New research has found that sharks retained high levels of functional diversity for most of the last 66 million years, before steadily declining over the last 10 million years to its lowest value in ...

Using specimens collected off the coast of North Carolina, scientists have demonstrated for the first time that functional diversity can be accurately inferred from the marine fossil record.

“We wanted to find out how large the temporal changes in functional diversity are across different regions of the Earth, and whether simple data collection methods can provide the information we need.

The central premise is that water limitation—intensified by climate change through increased drought frequency, higher atmospheric demand, and altered ...

Researchers compiled a dataset of 209 crustacean and 155 mollusk species from 16 mangrove forests around the world. They found that mangroves, when compared with other ecosystems, are among those with ...