Quantifying functional diversity in pre- and post-extinction paleocommunities: A test of ecological restructuring after the end-Permian mass extinction

A review of the literature shows that understanding of biotic restructuring following the Permo-Triassic mass extinction (PTME) is typically based on only a few components of the ecosystem, such as taxonomic diversity, and that Early Triassic paleocommunities previously have been considered fully recovered when previous dominance and diversity were regained. To more fully characterize Triassic ecologic restructuring, we propose herein that...