Cycles in fossil diversity

RA Rohde, RA Muller - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
… 0.0072 ± 0.0008 cycles Myr -1 ). To show this cycle directly in the diversity data, we … To
determine the statistical significance of the cycles, we estimated background in two ways…

Do extragalactic cosmic rays induce cycles in fossil diversity?

MV Medvedev, AL Melott - The Astrophysical Journal, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
cycle in fossil diversity in the past 542 Myr; however, no plausible mechanism has been found.
We propose that the cycle … the diversity minima and (2) the correlation of the magnitude of …

Considering the case for biodiversity cycles: re-examining the evidence for periodicity in the fossil record

BS Lieberman, AL Melott - PLoS One, 2007 - journals.plos.org
… On the whole our results appear to provide statistical support to the notion that there is
evidence for long term cycles in the fossil record of apparent diversity. In particular, there appears …

How did life become so diverse? The dynamics of diversification according to the fossil record and molecular phylogenetics

MJ Benton, BC Emerson - Palaeontology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… would predict that fossil abundance and diversity would rise … To find the opposite, that fossil
diversity falls, while fossil … Analysis of the fossil record has documented a number of cycles of …

Earth's interior dynamics drive marine fossil diversity cycles of tens of millions of years

S Boulila, SE Peters, RD Müller… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
cycles of tens of Myr in marine animal fossil data over the last 250 Myr. We find similar,
correlatable cycles … paced by geodynamically driven global sea-level cycles. We argue that biotic …

… ∼ 62-Myr periodic fluctuation superimposed on general trends in fossil biodiversity. II. Evolutionary dynamics associated with periodic fluctuation in marine diversity

AL Melott, RK Bambach - Paleobiology, 2011 - cambridge.org
… Similarly, in only two of the eight diversity cycles was the phase of increase in diversity
produced by coupling marked increase in SLGO rate and marked decrease in SLGE rate …

Orbital climate cycles in the fossil record: from semidiurnal to million-year biotic responses

FJ Rodríguez-Tovar - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
… skeletons to million-year-scale cycles involving mass extinctions, various cases illustrate …
fossil record to recognize several cycles, from ecological timescales (≤1.0 yr to 10 kyr cycles; …

Cyclicity in the fossil record mirrors rock outcrop area

AB Smith, AJ McGowan - Biology Letters, 2005 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… we see variation in genus-level diversity: sampled diversity is highest when there is most …
only in the Cretaceous cycle and not the Jurassic cycle. Of course, global diversity has been …

Extinctions in the fossil record

D Jablonski - … Transactions of the Royal Society of …, 1994 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… of 100 families is clearly a more significant event when global diversity (D) totals 200 rather
than 600 … because estimates of global diversity also have an associated error (Gilinsky 1991). …

Large–scale heterogeneity of the fossil record: implications for Phanerozoic biodiversity studies

AB Smith - … Transactions of the Royal Society of London …, 2001 - royalsocietypublishing.org
diversity were presented (based on body fossil diversity at family, genus and species level,
trace fossil diversity and taxonomic diversitycycle there is clear decoupling of diversity from …