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375 Million Years of the Diversification of Life on Land: Shifting the Paradigm?
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| Coordinator |
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
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| Coordinator Country | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Total cost | 1˙495˙063 € |
| EC max contribution | 1˙495˙063 € (100%) |
| Programme |
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)) |
| Code Call | ERC-2014-STG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-STG |
| Starting year | 2015 |
| Duration (year-month-day) | from 2015-07-01 to 2020-06-30 |
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| 1 | THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM | UK (BIRMINGHAM) | coordinator | 1˙495˙063.00 |
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Project objective
Life on land today is spectacularly diverse, representing 75–95% of all species on Earth. However, it remains unclear how this extraordinary diversity has been acquired across deep geological time. This research project will address this major knowledge gap by reassessing the dominant paradigm of terrestrial diversification, an exponential increase in diversity over the last 375 million years, using the rich and well-studied fossil record of tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) as an exemplar group. Previous analyses of tetrapod diversification have been based on an outdated and problematic dataset that is likely to artificially inflate apparent diversity towards the present day. A major new dataset will be assembled, detailing the spatial and temporal distribution of terrestrial tetrapods across their entire fossil record in unprecedented detail. These data will be analysed using the latest approaches to sampling-standardisation in order to generate completely novel, rigorous curves of diversification through time. These will be compared within a cutting-edge statistical framework to alternate diversification models, as well as to changes in rock record sampling, global environments (e.g. sea level and atmospheric composition) and marine diversity. These comparisons will allow us to address the following key questions: (i) Does terrestrial diversification follow an exponential pattern over the last 375 million years? (ii) Is the terrestrial fossil record as complete as the marine fossil record? (iii) Are long-term patterns of terrestrial diversification driven by physical changes in the Earth system such as climate change? (iv) Did marine and terrestrial biodiversity follow similar trajectories across geological time? (v) How severely did mass extinction events impact upon terrestrial tetrapod diversification? Our work will establish a new, rigorous paradigm for the long-term pattern of terrestrial diversification, and test and identify its drivers.
Publications
| year | authors and title | journal | last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 |
Daniel D. Cashmore, Richard J. Butler Skeletal completeness of the nonâ€avian theropod dinosaur fossil record published pages: , ISSN: 0031-0239, DOI: 10.1111/pala.12436 |
Palaeontology | 2019-09-26 |
| 2019 |
Roger A. Close, Roger B. J. Benson, John Alroy, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Juan Benito, Matthew T. Carrano, Terri J. Cleary, Emma M. Dunne, Philip D. Mannion, Mark D. Uhen, Richard J. Butler Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale published pages: 590-597, ISSN: 2397-334X, DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0811-8 |
Nature Ecology & Evolution 3/4 | 2019-08-05 |
| 2019 |
Oscar E. R. Lehmann, MartÃn D. Ezcurra, Richard J. Butler, Graeme T. Lloyd Biases with the Generalized Euclidean Distance measure in disparity analyses with high levels of missing data published pages: , ISSN: 0031-0239, DOI: 10.1111/pala.12430 |
Palaeontology | 2019-08-05 |
| 2019 |
Gemma Louise Benevento, Roger B. J. Benson, Matt Friedman Patterns of mammalian jaw ecomorphological disparity during the Mesozoic/Cenozoic transition published pages: 20190347, ISSN: 0962-8452, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.0347 |
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286/1902 | 2019-08-05 |
| 2019 |
Emily E. Brown, Daniel D. Cashmore, Nancy B. Simmons, Richard J. Butler Quantifying the completeness of the bat fossil record published pages: , ISSN: 0031-0239, DOI: 10.1111/pala.12426 |
Palaeontology | 2019-08-06 |
| 2018 |
Emma M. Dunne, Roger A. Close, David J. Button, Neil Brocklehurst, Daniel D. Cashmore, Graeme T. Lloyd, Richard J. Butler Diversity change during the rise of tetrapods and the impact of the ‘Carboniferous rainforest collapse’ published pages: 20172730, ISSN: 0962-8452, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2730 |
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285/1872 | 2019-06-05 |
| 2018 |
Roger A. Close, Serjoscha W. Evers, John Alroy, Richard J. Butler How should we estimate diversity in the fossil record? Testing richness estimators using sampling-standardised discovery curves published pages: , ISSN: 2041-210X, DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12987 |
Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2019-06-05 |
| 2017 |
Samuel Tutin, Richard Butler The completeness of the fossil record of plesiosaurs, marine reptiles from the Mesozoic published pages: , ISSN: 0567-7920, DOI: 10.4202/app.00355.2017 |
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62 | 2019-06-05 |
| 2016 |
Christopher D. Dean, Philip D. Mannion, Richard J. Butler Preservational bias controls the fossil record of pterosaurs published pages: 225-247, ISSN: 0031-0239, DOI: 10.1111/pala.12225 |
Palaeontology 59/2 | 2019-06-05 |
| 2015 |
Philip D. Mannion, Roger B. J. Benson, Matthew T. Carrano, Jonathan P. Tennant, Jack Judd, Richard J. Butler Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians published pages: 8438, ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9438 |
Nature Communications 6 | 2019-06-05 |
| 2016 |
Roger B. J. Benson, Richard J. Butler, John Alroy, Philip D. Mannion, Matthew T. Carrano, Graeme T. Lloyd Near-Stasis in the Long-Term Diversification of Mesozoic Tetrapods published pages: e1002359, ISSN: 1545-7885, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002359 |
PLOS Biology 14/1 | 2019-06-05 |
| 2017 |
Roger A. Close, Roger B. J. Benson, Paul Upchurch, Richard J. Butler Controlling for the species-area effect supports constrained long-term Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate diversification published pages: , ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15381 |
Nature Communications 8 | 2019-06-05 |
| 2017 |
David J. Button, Graeme T. Lloyd, MartÃn D. Ezcurra, Richard J. Butler Mass extinctions drove increased global faunal cosmopolitanism on the supercontinent Pangaea published pages: , ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00827-7 |
Nature Communications 8/1 | 2019-06-05 |
| 2018 |
Neil Brocklehurst, Emma M. Dunne, Daniel D. Cashmore, JÓ§rg FrÓ§bisch Physical and environmental drivers of Paleozoic tetrapod dispersal across Pangaea published pages: , ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07623-x |
Nature Communications 9/1 | 2019-05-03 |
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