The Use of Shell Beds as a Tool for Investigating Ecological Changes across Mass Extinction Intervals

摘要：

INTRODUCTION Beginning with Sepkoskis work in the early 1980s, various iterations of diversity compilations have been published illustrating the taxonomic devastation of mass extinctions (e.g. Alroy et al., 2008; Sepkoski, 1981). Often, these diversity changes are assumed to correlate with (or even be the root cause of) broad ecological changes. For example, the taxonomic devastation of brachiopods at the endPermian extinction in contrast with bivalves, which were relatively unscathed, led Gould and Calloway (1980) to conclude that the high species turnover triggered an ecological revolution in benthic marine communities.

作者: Sarah E Greene David J Bottjer

作者单位: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The International Conference of Geobiology(地球生物学国际研讨会)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 130-132

在线出版日期: 2010-06-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）