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Dr. David Lazarus

  • Publications

    • [please see also list at:  scholar.google.com]
    • Lazarus, D., Suzuki, N., Ishitani, Y., and Takahashi, K., 2020. Paleobiology of the Polycystine Radiolaria.  Wiley. 481 pp. (book).

    • Trubovitz, S., Lazarus, D., Renaudie, J., and Noble, P.,  2020. Marine plankton show threshold extinction response to Neogene climate change. Nature Comm. 11(1):1-10. 

    • Renaudie, J., Lazarus, D., and Diver, P., 2020. NSB (Neptune Sandbox Berlin): An expanded and improved database of marine planktonic microfossil data and deep-sea stratigraphy:  Paleontologia Electronica 23(1) (web).

    • Lazarus, D., Renaudie, J., Lenz, D., Diver, P., and Klump, J., 2018. Raritas and RaritasVox: Programs for counting high diversity categorical data with highly unequal abundances: PeerJ (web).

    • Wiese, R., Renaudie, J. and Lazarus, D. (2016) Testing the accuracy of genus-level data to predict species diversity in Cenozoic marine diatoms. Geology 44(12): 1051-1054.
    • Renaudie, J. and Lazarus, D. (2016) New species of Neogene radiolarians from the Southern Ocean: Part IV. J. Micropal. 35(1): 26-53.
    • Lazarus, D., Suzuki, N., Caulet, J. P., Nigrini, C., Goll, I., Goll, R., Dolven, J., Diver, P., and Sanfilippo, A. (2015) An evaluated list of Cenozoic-Recent radiolarian species names (Polycystinea), based on those used in the DSDP, ODP and IODP deep-sea drilling programs. Zootaxa 3999(3): 301-333.
    • Renaudie, J. and Lazarus, D. (2015) New species of Neogene radiolarians from the Southern Ocean: Part III. J. Micropal. 34(2):
    • Lazarus, D. (2014) [untitled essay] p. 71-84 In Issues in Palaeobiology: a Global View (Eds Sanchez-Villagra, M. R. and MacLeod, N.), Scidinge Hall, Zürich.
    • Lazarus, D., Barron, J., Renaudie, J., Diver, P., Türke, A. (2014) Cenozoic planktonic marine diversity and correlation to climate change. PLoS One 9(1): 1-18.
    • Lazarus, D. (ed.) (2014) The Legacy of Early Radiolarian Taxonomists.  Journal of Micropalaeontology, Special Issue 33: 1.
    • Lazarus, D. (2014) The legacy of early radiolarian taxonomists, with a focus on the species published by early German workers. Journal of Micropalaeontology 33: 3-19.
    • Lazarus, D. (2013) Radiolarians and Silicoflagellates. in Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (2nd Edition). Elsevier, p. 830-840.
    • Renaudie, J. and Lazarus, D. (2013) On the accuracy of paleodiversity reconstructions: a case study in Antarctic Neogene radiolarians.  Paleobiology, 39(3): 491-509.
    • Renaudie, J. and Lazarus, D. (2013) New species of Neogene radiolarians from the Southern Ocean II. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 32: 59-86.
    • Appeltans, W. (and 150 co-authors) (2012) The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity. Current Biology. 22: 2189-2202.
    • Renaudie, J. and Lazarus, D. (2012). New species of Neogene radiolarians from the Southern Ocean. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 31: 29-52.
    • Lazarus, D., M. Weinkauf, and P. Diver. (2012) Pacman Profiling: A Simple Procedure to Identify Stratigraphic Outliers in High Density Deep-Sea Microfossil Data. Paleobiology, 38(1): 144-161.
    • Lazarus, D. (2011) The deep-sea microfossil record of macroevolutionary change in plankton and its study. p. 141-166 In Comparing the Geological and Fossil Records: Implications for Biodiversity Studies, (Eds, Smith, A. & McGowan, A.) The Geological Society, London. 
