Environmental trends in extinction during the Paleozoic.
Environmental trends in extinction during the Paleozoic.
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古生代灭绝的环境趋势。
DOI：
10.1126/science.11539724
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1987
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SepkoskiJr,JJ
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SepkoskiJr,JJ
Extinction intensities calculated from 505 Paleozoic marine assemblages divided among six environmental zones and 40 stratigraphic intervals indicate that whole communities exhibit increasing extinction offshore but that genera within individual taxonomic classes tend to have their highest extinction onshore. The offshore trend at the community level results from a concentration of genera in classes with low characteristic extinction rates in nearshore environments. This finding is consistent with the ecologic expectation that organisms inhabiting unpredictably fluctuating environments should suffer more extinction than counterparts living under more predictably equitable conditions.
