Impacts of global warming on Permo-Triassic terrestrial ecosystems

MJ Benton, AJ Newell - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Geologists and palaeontologists have expressed mixed views about the effects of the end-
Permian mass extinction on continental habitats and on terrestrial life. Current work …

Anatomy of a mass extinction: sedimentological and taphonomic evidence for drought-induced die-offs at the Permo-Triassic boundary in the main Karoo Basin, South …

RMH Smith, J Botha-Brink - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2014 - Elsevier
The southern part of the Karoo Basin of South Africa contains a near complete stratigraphic
record of the Permo-Triassic boundary (PTB). Isotope-and magneto-stratigraphy confirm that …

Quantifying functional diversity in pre-and post-extinction paleocommunities: a test of ecological restructuring after the end-Permian mass extinction

AA Dineen, ML Fraiser, PM Sheehan - Earth-Science Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
A review of the literature shows that understanding of biotic restructuring following the
Permo-Triassic mass extinction (PTME) is typically based on only a few components of the …

Early Triassic marine biotic recovery: the predators' perspective

TM Scheyer, C Romano, J Jenks, H Bucher - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Examining the geological past of our planet allows us to study periods of severe climatic and
biological crises and recoveries, biotic and abiotic ecosystem fluctuations, and faunal and …

Highly resolved early Eocene food webs show development of modern trophic structure after the end-Cretaceous extinction

JA Dunne, CC Labandeira… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Generalities of food web structure have been identified for extant ecosystems. However, the
trophic organization of ancient ecosystems is unresolved, as prior studies of fossil webs …

Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Traversodontidae

J Liu, F Abdala - Early evolutionary history of the Synapsida, 2014 - Springer
We review the taxonomic history of traversodontid cynodont genera and species and the
previous classifications and phylogenetic analyses of the group. 17 genera and 22 species …

Floodplain habitats of braided river systems: depositional environment, flora and fauna of the Solling Formation (Buntsandstein, Lower Triassic) from Bremke and …

E Kustatscher, M Franz, C Heunisch, M Reich… - Palaeobiodiversity and …, 2014 - Springer
Abstract The Solling Formation is the most distinctive unit of the Early Triassic Buntsandstein
of the epicontinental Central European Basin. The Solling Formation of Bremke and …

Direct evidence of trophic interactions among apex predators in the Late Triassic of western North America

SK Drumheller, MR Stocker, SJ Nesbitt - Naturwissenschaften, 2014 - Springer
Hypotheses of feeding behaviors and community structure are testable with rare direct
evidence of trophic interactions in the fossil record (eg, bite marks). We present evidence of …

Synapsid diversity and the rock record in the Permian-Triassic Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup), South Africa

J Fröbisch - Early evolutionary history of the Synapsida, 2014 - Springer
This study investigates diversity patterns of Synapsida in the Permian-Triassic sequence of
the Karoo Basin, South Africa. Permian-Triassic synapsids represent the dominant terrestrial …

Boundaries and dynamics of biomes

DA Vilhena - 2014 - digital.lib.washington.edu
Species are packed into biogeographic zones, where evolution can effectively operate
independently to forge evolutionary novelty. Biomes are perhaps the most relevant unit of …