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Using a Macroecological Approach to Study Geographic Range, Abundance and Body Size in the Fossil Record

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2017

S. Kathleen Lyons  and
Felisa A. Smith
S. Kathleen Lyons
Affiliation:
Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, MRC 121, Washington, DC 20013-7012
Felisa A. Smith
Affiliation:
Biology Department, MSC03 2020, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131
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Abstract

Macroecology is a rapidly growing sub-discipline within ecology that is concerned with characterizing statistical patterns of species' abundance, distribution and diversity at spatial and temporal scales typically ignored by traditional ecology. Both macroecology and paleoecology are concerned with answering similar questions (e.g., understanding the factors that influence geographic ranges, or the way that species assemble into communities). As such, macroecological methods easily lend themselves to many paleoecological questions. Moreover, it is possible to estimate the variables of interest to macroecologists (e.g., body size, geographic range size, abundance, diversity) using fossil data. Here we describe the measurement and estimation of the variables used in macroecological studies and potential biases introduced by using fossil data. Next we describe the methods used to analyze macroecological patterns and briefly discuss the current understanding of these patterns. This chapter is by no means an exhaustive review of macroecology and its methods. Instead, it is an introduction to macroecology that we hope will spur innovation in the application of macroecology to the study of the fossil record.

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The Paleontological Society Papers , Volume 16: Quantitative Methods in Paleobiology , October 2010 , pp. 117 - 141
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