Most Recent Articles from Paleobiology  

• A Message from the Incoming Editors

  After three years at the University of Michigan, editorship of Pakobiology moved back to the Smithsonian Institution in October 2007. Like all newly...

  4/1/08 by Wagner, Peter J Carrano, Peter J Carrano · More from publication

• A null biogeographic model for quantifying the role of migration in shaping patterns of global taxonomic richness and differentiation diversity, with...

  Abstract.- Biodiversity patterns in the fossil record are often interpreted as functions of only origination and extinction whereas the migration of...

  4/1/08 by Heim, Noel A · More from publication

• Ecosystem-wide body-size trends in Cambrian-Devonian marine invertebrate lineages

  Abstract.- Fossil marine lineages are generally expected to exhibit long-term trends of increasing body size because of inherent fitness advantages...

  4/1/08 by Novack-Gottshall, Philip M · More from publication

• Incumbency, diversity, and latitudinal gradients

  Physical environmental factors have been seen as paramount in determining many large-scale biodistributional patterns in time and space. Although...

  4/1/08 by Valentine, James W Jablonski, James W Jablonski, David Krug, Andrew Z Roy · More from publication

• How green was Cooksonia? The importance of size in understanding the early evolution of physiology in the vascular plant lineage

  Abstract.- Because of the fragmentary preservation of the earliest Cooksonia-like terrestrial plant macrofossils, younger Devonian fossils with...

  4/1/08 by Boyce, C Kevin · More from publication

• Modeling growth rates for sauropod dinosaurs

  Abstract.- Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest terrestrial animals and their growth rates remain a subject of debate. By counting growth lines in...

  4/1/08 by Lehman, Thomas M Woodward, Thomas M Woodward · More from publication

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