David Jablonski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and the College

Recent Publications

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Jablonski, D. 2008. Extinction and the spatial dynamics of biodiversity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 105 (Suppl. 1): 11528-11535. [pdf Jabonski2008PNAS_Extinction]

Jablonski, D. 2008. Biotic interactions and macroevolution: Extensions and mismatches across scales and levels. Evolution 62: 715-739. [pdf Jab2008BioticInteractions]

Valentine, J. W., D. Jablonski, A. Z. Krug, and K. Roy, 2008. Incumbency, diversity, and latitudinal gradients. Paleobiology 34: 169-178. [pdf ValentineEtAl2008Incumbency]

Krug, A. Z., D. Jablonski, and J. W. Valentine, 2008. Species-genus ratios reflect a global history of diversification and range expansion in marine bivalves. Proc. Roy. Soc. London B 275: 1117-1123. [pdf KrugEtAl_SG_Ratios]

Krug, A. Z., D. Jablonski, and J. W. Valentine, 2007. Contrarian clade confirms the ubiquity of spatial origination patterns in the production of latitudinal diversity gradients. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104: 18129–18134 [pdf KrugEtAlContrarian]

Jablonski, D. 2007. A multilevel exploration [review of Okasha, Evolution and the Levels of Selection]. Science 316:1428-1430. [pdf OkashaReview]

Jablonski, D. 2007. Scale and hierarchy in macroevolution. Palaeontology, 50: 87-109. [pdf Jab2007Macroevol]

Jablonski, D., K. Roy, and J.W. Valentine, 2006. Out of the Tropics: Evolutionary dynamics of the latitudinal diversity gradient. Science 314: 102-106. [pdf OutOfTheTropics and Supplementary Online Material OutOfTheTropicsSOM]

Kosnik, M. A., D. Jablonski, R. Lockwood, and P M. Novack-Gottshall, 2006. Quantifying molluscan body size in evolutionary and ecological analyses: Maximizing the return on data-collection efforts. Palaios 21: 588-597. [pdf KosnikEtAl2006]

Jablonski, D., and G. Hunt, 2006. Larval ecology, geographic range, and species survivorship in Cretaceous mollusks: Organismic vs. species-level explanations. Am. Nat. 168: 556-564. [pdf JablonskiandHunt2006]

Valentine, J. W., D. Jablonski, S. M. Kidwell, and K. Roy, 2006. Assessing the fidelity of the fossil record by using marine bivalves. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103: 6599-6604. [pdf PNAS2006]

Jablonski, D. 2005. Evolutionary innovations in the fossil record: The intersection of ecology, development and macroevolution. Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part B, Molecular and Developmental Evolution 304B: 504-519. [pdf JExpZool2005]

Hunt, G., K. Roy, and D. Jablonski, 2005. Heritability of geographic range sizes revisited. Am. Nat. 166: 129-135. [pdf Heritability05]

Goldberg, E., K. Roy, R. Lande, and D. Jablonski, 2005. Diversity, endemism, and age distributions in macroevolutionary sources and sinks. Am. Nat. 165: 623-633. [pdf GoldbergEtAl]

Jablonski, D. 2005. Mass extinctions and macroevolution. Paleobiology 31 (Suppl. to No. 2): 192-210. [pdf MassExt05]

Roy, K., D. Jablonski, and J.W. Valentine, 2004. Beyond species richness: biogeographic patterns and biodiversity dynamics using other metrics of diversity. In M. V. Lomolino and L. R. Heaney eds. Frontiers of Biogeography: New Directions in the Geography of Nature. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer, 151-170. [pdf beyond_species]

Valentine, J.W., and D. Jablonski, 2003. Morphological and developmental macroevolution: A paleontological perspective. International Journal of Developmental Biology 47: 517-522. [pdf IntJDevBio2003]

Jablonski, D. 2004. Extinction: Past and present. Nature 427: 589. [pdf Nature]

