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 …

The Red Queen and the Court Jester: species diversity and the role of biotic and abiotic factors through time

MJ Benton - science, 2009 - science.org
Evolution may be dominated by biotic factors, as in the Red Queen model, or abiotic factors,
as in the Court Jester model, or a mixture of both. The two models appear to operate …

A Mesozoic fossil lagerstätte from 250.8 million years ago shows a modern-type marine ecosystem

X Dai, JHFL Davies, Z Yuan, A Brayard, M Ovtcharova… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Finely preserved fossil assemblages (lagerstätten) provide crucial insights into evolutionary
innovations in deep time. We report an exceptionally preserved Early Triassic fossil …

[KNJIGA][B] Biology and evolution of the mollusca, volume 1

WF Ponder, DR Lindberg, JM Ponder - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in
virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …

[KNJIGA][B] Ichnology: Organism-substrate interactions in space and time

LA Buatois, MG Mángano - 2011 - books.google.com
Ichnology is the study of traces created in the substrate by living organisms. This is the first
book to systematically cover basic concepts and applications in both paleobiology and …

[KNJIGA][B] The ancient origins of consciousness: How the brain created experience

TE Feinberg, JM Mallatt - 2016 - books.google.com
How consciousness appeared much earlier in evolutionary history than is commonly
assumed, and why all vertebrates and perhaps even some invertebrates are conscious …

No (Cambrian) explosion and no (Ordovician) event: a single long-term radiation in the early Palaeozoic

T Servais, B Cascales-Miñana, DAT Harper… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cambrian 'Explosion', located by many authors between 540 and 520 million
years ago (Ma), is considered to be an abrupt appearance in the fossil record of most animal …

Species richness at continental scales is dominated by ecological limits

DL Rabosky, AH Hurlbert - The American Naturalist, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
Explaining variation in species richness among provinces and other large geographic
regions remains one of the most challenging problems at the intersection of ecology and …

[KNJIGA][B] Biology's first law: the tendency for diversity and complexity to increase in evolutionary systems

DW McShea, RN Brandon - 2010 - books.google.com
Life on earth is characterized by three striking phenomena that demand explanation:
adaptation—the marvelous fit between organism and environment; diversity—the great …

On the eve of animal radiation: phylogeny, ecology and evolution of the Ediacara biota

S **ao, M Laflamme - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2009 - cell.com
Ediacara fossils document an important evolutionary episode just before the Cambrian
explosion and hold critical information about the early evolution of macroscopic and …