Local colonisations and extinctions of European birds are poorly explained by changes in climate suitability by Christine Howard, Emma-Liina Marjakangas, Alejandra Morán-Ordóñez, Pietro Milanesi, Aleksandre Abuladze, Karen Aghababyan, Vitalie Ajder, Volen Arkumarev, Dawn E. Balmer, Hans-Günther Bauer, Colin M. Beale, Taulant Bino, Kerem Ali Boyla, Ian J. Burfield, Brian Burke, Brian Caffrey, Tomasz Chodkiewicz, Juan Carlos Del Moral, Vlatka Dumbovic Mazal, Néstor Fernández, Lorenzo Fornasari, Bettina Gerlach, Carlos Godinho, Sergi Herrando, Christina Ieronymidou, Alison Johnston, Mihailo Jovicevic, Mikhail Kalyakin, Verena Keller, Peter Knaus, Dražen Kotrošan, Tatiana Kuzmenko, Domingos Leitão, Åke Lindström, Qenan Maxhuni, Tomaž Mihelič, Tibor Mikuska, Blas Molina, Károly Nagy, David Noble, Ingar Jostein Øien, Jean-Yves Paquet, Clara Pladevall, Danae Portolou, Dimitrije Radišić, Saša Rajkov, Draženko Z. Rajković, Liutauras Raudonikis, Thomas Sattler, Darko Saveljić, Paul Shimmings, Jovica Sjenicic, Karel Šťastný, Stoycho Stoychev, Iurii Strus, Christoph Sudfeldt, Elchin Sultanov, Tibor Szép, Norbert Teufelbauer, Danka Uzunova, Chris A. M. van Turnhout, Metodija Velevski, Thomas Vikstrøm, Alexandre Vintchevski, Olga Voltzit, Petr Voříšek, Tomasz Wilk, Damaris Zurell, Lluís Brotons, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Stephen G. Willis

“…We found that local colonisation and extinction events were influenced primarily by initial climate conditions and by species’ range traits. …”
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Identification and Current Palaeobiological Understanding of “Keratosa”-Type Nonspicular Demosponge Fossils in Carbonates: With a New Example from the Lowermost Triassic, Armenia... by Cui Luo, Yu Pei, Sylvain Richoz, Qijian Li, Joachim Reitner

“…Interpretation of these records is increasingly influential to our understanding of metazoans in multiple aspects, including their early evolution, the ecology in fossil reefs, and recovery after mass extinction events. Here, we propose six identification criteria of “Keratosa”-type nonspicular demosponge fossils based on the well-established taphonomical models and their biological characteristics. …”
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Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction by Burgess, S. D., Muirhead, J. D., Bowring, Samuel A.

“…Mass extinction events are short-lived and characterized by catastrophic biosphere collapse and subsequent reorganization. …”
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PERMIAN STRATIGRAPHY AND FUSULINIDS OF THE TETHYS by ERNST JA. LEVEN

“…The most significant extinction events occurred at the end of the Midian (71% of all genera), Bolorian (48%), Asselian (27%) and Sakmarian (23%) ages. …”
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Thinking about the Biodiversity Loss in This Changing World by Maria Rita Palombo

“…This note briefly examines some issues related to: (i) The hypothesized current extinction rate and the magnitude of contemporary global biodiversity loss; (ii) the challenges of comparing them to the background extinction rate and the magnitude of the past Big Five mass extinction events; (iii) briefly considering the effects of the main anthropogenic stressors on ecosystems, including the risk of the emergence of pandemic diseases. …”
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The Madeiran laurel forest endemic Goodyera macrophylla (Orchidaceae) is related to American orchids by Mike Thiv, Manuela Gouveia, Miguel Menezes de Sequeira

“…Although the relict hypothesis cannot be ruled out by our data when assuming extinction events on the European and northern African mainland, dispersal from Central or North America to the archipelago of Madeira is a much more likely explanation of the data.…”
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Bayesian analyses indicate bivalves did not drive the downfall of brachiopods following the Permian-Triassic mass extinction by Zhen Guo, Joseph T. Flannery-Sutherland, Michael J. Benton, Zhong-Qiang Chen

“…Our study strengthens evidence that brachiopods and bivalves were not competitors over macroevolutionary time scales, with extinction events and environmental stresses shaping their divergent fates.…”
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An account on the taxonomy and molecular diversity of a marine rock-pool dweller, Tigriopus fulvus (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) by Luca Vecchioni, Federico Marrone, Miguel Rodilla, Eduardo J Belda, Marco Arculeo

