Across space and time: A review of sampling, preservational, analytical, and anthropogenic biases in fossil data across macroecological scales

K Nanglu, TM Cullen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantitative studies of fossil data have proven critical to a number of major
macroevolutionary and macroecological discoveries, such as the 'Big 5'mass extinctions of …

The hierarchy of factors predicting the latitudinal diversity gradient

JF Brodie, PD Mannion - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
The numerous explanations for why Earth's biodiversity is concentrated at low latitudes fail
to explain variation in the strength and even direction of the gradient through deep time …

Impact of global climate cooling on Ordovician marine biodiversity

DE Ontiveros, G Beaugrand, B Lefebvre… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Global cooling has been proposed as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification
Event, the largest radiation of Phanerozoic marine animal Life. Yet, mechanistic …

Climatic constraints on the biogeographic history of Mesozoic dinosaurs

AA Chiarenza, PD Mannion, A Farnsworth, MT Carrano… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Dinosaurs dominated Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems globally. However, whereas a pole-to-
pole geographic distribution characterized ornithischians and theropods, sauropods were …

Climatic and tectonic drivers shaped the tropical distribution of coral reefs

LA Jones, PD Mannion, A Farnsworth, F Bragg… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Today, warm-water coral reefs are limited to tropical-to-subtropical latitudes. These diverse
ecosystems extended further poleward in the geological past, but the mechanisms driving …

The bias types and drivers of the Furongian Biodiversity Gap

M Du, H Li, J Tan, Z Wang, W Wang - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Furongian Biodiversity Gap (FBG), which is well known as the biodiversity
minimum between the Cambrian Explosion (CE) and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification …

The Cenozoic history of palms: Global diversification, biogeography and the decline of megathermal forests

JY Lim, H Huang, A Farnsworth, DJ Lunt… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Megathermal rain forests and mangroves are much smaller in extent today than in the
early Cenozoic, primarily owing to global cooling and drying trends since the Eocene …

Biotic and abiotic controls on the phanerozoic history of marine animal biodiversity

AM Bush, JL Payne - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
During the past 541 million years, marine animals underwent three intervals of
diversification (early Cambrian, Ordovician, Cretaceous–Cenozoic) separated by …

palaeoverse: A community‐driven R package to support palaeobiological analysis

LA Jones, W Gearty, BJ Allen… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The open‐source programming language 'R'has become a standard tool in the
palaeobiologist's toolkit. Its popularity within the palaeobiological community continues to …

The macroevolutionary history of bony fishes: a paleontological view

M Friedman - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Bony fishes are the principal group of backboned animals in contemporary aquatic settings.
Extant species are the focus of a vigorous program of macroevolutionary research, but …