How individual species and entire ecosystems will respond to future climate change are
among the most pressing questions facing ecologists. Past biodiversity dynamics recorded …

Continental‐scale assembly of floras results from past and present in situ diversification in
association with several external processes. Among these processes are the making and …

Abstract The Ordovician of Scandinavia (ie Denmark, Norway and Sweden) has been
investigated for over two centuries and, through time, various chronostratigraphic schemes …

Plant silicon (Si) content is a trait that has gained increasing attention in recent years, and is
now often suggested to be a plant functional trait. This paper reviews the evidence that …

The difficulty of integrating multiple theories, data and methods has slowed progress
towards making unified inferences of ecological change generalizable across large spatial …

Biologists would be mistaken if they relegated living fossils to paleontological inquiry or
assumed that the concept is dead. It is now used to describe entities ranging from viruses to …

**phosurans are aquatic chelicerates with a fossil record extending into the Early Ordovician
and known from a total of 88 described species, four of which are extant. Known for their …

Terrestrial ecosystems encompass a vast and vital component of Earth's biodiversity and
ecosystem services. The effect of increased anthropogenic dominance on terrestrial …

Actinopterygii makes up half of living vertebrate diversity, and study of fossil members during
their Palaeozoic rise to dominance has a long history of descriptive work. Although research …

Spatio-temporal assessment of phylogenetic diversity gradients during the Holocene (past
12,000 years) provides an opportunity for a deeper understanding of the dynamics of …