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A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul's Quaternary vertebrates

scientific article

A more precise speciation and extinction rate estimator

A new twist on a very old binary similarity coefficient

scientific article published on February 2015

A simple Bayesian method of inferring extinction

article by John Alroy published 2014 in Paleobiology

A simple Bayesian method of inferring extinction: reply

scientific article published in March 2016

A simple way to improve multivariate analyses of paleoecological data sets

Accurate and precise estimates of origination and extinction rates

article

Appearance event ordination: a new biochronologic method

Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record?

scientific article published on 14 July 2006

Cenozoic bolide impacts and biotic change in North American mammals

scientific article

Changes in shell durability of common marine taxa through the Phanerozoic: evidence for biological rather than taphonomic drivers

article

Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia

scientific article

Colloquium paper: dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record

scientific article

Conjunction among taxonomic distributions and the Miocene mammalian biochronology of the Great Plains

Constant extinction, constrained diversification, and uncoordinated stasis in North American mammals

article by John Alroy published December 1996 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Continuous Track Analysis: A New Phylogenetic and Biogeographic Method

scholarly article by John Alroy published June 1995 in Systematic Biology

Cope's rule and the dynamics of body mass evolution in North American fossil mammals.

scientific article

Criteria for assessing the quality of Middle Pleistocene to Holocene vertebrate fossil ages

Current extinction rates of reptiles and amphibians

scientific article

Diachrony of mammalian appearance events: Implications for biochronology: Comments and Reply

scholarly article

Dietary characterization of terrestrial mammals

scientific article

Discovering biogeographic and ecological clusters with a graph theoretic spin on factor analysis

scientific article published in 2019

Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

Driving both ways: Wilson & Sober's conflicting criteria for the identification of groups as vehicles of selection

Effects of habitat disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity

scientific article

Effects of sampling standardization on estimates of Phanerozoic marine diversification

scientific article

Extinction: A synthesis of disciplines for theoretical and practical advances

scientific article published in 2023

Fossilworks

online resource for fossil animals, plants, and microorganisms

Four Permutation Tests for the Presence of Phylogenetic Structure

scientific article published in 1994

Geographical, environmental and intrinsic biotic controls on Phanerozoic marine diversification

scientific article published in 2010

Global distribution of mammal herbivore biomass reveals megafauna extinction patterns

High diversity and rapid spatial turnover of integron gene cassettes in soil

article

How many named species are valid?

scientific article published on 12 March 2002

How should we estimate diversity in the fossil record? Testing richness estimators using sampling-standardised discovery curves

article

Inferring diet from dental morphology in terrestrial mammals

scientific article published in 2016

Latitudinal gradients in the ecology of New World bats

scientific article published in 2019

Limits to captive breeding of mammals in zoos

scientific article published on 3 March 2015

Limits to species richness in terrestrial communities

scientific article published in 2018

Mammalian dispersal at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary

scientific article published in March 2002

Marine diversity patterns in Australia are filtered through biogeography

scientific article published in 2021

Near-Stasis in the Long-Term Diversification of Mesozoic Tetrapods

scientific article

On a conservative Bayesian method of inferring extinction

On four measures of taxonomic richness

On the flux ratio method and correcting incorrect forms of correct equations

Pattern, process, inference and prediction in extinction biology

scientific article

Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates

scientific article

Phylogeny‐based conservation priorities for Australian freshwater fishes

Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin

article

Publisher Correction: Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Putting North America’s End-Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction in Context

article

Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Reply to Solow: Sense and nonsense in the choice of extinction priors

scientific article

Response to Comments on "Statistical Independence of Escalatory Ecological Trends in Phanerozoic Marine Invertebrates"

scientific article published in Science

Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time

scientific article published on 19 April 2004

Small mammals have big tails in the tropics

scientific article published in 2019

Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates

scientific article published in May 2006

The Fossil Record of North American Mammals: Evidence for a Paleocene Evolutionary Radiation

scientific article

The Open Traits Network: Using Open Science principles to accelerate trait-based science across the Tree of Life ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

The R package divDyn for quantifying diversity dynamics using fossil sampling data

article

The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups ⬇️

scientific article published on September 3, 2010

The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

The legacy of Eastern Mediterranean mountain uplifts: rapid disparity of phylogenetic niche conservatism and divergence in mountain vipers

The r package divDyn for quantifying diversity dynamics using fossil sampling data

scientific article published in 2019

The relationship between diet and body mass in terrestrial mammals

article by Silvia Pineda-Munoz et al published 18 March 2016 in Paleobiology

The shape of terrestrial abundance distributions

scientific article

Tree species richness and evenness affect forest biomass differently across biogeographic regions

scientific article published on 8 December 2023

Understanding the dynamics of trends within evolving lineages

article

What caused extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Sahul?

scientific article

What is extinction research?

scientific article published in 2024

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