

Wisshak M & Jantschke, H (2008) Exceptional preservation of Upper Jurassic trace fossils in a modern cave (Mühlbachquellhöhle, S-Germany). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 249:75-85.
https://doi.org/10.1127/0077-7749/2008/0249-0075

Wisshak M (2008) Two new dwarf Entobia ichnospecies in a diverse aphotic ichnocoenosis (Pleistocene / Rhodes, Greece). In: Wisshak M & Tapanila L (eds) Current Developments in Bioerosion. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 213-234.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77598-0_11

Wisshak M, Seuß B & Nützel A (2008) Evolutionary implications of an exceptionally preserved Carboniferous microboring assemblage in the Buckhorn Asphalt Lagerstätte (Oklahoma, USA). In: Wisshak M & Tapanila L (eds) Current Developments in Bioerosion. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 21-54.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77598-0_2

Neumann C, Wisshak M & Bromley R (2008) Boring a mobile domicile: an alternative to the conchicolous life habit. In: Wisshak M & Tapanila L (eds) Current Developments in Bioerosion. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 307-328.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77598-0_16

Beuck L, Wisshak M, Munnecke A & Freiwald A (2008) A giant boring in a Silurian stromatoporoid analysed by computer tomography. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53:149-160.
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app53-149.html

Bromley RG, Wisshak M, Glaub I & Botquelen A (2007) Ichnotaxonomic review of dendriniform borings attributed to foraminiferans: Semidendrina igen. nov. In: Miller III W (ed) Trace fossils: concepts, problems, prospects. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 518-530.
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-044452949-7/50158-3

Wisshak M & Porter D (2006) The new ichnogenus Flagrichnus – a palaeoenvironmental indicator for cold-water settings? Ichnos 13:135-145.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940600851255

Neumann C & Wisshak M (2006) A foraminiferal parasite on the sea urchin Echinocorys: Ichnological evidence from the Late Cretaceous (Lower Maastrichtian, Northern Germany). Ichnos 13:185-190.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10420940600853954

Wisshak M & Neumann C (2006) A symbiotic association of a boring polychaete and an echinoid from the Late Cretaceous of Germany. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51:589-597.
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app51-589.html

Wisshak M & Rüggeberg A (2006) Colonisation and bioerosion of experimental substrates by benthic foraminiferans from euphotic to aphotic depths (Kosterfjord, SW-Sweden). Facies 52:1-17.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-005-0033-1

Wisshak M, Freiwald A, Lundälv T & Gektidis M (2005) The physical niche of the bathyal Lophelia pertusa in a non-bathyal setting: environmental controls and palaeoecological implications. In: Freiwald, A & Roberts, JM (eds): Cold-water corals and ecosystems. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 979-1001.
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27673-4

Wisshak M, Gektidis M Freiwald A & Lundälv T (2005) Bioerosion along a bathymetrical gradient in a cold-temperate setting (Kosterfjord / SW Sweden): an experimental study. Facies 51:93-117.
http://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-005-0009-1

Wisshak M, Volohonsky E & Blomeier D (2004) Acanthodian fish trace fossils from the Early Devonian of Spitsbergen. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49:629-634.
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app49-629.html

Wisshak M, Volohonsky E, Freiwald A & Seilacher A (2004) A trace fossil assemblage from fluvial Old Red deposits (Wood Bay Formation; Lower to Middle Devonian) of NW-Spitsbergen, Svalbard. Lethaia 37:149-163.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00241160410005763

Blomeier D, Wisshak M, Dallmann W, Volohonsky E & Freiwald A (2003) Facies analysis of the Old Red Sandstone of Spitsbergen (Wood Bay Formation): Reconstruction of the depositional environments and implications of basin development. Facies 49:151-174.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-003-0030-1

Blomeier D, Wisshak M, Joachimski M, Freiwald A & Volohonsky E (2003) Calcareous, alluvial and lacustrine deposits in the Old Red Sandstone of central north Spitsbergen (Wood Bay Formation, Early Devonian). Norwegian Journal of Geology 83:281-298.
https://www.geologi.no/cgi-bin/geologi/imaker?id=4332&visdybde=2&aktiv=4332

Others

Meyer S, Wisshak M (2025) REM-Aufnahmen von Pool-Fingern aus der Winterberg-Stalagmitenhöhle bei Bad Grund, Westharz. Mitteilungen des Verbands deutscher Höhlen- und Karstforscher 71:111-117.

Wisshak M (2024) Verborgene Pracht: Die Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico. NaturFoto 55: 22-29.

Wisshak M, Wisshak S (2023) Sternenhimmel unter Tage. Natur, Sonderheft 2023, 49-55.

Girod P, Wisshak M, Rösner T (2023) Spurenfossilien (Ichnofossilien). In: Schneider C, Girod P (eds) Fossilien aus dem Campan von Hannover. Arbeitskreis Paläontologie Hannover, Hannover, 654-686.

Wisshak M (2022) Underground Landscapes. ELEMENTS 12: 44-59.

