ArticleRoyal Society open science2023
Reduced strength and increased variability of extinction selectivity during mass extinctions.
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- Differences in extinction selectivity and their relationship to functional traits in late Cenozoic mollusks.PeerJ · 2026Article
- Episodic body size variations of early Paleozoic trilobites associated with marine redox changes.Science advances · 2025Article
- Physiology and climate change explain unusually high similarity across marine communities after end-Permian mass extinction.Science advances · 2025Article
- Fossils improve extinction-rate estimates under state-dependent diversification models.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Trait-mediated speciation and human-driven extinctions in proboscideans revealed by unsupervised Bayesian neural networks.Science advances · 2024Article
- Body-size evolution in gastropods across the Plio-Pleistocene extinction in the western Atlantic.PloS one · 2024Article
- Reduced strength and increased variability of extinction selectivity during mass extinctions.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Two of the traits most often observed to correlate with extinction risk in marine animals are geographical range and body size. However, the relative effects of these two traits on extinction risk have not been investigated systematically for either background times or during mass extinctions. To close this knowledge gap, we measure and compare extinction selectivity of geographical range and body size of genera within five classes of benthic marine animals across the Phanerozoic using capture-mark-recapture models. During background intervals, narrow geographical range is strongly associated with greater extinction probability, whereas smaller body size is more weakly associated with greater extinction probability. During mass extinctions, the association between geographical range and extinction probability is reduced in every class and fully eliminated in some, whereas the association between body size and extinction probability varies in strength and direction across classes. While geographical range is universally the stronger predictor of survival during background intervals, variation among classes during mass extinction suggests a fundamental shift in extinction processes during these global catastrophes.
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