TY - JOUR
T1 - Origin and Evolution of Regional Biotas
T2 - A Deep-Time Perspective
AU - Patzkowsky, Mark E.
N1 - Funding Information:
I thank the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the NASA Exobiology Program, and the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society for supporting research informing this review. The ideas presented herein were formed during discussions with J. Bonelli, M. Christie, C. Congreve, S. Holland, M. Hopkins, A. Krug, J. Lamsdell, J. Sclafani, and J. Sessa. I thank S. Holland for providing data for Figure 5 and M. Christie for help with drawing figures.
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PY - 2017/8/30
Y1 - 2017/8/30
N2 - Historical processes tens to hundreds of millions of years in the past have shaped not only the trajectory of life through time but also the distribution and composition of life today. Studies aimed at the origin and evolution of regional biotas promise to forge a stronger link among paleobiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Improvements in high-resolution stratigraphic interpretation, numerical modeling of the fossil record, and the application of phylogenetic methods to extinct groups will lead to advances in understanding of (a) assembly of regional biotas, (b) the ecology of extinct taxa, (c) the diversification and environmental expansion of major groups, (d) the processes underlying regional ecosystem persistence and pulsed change, and (e) whether or not diversity has limits over geologic time.
AB - Historical processes tens to hundreds of millions of years in the past have shaped not only the trajectory of life through time but also the distribution and composition of life today. Studies aimed at the origin and evolution of regional biotas promise to forge a stronger link among paleobiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Improvements in high-resolution stratigraphic interpretation, numerical modeling of the fossil record, and the application of phylogenetic methods to extinct groups will lead to advances in understanding of (a) assembly of regional biotas, (b) the ecology of extinct taxa, (c) the diversification and environmental expansion of major groups, (d) the processes underlying regional ecosystem persistence and pulsed change, and (e) whether or not diversity has limits over geologic time.
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev-earth-060115-012317
DO - 10.1146/annurev-earth-060115-012317
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029160607
SN - 0084-6597
VL - 45
SP - 471
EP - 495
JO - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
JF - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
ER -