Adam Tomašových

TL;DR: In this paper, a new data set of fossil occurrences representing 3.5 million specimens was presented, and it was shown that global and local diversity was less than twice as high in the Neogene as in the mid-Paleozoic.

TL;DR: Using carbon isotopes as a geochemical marker, the authors found that the onset of CO2 emissions coincided with an inter- ruption of carbonate sedimentation in palaeogeographically distant regions, suggesting that hydro- lysis of CO 2 led to a short but substantial decrease of seawater pH that slowed down or inhibited precipitation of calcium carbonate minerals.

TL;DR: Overall, time-averaged molluscan DAs do capture variation among samples of the living assemblage, but they tend to damp the magnitude of variation, making them a conservative means of inferring change over time or variation among regions in species composition and diversity.

TL;DR: A neutral, dispersal-limited model of metacommunity dynamics is used, with parameters estimated from living assemblages of 31 molluscan data sets, to model the effects of within-habitat time-averaging on the mean composition and multivariate dispersion of assemblage, on diversity at point and habitat scales, and on beta diversity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the first stable isotope record of strontium (Sr) for Phanerozoic skeletal carbonates (δ88/86Srcc-sw) was presented, which is sensitive to imbalances in the Sr input and output fluxes.