Tuscany has a rich Pliocene record of marine megafauna (MM), including mysticetes, odontocetes, sirenians and seals among the mammals, and six orders of sharks among the …
Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late …
The deep sea contains a surprising diversity of life, including iconic fish groups such as anglerfishes and lanternfishes. Still,> 65% of marine teleost fish species are restricted to the …
Many marine and terrestrial clades show similar latitudinal gradients in species richness, but opposite gradients in range size—on land, ranges are the smallest in the tropics, whereas in …
The new and emerging field of phylogenetic paleoecology leverages the evolutionary relationships among species to explain temporal and spatial changes in species diversity …
Abstract The mid-Piacenzian Warm Period (mPWP: 3.3–3.0 Ma) is the most recent geological analogue of ongoing climate change and has been the subject of considerable …
Understanding how regional ecosystems respond to sea‐level and environmental perturbations is a main challenge in palaeoecology. Here we use quantitative abundance …
Beta diversity, the compositional variation among communities or assemblages, is crucial to understanding the principles of diversity assembly. The mean pairwise proportional …
Long-term baseline data that allow tracking how predator–prey interactions have responded to intensifying human impacts are often lacking. Here, we assess temporal changes in …