James Valentine (20 November 1926–7 April 2023), co-founder of Paleobiology and master of idiographically informed nomothetism

James W. Valentine (1926–2023): Trailblazing paleobiologist with an enduring legacy

(2023) David Jablonski   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Post-extinction recovery of the Phanerozoic oceans and biodiversity hotspots

(2022) Pedro Cermeño et al.   NATURE

Recognizing pulses of extinction from clusters of last occurrences

(2020) Joshua B. Zimmt et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Contrasting responses of functional diversity to major losses in taxonomic diversity

(2018) Stewart M. Edie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A twofold role for global energy gradients in marine biodiversity trends

(2015) James W. Valentine et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Convergence, divergence, and parallelism in marine biodiversity trends: Integrating present-day and fossil data

(2015) Shan Huang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nonlinear thermal gradients shape broad-scale patterns in geographic range size and can reverse Rapoport's rule

(2014) Adam Tomašových et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Origination and Immigration Drive Latitudinal Gradients in Marine Functional Diversity

(2014) Sarah K. Berke et al.   PLoS One

The sampling and estimation of marine paleodiversity patterns: implications of a Pliocene model

(2013) James W. Valentine et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

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

Global environmental predictors of benthic marine biogeographic structure

(2012) C. L. Belanger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Origins of marine patterns of biodiversity: some correlates and applications

(2010) JAMES W. VALENTINE et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Geographical, environmental and intrinsic biotic controls on Phanerozoic marine diversification

(2010) JOHN ALROY   PALAEONTOLOGY

Generation of Earth's First-Order Biodiversity Pattern

(2009) Andrew Z. Krug et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Signature of the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction in the Modern Biota

(2009) A. Z. Krug et al.   SCIENCE

Incumbency, diversity, and latitudinal gradients

(2008) James W. Valentine et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY