Biodiversity across space and time in the fossil record

RBJ Benson, R Butler, RA Close, E Saupe… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
The fossil record is the primary source of information on how biodiversity has varied in deep
time, providing unique insight on the long-term dynamics of diversification and their drivers …

Biodiversity: the overlooked source of human health

Y Linhares, A Kaganski, C Agyare, IA Kurnaz… - Trends in Molecular …, 2023 - cell.com
Biodiversity is the measure of the variation of lifeforms in a given ecological system.
Biodiversity provides ecosystems with the robustness, stability, and resilience that sustains …

[HTML][HTML] The stability and collapse of marine ecosystems during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction

Y Huang, ZQ Chen, PD Roopnarine, MJ Benton… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
The history of Earth's biodiversity is punctuated episodically by mass extinctions. These are
characterized by major declines of taxon richness, but the accompanying ecological …

Trait-mediated speciation and human-driven extinctions in proboscideans revealed by unsupervised Bayesian neural networks

T Hauffe, JL Cantalapiedra, D Silvestro - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Species life-history traits, paleoenvironment, and biotic interactions likely influence
speciation and extinction rates, affecting species richness over time. Birth-death models …

Late Holocene anthropogenic landscape change in northwestern Europe impacted insect biodiversity as much as climate change did after the last Ice Age

F Pilotto, A Rojas, PI Buckland - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Since the last Ice Age (ca 115 000–11 700 years ago), the geographical ranges of most
plants and animals have shifted, expanded or contracted. Understanding the timing …

[HTML][HTML] Ornithopod diversity in the Lower Cretaceous of Spain: New styracosternan remains from the Barremian of the Maestrazgo Basin (Teruel province, Spain)

E Medrano-Aguado, J Parrilla-Bel, JM Gasca… - Cretaceous …, 2023 - Elsevier
New material of an iguanodontid styracosternan ornithopod from the Lower Cretaceous of
the Iberian Peninsula is described. The cranial and postcranial skeletal remains are from the …

Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral ecological networks through time for pierid butterflies and their host plants

MP Braga, N Janz, S Nylin, F Ronquist… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The study of herbivorous insects underpins much of the theory that concerns the evolution of
species interactions. In particular, Pieridae butterflies and their host plants have served as a …

The minimum description length principle for pattern mining: A survey

E Galbrun - Data mining and knowledge discovery, 2022 - Springer
Mining patterns is a core task in data analysis and, beyond issues of efficient enumeration,
the selection of patterns constitutes a major challenge. The Minimum Description Length …

Benchmarking imputation methods for categorical biological data

M Gendre, T Hauffe, C Pimiento… - Methods in Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Trait datasets are at the basis of a large share of ecology and evolutionary research, being
used to infer ancestral morphologies, quantify species extinction risks, or evaluate the …

PISA data clusters reveal student and school inequality that affects results

M Neuman - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The data from the PISA survey show that student performance correlates with socio-
economic background, that private schools have higher results and more privileged …