The development of terrestrial ecosystems emerging after glacier retreat

GF Ficetola, S Marta, A Guerrieri, I Cantera, A Bonin… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The global retreat of glaciers is dramatically altering mountain and high-latitude landscapes,
with new ecosystems developing from apparently barren substrates,,–. The study of these …

The Micropaleoecology Framework: Evaluating Biotic Responses to Global Change Through Paleoproxy, Microfossil, and Ecological Data Integration

A Woodhouse, A Swain, JA Smith… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The microfossil record contains abundant, diverse, and well‐preserved fossils spanning
multiple trophic levels from primary producers to apex predators. In addition, microfossils …

Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future

JA Smith, NB Raja, T Clements, D Dimitrijević… - Paleobiology, 2024 - cambridge.org
Data compilations expand the scope of research; however, data citation practice lags behind
advances in data use. It remains uncommon for data users to credit data producers in …

Advancing terrestrial ecology by improving cross-temporal research and collaboration

L Azevedo-Schmidt, M Landrum, MM Spoth… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Ecology spans spatial and temporal scales and is inclusive of the history of life on Earth.
However, research that occurs at millennial timescales or longer has historically been …

ForCenS-LGM: a dataset of planktonic foraminifera species assemblage composition for the Last Glacial Maximum

L Jonkers, A Mix, A Voelker, B Risebrobakken… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Species assemblage composition of marine microfossils offers the possibility to investigate
ecological and climatological change on time scales inaccessible using conventional …

Abundance–diversity relationship as a unique signature of temporal scaling in the fossil record

A Tomašových, M Kowalewski, R Nawrot… - Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Species diversity increases with the temporal grain of samples according to the species–
time relationship (STR), impacting palaeoecological analyses because the temporal grain …

DeepDiveR–A software for deep learning estimation of palaeodiversity from fossil occurrences

RB Cooper, BJ Allen, D Silvestro - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The incompleteness of the fossil record, in particular variation in preservation and sampling
through space and time, presents a barrier to estimating changes in biodiversity which …

Geohistorical insights into marine functional connectivity

K Agiadi, BA Caswell, R Almeida… - ICES Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Marine functional connectivity (MFC) refers to the flows of organic matter, genes, and energy
that are caused by the active and passive movements of marine organisms. Occurring at …

Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model

EM Dillon, C Pimiento - Paleobiology, 2024 - cambridge.org
Humans have dramatically transformed ecosystems over the previous millennia and are
potentially causing a mass extinction event comparable to the others that shaped the history …

An assessment of body size and dietary biases in fossil mammal assemblages of the Pleistocene of Eurasia

AK Parker, D Pushkina, L Liu - Annales Zoologici Fennici, 2024 - BioOne
Paleoecological and ecometric studies of animal communities' functional composition
require quantification of whether fossil faunas reliably record trait distributions of living …