Ecological ranking of Phanerozoic biodiversity crises: ecological and taxonomic severities are decoupled

By G. R. McGhee, P. Sheehan, D. Bottjer, Mary Droser. 2004

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The plant fossil record reflects just two great extinction events (2014, background): “It has been interpreted as being a major ecological crisis (McGhee et al., 2004, 2012), probably linked with global cooling and the expansion of the Gondwana ice-sheet (Fielding et al., 2008).”
Speciation collapse and invasive species dynamics during the Late Devonian “Mass Extinction” (2012, background): “In fact, the level of marine ecosystem reorganization that occurred during the Late Devonian, including a fundamental collapse of the reef ecosystem, is second only to the Permo-Triassic mass extinction (McGhee et al., 2004).”
The palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology and palaeoenvironmental analysis of mass extinction events (2006, background): “T) events (e.g., McGhee et al., 2004).”
The Red Queen revisited: reevaluating the age selectivity of Phanerozoic marine genus extinctions (2008, background): “Furthermore, only events as severe as the era-bounding mass extinctions may be sufficient to disrupt the large-scale ecological structure of communities (Bambach et al. 2002; McGhee et al. 2004).”
Mammalian extinction, survival, and recovery dynamics across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in northeastern Montana, USA (2014, background): “The continental biota has received less attention, although the ecological impact of this event on land is considered to have been even more severe than in the seas (McGhee et al., 2004).”
Mammals across the K/Pg boundary in northeastern Montana, U.S.A.: dental morphology and body-size patterns reveal extinction selectivity and immigrant-fueled ecospace filling (2013, background): “However, taxonomic and ecological severities of extinctions are not necessarily coupled (McGhee et al. 2004).”
Synergies among extinction drivers under global change. (2008, background): “As such, it is usually only under the most intense selection pressures, or when multiple stressors interact [10,21], that context becomes irrelevant [12, 22 ] for predicting the fate of species.”