Bambach, Richard
AffiliatedCommunity paleoecology, diversity, and diversity change through time; Paleozoic bivalva mollusks; paleogeography and paleobiogeography; interpretation of depositional environments; macroevolution
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.A., Johns Hopkins University
- M.A., Yale University
- Ph.D., Yale University
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Comments On: Periodicity in the Extinction Rate and Possible Astronomical Causes - Comment on Mass Extinctions Over the Last 500 Myr: an Astronomical Cause? (Erlykin Et Al.). Palaeontology. 60:911-920. 2017
- Bush, Andrew M., Hunt, Gene, and Bambach, Richard K. 2016. "Sex and the shifting biodiversity dynamics of marine animals in deep time." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113, (49) 14073–14078. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610726113. 2016
- Sustained Mesozoic–Cenozoic diversification of marine Metazoa: A consistent signal from the fossil record. Geology. 43:979-982. 2015
- Analysis of periodicity of extinction using the 2012 geological timescale. Paleobiology. 40:177-196. 2014
- Do Periodicities in Extinction-with Possible Astronomical Connections-Survive a Revision of the Geological Timescale?. Astrophysical Journal. 773. 2013
- An similar to 60-Million-Year Periodicity Is Common to Marine Sr-87/Sr-86, Fossil Biodiversity, and Large-Scale Sedimentation: What Does the Periodicity Reflect?. Journal of Geology. 120:217-226. 2012
- A ubiquitous ~62-Myr periodic fluctuation superimposed on general trends in fossil biodiversity. I. Documentation. Paleobiology. 37:92-112. 2011
- A ubiquitous ~62-Myr periodic fluctuation superimposed on general trends in fossil biodiversity. II. Evolutionary dynamics associated with periodic fluctuation in marine diversity. Paleobiology. 37:383-408. 2011
- Paleoecologic Megatrends in Marine Metazoa. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 39:241-269. 2011
- Nemesis reconsidered. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 407:L99-L102. 2010
- Bennington, J. Bret, DiMichele, William A., Badgley, Catherine, Bambach, Richard K., Barrett, Paul M., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Bobe, Rene, Burnham, Robyn J., Daeschler, Edward B., Van Dam, Jan, Eronen, Jussi T., Erwin, Douglas H., Finnegan, Seth, Holland, Steven M., Hunt, Gene, Jablonski, David, Jackson, Stephen T., Jacobs, Bonnie E., Kidwell, Susan M., Koch, Paul L., Kowalewski, Michal J., Labandeira, Conrad C., Looy, Cindy V., Lyons, Sara K., Novack-Gottshall, Philip M. et al. 2009. "Critical Issues of Scale in Paleoecology." Palaios, 24, (1-2) 1–4. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2009.S01. 2009
- Bambach, Richard K., Bush, Andrew M., and Erwin, Douglas H. 2007. "Autecology and the filling of ecospace: Key metazoan radiations." Palaeontology, 50 1–22. 2007
- Bambach, Richard K., Bush, A. M., and Erwin, Douglas H. 2007. "Autecology and the realized ecospace of marine metazoa." Palaeontology, 50 1–22. 2007
- Changes in theoretical ecospace utilization in marine fossil assemblages between the mid-Paleozoic and late Cenozoic. Paleobiology. 33:76-97. 2007
- Potential paleoecologic biases from size-filtering of fossils: Strategies for sieving. Palaios. 22:612-622. 2007
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Chapter
- Bush, Andrew M., Bambach, Richard K., and Erwin, Douglas H. 2011. "Ecospace Utilization During the Ediacaran Radiation and the Cambrian Eco-explosion." In Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life : Numerical Approaches to the Evaluation of Fossils and Ancient Ecosystems. Laflamme, Marc, Schiffbauer, James D., and Dornbos, Stephen Q., editors. 111–133. Springer Netherlands. 36 in Topics in Geobiology. 2011
- From empirical paleoecology to evolutionary paleobiology: a personal journey. 398-415. 2009
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- National Museum of Natural History Academic Department
