Team Publications

Publications by the members of the Paleosynthesis Team and Scientific Advisory Board

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15SEP 2023
Team Publications
Bayesian analyses indicate bivalves did not drive the downfall of brachiopods
“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 switch from brachiopods to bivalves as major seabed organisms following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction (PTME), ~252 million years ago. This was attributed to competitive exclusion of brachiopods by the better […]
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15SEP 2023
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Oversimplification risks too much
“As anthropogenic climate change pushes modern ecosystems into uncharted territory, marine ectotherms show particularly clear climate change impacts. Coincidentally, marine invertebrates have the lion’s share of the macrofossil record, sometimes covering ancient episodes of rapid global warming (hyperthermals) that led to extinction crises, including mass extinctions. This makes the fossil record an unrivalled but complex […]“As anthropogenic climate change pushes modern ecosystems into uncharted territory, marine ectotherms show particularly clear climate change impacts. Coincidentally, marine invertebrates have the lion’s share of the macrofossil record, sometimes covering ancient episodes of rapid global warming (hyperthermals) that led to extinction crises, including mass extinctions. This makes the fossil record an unrivalled but complex […]
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08SEP 2023
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Automated visitor and wildlife monitoring
“As human activities in natural areas increase, understanding human–wildlife interactions is crucial. Big data approaches, like large-scale camera trap studies, are becoming more relevant for studying these interactions. In addition, opensource object detection models are rapidly improving and have great potential to enhance the image processing of camera trap data from human and wildlife activities. […]“As human activities in natural areas increase, understanding human–wildlife interactions is crucial. Big data approaches, like large-scale camera trap studies, are becoming more relevant for studying these interactions. In addition, opensource object detection models are rapidly improving and have great potential to enhance the image processing of camera trap data from human and wildlife activities. […]
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08SEP 2023
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Kungurian (Cisuralian) conifers and environmental changes
“The Le Fraine fossil locality, near the Tregiovo village (Trento Province, northern Italy) yields two of the best documented Kungurian (early Permian) plant fossil assemblages of eastern palaeoequatorial Pangea. Both plant assemblages (Tregiovo A and B) are dominated by walchian and voltzian conifers but differ in the relative abundance of the major plant groups. Analyses […]
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08SEP 2023
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Rapid neck elongation in Sauropterygia
“Neck elongation has appeared independently in several tetrapod groups, including giraffes and sauropod dinosaurs on land, birds and pterosaurs in the air, and sauropterygians (plesiosaurs and relatives) in the oceans. Long necks arose in Early Triassic sauropterygians, but the nature and rate of that elongation has not been documented. Here, we report a new species […]
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21AUG 2023
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Gill function in an early arthropod
“Rising but fluctuating oxygenlevels in the Early Palaeozoic provide an environmental context for the radiation of early metazoans, but little is known about how mechanistically early animals satisfied their oxygen requirements. Here we propose that the countercurrent gaseous exchange, a highly efficient respiratory mechanism, was effective in the gills of the Late Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus […]“Rising but fluctuating oxygenlevels in the Early Palaeozoic provide an environmental context for the radiation of early metazoans, but little is known about how mechanistically early animals satisfied their oxygen requirements. Here we propose that the countercurrent gaseous exchange, a highly efficient respiratory mechanism, was effective in the gills of the Late Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus […]
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