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 …

Embracing colonizations: a new paradigm for species association dynamics

S Nylin, S Agosta, S Bensch, WA Boeger… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
Parasite–host and insect–plant research have divergent traditions despite the fact that most
phytophagous insects live parasitically on their host plants. In parasitology it is a traditional …

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 …

The great Ordovician biodiversification event (GOBE): definition, concept and duration

T Servais, DAT Harper - Lethaia, 2018 - idunn.no
The Ordovician biodiversification has been recognized since the 1960s; the term 'The Great
Ordovician Biodiversification Event', abbreviated by many as the 'GOBE', has been used for …

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

CMØ Rasmussen, B Kröger… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
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 marine biodiversity impact of the Late Miocene Mediterranean salinity crisis

K Agiadi, N Hohmann, E Gliozzi, D Thivaiou… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Massive salt accumulations, or salt giants, have formed in highly restricted marine basins
throughout geological history, but their impact on biodiversity has been only patchily studied …

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) is not a single event

T Servais, B Cascales-Miñana, DAT Harper - Paleontological Research, 2021 - BioOne
The Ordovician biodiversification is considered one of the most significant radiations in the
marine ecosystems of the entire Phanerozoic. Originally recognized as the 'Ordovician …

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 …

Late Miocene transformation of Mediterranean Sea biodiversity

K Agiadi, N Hohmann, E Gliozzi, D Thivaiou… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Understanding deep-time marine biodiversity change under the combined effects of climate
and connectivity changes is fundamental for predicting the impacts of modern climate …

Investigating biotic interactions in deep time

D Fraser, LC Soul, AB Tóth, MA Balk, JT Eronen… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Recent renewed interest in using fossil data to understand how biotic interactions have
shaped the evolution of life is challenging the widely held assumption that long-term climate …