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Emily G Mitchell1, Charlotte G Kenchington2,3
1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. ek338@cam.ac.uk.
Abstract:
Ediacaran fossil communities consist of the oldest macroscopic eukaryotic organisms. Increased size (height) is hypothesized to be driven by competition for water column resources, leading to vertical/epifaunal tiering and morphological innovations such as stems. Using spatial analyses, we find no correlation between tiering and resource competition, and that stemmed organisms are not tiered. Instead, we find that height is correlated with greater offspring dispersal, demonstrating the importance of colonization potential over resource competition.
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