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Philip M. Novack-Gottshall
Researcher at Benedictine University
Publications - 24
Citations - 1620
Philip M. Novack-Gottshall is an academic researcher from Benedictine University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ecosystem diversity & Biota. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 22 publications receiving 1449 citations. Previous affiliations of Philip M. Novack-Gottshall include University of West Georgia & University of Cincinnati.
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Effects of sampling standardization on estimates of Phanerozoic marine diversification
John Alroy,Charles R. Marshall,Richard K. Bambach,K. Bezusko,Michael Foote,Franz T. Fürsich,Thor A. Hansen,Steven M. Holland,Linda C. Ivany,David Jablonski,David K. Jacobs,D. C. Jones,Matthew A. Kosnik,Scott Lidgard,Sarah A. Low,Arnold I. Miller,Philip M. Novack-Gottshall,Philip M. Novack-Gottshall,Thomas D. Olszewski,Mark E. Patzkowsky,David M. Raup,Kaustuv Roy,J. John Sepkoski,M. G. Sommers,Peter J. Wagner,A. Webber +25 more
TL;DR: A new database of this kind for the Phanerozoic fossil record of marine invertebrates is introduced and four substantially distinct analytical methods that estimate taxonomic diversity by quantifying and correcting for variation through time in the number and nature of inventories are applied.
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Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity
Jonathan L. Payne,Alison G. Boyer,James H. Brown,Seth Finnegan,Michał Kowalewski,Richard A. Krause,Sara K. Lyons,Craig R. McClain,Daniel W. McShea,Philip M. Novack-Gottshall,Felisa A. Smith,Jennifer A. Stempien,Steve C. Wang +12 more
TL;DR: This period-level compilation of the largest known fossil organisms demonstrates that maximum size increased by 16 orders of magnitude since life first appeared in the fossil record.
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The multidimensionality of the niche reveals functional diversity changes in benthic marine biotas across geological time.
Sébastien Villéger,Sébastien Villéger,Sébastien Villéger,Philip M. Novack-Gottshall,David Mouillot,David Mouillot +5 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that, after controlling for increases in taxonomic diversity, functional richness increased incrementally between each time interval with benthic taxa filling progressively more functional space, combined with a significant functional dissimilarity between periods.
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The evolutionary consequences of oxygenic photosynthesis: a body size perspective
Jonathan L. Payne,Craig R. McClain,Alison G. Boyer,James H. Brown,Seth Finnegan,Seth Finnegan,Michał Kowalewski,Richard A. Krause,S. Kathleen Lyons,Daniel W. McShea,Philip M. Novack-Gottshall,Felisa A. Smith,Paula Ann Spaeth,Jennifer A. Stempien,Steve C. Wang +14 more
TL;DR: It remains difficult to confirm that the largest representatives of fossil or living taxa are limited by oxygen transport rather than other factors, and numerous tractable avenues of research could greatly improve quantitative constraints on the role of oxygen in the macroevolutionary history of organismal size.
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Quantifying Molluscan Body Size in Evolutionary and Ecological Analyses: Maximizing the Return on Data-Collection Efforts
TL;DR: The results suggest that large-scale studies can use the size of the type species of a genus as an unbiased proxy for a type-specimen size of a species' median species, but that species' type- Specimen size is a biased proxy for bulk or randomly sampled specimens.