Coordinated biotic and abiotic change during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Darriwilian assembly of early Paleozoic building blocks

AL Stigall, CT Edwards, RL Freeman… - Palaeogeography …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Ordovician Period records an extraordinary biodiversity increase known as the
Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE), which coincided with a series of …

Cascading trend of Early Paleozoic marine radiations paused by Late Ordovician extinctions

CMØ Rasmussen, B Kröger, ML Nielsen… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
The greatest relative changes in marine biodiversity accumulation occurred during the Early
Paleozoic. The precision of temporal constraints on these changes is crude, hampering our …

The invasion hierarchy: ecological and evolutionary consequences of invasions in the fossil record

AL Stigall - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
Species invasions are pervasive in Earth history, yet the ecological and evolutionary
consequences vary greatly. Ancient invasion events can be organized in a hierarchy of …

Extant species fail to estimate ancestral geographical ranges at older nodes in primate phylogeny

AL Wisniewski, GT Lloyd… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
A clade's evolutionary history is shaped, in part, by geographical range expansion,
sweepstakes dispersal and local extinction. A rigorous understanding of historical …

The Ordovician of Scandinavia: a revised regional stage classification

AT Nielsen, P Ahlberg, JOR Ebbestad… - Geological Society …, 2023‏ - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Ordovician of Scandinavia (ie Denmark, Norway and Sweden) has been
investigated for over two centuries and, through time, various chronostratigraphic schemes …

Life rather than climate influences diversity at scales greater than 40 million years

A Spiridonov, S Lovejoy - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
The diversity of life on Earth is controlled by hierarchical processes that interact over wide
ranges of timescales. Here, we consider the megaclimate regime at scales≥ 1 million years …

Understanding ecological change across large spatial, temporal and taxonomic scales: integrating data and methods in light of theory

G Rapacciuolo, JL Blois - Ecography, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The difficulty of integrating multiple theories, data and methods has slowed progress
towards making unified inferences of ecological change generalizable across large spatial …

Late Neogene and Quaternary diversity and taxonomy of subtropical to temperate planktic foraminifera across the Kuroshio Current Extension, northwest Pacific …

AR Lam, RM Leckie - Micropaleontology, 2020‏ - JSTOR
Patterns of diversity in the modern planktic foraminifera indicate a latitudinal diversity
gradient (LDG), which peaks in the mid-latitude regions. Plankton distributional patterns are …

Diachroneity rules the mid-latitudes: A test case using Late Neogene planktic foraminifera across the Western Pacific

AR Lam, MP Crundwell, RM Leckie, J Albanese… - Geosciences, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Planktic foraminifera are commonly used for first-order age control in deep-sea sediments
from low-latitude regions based on a robust tropical–subtropical zonation scheme. Although …

Changing palaeobiogeography during the Ordovician Period

T Servais, DAT Harper, B Kröger, C Scotese, AL Stigall… - 2023‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Owing to the increasing availability of data for many fossil groups and a generally accepted
palaeogeographical configuration, palaeontologists have been able to develop …