Red Queen: from populations to taxa and communities

LH Liow, L Van Valen, NC Stenseth - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2011 - cell.com
Biotic interactions via the struggle for control of energy and the interactive effects of biota
with their physical environment characterize Van Valen's Red Queen (VRQ). Here, we …

Combining marine macroecology and palaeoecology in understanding biodiversity: microfossils as a model

M Yasuhara, DP Tittensor, H Hillebrand… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
There is growing interest in the integration of macroecology and palaeoecology towards a
better understanding of past, present, and anticipated future biodiversity dynamics …

AD Model Builder: using automatic differentiation for statistical inference of highly parameterized complex nonlinear models

DA Fournier, HJ Skaug, J Ancheta, J Ianelli… - Optimization Methods …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Many criteria for statistical parameter estimation, such as maximum likelihood, are
formulated as a nonlinear optimization problem. Automatic Differentiation Model Builder …

Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

AWR Seddon, AW Mackay, AG Baker… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Priority question exercises are becoming an increasingly common tool to frame future
agendas in conservation and ecological science. They are an effective way to identify …

Bayesian estimation of speciation and extinction from incomplete fossil occurrence data

D Silvestro, J Schnitzler, LH Liow, A Antonelli… - Systematic …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The temporal dynamics of species diversity are shaped by variations in the rates of
speciation and extinction, and there is a long history of inferring these rates using first and …

Revisiting the origin and diversification of vascular plants through a comprehensive Bayesian analysis of the fossil record

D Silvestro, B Cascales‐Miñana, CD Bacon… - New …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Plants have a long evolutionary history, during which mass extinction events dramatically
affected Earth's ecosystems and its biodiversity. The fossil record can shed light on the …

PyRate: a new program to estimate speciation and extinction rates from incomplete fossil data

D Silvestro, N Salamin… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the advancement of phylogenetic methods to estimate speciation and extinction
rates, their power can be limited under variable rates, in particular for clades with high …

Late Cenozoic cooling restructured global marine plankton communities

A Woodhouse, A Swain, WF Fagan, AJ Fraass… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The geographic ranges of marine organisms, including planktonic foraminifera, diatoms,
dinoflagellates, copepods and fish, are shifting polewards owing to anthropogenic climate …

Improved estimation of macroevolutionary rates from fossil data using a Bayesian framework

D Silvestro, N Salamin, A Antonelli, X Meyer - Paleobiology, 2019 - cambridge.org
The estimation of origination and extinction rates and their temporal variation is central to
understanding diversity patterns and the evolutionary history of clades. The fossil record …

Inferring diversification rate variation from phylogenies with fossils

JS Mitchell, RS Etienne, DL Rabosky - Systematic Biology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Time-calibrated phylogenies of living species have been widely used to study the tempo and
mode of species diversification. However, it is increasingly clear that inferences about …