Jablonski, D., K. Roy, J.W. Valentine, R.M. Price, and P.S. Anderson, 2003.The impact of the Pull of the Recent on the history of bivalve diversity. Science 300: 1133-1135. [pdfs PotR and PotRSuppl] [Excel spreadsheet PotRData]

Jablonski, D., and K. Roy, 2003. Geographic range and speciation in fossil and living molluscs. Proc. Roy. Soc. London B270: 401-406. [pdf RoySoc03]

Jablonski, D., K. Roy, and J. W. Valentine, 2003. Evolutionary macroecology and the fossil record. In: T.M. Blackburn and K. J. Gaston, eds., Macroecology: Concepts and consequences. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 368-390. [pdf Macroecology]

Jablonski, D. 2003. The interplay of physical and biotic factors in macroevolution. In: A. Lister and L. Rothschild, eds., Evolution on planet Earth: The impact of the physical environment. New York: Academic Press, 235-252

Jablonski, D. 2002. Survival without recovery after mass extinctions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99: 8139-8144. [pdf DeadClade]

Valentine, J.W., K. Roy, and D. Jablonski, 2002. Carnivore/ noncarnivore ratios in northeastern Pacific marine gastropods. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 228: 153-163. [pdf MEPS]

Roy, K., D. Jablonski, and J.W. Valentine, 2002. Body size and invasion success in marine bivalves. Ecology Letters 5: 163-167. [pdf ELett 2002]

Jablonski, D. 2001. Lessons from the past: Evolutionary impacts of mass extinctions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 98: 5393-5398. [pdf PNAS01]

Jablonski, D. 2001. Origin of evolutionary novelties. In: D.E.G. Briggs and P.R. Crowther, eds., Palaeobiology 2. Oxford: Blackwell Science, 162-166.

Roy, K., D. Jablonski, and J.W. Valentine, 2001. Climate change, species range limits and body size in marine bivalves. Ecology Letters 4: 366-370. [pdf ELett 2001]

Roy, K., D. Jablonski, and K.K. Martien, 2000. Invariant size-frequency distributions along a latitudinal gradient in marine bivalves. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97: 13150-13155. [pdf SFDs]

Roy, K., D. Jablonski and J.W. Valentine, 2000. Dissecting latitudinal diversity gradients: functional groups and clades of marine bivalves. Proc. Roy. Soc. London B267: 293-299. [Abstract]

Jablonski, D. 1999. The future of the fossil record. Science 284: 2114-2116.[pdf Future]

Valentine, J.W., D. Jablonski, and D.H. Erwin, 1999. Fossils, molecules and embryos: new perspectives on the Cambrian explosion. Development 126: 851-859. [pdf Devel1999]

Roy, K., D. Jablonski, J.W. Valentine, and G. Rosenberg, 1998. Marine latitudinal diversity gradients: Tests of causal hypotheses. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95: 3699-3702. [pdf LatGrad]

Jablonski, D. 1998. Geographic variation in the molluscan recovery from the end-Cretaceous extinction. Science 279: 1327-1330. [Abstract]

Jablonski, D., S. Lidgard, and P.D. Taylor, 1997. Comparative ecology of bryozoan radiations: Origin of novelties in cyclostomes and cheilostomes. Palaios, 12: 505-523. [Abstract]

Jablonski, D., 1997. Body-size evolution in Cretaceous molluscs and the status of Cope's rule. Nature 385: 250-252. [Abstract]

Jablonski, D. 1997. Progress at the K-T boundary. Nature 387:354-355.

Erwin, D.H., J.W. Valentine, and D. Jablonski, 1997. The origin of animal body plans. Am. Sci. 85: 126-137.

Roy, K., J.W. Valentine, D. Jablonski, and S.M. Kidwell, 1996. Scales of climatic variability and time averaging in Pleistocene biotas: Implications for ecology and evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11: 458-463.

