The composition of communities is strongly altered by anthropogenic manipulations of
biogeochemical cycles, abiotic conditions, and trophic structure in all major ecosystems …

The fossil record is the primary source of information on how biodiversity has varied in deep
time, providing unique insight on the long-term dynamics of diversification and their drivers …

It has previously been thought that there was a steep Cretaceous and Cenozoic radiation of
marine invertebrates. This pattern can be replicated with a new data set of fossil occurrences …

We argue that biotas at scales from local communities to entire continents are nearly always
open to new species and that their diversities are far from any ecological limits. We show …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 561–568 Abstract Despite growing attention on the influence of
functional diversity changes on ecosystem functioning, a palaeoecological perspective on …

Patterns of origination and evolution of early complex life on this planet are largely
interpreted from the fossils of the Precambrian soft-bodied Ediacara Biota. These fossils …

▪ Abstract Advances in taphonomy and stratigraphy over the past two decades have
dramatically improved our understanding of the causes, effects, and remedies of …

Biodiversity can be divided into two aspects: richness (the number of species or other taxa in
a community or sample) and evenness (a measure of the distribution of relative abundances …

The importance of ecological interactions in driving the evolution of animals has been the
focus of intense debate among paleontologists, evolutionary biologists, and …

Likelihood analyses of 1176 fossil assemblages of marine organisms from Phanerozoic (ie,
Cambrian to Recent) assemblages indicate a shift in typical relative-abundance distributions …