Biodiversity across space and time in the fossil record

An Atlas of Phanerozoic Paleogeographic Maps: The Seas Come In and the Seas Go Out

(2021) Christopher R. Scotese   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Punctuated ecological equilibrium in mammal communities over evolutionary time scales

(2021) Fernando Blanco et al.   SCIENCE

Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern Neotropical rainforests

(2021) Mónica R. Carvalho et al.   SCIENCE

Ecological and biogeographic drivers of biodiversity cannot be resolved using clade age-richness data

(2021) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   Nature Communications

Why extinction estimates from extant phylogenies are so often zero

(2021) Stilianos Louca et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Empirical and Methodological Challenges to the Model-Based Inference of Diversification Rates in Extinct Clades

(2021) David Černý et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ecological Response of Plankton to Environmental Change: Thresholds for Extinction

(2020) Christopher M. Lowery et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Extant timetrees are consistent with a myriad of diversification histories

(2020) Stilianos Louca et al.   NATURE

On four measures of taxonomic richness

(2020) John Alroy   PALEOBIOLOGY

The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases

(2020) Roger A. Close et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spatial scaling of beta diversity in the shallow-marine fossil record

(2020) Tom M. Womack et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale

(2019) Roger A. Close et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

The carrying capacity for species richness

(2019) David Storch et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Building mountain biodiversity: Geological and evolutionary processes

(2019) Carsten Rahbek et al.   SCIENCE

Spatio-temporal climate change contributes to latitudinal diversity gradients

(2019) Erin E. Saupe et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Biotic and abiotic factors driving the diversification dynamics of Crocodylia

(2019) Andrés Solórzano et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Marine Biodiversity and Geographic Distributions Are Independent on Large Scales

(2019) Gwen S. Antell et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Diversity-dependent evolutionary rates in early Palaeozoic zooplankton

(2018) Michael Foote et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How should we estimate diversity in the fossil record? Testing richness estimators using sampling-standardised discovery curves

(2018) Roger A. Close et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Evolutionary rates of mid-Permian tetrapods from South Africa and the role of temporal resolution in turnover reconstruction

(2018) Michael O. Day et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Multi-scale interplays of biotic and abiotic drivers shape mammalian sub-continental diversity over millions of years

(2018) Juan L. Cantalapiedra et al.   Scientific Reports

Physical and environmental drivers of Paleozoic tetrapod dispersal across Pangaea

(2018) Neil Brocklehurst et al.   Nature Communications

Plate tectonic regulation of global marine animal diversity

(2017) Andrew Zaffos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Common species link global ecosystems to climate change: dynamical evidence in the planktonic fossil record

(2017) Bjarte Hannisdal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Decoupled ecomorphological evolution and diversification in Neogene-Quaternary horses

(2017) J. L. Cantalapiedra et al.   SCIENCE

Controlling for the species-area effect supports constrained long-term Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate diversification

(2017) Roger A. Close et al.   Nature Communications

The timetable of evolution

(2017) Andrew H. Knoll et al.   Science Advances

Five palaeobiological laws needed to understand the evolution of the living biota

(2017) Charles R. Marshall   Nature Ecology & Evolution

How many dinosaur species were there? Fossil bias and true richness estimated using a Poisson sampling model

(2016) Jostein Starrfelt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The non-uniformity of fossil preservation

(2016) Steven M. Holland   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The uncertain role of diversity dependence in species diversification and the need to incorporate time-varying carrying capacities

(2016) Charles R. Marshall et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Late Cenozoic onset of the latitudinal diversity gradient of North American mammals

(2016) Jonathan D. Marcot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Near-Stasis in the Long-Term Diversification of Mesozoic Tetrapods

(2016) Roger B. J. Benson et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Species Richness at Continental Scales Is Dominated by Ecological Limits

(2015) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Species Diversity Is Dynamic and Unbounded at Local and Continental Scales

(2015) Luke J. Harmon et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Challenges in the estimation of extinction from molecular phylogenies: A response to Beaulieu and O'Meara

(2015) Daniel L. Rabosky   EVOLUTION

Mountain uplift explains differences in Palaeogene patterns of mammalian evolution and extinction between North America and Europe

