PaleontologyProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
Age-dependent extinction and the neutral theory of biodiversity
James G. Saulsbury, Charles Tomomi Parins-Fukuchi, Connor J. Wilson…·Lee Hsiang Liow
The paper develops ecological neutral theory to model fossil species survivorship, showing it fits well with Paleozoic zooplankton data and explains age-dependent extinction without requiring special explanations.
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