Rarity in mass extinctions and the future of ecosystems

Re-discovery of a “living fossil” coccolithophore from the coastal waters of Japan and Croatia

(2015) Kyoko Hagino et al.   MARINE MICROPALEONTOLOGY

Recovery potential of the world's coral reef fishes

(2015) M. Aaron MacNeil et al.   NATURE

Defining the Anthropocene

(2015) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

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

Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

(2015) Brian J. McGill et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

(2015) G. Ceballos et al.   Science Advances

The importance of oxygen for the disparate recovery patterns of the benthic macrofauna in the Early Triassic

(2014) Carlie Pietsch et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features

(2014) Graham J. Edgar et al.   NATURE

NEW EVIDENCE ON THE ROLE OF SILICEOUS SPONGES IN ECOLOGY AND SEDIMENTARY FACIES DEVELOPMENT IN EASTERN PANTHALASSA FOLLOWING THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC MASS EXTINCTION

(2014) K. A. RITTERBUSH et al.   PALAIOS

Marine ecosystem regime shifts: challenges and opportunities for ecosystem-based management

(2014) P. S. Levin et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Regime shifts in exploited marine food webs: detecting mechanisms underlying alternative stable states using size-structured community dynamics theory

(2014) A. Gardmark et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Temporal acuity and the rate and dynamics of mass extinctions: Fig. 1.

(2014) Douglas H. Erwin   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-precision timeline for Earth’s most severe extinction

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

A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

(2014) D. P. Tittensor et al.   SCIENCE

Assemblage Time Series Reveal Biodiversity Change but Not Systematic Loss

(2014) M. Dornelas et al.   SCIENCE

Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

(2012) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

The timing and pattern of biotic recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction

(2012) Zhong-Qiang Chen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Long-term differences in extinction risk among the seven forms of rarity

(2012) P. G. Harnik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phanerozoic marine diversity: rock record modelling provides an independent test of large-scale trends

(2012) A. B. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Functions of Biological Diversity in an Age of Extinction

(2012) S. Naeem et al.   SCIENCE

Extinctions in ancient and modern seas

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

δ13C evidence that high primary productivity delayed recovery from end-Permian mass extinction

(2011) K.M. Meyer et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time?

(2011) J. Zalasiewicz et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives

(2011) W. Steffen et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

End-Cretaceous marine mass extinction not caused by productivity collapse

(2011) L. Alegret et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Range contraction in large pelagic predators

(2011) B. Worm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Calibrating the End-Permian Mass Extinction

(2011) S.-z. Shen et al.   SCIENCE

Recovery of marine animal populations and ecosystems

(2011) Heike K. Lotze et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Links between global taxonomic diversity, ecological diversity and the expansion of vertebrates on land

(2010) S. Sahney et al.   Biology Letters

Correlating the end-Triassic mass extinction and flood basalt volcanism at the 100 ka level

(2010) Blair Schoene et al.   GEOLOGY

On the potential for ocean acidification to be a general cause of ancient reef crises

(2010) WOLFGANG KIESSLING et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Simple model of recovery dynamics after mass extinction

(2010) Ricard V. Solé et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Dead bellerophontids walking — The short Mesozoic history of the Bellerophontoidea (Gastropoda)

(2010) Andrzej Kaim et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   SCIENCE

Not Knowing, Not Recording, Not Listing: Numerous Unnoticed Mollusk Extinctions

(2009) CLAIRE RÉGNIER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

A call to the custodians of deep time

(2009) Douglas Erwin   NATURE

Ecology of extreme faunal turnover of tropical American scallops

(2009) J. Travis Smith et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Historical baselines for large marine animals

(2009) Heike K. Lotze et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

FROM INDIVIDUALS TO ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION: TOWARD AN INTEGRATION OF EVOLUTIONARY AND ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY

(2008) Oswald J. Schmitz et al.   ECOLOGY

Ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean

(2008) J. B. C. Jackson   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record

(2008) J. Alroy   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge

(2008) J. Schipper et al.   SCIENCE

A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems

(2008) Benjamin S. Halpern et al.   SCIENCE

Superiority, Competition, and Opportunism in the Evolutionary Radiation of Dinosaurs

(2008) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   SCIENCE

Regime shifts in marine ecosystems: detection, prediction and management

(2008) Brad deYoung et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION