Red queen for a day: Models of symmetry and selection in paleoecology

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-10

  Roopnarine, Peter ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

CEG; Community selection; Food webs; Neutral theory; Phanerozoic diversity; Red queen

Indexed keywords

FOOD WEB; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; LONGEVITY; PALEOECOLOGY; PHANEROZOIC; RED QUEEN HYPOTHESIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TIMESCALE;

EID: 83555166322     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-011-9494-6     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Allesina S, Alonso D, Pascua M (2008) A general model for food web structure. Science 320: 658-661.
2. Alroy J (2010) The shifting balance of diversity among major marine animal groups. Science 329: 1191-1194.
3. Angielczyk KD, Roopnarine PD, Wang SC (2005) Modeling the role of primary productivity disruption in end-Permian extinctions, Karoo Basin, South Africa. In: Lucas SG, Zeigler KE (eds) The nonmarine Permian. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, Mexico, pp 16-23.
4. Benton MJ, Tverdokhlebov VP, Surkov MV (2004) Ecosystem remodelling among vertebrates at the Permian-Triassic boundary in Russia. Nature 432: 97-100.
5. Bohm D (1971) Causality and chance in modern physics. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
6. Bush AM, Bambach RK (2011) Paleoecologic megatrends in marine metazoa. Annu Rev Earth Planet Sci 39: 241-269.
7. Carroll L (1871) Through the looking glass. Project Gutenberg.
8. Cattin M, Bersier L, Banasek-Richter C, Baltensperger R, Gabriel J (2004) Phylogenetic constraints and adaptation explain food-web structure. Nature 427: 835-839.
9. Cohen JE, Briand F (1984) Trophic links of community food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 81: 4105-4109.
10. Dornelas M, Connolly SR, Hughes TP (2006) Coral reef diversity refutes the neutral theory of biodiversity. Nature 440: 80-82.
11. Etienne RS, Alonsono D, McKane AJ (2007) The zero-sum assumption in neutral biodiversity theory. J Theor Biol 248: 522-536.
12. Gould SJ (2002) The structure of evolutionary theory. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
13. Hubbell SP (2001) The unified theory of biodiversity and biogeography. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
14. Kauffman S (2000) Investigations. Oxford University Press, New York.
15. Maynard Smith J, Szathmary E (1995) The major transitions in evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
16. McCune AR (1982) On the fallacy of constant extinction rates. Evolution 36: 610-614.
17. McShea DW, Brandon RN (2010) Biology's first law. The tendency for diversity and complexity to increase in evolutionary systems. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
18. Nicolas M, Rubidge BS (2009) Changes in Permo-Triassic terrestrial tetrapod ecological representation in the Beaufort Group (Karoo Supergroup) of South Africa. Lethaia 43: 45-59.
19. Norris S (2003) Neutral theory: a new, unified model for ecology. Bioscience 53: 124-129.
20. Roopnarine PD (2006) Extinction cascades and catastrophe in ancient food webs. Paleobiology 32: 1-19.
21. Roopnarine PD (2009) Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs. In: Dietl GP, Flessa KW (eds) Conservation paleobiology: using the past to manage for the future. Yale University Press, Yale, pp 195-220.
22. Roopnarine PD (2010) Networks, extinction and paleocommunity food webs. In: Alroy J, Hunt G (eds) Quantitative methods in paleobiology. Yale University Press, Yale, pp 143-161.
23. Roopnarine PD, Angielczyk KD, Wang SC, Hertog R (2007) Trophic network models explain instability of Early Triassic terrestrial communities. Proc R Soc B 274: 2077-2086.
24. Smith RMH, Botha J (2005) The recovery of terrestrial vertebrate diversity in the South African Karoo Basin after the end-Permian extinction. CR Palevol 4: 623-636.
25. Stenseth NC, Maynard Smith J (1984) Coevolution in ecosystems: red queen evolution or stasis? Evolution 38: 870-880.
26. van Valen L (1973) A new evolutionary law. Evolutionary Theory 1: 1-30.
27. Vermeij GJ (1977) The Mesozoic marine revolution: evidence from snails, predators and grazers. Paleobiology 3: 245-258.
28. Vermeij GJ (2004) Nature. An economic history. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
29. Vermeij GJ (2009) Comparative economics: evolution and the modern economy. J Bioecon 11: 105-134.
30. Wootton JT (2005) Field parameterization and experimental test of the neutral theory of biodiversity. Nature 433: 309-312.