Roy, K., D. Jablonski, and J.W. Valentine, 1996. Higher taxa in biodiversity studies: Patterns from eastern Pacific marine mollusks. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London B351: 1605-1613. [Abstract]

Jablonski, D., and J.J. Sepkoski, Jr. 1996. Paleobiology, community ecology, and scales of ecological pattern. Ecology 77: 1367-1378.

Valentine, J.W., D.H. Erwin, and D. Jablonski, 1996. Developmental evolution of metazoan bodyplans: The fossil evidence. Developmental Biology 173: 373-381.

Jablonski, D. 1996. The rudists re-examined. Nature 383: 669-670.

Jablonski, D. 1996. Mass Extinctions: Persistent problems and new directions. In: G. Ryder, D. Fastovsky, and S. Gartner, eds., The Cretaceous-Tertiary Event and Other Catastrophes in Earth History(Snowbird III). Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Paper 307: 1-11.

Flessa, K.W., and D. Jablonski, 1996. The geography of evolutionary turnover: A global analysis of extant bivalves. In: D. Jablonski, D.H. Erwin, and J.H. Lipps, eds., Evolutionary Paleobiology. University of Chicago Press, 376-397.

Jablonski, D. 1996. Body size and macroevolution. In: D.Jablonski, D.H. Erwin, and J.H. Lipps, eds., Evolutionary Paleobiology. University of Chicago Press, 256-289.

Roy, K., D. Jablonski, and J.W. Valentine, 1995. Thermally anomalous assemblages revisited: Patterns in the extraprovincial range shifts of Pleistocene marine mollusks. Geology 23: 1071-1074.

Flessa, K.W., and D. Jablonski, 1995. Biogeography of Recent marine bivalve molluscs and its implications for paleobiogeography and the geography of extinction: A progress report. Hist. Biol. 10: 25-47.

Jablonski, D., and D.M. Raup, 1995. Selectivity of end-Cretaceous marine bivalve extinctions. Science 268: 389-391.

Jablonski, D. 1995. Extinction in the fossil record. In: R.M. May and J.H. Lawton, eds., Extinction rates. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 25-44.

Roy, K., D. Jablonski, and J.W. Valentine, 1994. Eastern Pacific molluscan provinces and latitudinal diversity gradient: No evidence for Rapoport's Rule. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:8871-8874. [pdf Rapoport]

Valentine, J.W., and D. Jablonski, 1993. Fossil communities: Compositional variation at many time scales. In: R.E. Ricklefs and D. Schluter, eds., Species diversity in ecological communities: Historical and geographical perspectives. University of Chicago Press, 341-349.

Jablonski, D. 1993. The tropics as a source of evolutionary novelty: The post-Palaeozoic fossil record of marine invertebrates. Nature 364: 142-144.

Raup, D.M., and D. Jablonski, 1993. Geography of end-Cretaceous marine bivalve extinctions. Science 260: 971-973. [pdf Raup&Jab1993]

Jablonski, D. 1991. Extinctions: A paleontological perspective. Science 253: 754-756.

Jablonski, D., and D.J. Bottjer, 1991. Environmental patterns in the origins of higher taxa: The post-Paleozoic fossil record.Science 252: 1831-1833.

Valentine, J.W., and D. Jablonski, 1991. Biotic effects of sea-level change: The Pleistocene test. J. Geophys. Res. 96: 6873-6778.

Jablonski, D., and D.J. Bottjer, 1990. The origin and diversification of major groups: Environmental patterns and macroevolutionary lags. In: P.D. Taylor and G.P. Larwood, eds., Major evolutionary radiations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 17-57.

Jablonski, D., and D.J. Bottjer, 1990. The ecology of evolutionary innovations: The fossil record. In: M.H. Nitecki,ed., Evolutionary innovations. University of Chicago Press, 253-288.

Jablonski, D., and D.J. Bottjer, 1990. Onshore-offshore trends in marine invertebrate evolution. In: R.M. Ross and W.D. Allmon,eds., Causes of Evolution: A Paleontological Perspective. University of Chicago Press, 21-75.