"India, one of the world’s most biodiverse countries and now the most populous, stands at a critical intersection of ecological wealth and intense anthropogenic pressure. Its unique geological history, once part of Gondwana and later colliding with Asia, has profoundly shaped its biota, resulting i...
"For the last 3 decades, there has been a significant increase in interest among scientists and policymakers worldwide in the heritage significance of geology, particularly in the context of geoconservation, geotourism, and geopark initiatives. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of best...
"Mid‐ to higher‐latitude shallow marine environments are suggested to serve as refugia fororganisms during intervals of rapid environmental change associated with hyperthermals. To understand therole of these environments during hyperthermals, we herein investigate the Permian–Triassic environmenta...
👏 Congratulations 👏 to the Big Questions team lead by Jansen A. Smith! After such a hard work the paper "Identifying the Big Questions in paleontology: a community-driven project" is published in Paleobiology. "Paleontology provides insights into the history of the planet, from the origins of life ...
"The impact of strongly differentiated populations on species delimitation due to limited or sex-biased dispersal remains challenging and under-explored in the framework of integrative taxonomy. The Mediterranean chafer beetle genus Pachypus is remarkable for its extreme female philopatry...
"A predictive ecological response to both the present and past climate crises is that marine ectotherm species will become smaller before going extinct or fluctuate in abundance and size with environmental conditions. The problem with studying past climate events with high rates and magnitude of wa...
"The Permian–Triassic transition is characterized by major environmental changes (e.g., hyperthermals, perturbations in carbon cycle) and the largest known mass extinction event in the Phanerozoic. However, successions with a relatively complete sedimentological and paleontological record across th...
"The genus Nuskoisporites is a common component of Permian palynofloras, with biostratigraphic and paleogeographic importance. Despite the existence of previous revisions of its occurrence, there are still uncertainties concerning its complete stratigraphic range and paleogeographic distribution. T...
"Results: We found remarkably consistent patterns in which AET and MDE failed to offer a good explanation for species richness. WED was the best model when all islands were analyzed simultaneously; however, analyses on separate islands revealed that the precipitation term was not significant or neg...
"At the end of the Cisuralian (early Permian), the Kungurian represents a key phase in plant evolution and in the development of associated pollen and spores. During the Artinskian, a noticeable shift began, with vegetation and palynofloras transitioning from those typical of humid conditions to th...