“…However, such a monopolization is periodically disrupted by local extinction events, which are frequent in the intrinsically unstable rock pool habitats. …”
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Distinct Responses of Elasmobranchs and Ray-Finned Fishes to Long-Term Global Change by Guillaume Guinot, Lionel Cavin

“…Among vertebrates, fishes (ray-finned fishes and elasmobranchs) have a long, rich, and complex evolutionary history comprising numerous diversification and extinction events. Yet, knowledge on the causes for the diversity fluctuations of these most speciose aquatic vertebrate clades in modern marine and continental ecosystems were restricted to qualitative interpretations. …”
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Multigene phylogeny of the Indo–West Pacific genus Enosteoides (Crustacea, Decapoda, Porcellanidae) with description of a new species from Australia by Alexandra Hiller, Bernd Werding

“…Relatively large interspecific genetic distances between and within the two clades, as compared to distances estimated in American pairs of species on each side of the Panama Isthmus, suggest ancient divergence, probably followed by extinction events or low speciation rate. Relatively large intraspecific distances between Australian populations of the new species of Enosteoides from geographically distant locations suggest some level of phylogeographic structure.…”
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Life’s a Gas: A Thermodynamic Theory of Biological Evolution by Keith R. Skene

“…This dynamic equilibrium is punctured by extinction events, which are followed by restoration of Dmax through diffusion into available ecospace. …”
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Different order cyclicity of the Paleozoic reef formation by V. G. Kuznetsov, L. M. Zhuravleva

“…Their upper limits are determined by the corresponding periods of biotic crises and mass extinction events which have been at the borders of the Middle—Late Cambrian, Or-dovician—Silurian, Frasnian—Famenian, Serpukhovian—Baskirian, Permian—Triassic. …”
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Ocean Acidification and Coral Reefs: An Emerging Big Picture by John E. N. Veron

“…Although ocean acidification events are not well constrained in the geological record, recent studies show that they are clearly linked to extinction events including four of the five greatest crises in the history of coral reefs. …”
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Ecomorphological selectivity among marine teleost fishes during the end-Cretaceous extinction. by Friedman, M

“…Despite the attention focused on mass extinction events in the fossil record, patterns of extinction in the dominant group of marine vertebrates-fishes-remain largely unexplored. …”

Mercury spikes suggest volcanic driver of the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction by Qing Gong, Xiangdong Wang, Laishi Zhao, Stephen E. Grasby, Zhong-Qiang Chen, Lei Zhang, Yang Li, Ling Cao, Zhihong Li

“…However, unlike the other major mass extinction events, the driver for the O-S extinction remains uncertain. …”
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EARLY TO LATE OLIGOCENE CALCAREOUS NANNOFOSSIL BIOEVENTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN (UMBRIA-MARCHE BASIN, CENTRAL ITALY) by PATRIZIA MAIORANO, SIMONETTA MONECHI

“…The studied interval is characterized by significant changes in the calcareous nannofossil assemblages and by several extinction events. The last occurrence (LO) and/or the last common occurrence (LCO) here proposed are: the LO of Sphenolithus akropodus, the LO of Reticulofenestra circus, the LCO of Helicosphaera ethologa, the LCO of Helicosphaera compactathe LO of Discoaster tanii nodifer. …”
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Dynamics of the conodont diversity in the Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous (Famennian–Serpukhovian) by A. V. Zhuravlev

“…The global events gave little influence on the conodont diversity except for the Frasnian/Famennian (about 70% conodont species became extinct) and Devonian/Carboniferous extinction events. Conodont diversity demonstrates weak dependence form the global sea level fluctuations. …”
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Plant survival and keystone pollinator species in stochastic coextinction models: role of intrinsic dependence on animal-pollination by Anna Traveset, Cristina Tur, Víctor M. Eguíluz

“…The stochastic nature of such model allowed us determining plant survival to single (and multiple) extinction events, and identifying which pollinators (keystone species) were more likely to trigger secondary extinctions. …”
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Long-term assessment of birds' extirpation from a tropical agroecosystem by Raul E. Sedano-Cruz, Kimberly C. Navarro-Velez

“…To better understand the processes that may lead to potentially avoidable extinction events, it is important to identify the influence of change in the communities at the local scale. …”
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The Late Capitanian Mass Extinction of Terrestrial Vertebrates in the Karoo Basin of South Africa by Michael O. Day, Michael O. Day, Bruce S. Rubidge

“…The Beaufort Group of the main Karoo Basin of South Africa records two major extinction events of terrestrial vertebrates in the late Palaeozoic. …”
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