The new and emerging field of phylogenetic paleoecology leverages the evolutionary
relationships among species to explain temporal and spatial changes in species diversity …

Hierarchy theory recognises that ecological and evolutionary units occur in a nested and
interconnected hierarchical system, with cascading effects occurring between hierarchical …

Studies of biodiversity through deep time have been a staple for biologists and
paleontologists for over 60 years. Investigations of species richness (diversity) revealed that …

Larger body size has long been assumed to correlate with greater risk of extinction, hel**
to shape body-size distributions across the tree of life, but a lack of comprehensive size data …

Extinction risk assessments of marine invertebrate species remain scarce, which hinders
effective management of marine biodiversity in the face of anthropogenic impacts. To help …

Bridging the gap between the fossil record and conservation biology has recently become of
great interest. The enormous number of documented extinctions across different taxa can …

The Rhynchonellida is a major group of brachiopods that survived the “big five” mass
extinctions and flourished after the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) crisis. However, phylogenetic and …

Paleobiologists must propose a priori hypotheses of homology when conducting a
phylogenetic analysis of extinct taxa. The distributions of such “primary” homologies among …

Extinction risk in the modern world and extinction in the geological past are often linked to
aspects of life history or other facets of biology that are phylogenetically conserved within …

The synergic relationship between physiology, ecology, and evolutionary process makes the
body-size distribution (BSD) an essential component of the community ecology. Body size is …