Journal article
Paleobiodiversity: we need new data
Paleobiology, Vol.29(1), pp.22-25
2003
DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373(2003)029<0022:PWNND>2.0.CO;2
Abstract
Very different questions are involved when we attempt to assess modern versus ancient global biodiversity. Because of the megabiases of taphonomy, eustasy, and tectonics, our estimates of paleobiodiversity can never be absolute; whether or not we can accurately estimate total diversity in the modern world is an open question, but we certainly cannot in the fossil record. The issues are whether we have any way of studying relative change in biodiversity through time, and how best this might be accomplished. That is, can we meaningfully estimate the shape of a global temporal diversity curve?
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Paleobiodiversity: we need new data
- Creators
- Jonathan M Adrain - University of IowaStephen R Westrop - University of Oklahoma
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Paleobiology, Vol.29(1), pp.22-25
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- DOI
- 10.1666/0094-8373(2003)029<0022:PWNND>2.0.CO;2
- ISSN
- 0094-8373
- eISSN
- 1938-5331
- Number of pages
- 4
- Alternative title
- Mor Paleodiversity Forum; Jonathan M. Adrain and Stephen R. Westrop
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2003
- Academic Unit
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984229161402771
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