Peter Mayhew (biologist)

Peter Mayhew is a British biologist at the University of York in the United Kingdom. He is the lead author of a study showing a long-term association between global temperature and biodiversity, origination, and extinction in the fossil record.^[1] This study demonstrated that biodiversity tends to be relatively low during greenhouse phases in Earth history and that extinction rates (including mass extinctions) tend to be higher.^[2] On the basis of this work he was nominated as one of the "Great Britons of 2007".^[3] He is also author of a textbook on evolutionary ecology.^[4]

References

1. ^ Mayhew, P. J.; Jenkins, G. B. & Benton T. M. (2008-01-07). "A long term association between global temperature and biodiversity, origination and extinction in the fossil record". Proceedings of the Royal Society B (London: Royal Society) 275 (1630): 47–53. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1302. PMC 2562410. PMID 17956842. http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/3x081w5n5358qj01/?p=e1fdebbc5ce24040a66600d8139c307d&pi=6. Retrieved 2008-01-01. 
2. ^ Borenstein, Seth (2007-10-24). "Warmer seas spark extinction worries". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/269964. Retrieved 2008-01-01. 
3. ^ "Great Britons". http://www.greatbritons.org/awards/overview/. Retrieved 2007-01-01. 
4. ^ Mayhew, Peter J (2006). Discovering Evolutionary Ecology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198570608. OCLC: 62133413 . 

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