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SUBMITTER: Fenton IS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4810817 | biostudies-other | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Fenton Isabel S IS Pearson Paul N PN Dunkley Jones Tom T Farnsworth Alexander A Lunt Daniel J DJ Markwick Paul P Purvis Andy A
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20160401 1691
The Cenozoic planktonic foraminifera (PF) (calcareous zooplankton) have arguably the most detailed fossil record of any group. The quality of this record allows models of environmental controls on macroecology, developed for Recent assemblages, to be tested on intervals with profoundly different climatic conditions. These analyses shed light on the role of long-term global cooling in establishing the modern latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG)--one of the most powerful generalizations in biogeog ...[more]