Fungi as mediators linking organisms and ecosystems

M Bahram, T Netherway - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Fungi form a major and diverse component of most ecosystems on Earth. They are both
micro and macroorganisms with high and varying functional diversity as well as great …

Global events of the late Paleozoic (early Devonian to Middle Permian): a review

W Qie, TJ Algeo, G Luo, A Herrmann - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Paleozoic (Early Devonian to Middle Permian) was an interval of profound
changes in Earth-surface systems, reflected in dynamic interplay among the biosphere …

Names for trace fossils 2.0: theory and practice in ichnotaxonomy

M Bertling, LA Buatois, D Knaust, B Laing… - Lethaia, 2022 - idunn.no
A uniform approach to ichnotaxonomy has been for the most part positively received by the
scientific community. We carry it further here, presenting a revised treatment of trace fossil …

The Silurian–Devonian terrestrial revolution: Diversity patterns and sampling bias of the vascular plant macrofossil record

E Capel, CJ Cleal, J Xue, C Monnet, T Servais… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
During the mid-Palaeozoic, vascular land plants (ie, tracheophytes) underwent a great
radiation that triggered the development of the land biosphere–the so-called Silurian …

Resilience of infaunal ecosystems during the Early Triassic greenhouse Earth

X Feng, ZQ Chen, MJ Benton, C Su, DJ Bottjer… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The Permian-Triassic mass extinction severely depleted biodiversity, primarily observed in
the body fossil of well-skeletonized animals. Understanding how whole ecosystems were …

Quantifying ecospace utilization and ecosystem engineering during the early Phanerozoic—The role of bioturbation and bioerosion

LA Buatois, MG Mángano, NJ Minter, K Zhou… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The Cambrian explosion (CE) and the great Ordovician biodiversification event (GOBE) are
the two most important radiations in Paleozoic oceans. We quantify the role of bioturbation …

The rise and early evolution of animals: where do we stand from a trace-fossil perspective?

MG Mángano, LA Buatois - Interface Focus, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The trace-fossil record provides a wealth of information to track the rise and early evolution
of animals. It comprises the activity of both hard-and soft-bodied organisms, is continuous …

The invasion of the land in deep time: integrating Paleozoic records of paleobiology, ichnology, sedimentology, and geomorphology

LA Buatois, NS Davies, MR Gibling… - Integrative and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The invasion of the land was a complex, protracted process, punctuated by mass extinctions,
that involved multiple routes from marine environments. We integrate paleobiology …

Potential and problems in evaluating secular changes in the diversity of animal‐substrate interactions at ichnospecies rank

LJ Zhang, LA Buatois, MG Mángano - Terra Nova, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in diversity of trace fossils through time provide information about
evolutionary innovations in animal‐substrate interactions. Global ichnodiversity changes at …

Increase in metazoan ecosystem engineering prior to the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary in the Nama Group, Namibia

AT Cribb, CG Kenchington… - Royal Society …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The disappearance of the soft-bodied Ediacara biota at the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary
potentially represents the earliest mass extinction of complex life, although the precise driver …