Teichert S, Löder MGJ, Pyko I, Schulbert C, Wisshak M, Laforsch C (2022) Plastikmüll im Mordpolarmeer – Analyse der Mikroplastikkontamination arktischer Bohrmuscheln. GIT Labor-Fachzeitschrift 3/2022: 32-34.

Bristol D & Wisshak M (2020) Neuland in Lechuguilla Cave. NSS News 78(11): 11-16.

Wisshak M (2020) MSM55 – Scientific Report. Gutachterpanel Forschungsschiffe (GPF). https://hs.pangaea.de/nav/scientific_reports/MSM55_Wisshak_Scientific_Report.pdf

Wisshak M (2020) 150 Miles in Lechuguilla Cave. NSS News 78 (1):21-23.

Ricci S, Uchman A, Wisshak M (2019) The 9th International Bioerosion Workshop. Facies 66: article 2, 1

Wisshak M (2019). Karbonatfabriken im Polarmeer. Natur, Forschung, Museum 149:6-11.

Wisshak M & Lyles J (2018) Mopping up South Winds and Southern Climes (Lechuguilla Cave). NSS news 76:10-19.

Wisshak M, Bartholomä A, Beuck L, Büscher J, Form A, Freiwald A, Halfar J, Hetzinger S, Heugten B van, Hissmann K, Holler P, Meyer N, Neumann N, Raddatz J, Rüggeberg A, Teichert S, Wehrmann A (2017) Habitat characteristics and carbonate cycling of macrophyte-supported polar carbonate factories (Svalbard) – Cruise No. MSM55 – June 11 – June 29, 2016 – Reykjavik (Iceland) – Longyearbyen (Norway). MARIA S. MERIAN-Berichte, MSM55, 58 p., DFG-Senatskommission für Ozeanographie.
https://doi.org/10.2312/cr_msm55

Beuck L, Aguilar R, Fabri M, Freiwald A, Gofas S, Hebbeln D, López Correa M, Ramos Martos A, Ramil F, Sánchez Delgado F, Taviani M, Wienberg C, Wisshak M & Zibrowius H (2016) Biotope characterisation and compiled geographical distribution of the deepwater oyster Neopycnodonte zibrowii in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Rapport Commission International Mer Mediterranee 41:462.

Färber C, Wisshak M, Titschack J, Schönberg CHL &Freiwald A (2016) Spatio-temporal variability of bioerosion in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Rapport Commission International Mer Mediterranee 41:349.

Bristol D & Wisshak M (2016) Neuland in Lechuguilla Cave. Descent 251:28-35.
https://www.wildplaces.co.uk/descent/537-descent-251.html

Glaser S, Wisshak M & Fietzke J (2016) Altersdaten von Höhlensintern aus dem Raum Mühlbach (Südliche Frankenalb, Bayern). Laichinger Höhlenfreund 50:73-86.

Form AU, Büscher J, Hißmann K, Flögel S, Wisshak M, Rüggeberg A, Bannister R, Kutti T, Stapp L, Bennecke S, Küter M, Nachtigall K, Schauer J, & Fenske M (2015) RV POSEIDON Cruise Report POS473 LORELEI II Lophelia Reef Lander Expedition and Investigation II.- GEOMAR, Kiel, 25 p.

Berning B, Ávila S, Wisshak M & Ramalho R (2015) Janz weit draußen: die Karbonate nicht-tropischer ozeanischer Inseln. GMIT 60:6-17.

Form AU, Büscher J, Hißmann K, Flögel S, Wisshak M, Rüggeberg A, Hennige S, Bennecke S, Bannister R, Schauer J, and Fenske M (2014) RV POSEIDON Cruise Report POS455 LORELEI Lophelia Reef Lander Expedition and Investigation.- GEOMAR, Kiel, 29 p.

Wisshak M, Straub R, Jantschke H & López Correa M (2013) 25 Jahre Exploration des Eisrohrhöhle-Bammelschacht-Systems (Reiteralm, Berchtesgadener Alpen, D). Die Höhle 46:90-105.

Wisshak M, Straub R, Jantschke H & López Correa M (2013) Das Eisrohrhöhle-Bammelschacht-System (Reiteralm, Berchtesgadener Alpen). Materialhefte zur Karst- und Höhlenkunde 21:1-110.

Freiwald A, Beuck L & Wisshak M (2012) Korallenriffe im kalten Wasser des Nordatlantiks –
Entstehung, Artenvielfalt und Gefährdung. In: Beck E (ed) Die Vielfalt des Lebens. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, p. 89-96.
https://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/dt/books/ISBN978-3-527-33212-0

Freiwald A, Becker S, Bergmann T, Cordts D, Dorschel B, Eisele M, Fleischer D, Form A, Freiwald J, Fricke H, Fricke S, Hebbeln D, Hissmann K, Landmann G, Löffler S-B, Lüdecke C, Meyerhöfer M, Meyer-Schack B, Piebenburg D, Rüggeberg A, Schäfer R, Schauer J & Wisshak M (2009). Geo- and biological investigations on polar benthic ecosystems, palaeoceanography and polar history around Svalbard (Circulation and Ecosystems in the Subpolar and Polar North Atlantic, Part 3, Cruise No. 2, Leg 3, July 31 to August 17, 2006, Longyearbyen-Longyearbyen). MARIA S. MERIAN-Berichte 9-1, Institut für Meereskunde, Hamburg, 45

Wisshak M, Straub R & López Correa M (2005) Das Eisrohrhöhle-Bammelschacht-System (1337/118) im Kleinen Weitschartenkopf (Reiteralm). In: Menne B, Wisshak M & Wolf A (eds) Berchtesgadener Alpen. Höhle und Karst 2004/2005, Verband Deutscher Höhlen- und Karstforscher e.V. München, pp. 68-81.

