A high-resolution summary of Cambrian to Early Triassic marine invertebrate biodiversity
Chinese Academy of Sciences · Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology · +7 more institutions
Abstract
A finer record of biodiversity We have pressing, human-generated reasons to explore the influence of environmental change on biodiversity. Looking into the past can not only inform our understanding of this relationship but also help us to understand current change. Paleontological records depend on fossil availability and predictive modeling, however, and thus tend to give us a picture with large temporal jumps, millions of years wide. Such a scale makes it difficult to truly understand the action of environmental forces on ecological processes. Enabled by a supercomputer, Fan et al. used machine learning to analyze a large marine Paleozoic dataset, creating a record with time intervals of only ∼26,000 years…
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Authors
20- JFJunxuan Fan
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Nanjing University
- SSShu‐zhong ShenCorresponding
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Nanjing University
- DHDouglas H. Erwin
Santa Fe Institute, National Museum of Natural History
- PMPeter M. Sadler
University of California, Riverside
- NMNorman MacLeod
Nanjing University
Topics & keywords
- Biodiversity
- Marine biodiversity
- Fossil Record
- Scale (ratio)
- Perspective (graphical)
- Paleontology
- Invertebrate
- Paleozoic
- Life below water