Team Publications

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

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17JAN 2020
Team Publications
Location data for cheilostome bryozoan species
“In this study datasets of cheilostom bryozoans were compared and combined to reconstruct latitudinal species richness curve illustrating that these bryozoans display a bimodal global latitudinal diversity gradient with peaks in temperate zones.”We use natural language processing (NLP) to retrieve location data for cheilostome bryozoan species (text-mined occurrences [TMO]) in an automated procedure. We compare […]“In this study datasets of cheilostom bryozoans were compared and combined to reconstruct latitudinal species richness curve illustrating that these bryozoans display a bimodal global latitudinal diversity gradient with peaks in temperate zones.”We use natural language processing (NLP) to retrieve location data for cheilostome bryozoan species (text-mined occurrences [TMO]) in an automated procedure. We compare […]
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13JAN 2020
Team Publications
Species–area relationships
“Species–area relationships (SARs) are fundamental scaling laws in ecology although their shape is still disputed. At larger areas, power laws best represent SARs. Yet, it remains unclear whether SARs follow other shapes at finer spatial grains in continuous vegetation. We asked which function describes SARs best at small grains and explored how sampling methodology or […]
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06JAN 2020
Team Publications
Marine biodiversity and geographic distributions of bivalves and brachiopods
“Fundamental ecological and evolutionary theories, such as community saturation and diversity-dependent diversification, assume that biotic competition restricts resource use, and thus limits realized niche breadth and geographic range size. This principle is called competitive exclusion. The corollary (ecological release) posits that, after competitors disappear from a region, species that were previously excluded will invade. Hundreds of field […]“Fundamental ecological and evolutionary theories, such as community saturation and diversity-dependent diversification, assume that biotic competition restricts resource use, and thus limits realized niche breadth and geographic range size. This principle is called competitive exclusion. The corollary (ecological release) posits that, after competitors disappear from a region, species that were previously excluded will invade. Hundreds of field […]
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03JAN 2020
Team Publications
Extinction intensity explained by cooling and palaeogeography
“A striking feature of the marine fossil record is the variable intensity of extinction during superficially similar climate transitions. Here we combine climate models and species trait simulations to explore the degree to which differing palaeogeographic boundary conditions and differing magnitudes of cooling and glaciation can explain the relative intensity of marine extinction during greenhouse–icehouse […]“A striking feature of the marine fossil record is the variable intensity of extinction during superficially similar climate transitions. Here we combine climate models and species trait simulations to explore the degree to which differing palaeogeographic boundary conditions and differing magnitudes of cooling and glaciation can explain the relative intensity of marine extinction during greenhouse–icehouse […]
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01JAN 2020
Team Publications
Ten years of Methods in Ecology and Evolution
“The start of 2020 marks the end of the first decade of Methods in Ecology and Evolution. When we launched the journal in 2010, we did so because of feedback from the community that there was a need for a journal that promoted the publication of new methods. In Issue 1, the launch issue, we published […]
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01JAN 2020
Team Publications
Diversity in the Triassic Cassian Formation, Dolomites (Italy)
“With 1429 animal species, the Triassic Cassian Formation in the Dolomites, Southern Alps (Italy), yields the highest species richness reported from any spatially constrained pre-Quaternary formation known to science. The high preserved diversity is partly attributable to a high primary diversity governed by the tropical setting, increasing alpha diversity, and the breadth of habitats spurring […]“With 1429 animal species, the Triassic Cassian Formation in the Dolomites, Southern Alps (Italy), yields the highest species richness reported from any spatially constrained pre-Quaternary formation known to science. The high preserved diversity is partly attributable to a high primary diversity governed by the tropical setting, increasing alpha diversity, and the breadth of habitats spurring […]
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