"The fossil record is our only direct source of evidence for how life on Earth has waxed and waned over its long history. However, the fossil record is also incomplete and biased in many ways, after passing through biological, geological, and socio-economic filters. This means that we only possess ...
"The fitness of groups is often considered to be the average fitness among constituent members. This assumption has been useful for developing models of multilevel selection, but its uncritical adoption has held back our understanding of how multilevel selection actually works in nature. If group f...
"The straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was amongst the largest herbivores once engineering the European landscape on a continental scale. In combination with the glacial-interglacial cycles of the Pleis tocene, the species was an integral part of the control regimes that shaped Euro...
"Paleobiology was founded 50 years ago to provide an outlet for biological paleontology, with an emphasis on investigating evolutionary patterns and processes that could apply generally across the history of life. While the intellectual and financial prospects for Paleobiology were uncertain in the...
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"In the last 50 years, the field of paleobiology has undergone a computational revolution that opened multiple new avenues for recording, storing, and analyzing vital data on the history of life on Earth. With these advances, the amount of data available for research has ...
"Marine calcifiers produce calcareous structures (e.g. shells, skeletons or tests) and are therefore sensitive to ocean chemistry. Nevertheless, the long-term evolutionary consequences of marine carbonate changes are not well understood. This article compares calcareous and non-calcareous responses...
"Digital information media such as outdoor platforms (often referred to as outdoor apps) offer a direct means of communication and interaction with recreationists. This harbours potential, but also poses new challenges for nature conservation. For example, protected areas and the rules that apply t...
"Terrestrial ecosystems underwent extreme shifts in composition, following extensive degassing associated with the Siberian Traps near the Permian–Triassic boundary (PTB). These climatic perturbations are recorded in land plant macrofossil assemblages, which reflect complex changes in major biomes ...
"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...
"The future of tropical coral reefs is severely threatened by rising global temperatures and relies on the persistence of two key attributes: (a) coral biodiversity, and (b) the reef-building capacity. In order to understand how these attributes responded to a climate warming, we investigated coral...
