"...The mechanical stress caused by boulderers damages rock vegetation locally on climbing holds and is one of the impacts induced by climbing. Even moderate frequency and no prior cleaning of routes can lead to longer lasting damage to cliff vegetation. In sensitive areas, appropriate management a...
"Anoxia has been hypothesised as a major kill mechanism for marine ecosystems during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, but its importance is increasingly debated for shallow marine settings. For the Neotethys Ocean, in particular, geochemical data that is suitable to verify a local anoxic signa...
"One of the main objectives of ecological research is to enhance our understanding of the processes that lead to species extinction. A potentially crucial extinction pattern is the dependence of contemporary biodiversity dynamics on past climates, also known as “climate legacy”. However, the genera...
"Orthoceratoid cephalopods are common in the Palaeozoic rock record but went extinct in the Late Triassic. Many orthoceratoids contain cameral deposits, which are enigmatic calcareous structures within their chambered shell that presumably balanced their straight conchs in a horizontal position. Si...
"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...
