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 …

Evolution of animal regeneration: re-emergence of a field

AE Bely, KG Nyberg - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2010 - cell.com
Regeneration, the replacement of lost body parts, is widespread yet highly variable among
animals. Explaining this variation remains a major challenge in biology. Great strides have …

Does pollen-assemblage richness reflect floristic richness? A review of recent developments and future challenges

HJB Birks, VA Felde, AE Bjune, JA Grytnes… - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2016 - Elsevier
Current interest and debate on pollen-assemblage richness as a proxy for past plant
richness have prompted us to review recent developments in assessing whether modern …

The multidimensionality of the niche reveals functional diversity changes in benthic marine biotas across geological time

S Villéger, PM Novack‐Gottshall, D Mouillot - Ecology Letters, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 561–568 Abstract Despite growing attention on the influence of
functional diversity changes on ecosystem functioning, a palaeoecological perspective on …

Predation in the marine fossil record: studies, data, recognition, environmental factors, and behavior

AA Klompmaker, PH Kelley, D Chattopadhyay… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The fossil record is the primary source of data used to study predator-prey interactions in
deep time and to evaluate key questions regarding the evolutionary and ecological …

The Proterozoic record of eukaryotes

PA Cohen, FA Macdonald - Paleobiology, 2015 - cambridge.org
Proterozoic strata host evidence of global “Snowball Earth” glaciations, large perturbations
to the carbon cycle, proposed changes in the redox state of oceans, the diversification of …

Biotic interactions and macroevolution: extensions and mismatches across scales and levels

D Jablonski - Evolution, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Clade dynamics in the fossil record broadly fit expectations from the operation of
competition, predation, and mutualism, but data from both modern and ancient systems …

Bayesian analyses indicate bivalves did not drive the downfall of brachiopods following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

Z Guo, JT Flannery-Sutherland, MJ Benton… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Certain times of major biotic replacement have often been interpreted as broadly
competitive, mediated by innovation in the succeeding clades. A classic example was the …

The latest Ediacaran wormworld fauna: setting the ecological stage for the Cambrian explosion

JD Schiffbauer, JW Huntley, GR O'Neil, SAF Darroch… - 2016 - utoronto.scholaris.ca
As signposted by the fossil record, the early Cambrian period chronicles the appearance
and evolutionary diversification of most animal phyla in a geologically rapid event …

Nitrate limitation in early Neoproterozoic oceans delayed the ecological rise of eukaryotes

J Kang, B Gill, R Reid, F Zhang, S **ao - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
The early Neoproterozoic Era witnessed the initial ecological rise of eukaryotes at ca. 800
Ma. To assess whether nitrate availability played an important role in this evolutionary event …