Team Publications

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

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04JUN 2020
Team Publications
A novel community… what next?
“Local and global environmental change is transforming ecological assemblages into new configurations, resulting in ecosystems with novel communities. Here we develop a robust methodology for the identification of novel communities, examine patterns in their natural chance of occurrence, and quantify the probability of local extinction, emigration, local origination and immigration in transitions to and from […]“Local and global environmental change is transforming ecological assemblages into new configurations, resulting in ecosystems with novel communities. Here we develop a robust methodology for the identification of novel communities, examine patterns in their natural chance of occurrence, and quantify the probability of local extinction, emigration, local origination and immigration in transitions to and from […]
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03JUN 2020
Team Publications
Marine invertebrate migrations trace climate change
“Poleward migration is a clear response of marine organisms to current global warming but the generality and geographical uniformity of this response are unclear. Marine fossils are expected to record the range shift responses of taxa and ecosystems to past climate change. However, unequal sampling (natural and human) in time and space biases the fossil […]
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01JUN 2020
Team Publications
Parasitic helminth evolution
“Fossil evidence for parasitic lineages are investigated including Acanthocephala, Annelida, Arthropoda, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Pentastomida, Platyhelminthes. Despite the patchy fossil record of soft-bodied helminths, the group is more diverse than commonly assumed.Many forms have been around since the early Paleozoic already and endoparasitic lineages are present at least since the Mesozoic.”The fossil record of parasitic helminths […]“Fossil evidence for parasitic lineages are investigated including Acanthocephala, Annelida, Arthropoda, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Pentastomida, Platyhelminthes. Despite the patchy fossil record of soft-bodied helminths, the group is more diverse than commonly assumed.Many forms have been around since the early Paleozoic already and endoparasitic lineages are present at least since the Mesozoic.”The fossil record of parasitic helminths […]
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01JUN 2020
Team Publications
Biological time-machine
“Direct observations of marine ecosystems are inherently limited in their temporal scope. Yet, ongoing global anthropogenic change urgently requires improved understanding of long-term baselines, greater insight into the relationship between climate and biodiversity, and knowledge of the evolutionary consequences of our actions. Sediment cores can provide this understanding by linking data on the responses of […]“Direct observations of marine ecosystems are inherently limited in their temporal scope. Yet, ongoing global anthropogenic change urgently requires improved understanding of long-term baselines, greater insight into the relationship between climate and biodiversity, and knowledge of the evolutionary consequences of our actions. Sediment cores can provide this understanding by linking data on the responses of […]
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20MAY 2020
Team Publications
The Devonian placoderm Titanichthys
“The Late Devonian placoderm Titanichthys has tentatively been considered to have been a megaplanktivore… results from this study conform to the hypothesis that Titanichthys was a suspension feeder with jaws ill-suited for biting and crushing but well suited for gaping ram feeding.”Large nektonic suspension feeders have evolved multiple times. The apparent trend among apex predators […]
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20MAY 2020
Team Publications
Pull of the Recent
“Modern elasmobranchs have a long evolutionary history and an abundant fossil record that consists mainly of teeth. Many fossil taxa have living representatives. However, the representation of extant taxa in the fossil record is unknown. To begin to understand the geological history of extant elasmobranchs, we here assess the quality of their fossil record. We […]
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