Bottom-up controls, ecological revolutions and diversification in the oceans through time

A multiscale view of the Phanerozoic fossil record reveals the three major biotic transitions

(2021) Alexis Rojas et al.   Communications Biology

A long-term record of early to mid-Paleozoic marine redox change

(2021) Erik A. Sperling et al.   Science Advances

The developmental biology of Charnia and the eumetazoan affinity of the Ediacaran rangeomorphs

(2021) Frances S. Dunn et al.   Science Advances

Niche Construction Theory in Archaeology: A Critical Review

(2021) Robert N. Spengler   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY

Biodiversity across space and time in the fossil record

(2021) Roger B.J. Benson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The impact of marine nutrient abundance on early eukaryotic ecosystems

(2020) Christopher T. Reinhard et al.   Geobiology

Ediacaran reorganization of the marine phosphorus cycle

(2020) Thomas A. Laakso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Great Oxidation Event preceded a Paleoproterozoic “snowball Earth”

(2020) Matthew R. Warke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The impacts of land plant evolution on Earth's climate and oxygenation state – An interdisciplinary review

(2020) Tais W. Dahl et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Impacts of speciation and extinction measured by an evolutionary decay clock

(2020) Jennifer F. Hoyal Cuthill et al.   NATURE

The eruptive tempo of Deccan volcanism in relation to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

(2019) Courtney J. Sprain et al.   SCIENCE

Eco-evolutionary feedbacks predict the time course of rapid life history evolution

(2019) David Norman Reznick et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Did the evolution of the phytoplankton fuel the diversification of the marine biosphere?

(2019) Ronald E. Martin et al.   LETHAIA

Land plant evolution decreased, rather than increased, weathering rates

(2019) Michael P. D’Antonio et al.   GEOLOGY

The early Paleozoic development of bioturbation—Evolutionary and geobiological consequences

(2018) Lidya G. Tarhan   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The temporal and environmental context of early animal evolution: considering all the ingredients of an ‘explosion’

(2018) Erik A Sperling et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE): definition, concept and duration

(2018) Thomas Servais et al.   LETHAIA

Spatial analyses of Ediacaran communities at Mistaken Point

(2018) Emily G. Mitchell et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

The Palaeozoic colonization of the water column and the rise of global nekton

(2018) Christopher D. Whalen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

High ecological complexity in benthic Ediacaran communities

(2018) Simon A. F. Darroch et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A small marine biosphere in the Proterozoic

(2018) Thomas A. Laakso et al.   Geobiology

Oxygen, animals and aquatic bioturbation: An updated account

(2017) N. J. Butterfield   Geobiology

What proportion of riverine nutrients reaches the open ocean?

(2017) Jonathan Sharples et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Possible patterns of marine primary productivity during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

(2017) Alexandre Pohl et al.   LETHAIA

The rise of algae in Cryogenian oceans and the emergence of animals

(2017) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

Ecosystem engineering strengthens bottom-up and weakens top-down effects via trait-mediated indirect interactions

(2017) Zhiwei Zhong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Increase in predator-prey size ratios throughout the Phanerozoic history of marine ecosystems

(2017) Adiël A. Klompmaker et al.   SCIENCE

The White-Knight Hypothesis, or Does the Environment Limit Innovations?

(2017) Andreas Wagner   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

(2017) Paul F. Hoffman et al.   Science Advances

Body Size Evolution Across the Geozoic

(2016) Felisa A. Smith et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Phanerozoic trends in ecospace utilization: The bivalve perspective

(2016) Subhronil Mondal et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Dodging snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota

(2016) Judy P. Pu et al.   GEOLOGY

Ecogenomics and potential biogeochemical impacts of globally abundant ocean viruses

(2016) Simon Roux et al.   NATURE

The onset of the ‘Ordovician Plankton Revolution’ in the late Cambrian

(2016) Thomas Servais et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Sex and the shifting biodiversity dynamics of marine animals in deep time

(2016) Andrew M. Bush et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Marine mixotrophy increases trophic transfer efficiency, mean organism size, and vertical carbon flux

(2016) Ben A. Ward et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A bottom-up perspective on ecosystem change in Mesozoic oceans

(2016) Andrew H. Knoll et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Lifespan, growth rate, and body size across latitude in marine Bivalvia, with implications for Phanerozoic evolution

(2016) David K. Moss et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

High potential for weathering and climate effects of non-vascular vegetation in the Late Ordovician

(2016) P. Porada et al.   Nature Communications

Onset of main Phanerozoic marine radiation sparked by emerging Mid Ordovician icehouse

(2016) Christian M. Ø. Rasmussen et al.   Scientific Reports

Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life

(2015) Douglas H. Erwin   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A public goods approach to major evolutionary innovations

(2015) D. H. Erwin   Geobiology

Causes and consequences of mid-Proterozoic anoxia

(2015) Louis A. Derry   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Phanerozoic trends in brachiopod body size from synoptic data

(2015) Zixiang Zhang et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Was the Ediacaran–Cambrian radiation a unique evolutionary event?

