Roger A. Close

The spatial structure of Phanerozoic marine animal diversity

Roger A. Close, Roger Benson, Erin E. Saupe et al. · Science · 2020 · 162 citations · Full text

Evidence for a Mid-Jurassic Adaptive Radiation in Mammals

Roger A. Close, Matt Friedman, Graeme T. Lloyd et al. · Current Biology · 2015 · 136 citations · Full text

Biology, Mid-jurassic Adaptive Radiation, Natural Sciences +4

How should we estimate diversity in the fossil record? Testing richness estimators using sampling‐standardised discovery curves

Roger A. Close, Serjoscha Evers, John Alroy et al. · Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2018 · 126 citations · Full text

Biodiversity, Engineering, Evolutionary Biology +12

Controlling for the species-area effect supports constrained long-term Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate diversification

Roger A. Close, Roger Benson, Paul Upchurch et al. · Nature Communications · 2017 · 98 citations · Full text

The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases

Roger A. Close, Roger Benson, John Alroy et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2020 · 79 citations · Full text

Spatial Sampling Biases, Social Sciences, Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction +19