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Dr Alison Cribb
@alisoncribb.bsky.social
Ecosystem engineering in the fossil record 🪱🪸🌎• 1851 Research Fellow at SOES University of Southampton • she/her
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Whether this is a quirk of the quality of the fossil record or not, this demonstrates a clear trend that ecologically depauperate communities are extremely slow to recover after mass extinction events.
The most likely environmental explanation for this prolonged terrestrial instability is due to turnovers in plant communities in the wake of the mass extinction event. Food chains probably get weird, and the ecospace responds accordingly! 🌱🦕
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Dr Alison Cribb
@alisoncribb.bsky.social
Ecosystem engineering in the fossil record 🪱🪸🌎• 1851 Research Fellow at SOES University of Southampton • she/her
76 followers41 following10 posts