Team Publications

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

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17JAN 2023
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Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0
“Aims: To develop a consistent ecological indicator value system for Europe for five of the main plant niche dimensions: soil moisture (M), soil nitrogen (N), soil reaction (R), light (L) and temperature (T). Study area: Europe (and closely adjacent regions). Methods: We identified 31 indicator value systems for vascular plants in Europe that contained assessments on at […]
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16JAN 2023
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Survivorship dynamics of the flora of Devonian Angarida
“Devonian plants in Siberia present protracted pioneer succession. Research into the survivorship dynamics of early plant communities upon the palaeocontinent Angarida have demonstrated that transgression and volcanogenic nutrient influx were key to the survival of colonizing plants. Taxic proportions show that migrating taxa entered Angarida from the southwest, Kuznetsk and Minusinsk basins, dispersing across the […]“Devonian plants in Siberia present protracted pioneer succession. Research into the survivorship dynamics of early plant communities upon the palaeocontinent Angarida have demonstrated that transgression and volcanogenic nutrient influx were key to the survival of colonizing plants. Taxic proportions show that migrating taxa entered Angarida from the southwest, Kuznetsk and Minusinsk basins, dispersing across the […]
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16JAN 2023
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The Life of Mary Anning, Fossil Collector of Lyme Regis
“Despite the modern celebrity of the fossil collector Mary Anning (1799–1847) of Lyme Regis and her frequent use as an icon in scientific education and popularization, there are few accounts of her life by her contemporaries. We report here a previously unpublished anonymous manuscript memoir of Anning’s life, in the Special Collections of the University […]
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10JAN 2023
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Dinosaur extinctions related to the Jenkyns Event (early Toarcian, Jurassic)
“The early Toarcian Jenkyns Event (~183 Ma) was characterized by a perturbation of the global carbon cycle, global warming, which at continental areas led to intensifi ed chemical weathering, enhanced soils erosion, and intensifi ed wildfi res. Warming and acid rain aff ected diversity and composition of land plant assemblages, caused a loss of forests […]
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10JAN 2023
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Single disparity indices can be misleading
“A recent paper by Suárez & Esteve (2021) concludes that taxa with enrolment types not associated with coadaptive structures were less constrained in the shape of the cephalon and were thus able to achieve greater disparity. The analysis presented in their paper is limited to a single disparity index, the sum of variances. Consideration of […]
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10JAN 2023
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Dental form and function in the early feeding diversification of dinosaurs
“Dinosaurs evolved a remarkable diversity of dietary adaptations throughout the Mesozoic, but the origins of different feeding modes are uncertain, especially the multiple origins of herbivory. Feeding habits of early dinosaurs have mostly been inferred from qualitative comparisons of dental morphology with extant analogs. Here, we use biomechanical and morphometric methods to investigate the dental […]“Dinosaurs evolved a remarkable diversity of dietary adaptations throughout the Mesozoic, but the origins of different feeding modes are uncertain, especially the multiple origins of herbivory. Feeding habits of early dinosaurs have mostly been inferred from qualitative comparisons of dental morphology with extant analogs. Here, we use biomechanical and morphometric methods to investigate the dental […]
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