@article{congreve_patzkowsky_wagner_2021, title={An early burst in brachiopod evolution corresponding with significant climatic shifts during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event}, volume={288}, ISSN={["1471-2954"]}, DOI={10.1098/rspb.2021.1450}, abstractNote={We employ modified tip-dating methods to date divergence times within the Strophomenoidea, one of the most abundant and species-rich brachiopod clades to radiate during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE), to determine if significant environmental changes at this time correlate with the diversification of the clade. Models using origination, extinction and sampling rates to estimate prior probabilities of divergence times strongly support both high rates of anatomical change per million years and rapid divergences shortly before the clade first appears in the fossil record. These divergence times indicate much higher rates of cladogenesis than are typical of brachiopods during this interval. The correspondence of high speciation rates and high anatomical disparity suggests punctuated (speciational) change drove the high frequencies of early anatomical change, which in turn suggests increased ecological opportunities rather than shifting developmental constraints account for high rates of anatomical change. The pulse of rapid evolution began coincident with cooling temperatures, the start of major oscillations in sea level and increased levels of atmospheric oxygen. Our results suggest that these factors permitted major geographical and ecological expansion of strophomenoids with intervals of geographical isolation, resulting in elevated speciation rates and corresponding elevated frequencies of punctuated change.}, number={1958}, journal={PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES}, author={Congreve, Curtis R. and Patzkowsky, Mark E. and Wagner, Peter J.}, year={2021}, month={Sep} }
 @article{sclafani_congreve_patzkowsky_2021, title={Does evolutionary relatedness predict ecological similarity?}, volume={47}, ISSN={["1938-5331"]}, DOI={10.1017/pab.2020.48}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={2}, journal={PALEOBIOLOGY}, author={Sclafani, Judith A. and Congreve, Curtis R. and Patzkowsky, Mark E.}, year={2021}, month={Mar}, pages={284–300} }
 @article{lamsdell_congreve_2021, title={Phylogenetic paleoecology: macroecology within an evolutionary framework}, volume={47}, ISSN={["1938-5331"]}, DOI={10.1017/pab.2020.61}, abstractNote={The burgeoning field of phylogenetic paleoecology (Lamsdell et al. 2017) represents a synthesis of the related but differently focused fields of macroecology (Brown 1995) and macroevolution (Stanley 1975). Through a combination of the data and methods of both disciplines, phylogenetic paleoecology leverages phylogenetic theory and quantitative paleoecology to explain the temporal and spatial variation in species diversity, distribution, and disparity. Phylogenetic paleoecology is ideally situated to elucidate many fundamental issues in evolutionary biology, including the generation of new phenotypes and occupation of previously unexploited environments; the nature of relationships among character change, ecology, and evolutionary rates; determinants of the geographic distribution of species and clades; and the underlying phylogenetic signal of ecological selectivity in extinctions and radiations. This is because phylogenetic paleoecology explicitly recognizes and incorporates the quasi-independent nature of evolutionary and ecological data as expressed in the dual biological hierarchies (Eldredge and Salthe 1984; Congreve et al. 2018; Fig. 1), incorporating both as covarying factors rather than focusing on one and treating the other as error within the dataset.}, number={2}, journal={PALEOBIOLOGY}, author={Lamsdell, James C. and Congreve, Curtis R.}, year={2021}, month={Mar}, pages={171–177} }
 @article{congreve_krug_patzkowsky_2019, title={Evolutionary and biogeographical shifts in response to the Late Ordovician mass extinction}, volume={62}, ISSN={["1475-4983"]}, DOI={10.1111/pala.12397}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={2}, journal={PALAEONTOLOGY}, author={Congreve, Curtis R. and Krug, Andrew Z. and Patzkowsky, Mark E.}, year={2019}, month={Mar}, pages={267–285} }