计算模拟方法提高深时食物网稳定性演变的时间分辨率: 以煤山剖面二叠纪‒三叠纪生态记录为例

黄元耕; 辛佰仑; 郭镇; 李子珩; 乔慧捷; 黄鑫月; 陈中强

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Huang Yuangeng, Xin Bailun, Guo Zhen, Li Ziheng, Qiao Huijie, Huang Xinyue, Chen Zhong-Qiang, 2025. Modeling Method Enhances Temporal Resolution of Deep⁃Time Food Web Stability Evolution: A Case Study on Permian⁃Triassic Ecological Record from the Meishan Section. Earth Science, 50(3): 951-963. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2025.022

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Huang Yuangeng, Xin Bailun, Guo Zhen, Li Ziheng, Qiao Huijie, Huang Xinyue, Chen Zhong-Qiang, 2025. Modeling Method Enhances Temporal Resolution of Deep⁃Time Food Web Stability Evolution: A Case Study on Permian⁃Triassic Ecological Record from the Meishan Section. Earth Science, 50(3): 951-963. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2025.022

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Huang Yuangeng, Xin Bailun, Guo Zhen, Li Ziheng, Qiao Huijie, Huang Xinyue, Chen Zhong-Qiang, 2025. Modeling Method Enhances Temporal Resolution of Deep⁃Time Food Web Stability Evolution: A Case Study on Permian⁃Triassic Ecological Record from the Meishan Section. Earth Science, 50(3): 951-963. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2025.022

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Modeling Method Enhances Temporal Resolution of Deep⁃Time Food Web Stability Evolution: A Case Study on Permian⁃Triassic Ecological Record from the Meishan Section

doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2025.022

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State Key Laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Changes, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430078, China
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School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430078, China
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Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101

Received Date: 2025-01-10
Publish Date: 2025-03-25

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The Permian-Triassic (P-Tr) mass extinction, which occurred approximately 252 million years ago, represents the largest ecological crisis in Earth's geological history and is often regarded as a reference case for modern ecological crises. However, studies that integrate multiple taxa and systematically characterize the overall evolutionary trajectory of food web structures in communities remain scarce. In particular, the incompleteness of fossil records and their low temporal resolution within stratigraphic records pose significant challenges to using deep-time crises as analogs for modern ecological crises. This study focuses on the fossil-rich Meishan Section in Zhejiang Province, the global stratotype section and point (GSSP) for the P-Tr boundary. Using Bayesian modeling with the PyRate method, we recalculated the true first and last appearances of all fossil species within this section. The results reveal a three-phase decline in species diversity: rapid drops in the first and third phases, with a gradual decline in the second phase. Building on these results, we explored schemes for delineating paleocommunities at varying temporal resolutions, ranging from 50 ka per community down to 1 ka per community. We then analyzed species composition similarity between adjacent communities under each scheme. As the temporal resolution increases, adjacent communities exhibit increasingly similar species compositions. Notably, for resolutions of 1-4 ka years per community, over 5% of adjacent communities show identical species compositions. Adopting a temporal resolution of 5 ka per community, we constructed a continuous sequence of paleocommunities and quantitatively assessed the evolutionary dynamics of community composition, simulated food web stability, and resistance across the P-Tr boundary. The results indicate minimal changes in ecological structure and community stability during the first and second phases, followed by abrupt shifts in the third phase. Communities in the first and second phases retained relatively high resistance, likely due to the loss of redundant species that did not compromise the integrity of ecological structure and function. In contrast, the third phase witnessed the collapse and reorganization of ecological structures as multiple functional groups disappeared. This study provides a detailed examination of paleocommunity delineation at varying temporal resolutions and reconstructs the evolutionary trajectory of paleoecological structures at a resolution of 5 ka. These findings offer a novel approach for investigating high-resolution deep-time ecosystem evolution and facilitate comparative studies between ancient and modern ecological systems.
- mass extinction,
- ecological structure,
- paleocommunities,
- food webs,
- stability,
- ecosystems,
- stratigraphy

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