Roger A. Close

The paper quantifies diversity patterns in reef-supporting and non-reef-supporting regions across the Phanerozoic, finding reef regions consistently more diverse.

This study analyzes species-area relationships (SARs) in tetrapods across the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, showing changes in SAR slope and intercept that contradict expected patterns of homogenization and diversity loss.

This study shows that apparent negative scaling between diversification rates and time in fossils is caused by sampling bias, not real evolutionary trends.