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Community paleoecology as an epiphenomenal science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Antoni Hoffman
Antoni Hoffman*
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00-490 Warszawa, Wiejska 14 m. 8, Poland
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Abstract

The most important topics discussed thus far by community paleoecologists are: community approach to paleoenvironmental reconstruction, community development in evolutionary time, and community constraints upon species evolution. The first step in community-paleoecological analysis is to reconstruct the paleocommunity or paleoecosystem. However there are severe methodological limitations to any inference drawn from the composition and structure of a fossil assemblage. These result from various taphonomic biases. These constraints upon reliability of a community-paleoecological analysis are the least severe in the case of Cenozoic (and possibly Cretaceous) tropical to subtropical, molluskdominated, subtidal, benthic communities.

The basic assumption of community paleoecology is that communities or biocoenoses represent a distinct, real level of biotic organization achieved through ecological integration of and coevolution among the species. This assumption seems to be invalid for two reasons. (1) The actual degree of community integration is in general insufficient to induce any driving forces for a structural development as predicted by the system theory. (2) The concept of biological reality and distinctness of the community level of biotic organization implies assignment of a significant role to group selection. The assumption that ecological communities achieve with time an equilibrium state representing an optimum habitat partitioning among the component species is invalid, at least as a generalization. This idea is largely falsified and refuted by a variety of ecological studies. Ecological communities are then merely an epiphenomenon of the overlap in distributional patterns of various organisms. There is no intrinsic, biotic mechanism inducing community dynamics in either ecological, or evolutionary time.

In spite of this conclusion, the so-called “community approach” under favorable taphonomic conditions is among the most reliable methods of paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and the data on so-called “community evolution” are relevant to the problem of a relationship between actually realized niche patterns and their environmental framework. The latter problem can also be approached through analysis of longevity-frequency-distributions of chronospecies found living together in various habitats. A preliminary investigation may indicate that the precondition to optimization of niche dimensions through coevolution among ecologically related species was met in subtidal benthic habitats but not in pelagic ones. To account for a niche subdivision among planktonic organisms, one has therefore to invoke a stochastic pattern of speciation rather than coevolutionary mechanisms.

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Paleobiology , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , Fall 1979 , pp. 357 - 379
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