Geological Society of America

139 D23. Paleontology: Recent Developments in Diversity, Extinction, and Origination

Tuesday, 11 October 2022
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Mile High Ballroom 4C

BIODEEPTIME VERSION 1.0: A NEW DATABASE OF BIODIVERSITY TIME SERIES FOR THE CENOZOIC

Paper number: 139-12
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM

Authors

Jansen Smith Presenting Author
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Lee Hsiang Liow
University of Oslo, Oslo
Miranda Margulis-Ohnuma
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Stephen Meyers
University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI
Amelia M. Penny
University of Helsinki, Helsinki
Katherine Pippenger
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Johan Renaudie
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, N/A
Erin Saupe
University of Oxford, Oxford
Manuel J. Steinbauer
University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Mauro Sugawara
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Adam Tomasovych
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, N/A
Marina Rillo
University of OldenburgICBM, Wilhelmshaven
John Williams
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Moriaki Yasuhara
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ádám Kocsis
Friedrich-Alexander-UniversitätGeoZentrum Nordbayern, Erlangen
Seth Finnegan
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Pincelli M. Hull
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Maria Dornelas
University of St Andrews, St Andrews, N/A
David Fastovich
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Huai-Hsuan Huang
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wolfgang Kiessling
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen

Abstract

Understanding how communities respond to environmental perturbations of varying magnitudes and rates is critical given current climate change. Existing data to address community responses are spread across numerous databases created to address different research questions, with formats that are often not readily comparable. These disparate databases require compilation and standardization to facilitate comparable and comprehensive analyses of community change over time. Here we present the first version of the BioDeepTime database, which combines records assembled previously (e.g., BioTime, Neptune, Neotoma) and novel, primary-literature records in a unified format. The more than one thousand time series included in BioDeepTime were required to meet quality controls (e.g., >10 time points, taxonomically complete, data collection purpose) and include taxa from freshwater, marine, and terrestrial environments. The data provide global coverage and span ecological and paleontological timescales, extending throughout the Cenozoic. BioDeepTime version 1.0 is the first iteration of an ongoing effort to compile the best available time series to enable investigations of changing temporal beta diversity and the relative response of biodiversity to anthropogenic stressors. BioDeepTime will be updated iteratively and will be freely available to the community.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 54, No. 6

doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-383239

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