Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

[HTML][HTML] Biogeodynamics of Cretaceous marine carbonate production

T Steuber, H Löser, J Mutterlose, M Parente - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
We have compiled stratigraphic ranges of genera of calcareous nannofossils, calcispheres,
planktonic foraminifers, larger benthic foraminifers, corals and rudists bivalves, and species …

The survival, recovery, and diversification of metazoan reef ecosystems following the end-Permian mass extinction event

RC Martindale, WJ Foster, F Velledits - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Triassic Period records important ecological transitions in the aftermath of the
end-Permian mass extinction and is a key interval in the evolution of modern coral reefs …

The r package divDyn for quantifying diversity dynamics using fossil sampling data

ÁT Kocsis, CJ Reddin, J Alroy… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Unbiased time series of diversity dynamics are vital for quantifying the grand history of life.
Applications include identifying ancient mass extinctions and inferring both biotic and abiotic …

The Paleobiology Database application programming interface

SE Peters, M McClennen - Paleobiology, 2016 - cambridge.org
The Paleobiology Database (PBDB; https://paleobiodb. org) consists of geographically and
temporally explicit, taxonomically identified fossil occurrence data. The taxonomy utilized by …

Cretaceous large igneous provinces: from volcanic formation to environmental catastrophes and biological crises

LME Percival, H Matsumoto, S Callegaro… - Geological Society …, 2025 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract The Cretaceous Period was marked by the formation of numerous large igneous
provinces (LIPs), several of which were associated with geologically rapid climate …

[HTML][HTML] Middle Eocene carbonate platforms of the westernmost Tethys

M Martín-Martín, F Guerrera, J Tosquella… - Sedimentary …, 2021 - Elsevier
A study of the paleoenvironmental evolution of the middle Eocene platforms recognized in
the westernmost Tethys has been carried out in the well-exposed middle Eocene …

Diversity dependence is a ubiquitous phenomenon across Phanerozoic oceans

V Rineau, J Smyčka, D Storch - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Biodiversity on Earth is shaped by abiotic perturbations and rapid diversifications. At the
same time, there are arguments that biodiversity is bounded and regulated via biotic …

Spatial sampling heterogeneity limits the detectability of deep time latitudinal biodiversity gradients

LA Jones, CD Dean, PD Mannion… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The latitudinal biodiversity gradient (LBG), in which species richness decreases from tropical
to polar regions, is a pervasive pattern of the modern biosphere. Although the distribution of …

Unparallel resilience of shallow-water tropical calcifiers (foraminifera and scleractinian reef corals) during the early Paleogene global warming intervals

A Benedetti, CA Papazzoni, FR Bosellini - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
Investigating the fossil record to provide evidence about the response of shallow-water
tropical calcifiers to past warming events is crucial considering that they are severely …