    • Lazarus, D. et al. (2009) Radiolarians decreased silicification as an evolutionary response to reduced Cenozoic ocean silica availability. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 106, 9333-9338.
    • Ogane, K. et al. (2009) The Ehrenberg type species of flat-shaped radiolarian genera (Spongodiscidae and Stylodictyidae, Spumellaria, Polycystina). J. Syst. Palaeo, 7, 81-94.
    • Ogane, K. et al. (2009) Ehrenberg's Neogene radiolarian collections from Barbados. In Reexamination of the Haeckel and Ehrenberg Microfossil Collections as a Historical and Scientific Legacy. Monograph no. 40, Japan National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, pp. 97-106, 98 Plates.
    • Sakai, T. et al. (2009) Haeckel's Messina radiolarian collection housed in Ernst-Haeckel-Haus. In Reexamination of the Haeckel and Ehrenberg Microfossil Collections as a Historical and Scientific Legacy. Monograph no. 40, (Eds, Tanimura, Y. & Aita, Y.) Japan National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, pp. 47-54, 23 Plates.
    • Suzuki, N. et al. (2009) General results of Reexamination of Ehrenberg's radiolarian collections: with instructions on efficient methods to find microfossils from the collection. In Reexamination of the Haeckel and Ehrenberg Microfossil Collections as a Historical and Scientific Legacy. Monograph no. 40, Japan National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, pp. 71-86 + app.
    • Suzuki, N. et al. (2009) Reexamination of Ehrenberg's Neogene radiolarian collections and its impact on taxonomic stability. In Reexamination of the Haeckel and Ehrenberg Microfossil Collections as a Historical and Scientific Legacy. Monograph no. 40, Japan National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, pp. 87-96, 77 Plates.
    • Aita, Y. et al. (2009) Haeckel Radiolaria Collection and the H.M.S. Challenger Plankton Collection. In Reexamination of the Haeckel and Ehrenberg Microfossil Collections as a Historical and Scientific Legacy. Monograph no. 40, (Eds, Tanimura, Y. & Aita, Y.) Japan National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, pp. 35-46; 46 Plates.
    • Lazarus, D. & Suzuki, N. (2009) Introduction to the Reexamination of the Haeckel and Ehrenberg Radiolarian Collections. In Reexamination of the Haeckel and Ehrenberg Microfossil Collections as a Historical and Scientific Legacy. Monograph no. 40, (Eds, Tanimura, Y. & Aita, Y.) Japan National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, pp. 23-34.
    • Kaminski, M.A. & Lazarus, D. (2009) The lectotype of Spiroplecta rosula Ehrenberg, 1854 - the type species of Bolivinopsis Yakovlev, 1891 (Foraminifera). J. Micropal, 28, 00-00.
    • Hollis, C. and Lazarus, D. (Eds.) (2008) Radiolarians in Stratigraphy: Selected papers from InterRad XI, Wellington, New Zealand, March 2006. Stratigraphy, 5(1).
    • Lazarus, D. et al. (2008) Radiolarian and sedimentologic paleoproductivity proxies in late Pleistocene sediments of the Benguela Upwelling System, ODP Site 1084. Marine Micropaleontology, 68, 223-235.
    • Lazarus, D. and Hollis, C. (Eds.) (2008) Radiolarians in Paleoceanography: Selected papers from InterRad XI, Wellington, New Zealand, March 2006. Micropaleontology, 54(1).
    • Lazarus, D.B., Hollis, C. & Apel, M. (2008) Patterns of opal and radiolarian change in the Antarctic mid-Paleogene: clues to the origin of the Southern Ocean. Micropaleontology, 54, 41-48.
    • Lazarus, D.B. (2007) Radiolarians and Silicoflagellates. In Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, (Ed, Elias, S.A.) Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 1682-1692.
    • Lazarus, D.B. (2007) Marine Mikrofossilien: Indizien für früheren Klimawandel in den Ozeanen. Humboldt Spektrum, 2/2007, 22-27.
    • Gorbushina, A.A. et al. (2007) Life in Darwin’s dust: intercontinental transport and survival of microbes in the nineteenth century. Environmental Microbiology, 9, 2911-2922.
    • Lazarus, D. (2007) Speciation and morphological change. in Briggs, D. and Crowther, P. R. (eds.) Paleobiology II. Blackwell, Oxford. p. 131-137.
    • Gregory, F.J., et al. (2006) Celebrating 25 years of advances in micropaleontology: a review. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 25, 97-112.
    • Lazarus, D. et al. (2006) Comparison of radiolarian and sedimentologic paleoproductivity proxies in the latest Miocene-Recent Benguela Upwelling System. Marine Micropaleontology, 60, 269-294.
    • Lazarus, D. (2006) The Micropaleontological Reference Centers network. Scientific Drilling, 3, 46-49.
    • Schmidt, D.N., Lazarus, D. et al. (2006) Biogeography and evolution of body size in marine plankton. Earth-Science Reviews, 78, 239-266.
    • Suzuki, N. et al. (2006) Joint Haeckel and Ehrenberg project: a taxonomic re-examination of the Haeckel and Ehrenberg microfossil collections. In InterRad II and Triassic Stratigraphy Symposium: a joint international conference hosted by the International Association of Radiolarian Paleontologists, IGCP 467 and the Subcommission of Triassic Stratigraphy, (Eds, Lüer, V., Hollis, C., Campbell, H. & Simes, J.) GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, pp. 127.
    • Tanimura, Y. et al. (2006) Joint Haeckel and Ehrenberg Project. - A taxonomic reexamination of the Haeckel and Ehrenberg microfossil collections as a historical and scientific legacy. Research Report of the Museum Director General’s Support Program in 2004 - 2006, The National Science Museum, Tokyo, 1-24.
    • Lazarus, D. (2005) A brief review of radiolarian research. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 79/1, 183-200.
    • Lazarus, D., Faust, K. & popova-Goll, I. (2005) New species of prunoid radiolarians from the Antarctic Neogene. Journal of Micropalaentology, 24, 97-121.
    • Kiessling, W. & Lazarus, D. (2004) Mesozoic-Cenozoic bioevents. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 214, 179/180.
    • Schumacher, S. & Lazarus, D. (2004) Regional differences in pelagic productivity in the late Eocene to early Oligocene - a comparison of southern high latitudes and lower latitudes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 214, 243-263.
    • Apel, M. et al. (2002) Radiolarian faunal characteristics in Oligocene sediments of the Kerguelen Plateau, Leg 183, Site 1138. (Eds, Frey, F.A., Coffin, M.F., Wallace, P.J. & Quilty, P.G.) pp. 1-48.
    • Iwai, M. et al. (2002) Magnetobiochronologic Synthesis of ODP Leg 178 Rise Sediments from the Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean: Sites 1095, 1096 and 1103. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 178, 
    • Lazarus, D.B. (2002) Environmental control of diversity, evolutionary rates and taxa longevities in Antarctic Neogene radiolaria. Paleontologica Electronica, 5, 1-30.
    • Vigour, R. & Lazarus, D. (2002) Biostratigraphy of Late Miocene-Early Pliocene radiolarians from ODP Leg 183 Site 1138. In Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, (Eds, Frey, F.A., Coffin, M.F., Wallace, P.J. & Quilty, P.G.) Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, pp. 1-17 (web) plus appendix.
    • Mohr, B.A.R., Wähnert, V. & Lazarus, D.B. (2002) Mid-Cretaceous paleobotany and palynology of the Central Kerguelen Plateau, southern Indian Ocean (ODP Leg 183, Site 1138). In Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, (Eds, Frey, F.A., Coffin, M.F., Wallace, P.J. & Quilty, P.G.) Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, pp. 1-39 (web).
    • Lazarus, D.B. (2001) Late Miocene to early Pliocene radiolarians from glaciomarine drift deposits, ODP Leg 178, Hole 1095B (Bellinghausen Basin, Antarctic Ocean). Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 178, 1-22.
    • Lazarus, D.B. (2001) Speciation. In Paleobiology II, (Eds, Briggs, D. & Crowther, P.) Blackwell, London, pp. 133-137.
    • Lazarus, D.B. (1998) Review of 'Cretaceous-Paleocene Radiolaria from Eastern Marlborough, New Zealand'. Marine Micropaleontology, 34, 
    • Lazarus, D.B. (1998) The Ehrenberg Collection and its curation. In Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg [sic] (1795-1876): The man and his legacy, (Eds, Williams, D.M. & Huxley, R.) The Linnean Society, pp. 31-48.
    • Walossek, D. et al. (1998) Datenbanken und Datenbankanwendungen zur Sammlungsverwaltung an Instituten der DNFS. 
    • Lazarus, D.B. & Jahn, R. (1998) Using the Ehrenberg Collection. Diatom Research, 13, 273-291.
    • Takahashi, K. & Lazarus, D.B. (1997) Special Issue: Interrad VII. Marine Micropaleontology, 30, 1-250.
    • Lazarus, D.B. et al. (1995) Revised chronology of Neogene DSDP holes from the world ocean. Ocean Drilling Program, College Station.
    • Lazarus, D.B., Hilbrecht, H. & Spencer-Cervato, C. (1995) Speciation and phyletic change in Globorotalia truncatulinoides (planktonic foraminifera). Paleobiology, 21, 28-51.
    • Lazarus, D. (1994) An improved cover slip holder for preparing microslides of randomly distributed particles. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, A64, 686.
    • Lazarus, D.B. (1994) The Neptune Project - a marine micropaleontology database. Math. Geol, 26, 817-832.
    • Lazarus, D. & Caulet, J.P. (1994) Cenozoic Southern Ocean reconstructions from sedimentologic, radiolarian, and other microfossil data. In The Antarctic Paleonvironment: A Perspective on Global Change. Part 2. Antarctic Research Series, (Eds, Kennett, J.P. & Warnke, D.A.) pp. 145-174.
    • Spencer-Cervato, C. et al. (1994) How synchronous are Neogene marine plankton events? Paleoceanography, 739-763.
    • Mohr, B.A.R., Lazarus, D. (1994) Paleobiogeographic distribution of Kuylisporites and its possible relationship to the extant fern genus Cnemidaria (Cyatheaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 758-767.
    • Lazarus, D.B. & De Wever, P. (Eds.) (1993) Special Issue: Interrad VI. Marine Micropaleontology, 21, 261-386.
    • Lazarus, D.B. (1993) Review of Takahashi (1992): Radiolaria: Flux, Ecology and Taxonomy in the Pacific and Atlantic. Mar. Micropaleo, 21, 385-386.
    • Spencer-Cervato, C. et al. (1993) New calibration of Neogene radiolarian events in the North Pacific. Marine Micropaleontology, 21, 261-294.
    • Harwood, D., Lazarus, D. et al. (1992) Neogene stratigraphic synthesis, ODP Leg 120. In Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, (Eds, Wise, W., Schlich, R., O'Connell, S. et al.) Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, pp. 1031-1052.
    • Lazarus, D.B. (1992) Age Depth Plot and Age Maker: age depth modelling on the Macintosh series of computers. Geobyte, 7, 7-13.
    • Lazarus, D.B. (1992) Antarctic Neogene radiolarians from the Kerguelen Plateau, ODP Legs 119 and 120. In Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, (Eds, Wise, S.W. & Schlich, R.) Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, pp. 785-810.
    • Barron, J.A. et al. (1991) Biochronologic and magnetochronologic synthesis of Leg 119 sediments from the Kerguelen Plateau and Prydz Bay, Antarctica. In Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, (Eds, Barron, J.A. & Larsen, B.) Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, pp. 813-848.
    • Gersonde, R. et al. (1990) Biostratigraphic synthesis of Neogene siliceous microfossils from the Antarctic Ocean, ODP Leg 113 (Weddell Sea). In Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, (Eds, Barker, P., Kennett, J.P. et al.) Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, pp. 915-936.
    • Ling, J. & Lazarus, D.B. (1990) Cretaceous radiolaria from the Weddell Sea: Leg 113 of the Ocean Drilling Program. In Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, (Eds, Barker, P., Kennett, J.P. et al.) Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, pp. 353-364.
    • Lazarus, D.B. (1990) Middle Miocene to Recent radiolarians from the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, ODP Leg 113. In Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, (Eds, Barker, P.F. & Kennett, J.P.) Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, pp. 709-728.
    • Baldauf, J.G. et al. (1989) Magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic synthesis of drilling program Leg 105: Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay. In Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, (Eds, Srivastava, S.P., Arthur, M. & Clement, B.) Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, Texas, pp. 935-956.
    • Lazarus, D.B. (1989) Sampling the sediments: Commentary on Jones (1988). TREE, 8, 80.
    • Lazarus, D. & Pallant, A. (1989) Oligocene and Neogene radiolarians from the Labrador Sea, ODP Leg 105. In Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, (Eds, Srivastava, S.P., Arthur, M., Clement, B. et al.) College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), pp. 349-380.
    • Lombari, G. & Lazarus, D.B. (1988) Neogene cycladophorid radiolarians from North Atlantic, Antarctic, and North Pacific Deep-Sea sediments. Micropaleontology, 34, 97-135.
    • Lazarus, D.B., Pallant, A. & Hays, J.D. (1987) A data-base of Antarctic Pre-Pleistocene sediment cores. WHOI Technical Report.
    • Lazarus, D. (1986) Tempo and mode of morphologic evolution near the origin of the radiolarian lineage Pterocanium prismatium. Paleobiology, 12/2, 175-189.
    • Lazarus, D.B. (1986) MEASURE: A program for morphometric measurements. WHOI Technical Report.
    • Lazarus, D.B. (1986) Tempo and mode of morphologic evolution near the origin of the radiolarian lineage Pterocanium prismatium. Paleobiology, 12, 175-189.
    • Lazarus, D.B. (1986) Three-dimensional measurement of microfossil morphology. Journal of Paleontology, 60, 959-964.
    • Lazarus, D.B., Scherer, R.P. & Prothero, D.R. (1985) Evolution of the radiolarian species-complex Pterocanium: A prelimiary survey. Journal of Paleontology, 59, 183-220.
    • Lazarus, D.B. & Prothero, D.R. (1984) The role of stratigraphic and morphologic data in phylogeny. Journal of Paleontology, 58, 163-172.
    • Lazarus, D. (1983) Speciation in pelagic protista and its study in the planktonic microfossil record: a review. Paleobiology, 9, 327-340.
    • Prothero, D. & Lazarus, D.B. (1980) Planktonic microfossils and the recognition of ancestors. Systematic Zoology, 29, 119-129.
  • Projects

    NSB: the Berlin version of the Neptune Deep-Sea Microfossil Occurrence Database

    Micropaleontologic study of deep-sea sediments cored over several decades by the DSDP, ODP and IODP drilling programs has yielded a vast body of information on the occurrences of individual fossil marine plankton species over time. This information also has been combined with other types of geochronologic information by interdisciplinary teams of scientists to construct detailed age estimates - age models - for hundreds of deep-sea drilling sections. Together, this information provides a uniquely detailed history of of biologic evolution in the oceans, as well as an important source of geochronologic information for geologic studies of ocean and climate change.

    The NSB database (www.nsb-mfn-berlin.de) provides integrated access to this global data-set. It contains over 700,000 records for the occurrences of species in individual, numerically age-dated samples, age models for hundreds of deep-sea sections, and extensive, annotated, quality-controlled taxonomic lists for thousands of fossil marine plankton species, the latter in part created by earlier MfN-led projects (e.g., the IODP funded Paleontology Coordination Group effort). Neptune, or analyses from it, has been cited in ca 80 research papers, including 8 in Science, Nature or PNAS.

    Neptune was originally created by a team led by me in the early 1990s at the ETH in Zürich, and re-cast in internet form, with the addition of more data, by the Chronos project of NSF in the early 2000s. In response to the lapse of Chronos and support for Neptune, I teamed up with Patrick Diver, the main Chronos database programmer, to create a new version of Neptune (Neptune Sandbox Berlin, or NSB) that is hosted at the Museum für Naturkunde. Extensive reprogramming has streamlined the system so that it is easier to maintain, and includes support for direct programmable access over the internet for advanced research purposes. This project was supported by CEES, Oslo.  The European Science Foundation/Earthtime-EU project provided funds a few years ago to further extend the database content, in particular adding extensive geochronologic data for the cored sections, and general information on marine geochronology.  In recent years, Dr. Johan Renaudie (MfN Berlin) has taken the lead in further developing the database and the website. 

    NSB is a central research tool within my own group; and provides data to external scientists via the website, and by webservices (e.g. occurrence data summaries to mikrotax.org). Anyone interested in using the database can get a free account by contacting either Johan Renaudie (johan.renaudie@mfn-berlin.de) or me.

    Micropaleontological Reference Centers (MRC) Network

    Since 1968, deep-sea drilling ships have recovered sediment cores from all the major ocean basins. This wealth of deep-sea material has yielded a unique record of biologic evolution in the form of abundant preserved skeletons of marine microfossils. These fossils are important for synthesising larger scale patterns of plankton evolution, to determine the geologic age of sediments and are key recorders of past environmental change. The Micropaleontological Reference Centers (MRCs) have been developed over a 30 year period to provide a scientific collection of this microfossil record.

    Maintained by curators at over a dozen sites around the world, the Micropaleontological Reference Centers provide scientists with an opportunity to examine microfossils of various geologic ages, and from a globally distributed set of locations. The collections, with more than 20,000 samples, cover four microfossil groups—calcareous nannofossils, foraminifers, radiolarians, and diatoms—selected from sediment cores obtained from the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP), the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP), and the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). The MRCs are a source of materials for current research and are a legacy archive for deep sea drilling. The MRCs also accept selected "orphaned" collections of deep-sea microfossil materials.

    The organization is supervised by a lead curator (currently me) together with the other scientists that make up the MRC network. See the MRC homepage for more information.

    WoRMS Living Polycystine Radiolarian Species List

    The World Register of Marine Species project (www.marinespecies.org) is a cooperative effort by hundreds of scientists to create and maintain accurate, comprehensive lists of marine organisms.  I maintain the list (currently about 400 species) for the Polycystina, the group of radiolarians that create the vast majority of siliceous, fossil forming skeletons.  The content of this list is kept in sync with the larger list including fossil forms found in NSB.

  • Tasks

    n.b. Please also see my lab's external website for more detailed information on our research and group members.

    • Research in micropaleontology
    • Paleobiologic informatics (NSB Neptune database)
    • Emeritus Curator for micropaleontology
    • International Project Management  Micropaleontologic Reference Centers (MRC) Network

    Collections (Emeritus)

    Research

    Research interests

    • Virtually all areas of micropaleontologic research (taxonomy, biostratigraphy, paleoceanography, paleobiology)
    • Taxonomic expertise is in Cenozoic radiolarians
    • Methodologies tend to be very quantitative, data-oriented and computer-based: morphometrics, databases (particularly the marine microfossil Neptune db system), digital imaging, multivariate statistics; often with software development.

    Current Research and Infrastructure projects

    Further information on science infrastructure projects.

    Publications (selection)

     -- please see full list at: scholar.google.de

    Lazarus, D., Suzuki, N., Ishitani, Y., and Takahashi, K., 2020. Paleobiology of the Polycystine Radiolaria.  Wiley. 481 pp. (book).

    Trubovitz, S., Lazarus, D., Renaudie, J., and Noble, P.,  2020. Marine plankton show threshold extinction response to Neogene climate change. Nature Comm. 11(1):1-10. 

    Renaudie, J., Lazarus, D., and Diver, P., 2020. NSB (Neptune Sandbox Berlin): An expanded and improved database of marine planktonic microfossil data and deep-sea stratigraphy:  Paleontologia Electronica 23(1) (web).

    Lazarus, D., Renaudie, J., Lenz, D., Diver, P., and Klump, J., 2018. Raritas and RaritasVox: Programs for counting high diversity categorical data with highly unequal abundances: PeerJ (web).

    Wiese, R., Renaudie, J., and Lazarus, D., 2016. Testing the accuracy of genus-level data to predict species diversity in Cenozoic marine diatoms: Geology, v. 44 (12): 1051-1054.

    Lazarus, D., Suzuki, N., Caulet, J.P., Nigrini, C., Goll, I., Goll, R., Dolven, J.K., Diver, P., and Sanfilippo, A., 2015. An evaluated list of Cenozic-Recent radiolarian species names (Polycystinea), based on those used in the DSDP, ODP and IODP deep-sea drilling programs: Zootaxa, v. 3999, p. 301–333.

    Lazarus, D., Barron, J., Renaudie, J., Diver, P., and Türke, A., 2014, Cenozoic diatom diversity and correlation to climate change: PLOS One, v. 9, p. 1–18.

    Lazarus, D., 2011. The deep-sea microfossil record of macroevolutionary change in plankton and its study, in Smith, A., and McGowan, A., ed., Comparing the Geological and Fossil Records: Implications for Biodiversity Studies: London, The Geological Society, p. 141–166.

    Lazarus, D., B. Kotrc, G. Wulf, and D. N. Schmidt. 2009. Radiolarians decreased silicification as an evolutionary response to reduced Cenozoic ocean silica availability. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 106 (23): 9333-38.

    Lazarus, D., and N. Suzuki. 2009. Introduction to the reexamination of the Haeckel and Ehrenberg Radiolarian Collections. In Reexamination of the Haeckel and Ehrenberg Microfossil Collections as a Historical and Scientific Legacy. Monograph No. 40, edited by Y. Tanimura and Y. Aita. Tokyo: Japan National Museum of Nature and Science: pp. 1-106, App. 1-5; Plates 1-244.

    Lazarus, D., B. Bittniok, L. Diester-Haass, P. Meyers, and K. Billups. 2006. Comparison of radiolarian and sedimentologic paleoproductivity proxies in the latest Miocene-Recent Benguela Upwelling System. Marine Micropaleontology 60: 269-94.

    Lazarus, D., B., H. Hilbrecht, and C. Spencer-Cervato. 1995. Speciation and phyletic change in Globorotalia truncatulinoides (planktonic Foraminifera). Paleobiology 21 (1): 28-51.

    Lazarus, D., B., C. Spencer-Cervato, M. Pianka-Biolzi, J. P. Beckmann, K. von Salis, H. Hilbrecht, and H. R. Thierstein. 1995. Revised Chronology of Neogene DSDP Holes From the World Ocean. Vol. 24, Technical Notes. College Station: Ocean Drilling Program. ca 250 p.

    Lazarus, D. and Caulet, J. P. 1993. Cenozoic Southern Ocean reconstructions. AGU Antarctic Research Series 60: 145-174.