Dr. James Gabriel Saulsbury
- Post-doctoral Researcher
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Faculty Sponsor: Lena Hileman
My research uses the fossil record of marine invertebrates to address themes across ecology and evolutionary biology, including the relative roles of stochastic and deterministic ecological forces in the long-term evolutionary fates of species, the importance of tectonic and oceanographic events in the evolution of marine organisms, and major innovations in inverebrate evolutionary history.
Selected Publications —
Saulsbury, J.G.; Parins-Fukuchi, C.T.; Wilson, C.J.; Reitan, T.; Liow, L.H. Age-dependent extinction and the neutral theory of biodiversity. Preprint, bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.08.23.554417
Saulsbury, J.G.; Baumiller, T. K. 2022. Dispersals from the West Tethys as the source of the Indo-West Pacific diversity hotspot in comatulid crinoids. Paleobiology. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2022.23
Saulsbury, J.G. 2020. Crinoid respiration and the distribution of energetic strategies among marine invertebrates. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz167
Saulsbury, J.G.; Moss, D.K.; Ivany, L.C.; Kowalewski, M.; Lindberg, D.; Gillooly, J.F.; Heim, N.A.; McClain, C.R.; Payne, J.L.; Roopnarine, P.D.; Schöne, B.R.; Goodwin, D.; Finnegan, S. 2019. Evaluating the influences of temperature, primary production, and evolutionary history on bivalve growth rates. Paleobiology. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2019.20