(2015) Douglas H. Erwin   PALEOBIOLOGY

Sustained fitness gains and variability in fitness trajectories in the long-term evolution experiment withEscherichia coli

(2015) Richard E. Lenski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Major role of planktonic phosphate reduction in the marine phosphorus redox cycle

(2015) B. A. S. Van Mooy et al.   SCIENCE

Cope's rule in the evolution of marine animals

(2015) N. A. Heim et al.   SCIENCE

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Reviewing two decades of research on diversity's big bang illustrated by mainly brachiopod data

(2015) David A.T. Harper et al.   Palaeoworld

Oxygen and animal evolution: Did a rise of atmospheric oxygen “trigger” the origin of animals?

(2014) Daniel B. Mills et al.   BIOESSAYS

Co-evolution of eukaryotes and ocean oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic era

(2014) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Seafood through time revisited: the Phanerozoic increase in marine trophic resources and its macroevolutionary consequences

(2014) Warren D. Allmon et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

High resolution sedimentary record of dinoflagellate cysts reflects decadal variability and 20th century warming in the Santa Barbara Basin

(2014) Manuel Bringué et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Climate-mediated dance of the plankton

(2014) Michael J. Behrenfeld   Nature Climate Change

Global chemical weathering and associated P-release — The role of lithology, temperature and soil properties

(2013) Jens Hartmann et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

THE NICHE CONSTRUCTION PERSPECTIVE: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL

(2013) Thomas C. Scott-Phillips et al.   EVOLUTION

Processes and patterns of oceanic nutrient limitation

(2013) C. M. Moore et al.   Nature Geoscience

Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals

(2013) E. A. Sperling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

First plants cooled the Ordovician

(2012) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Palaeozoic landscapes shaped by plant evolution

(2012) Martin R. Gibling et al.   Nature Geoscience

Paleoecologic Megatrends in Marine Metazoa

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

Ecological ranking of Phanerozoic biodiversity crises: The Serpukhovian (early Carboniferous) crisis had a greater ecological impact than the end-Ordovician

(2011) George R. McGhee et al.   GEOLOGY

Escargots through time: an energetic comparison of marine gastropod assemblages before and after the Mesozoic Marine Revolution

(2011) Seth Finnegan et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Could Land Plant Evolution Have Fed the Marine Revolution?

(2011) C. Kevin Boyce et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Biologically induced initiation of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth events

(2011) E. Tziperman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

The mountains that triggered the Late Neoproterozoic increase in oxygen: The Second Great Oxidation Event

(2010) Ian H. Campbell et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Biogeochemistry: Phosphorus and the gust of fresh air

(2010) Gabriel M. Filippelli   NATURE

The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir

(2010) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   NATURE

Did a Katian large igneous province trigger the Late Ordovician glaciation?

(2010) Vincent Lefebvre et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish

(2010) T. W. Dahl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Post-Paleozoic crinoid radiation in response to benthic predation preceded the Mesozoic marine revolution

(2010) T. K. Baumiller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oxygen, animals and oceanic ventilation: an alternative view

(2009) N. J. BUTTERFIELD   Geobiology

Calcareous nannofossil productivity and carbonate production across the Middle-Late Jurassic transition in the French Subalpine Basin

(2009) Fabienne Giraud   GEOBIOS

The Devonian nekton revolution

(2009) CHRISTIAN KLUG et al.   LETHAIA

Viruses manipulate the marine environment

(2009) Forest Rohwer et al.   NATURE

Evolution of Penicillin-Binding Protein 2 Concentration and Cell Shape during a Long-Term Experiment withEscherichia coli

(2008) Nadège Philippe et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Unravelling causal components of the Ordovician Radiation: the Builth Inlier (central Wales) as a case study

(2008) JOSEPH P. BOTTING et al.   LETHAIA

The Ordovician Biodiversification: revolution in the oceanic trophic chain

(2008) THOMAS SERVAIS et al.   LETHAIA

Ecosystem-wide body-size trends in Cambrian–Devonian marine invertebrate lineages

(2008) Philip M. Novack-Gottshall   PALEOBIOLOGY

Body size, energetics, and the Ordovician restructuring of marine ecosystems

(2008) Seth Finnegan et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Scale-dependence of Cope's rule in body size evolution of Paleozoic brachiopods

(2008) P. M. Novack-Gottshall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Light, nutrients, and food-chain length constrain planktonic energy transfer efficiency across multiple trophic levels

(2008) E. M. Dickman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli

(2008) Z. D. Blount et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Compilation and Network Analyses of Cambrian Food Webs

(2008) Jennifer A Dunne et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY