@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {14446},
      author = {Jablonski, David and Edie, Stewart M.},
      title = {Mass extinctions and their rebounds: a macroevolutionary  framework},
      journal = {Paleobiology},
      address = {2025-01-21},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {Mass extinctions are natural experiments on the short- and  long-term consequences of pushing biotas past breaking  points, often with lasting effects on the structure and  function of biodiversity. General properties of mass  extinctions—exceptionally severe, taxonomically broad,  global losses of taxa—are starting to come into focus  through comparisons among dimensions of biodiversity,  including morphological, functional, and phylogenetic  diversity. Notably, functional diversity tends to persist  despite severe losses of taxonomic diversity, whereas taxic  and morphological losses may or may not be coupled. One of  the biggest challenges in synthesizing and extracting  general consequences of these events has been that they are  often driven by multiple, interacting pressures, and the  taxa and their traits vary among events, making it  difficult to link single stressors to specific traits.  Ongoing improvements in the taxonomic and stratigraphic  resolution of these events for multiple clades will sharpen  tests for selectivity and help to isolate hitchhiking  effects, whereby organismal traits are carried by  differential survival or extinction of taxa owing to other  organismal or higher-level attributes, such as  geographic-range size. Direct comparative analyses across  multiple extinction events will also clarify the impacts of  particular drivers on taxa, functional traits, and  morphologies. It is not just the extinction filter that  deserves attention, as the longer-term impact of  extinctions derives in part from their ensuing rebounds.  More work is needed to uncover the biotic and abiotic  circumstances that spur some clades into re-diversification  while relegating others to marginal shares of biodiversity.  Combined insights from mass extinction filters and their  rebounds bring a macroevolutionary view to approaching the  biodiversity crisis in the Anthropocene, helping to  pinpoint the clades, functional groups, and morphologies  most vulnerable to extinction and failed rebounds.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/14446},
}