The Pliocene marine megafauna extinction and its impact on functional diversity

Global warming and recurrent mass bleaching of corals

(2017) Terry P. Hughes et al.   NATURE

Linking species functional roles to their network roles

(2016) Camille Coux et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Geographical distribution patterns of Carcharocles megalodon over time reveal clues about extinction mechanisms

(2016) Catalina Pimiento et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

(2016) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biodiversity enhances reef fish biomass and resistance to climate change

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Morphology predicts species' functional roles and their degree of specialization in plant–frugivore interactions

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Climate-driven regime shift of a temperate marine ecosystem

(2016) T. Wernberg et al.   SCIENCE

Synergistic roles of climate warming and human occupation in Patagonian megafaunal extinctions during the Last Deglaciation

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The evolution and extinction of the ichthyosaurs from the perspective of quantitative ecospace modelling

(2015) Daniel G. Dick et al.   Biology Letters

Multitrophic functional diversity predicts ecosystem functioning in experimental assemblages of estuarine consumers

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck et al.   ECOLOGY

How many dimensions are needed to accurately assess functional diversity? A pragmatic approach for assessing the quality of functional spaces

(2015) Eva Maire et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Revisiting the origin and diversification of vascular plants through a comprehensive Bayesian analysis of the fossil record

(2015) Daniele Silvestro et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Body-size trends of the extinct giant shark Carcharocles megalodon: a deep-time perspective on marine apex predators

(2015) Catalina Pimiento et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Persistent ecological shifts in marine molluscan assemblages across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

(2015) Martin Aberhan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global nutrient transport in a world of giants

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean

(2015) D. J. McCauley et al.   SCIENCE

Paleontological baselines for evaluating extinction risk in the modern oceans

(2015) S. Finnegan et al.   SCIENCE

Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna

(2015) Craig R. McClain et al.   PeerJ

Quantifying functional diversity in pre- and post-extinction paleocommunities: A test of ecological restructuring after the end-Permian mass extinction

(2014) Ashley A. Dineen et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Late Neogene Purisima Formation in Central California, part II: Pinnipeds and Cetaceans

(2014) Robert W. Boessenecker   GEODIVERSITAS

Functional diversity of marine ecosystems after the Late Permian mass extinction event

(2014) William J. Foster et al.   Nature Geoscience

Rise and fall in diversity of Neogene marine vertebrates on the temperate Pacific coast of South America

(2014) Jaime A. Villafaña et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

When Did Carcharocles megalodon Become Extinct? A New Analysis of the Fossil Record

(2014) Catalina Pimiento et al.   PLoS One

Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas on tropical reefs

(2014) D. Mouillot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs

(2014) J. M. Grady et al.   SCIENCE

Bayesian Estimation of Speciation and Extinction from Incomplete Fossil Occurrence Data

(2014) Daniele Silvestro et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

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

Pinniped turnover in the South Pacific Ocean: new evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Atacama Desert, Chile

(2013) Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Pleistocene survival of an archaic dwarf baleen whale (Mysticeti: Cetotheriidae)

(2013) Robert W. Boessenecker   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Evolutionary drivers for flightless, wing-propelled divers in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

(2013) Tatsuro Ando et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Do trophic cascades affect the storage and flux of atmospheric carbon? An analysis of sea otters and kelp forests

(2012) Christopher C Wilmers et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Metaxytherium subapenninum(Bruno, 1839) (Mammalia, Dugongidae), the latest sirenian of the Mediterranean Basin

(2012) Silvia Sorbi et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Sea level change and the area of shallow-marine habitat: implications for marine biodiversity

(2012) Steven M. Holland   PALEOBIOLOGY

Changes in bivalve functional and assemblage ecology in response to environmental change in the Caribbean Neogene

(2012) Jill S. Leonard-Pingel et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Iterative Evolution of Sympatric Seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) Assemblages during the Past ∼26 Million Years

(2012) Jorge Velez-Juarbe et al.   PLoS One

Drivers and hotspots of extinction risk in marine mammals

(2012) A. D. Davidson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hosts of the Plio-Pleistocene past reflect modern-day coral vulnerability

(2012) R. van Woesik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Extinctions in ancient and modern seas

(2012) Paul G. Harnik et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances

(2012) David Mouillot et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The multidimensionality of the niche reveals functional diversity changes in benthic marine biotas across geological time

(2011) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Rise and fall of Pliocene free-living corals in the Caribbean

(2011) James S. Klaus et al.   GEOLOGY

Adaptive Thermoregulation in Endotherms May Alter Responses to Climate Change

(2011) J. G. Boyles et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services

(2011) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Reconstructing Body Size in Extinct Crown Cetacea (Neoceti) Using Allometry, Phylogenetic Methods and Tests from the Fossil Record

(2011) Nicholas D. Pyenson et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION

What Happened to Gray Whales during the Pleistocene? The Ecological Impact of Sea-Level Change on Benthic Feeding Areas in the North Pacific Ocean

(2011) Nicholas D. Pyenson et al.   PLoS One

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Formal ratification of the Quaternary System/Period and the Pleistocene Series/Epoch with a base at 2.58 Ma

(2010) Philip L. Gibbard et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Climate, Critters, and Cetaceans: Cenozoic Drivers of the Evolution of Modern Whales

(2010) F. G. Marx et al.   SCIENCE

Cenozoic global ice-volume and temperature simulations with 1-D ice-sheet models forced by benthic δ18O records

(2010) B. De Boer et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Energetics, body size, and the limits to endothermy

(2009) BRIAN K. MCNAB   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Ecology of extreme faunal turnover of tropical American scallops

(2009) J. Travis Smith et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Resources and energetics determined dinosaur maximal size

(2009) B. K. McNab   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Synergies among extinction drivers under global change

(2008) B BROOK et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION