Response of Shallow Marine Biotas to Sea-Level Fluctuations: A Review of Faunal Replacement and the Process of Habitat Tracking

Brett, Carlton E.; Hendy, Austin J.W.; Bartholomew, Alex J.; Bonelli, James R.; McLaughlin, Patrick I.

doi:10.2110/palo.2005.p05-028r

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“…0.5) observed across successive stratigraphic sequences [33]. Similarly, recurrence of faunal gradients has been demonstrated in the fossil record [32,34], although the rank order of taxa did not necessarily repeat through time as faithfully as documented here. However, the community recurrence should not be necessarily equated with coordinated community responses [32,35].…”

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“…The results also parallel, to a various extent, long-term analyses of marine communities in the older fossil records [32], including empirical examples of comparably strong correlations in shared species rank abundance (r . 0.5) observed across successive stratigraphic sequences [33].…”

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“…Similarly, recurrence of faunal gradients has been demonstrated in the fossil record [32,34], although the rank order of taxa did not necessarily repeat through time as faithfully as documented here. However, the community recurrence should not be necessarily equated with coordinated community responses [32,35]. The results contrast with those Quaternary studies that document substantial changes in marine ecosystems during long-term climate oscillations [16,36].…”

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Differential responses of marine communities to natural and anthropogenic changes

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Responses of ecosystems to environmental changes vary greatly across habitats, organisms and observational scales. The Quaternary fossil record of the Po Basin demonstrates that marine communities of the northern Adriatic reemerged unchanged following the most recent glaciation, which lasted approximately 100 000 years. The Late Pleistocene and Holocene interglacial ecosystems were both dominated by the same species, species turnover rates approximated predictions of resampling models of a homogeneous system, and comparable bathymetric gradients in species composition, sample-level diversity, dominance and specimen abundance were observed in both time intervals. The interglacial Adriatic ecosystems appear to have been impervious to natural climate change either owing to their persistence during those long-term perturbations or their resilient recovery during interglacial phases of climate oscillations. By contrast, present-day communities of the northern Adriatic differ notably from their Holocene counterparts. The recent ecosystem shift stands in contrast to the long-term endurance of interglacial communities in face of climate-driven environmental changes.

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“…This kind of compositional persistence, or recurrence also has been documented in terrestrial wetland vegetation from Carboniferous lowland environments (e.g., DiMichele et al, 2002), and for normal marine benthic faunas from Mississippian environments (e.g., Bonelli and Patzkowski, 2011). These kinds of patterns in both terrestrial and marine environments have been attributed to relatively narrow ranges of physical environmental tolerance by most organisms, resulting in strong patterns of habitat tracking through space and time (e.g., Brett et al, 2007;DiMichele et al, 2008), and, as observed by Ivany et al (2009), may account for observed larger spatio-temporal scale, evolutionary-ecological patterns.…”

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The Okmulgee, Oklahoma fossil flora, a Mazon Creek equivalent: Spatial conservatism in the composition of Middle Pennsylvanian wetland vegetation over 1100km

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DiMichele

2014

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

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“…If we added low-variation and temperature-insensitive traits to these simulations, it would depress the magnitudes of evolutionary change and bring the simulations and empirical data closer into alignment. Nevertheless, we emphasize that we do not view this environmental tracking model as a universal explanation for evolutionary patterns in fossil lineages; metapopulation structure (23,25), habitat tracking (37), and other processes (38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43) are undoubtedly also important. Rather, we use this model to argue against the suggestion that the paleontological record is inconsistent with welladapted traits responding to dynamic physical environments.…”

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Simple versus complex models of trait evolution and stasis as a response to environmental change

Hunt

Hopkins

Lidgard

2015

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

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Previous analyses of evolutionary patterns, or modes, in fossil lineages have focused overwhelmingly on three simple models: stasis, random walks, and directional evolution. Here we use likelihood methods to fit an expanded set of evolutionary models to a large compilation of ancestor-descendant series of populations from the fossil record. In addition to the standard three models, we assess more complex models with punctuations and shifts from one evolutionary mode to another. As in previous studies, we find that stasis is common in the fossil record, as is a strict version of stasis that entails no real evolutionary changes. Incidence of directional evolution is relatively low (13%), but higher than in previous studies because our analytical approach can more sensitively detect noisy trends. Complex evolutionary models are often favored, overwhelmingly so for sequences comprising many samples. This finding is consistent with evolutionary dynamics that are, in reality, more complex than any of the models we consider. Furthermore, the timing of shifts in evolutionary dynamics varies among traits measured from the same series. Finally, we use our empirical collection of evolutionary sequences and a long and highly resolved proxy for global climate to inform simulations in which traits adaptively track temperature changes over time. When realistically calibrated, we find that this simple model can reproduce important aspects of our paleontological results. We conclude that observed paleontological patterns, including the prevalence of stasis, need not be inconsistent with adaptive evolution, even in the face of unstable physical environments.evolutionary mode | stasis | gradualism | punctuated equilibrium | climate change P aleontologists have long sought to document patterns of trait change within fossil species and to infer from these patterns their underlying evolutionary drivers (1-3). However, only recently have sufficient case studies accumulated to assess what the aggregated fossil record has to say about phenotypic evolution occurring on the 10 5 -to 10 7 -y timescales routinely captured in paleontological sequences. Several factors have contributed to this cumulative increase, including advances in geochronology that more readily permit time-calibrating evolutionary sequences, better morphometric practices for documenting trait change, and new analytical tools to examine the resulting data. Perhaps most important, however, is that paleontologists were motivated to capture many additional examples of trait evolution in fossil lineages in response to the intense debate centered around punctuated equilibrium (4-6)-the notion that species do not usually evolve gradually over long periods of time but instead emerge in a discontinuous pattern, in bursts of change associated with cladogenesis followed by longer intervals of morphological stasis.Punctuated equilibrium proponents and critics disagreed about how best to interpret the same patterns of trait evolution, and thus early reviews (7, 8) did little to reso...

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Response of Shallow Marine Biotas to Sea-Level Fluctuations: A Review of Faunal Replacement and the Process of Habitat Tracking

Cited by 87 publications

References 81 publications

Differential responses of marine communities to natural and anthropogenic changes

Differential responses of marine communities to natural and anthropogenic changes

The Okmulgee, Oklahoma fossil flora, a Mazon Creek equivalent: Spatial conservatism in the composition of Middle Pennsylvanian wetland vegetation over 1100km

Simple versus complex models of trait evolution and stasis as a response to environmental change

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