Multivariate data analysis in palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography—a review

Shi, G.R.

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“…Discussion Analyzing Biogeographic Structure. Quantitative studies of community similarity and biogeographic structure frequently make use of a combination of similarity or distance metrics and cluster analyses (10,11). A wide range of similarity and distance metrics have been proposed, which use differing definitions of similarity and make various assumptions about issues such as the weighting of joint occurrences or mismatches.…”

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“…conflicting dendrograms, each based on different assumptions and emphasizing various aspects of faunal similarity (10).…”

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“…To measure this factor, we used a network clustering algorithm that measures the potential to compress a taxon-locality bipartite network into subunits. These measures have several advantages over most current biogeographic methods (10,11) because the summary measures follow directly from the occurrence data of the taxa included, rather than being filtered through a similarity measure. We also analyzed the average number of basins in which species occur as well as the proportion of endemic taxa per locality.…”

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Provincialization of terrestrial faunas following the end-Permian mass extinction

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Vilhena²,

Angielczyk

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In addition to their devastating effects on global biodiversity, mass extinctions have had a long-term influence on the history of life by eliminating dominant lineages that suppressed ecological change. Here, we test whether the end-Permian mass extinction (252.3 Ma) affected the distribution of tetrapod faunas within the southern hemisphere and apply quantitative methods to analyze four components of biogeographic structure: connectedness, clustering, range size, and endemism. For all four components, we detected increased provincialism between our Permian and Triassic datasets. In southern Pangea, a more homogeneous and broadly distributed fauna in the Late Permian (Wuchiapingian, ∼257 Ma) was replaced by a provincial and biogeographically fragmented fauna by Middle Triassic times (Anisian, ∼242 Ma). Importantly in the Triassic, lower latitude basins in Tanzania and Zambia included dinosaur predecessors and other archosaurs unknown elsewhere. The recognition of heterogeneous tetrapod communities in the Triassic implies that the end-Permian mass extinction afforded ecologically marginalized lineages the ecospace to diversify, and that biotic controls (i.e., evolutionary incumbency) were fundamentally reset. Archosaurs, which began diversifying in the Early Triassic, were likely beneficiaries of this ecological release and remained dominant for much of the later Mesozoic.biogeography | complex networks | macroevolution | biotic recovery | paleoecology M ass extinctions are thought to reshape the composition and ecological structure of communities on a scale unparalleled by background extinction (1, 2). Within the terrestrial realm, the replacement of dinosaur-dominated communities by those of mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction is perhaps the best-known example of such wholesale faunal reshuffling. By contrast, understanding the effects of the more massive endPermian extinction on terrestrial community structure has been hampered by the paucity of high-quality geographic data, with nearly all studies restricted to sequences from single basins in Russia (3, 4) or South Africa (5-8). Although some broad similarities have emerged, such as the progressive aridification of the two basins (3, 8) and a heightened diversity of temnospondyl amphibians in the recovery interval (9), limited geographic sampling in each hemisphere constrains the ability of paleontologists to distinguish regional patterns from those characteristic of the individual basins. Moreover, these broadly separated areas are uninformative regarding large-scale (i.e., continentlevel) patterns of faunal evolution.Here we examine tetrapod faunal composition in five fossiliferous areas in southern Pangea approximately 5 million years before and 10 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction. We analyze changes in biogeographic structure with four metrics of taxon occurrence data. First, biogeographic connectedness (BC) quantifies the proportion of taxon-locality occurrences relative to the maximum number of such occurrences possible. Thus...

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Provincialization of terrestrial faunas following the end-Permian mass extinction

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Vilhena²,

Angielczyk

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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134

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“…Therefore, a multitude of coefficients is available. Several comparative reviews have tested features and performance of (dis)similarity and distance coefficients (e.g., Cheetham and Hazel 1969;Janson and Vegelius 1981;Wolda 1981;Hubalek 1982;Shi 1993;Koleff et al 2003a;Clarke et al 2006). Two relatively recent and interesting approaches are worth mentioning.…”

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Inventory, differentiation, and proportional diversity: a consistent terminology for quantifying species diversity

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“…(2) Similarity/Dissimilarity measures can handle binary data as it is typically found in presence/absence data sets. There are a large number of different indices and coefficients available and comparative reviews can be found in Cheetham and Hazel (1969), Hubalek (1982), Janson and Vegelius (1981), Koleff et al, (2003), Shi (1993) and Wolda (1981). All binary similarity/dissimilarity measures are based on the same set of variables.…”

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Spatial Patterns of Phytodiversity - Assessing Vegetation Using (Dis) Similarity Measures

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Amarnath²,

Reddy³

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The Dynamical Processes of Biodiversity - Case Studies of Evolution and Spatial Distribution

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Multivariate data analysis in palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography—a review

Cited by 280 publications

References 169 publications

Provincialization of terrestrial faunas following the end-Permian mass extinction

Provincialization of terrestrial faunas following the end-Permian mass extinction

Inventory, differentiation, and proportional diversity: a consistent terminology for quantifying species diversity

Spatial Patterns of Phytodiversity - Assessing Vegetation Using (Dis) Similarity Measures

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