Quantifying ecological impacts of mass extinctions with network analysis of fossil communities [Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences]

Mass extinctions documented by the fossil record provide critical benchmarks for assessing changes through time in biodiversity and ecology. Efforts to compare biotic crises of the past and present, however, encounter difficulty because taxonomic and ecological changes are decoupled, and although various metrics exist for describing taxonomic turnover, no methods...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - May 15, 2018 Category: Science Authors: A. D. Muscente, Anirudh Prabhu, Hao Zhong, Ahmed Eleish, Michael B. Meyer, Peter Fox, Robert M. Hazen, Andrew H. Knoll Tags: Biological Sciences Source Type: research