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51
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11568
World Ranking
3173
National Ranking
1273

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Jonathan L. Payne is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a strong focus on Paleontology. Their research portfolio comprises 97 publications in this main field, with significant contributions to several subfields including Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, notably in Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology. Additional areas of interest include Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geological and Geophysical Studies, and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Jonathan L. Payne has published research in several recurrent venues which include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of Paleontology
  • Paleobiology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Sedimentology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Daniel J. Lehrmann, Noel A. Heim, Pedro M. Monarrez, Meiyi Yu, and Pulkit Singh. These coauthors have contributed to multiple projects, indicating ongoing collaborative efforts within related disciplines.

Recent publications by Jonathan L. Payne illustrate a breadth of ecological, geological, and biological research, such as:

  • A global ecological signal of extinction risk in terrestrial vertebrates, 2021, Conservation Biology
  • Fully automated carbonate petrography using deep convolutional neural networks, 2020, Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Breathless through Time: Oxygen and Animals across Earth's History, 2022, Biological Bulletin
  • Impact of warming on aquatic body sizes explained by metabolic scaling from microbes to macrofauna, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Geochemical, biostratigraphic, and high-resolution geochronological constraints on the waning stage of Emeishan Large Igneous Province, 2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin

Among distinctions, Jonathan L. Payne has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Large Perturbations of the Carbon Cycle During Recovery from the End-Permian Extinction

    Jonathan L. Payne;Daniel J. Lehrmann;Jiayong Wei;Michael J. Orchard

  • Paleophysiology and End-Permian Mass Extinction

    Andrew H. Knoll;Richard K. Bambach;Jonathan L. Payne;Sara Pruss

  • Greater vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms.

    Malin L. Pinsky;Anne Maria Eikeset;Douglas J. McCauley;Jonathan L. Payne

  • Evidence for recurrent Early Triassic massive volcanism from quantitative interpretation of carbon isotope fluctuations

    Jonathan L. Payne;Lee R. Kump

  • End-Permian Mass Extinction in the Oceans: An Ancient Analog for the Twenty-First Century?

    Jonathan L. Payne;Matthew E. Clapham

  • Temperature-dependent hypoxia explains biogeography and severity of end-Permian marine mass extinction.

    Justin L. Penn;Curtis Deutsch;Jonathan L. Payne;Erik A. Sperling

  • The effect of geographic range on extinction risk during background and mass extinction.

    Jonathan L. Payne;Seth Finnegan

  • Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary

    Felisa A. Smith;Rosemary E. Elliott Smith;S. Kathleen Lyons;Jonathan L. Payne

  • Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity

    Jonathan L. Payne;Alison G. Boyer;James H. Brown;Seth Finnegan

  • Marine anoxia and delayed Earth system recovery after the end-Permian extinction

    Kimberly V. Lau;Kate Maher;Demir Altiner;Brian M. Kelley

  • Calcium isotope constraints on the end-Permian mass extinction

    Jonathan L. Payne;Alexandra V. Turchyn;Adina Paytan;Donald J. DePaolo

  • Timing of recovery from the end-Permian extinction: Geochronologic and biostratigraphic constraints from south China

    Daniel J. Lehrmann;Jahandar Ramezani;Samuel A. Bowring;Mark W. Martin

  • Ecological selectivity of the emerging mass extinction in the oceans

    Jonathan L. Payne;Andrew M. Bush;Noel A. Heim;Matthew L. Knope

  • Erosional truncation of uppermost Permian shallow-marine carbonates and implications for Permian-Triassic boundary events

    Jonathan L. Payne;Daniel J. Lehrmann;David Follett;Margaret Seibel

  • Permian–Triassic Boundary Sections from Shallow-Marine Carbonate Platforms of the Nanpanjiang Basin, South China: Implications for Oceanic Conditions Associated with the End-Permian Extinction and Its Aftermath

    Daniel J. Lehrmann;Jonathan L. Payne;Sharon V. Felix;Peter M. Dillett

  • δ13C evidence that high primary productivity delayed recovery from end-Permian mass extinction

    K.M. Meyer;M. Yu;A.B. Jost;B.M. Kelley

  • Cope’s rule in the evolution of marine animals

    Noel A. Heim;Matthew L. Knope;Ellen K. Schaal;Steve C. Wang

  • Acidification, anoxia, and extinction: A multiple logistic regression analysis of extinction selectivity during the Middle and Late Permian

    Matthew E. Clapham;Jonathan L. Payne

  • High-resolution δ13Ccarb chemostratigraphy from latest Guadalupian through earliest Triassic in South China and Iran

    Shu-zhong Shen;Chang-qun Cao;Hua Zhang;Samuel A. Bowring

  • Evolutionary dynamics of gastropod size across the end-Permian extinction and through the Triassic recovery interval

    Jonathan L. Payne

  • The Pattern and Timing of Biotic Recovery from the End-Permian Extinction on the Great Bank of Guizhou, Guizhou Province, China

    Jonathan L. Payne;Daniel J. Lehrmann;Jiayong Wei;Andrew H. Knoll

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel J. Lehrmann
Daniel J. Lehrmann Trinity University
Seth Finnegan
Seth Finnegan University of California, Berkeley
Donald J. DePaolo
Donald J. DePaolo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Craig R. McClain
Craig R. McClain University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Felisa A. Smith
Felisa A. Smith University of New Mexico
Kate Maher
Kate Maher Stanford University
Michał Kowalewski
Michał Kowalewski Florida Museum of Natural History
Adina Paytan
Adina Paytan University of California, Santa Cruz
Lee R. Kump
Lee R. Kump Pennsylvania State University
Michael J. Orchard
Michael J. Orchard Geological Survey of Canada

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