Wisshak M & Jantschke H (2005) Die Höhlen der Reiteralm. In: Menne B, Wisshak M & Wolf A (eds) Berchtesgadener Alpen. Höhle und Karst 2004/2005, Verband Deutscher Höhlen- und Karstforscher e.V. München, pp. 19-37.

Wisshak M & López Correa M (2005) Authigene Calcitkristallbildung im Höhlenlehm am Beispiel der Steinbruchhöhle Traub (7127/8), Aalen-Waldhausen, Ostalbkreis.Mitteilingen der Oberrheinischen Geologischen Vereinigung, N.F. 87:417-430.

Wisshak M & Jantschke H (2004) Fasercalcite in Höhlen am Beispiel der Hornsteinhöhle (7720/59) bei Straßberg (Schwäbische Alb). Mitteilungen des Verbands deutscher Höhlen- und Karstforscher 50:108-111.

Jantschke H & Wisshak M (2004) Der Feldwegschacht (7519/17) bei Schwalldorf, Gemeinde Rottenburg (Muschelkalkgebiet 1). Beiträge zur Höhlen- und Karstkunde in Südwestdeutschland 44:19-21.

Jantschke H & Wisshak M (2004) Stratigrafie und Höhlenbildung im unteren Weißjura (Malm) der Südwestalb. Mitteilungen des Verbands der deutschen Höhlen- und Karstforscher 50:6-9.

López Correa M, Wisshak M & Jantschke H (2003) Geologie und Mineralogie der Seeigelhöhle im Oberdrackensteiner Steinbruch (Mittlere Schwäbische Alb). Laichinger Höhlenfreund 38:3-10.

Jantschke H & Wisshak M (2002) Höhlen der Kolbinger Berghalbinsel. Materiahefte zur Karst- und Höhlenkunde 17:102

Dallmann WK, Piepjohn K, McCann AJ, Sirotkin AN, Miloslavskij MJ, Ohta Y, Gjelsvik T, Volohonsky E & Wisshak M (2002) Geological map of Svalbard 1:100000, sheet BG5 Woodfjorden. Norsk Polaristitutt, preliminary edition.

Wisshak M (2001): Palaeoenvironment Reconstruction of a Continental to Marginal-Marine Facies Succession in the Old Red Sandstone Basin of NW Svalbard (Lower/Middle Devonian). unpublished masters thesis, Institut für Geowissenschaften der Universität Tübingen, 88

López Correa M, Striebel T & Wisshak M (2001) Höhlen im Steinbruch der Ulmer Weisskalkwerke bei Blaustein-Ehrenstein (Blatt 7525 Ulm-NW). Laichinger Höhlenfreund 36:103-112.

López Correa M & Wisshak M (2001) Höhlen im Kartenblatt 7519 Rottenburg am Neckar.- Beiträge zur Höhlen- und Karstkunde in Südwestdeutschland 42:3-24.

Bechly G, Nel A, Martinez-Delclòs X, Jarzembowski EA, Coram R, Martill D, Fleck G, Escuillié F, Wisshak M, Maisch M (2001) A revision and phylogenetic study of Mesozoic Aeshnoptera, with description of numerous new taxa (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera). Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen 4:1-219.

López Correa M & Wisshak M (2000) Das Fliegenloch (7920/163) – eine neu entdeckte Schachthöhle auf Kartenblatt Leibertingen (Schwäbische Alb). Beiträge zur Höhlen- und Karstkunde in Südwestdeutschland 41:17-20.

Wisshak M & López Correa M (2000) Ein neuer Schachteinbruch auf der Mittleren Schwäbischen Alb – der Scheckenkobel-Erdfall (7621/36) bei Hörschwag im Zollernalbkreis. Beiträge zur Höhlen- und Karstkunde in Südwestdeutschland 41:13-16.

Wisshak M (1999) Der Menninger Schacht – Karstgenese und hydrologische Situation einer Schachthöhle im Randbereich der überdeckten Zone (Südwestalb). Mitteilungen des Verbands deutscher Höhlen- und Karstforscher 45:4-9.

Wisshak M & López Correa M (1998) Das Pommerlesloch (7418/1) – Eine bedeutende Schachthöhle im Oberen Muschelkalk bei Mötzingen, Landkreis Böblingen. Beiträge zur Höhlen- und Karstkunde in Südwestdeutschland 40:24-30.