[ad_1] Disaster taxa, such as fungi and lichens, are the first to colonize disaster areas. Lystrosaurus, a distant ancestor of modern animals, was the dominant land vertebrate for millions of years after the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Small mammals were the primary calamity taxa after the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. Coconut plants, fungi, lichens, mosses, and small […]