Deconstructing plate tectonic reconstructions

M Seton, SE Williams, M Domeier, AS Collins… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The evolving mosaic of tectonic plates across the surface of the Earth sets boundary
conditions for the evolution of biotic and abiotic processes and helps shape the dynamics of …

Long-period astronomical forcing of climatic and biological evolution during the late Paleozoic icehouse-to-greenhouse transition

Q Fang, H Wu, S Shen, J Fan, LA Hinnov, D Yuan… - Earth-Science …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Termination of the late Paleozoic icehouse (LPI) serves as the Earth's first icehouse-to-
greenhouse transition when the continents were covered by extensive vegetation. However …

Landscape dynamics and the Phanerozoic diversification of the biosphere

T Salles, L Husson, M Lorcery, B Hadler Boggiani - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
The long-term diversification of the biosphere responds to changes in the physical
environment. Yet, over the continents, the nearly monotonic expansion of life started later in …

DeepDive: estimating global biodiversity patterns through time using deep learning

RB Cooper, JT Flannery-Sutherland… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Understanding how biodiversity has changed through time is a central goal of evolutionary
biology. However, estimates of past biodiversity are challenged by the inherent …

Impact of global climate cooling on Ordovician marine biodiversity

DE Ontiveros, G Beaugrand, B Lefebvre… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Global cooling has been proposed as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification
Event, the largest radiation of Phanerozoic marine animal Life. Yet, mechanistic …

Late Cretaceous ammonoids show that drivers of diversification are regionally heterogeneous

JT Flannery-Sutherland, CD Crossan, CE Myers… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Palaeontologists have long sought to explain the diversification of individual clades to whole
biotas at global scales. Advances in our understanding of the spatial distribution of the fossil …

Why the Early Paleozoic was intrinsically prone to marine extinction

A Pohl, RG Stockey, X Dai, R Yohler, G Le Hir… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
The geological record of marine animal biodiversity reflects the interplay between changing
rates of speciation versus extinction. Compared to mass extinctions, background extinctions …

Increases in reef size, habitat and metacommunity complexity associated with Cambrian radiation oxygenation pulses

AY Zhuravlev, EG Mitchell, F Bowyer, R Wood… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract Oxygenation during the Cambrian Radiation progressed via a series of short-lived
pulses. However, the metazoan biotic response to this episodic oxygenation has not been …

Diversity dependence is a ubiquitous phenomenon across Phanerozoic oceans

V Rineau, J Smyčka, D Storch - Science Advances, 2022‏ - science.org
Biodiversity on Earth is shaped by abiotic perturbations and rapid diversifications. At the
same time, there are arguments that biodiversity is bounded and regulated via biotic …

Impact of early Toarcian climatic changes on marine reptiles: Extinction and recovery

M Reolid, W Ruebsam, J Reolid, MJ Benton - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Environmental changes governed the diversity of marine ecosystems and the evolution of
marine reptiles during the Jurassic. Abrupt climatic changes, mainly cooling, produced …