(2015) Jussi T. Eronen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians

(2015) Philip D. Mannion et al.   Nature Communications

A network approach for identifying and delimiting biogeographical regions

(2015) Daril A. Vilhena et al.   Nature Communications

Climate change and marine molluscs of the western North Atlantic: future prospects and perils

(2014) Erin E. Saupe et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Generification of the Fossil Record

(2014) Jonathan R. Hendricks et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

PyRate: a new program to estimate speciation and extinction rates from incomplete fossil data

(2014) Daniele Silvestro et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Diversity-Dependence, Ecological Speciation, and the Role of Competition in Macroevolution

(2013) Daniel L. Rabosky   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

From card catalogs to computers: databases in vertebrate paleontology

(2013) Mark D. Uhen et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A macroevolutionary expansion of the modern synthesis and the importance of extrinsic abiotic factors

(2013) Corinne E. Myers et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Spatial Bias in the Marine Fossil Record

(2013) Daril A. Vilhena et al.   PLoS One

Out of the tropics, but how? Fossils, bridge species, and thermal ranges in the dynamics of the marine latitudinal diversity gradient

(2013) D. Jablonski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The latitudinal biodiversity gradient through deep time

(2013) Philip D. Mannion et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Coverage-based rarefaction and extrapolation: standardizing samples by completeness rather than size

(2012) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGY

Adaptive Radiations in the Context of Macroevolutionary Theory: A Paleontological Perspective

(2012) Bruce S. Lieberman   Evolutionary Biology

Marine diversity in the geological record and its relationship to surviving bedrock area, lithofacies diversity, and original marine shelf area

(2012) Andrew B. Smith et al.   GEOLOGY

A survey of palaeontological sampling biases in fishes based on the Phanerozoic record of Great Britain

(2012) Graeme T. Lloyd et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Biodiversity tracks temperature over time

(2012) P. J. Mayhew et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Paleoecologic Megatrends in Marine Metazoa

(2011) Andrew M. Bush et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

A phylogeny of Cenozoic macroperforate planktonic foraminifera from fossil data

(2011) Tracy Aze et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Novelties That Change Carrying Capacity

(2011) Douglas H. Erwin   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Fossil evidence for Cretaceous escalation in angiosperm leaf vein evolution

(2011) T. S. Feild et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phanerozoic Earth System Evolution and Marine Biodiversity

(2011) B. Hannisdal et al.   SCIENCE

Interplay Between Changing Climate and Species' Ecology Drives Macroevolutionary Dynamics

(2011) T. H. G. Ezard et al.   SCIENCE

The Great Divergence: When Did Diversity on Land Exceed That in the Sea?

(2010) G. J. Vermeij et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Additive diversity partitioning in palaeobiology: revisiting Sepkoski’s question

(2010) STEVEN M. HOLLAND   PALAEONTOLOGY

Geographical, environmental and intrinsic biotic controls on Phanerozoic marine diversification

(2010) JOHN ALROY   PALAEONTOLOGY

Reefs as Cradles of Evolution and Sources of Biodiversity in the Phanerozoic

(2010) W. Kiessling et al.   SCIENCE

The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups

(2010) J. Alroy   SCIENCE

Island Species Richness Increases with Habitat Diversity

(2009) Joaquín Hortal et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Geologic and Biologic Controls on the Evolution of Reefs

(2009) Wolfgang Kiessling   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The influence of lithification on Cenozoic marine biodiversity trends

(2009) Austin J. W. Hendy   PALEOBIOLOGY

The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time

(2009) M. J. Benton   SCIENCE

Four ways towards tropical herbivore megadiversity

(2008) Thomas M. Lewinsohn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

BIOTIC INTERACTIONS AND MACROEVOLUTION: EXTENSIONS AND MISMATCHES ACROSS SCALES AND LEVELS

(2008) David Jablonski   EVOLUTION

Extinction and the spatial dynamics of biodiversity

(2008) D. Jablonski   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phanerozoic Trends in the Global Diversity of Marine Invertebrates

(2008) J. Alroy et al.   SCIENCE