Coupling eco‐evolutionary mechanisms with deep‐time environmental dynamics to understand biodiversity patterns

O Hagen - Ecography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pioneer naturalists such as Whewell, Lyell, Humboldt, Darwin and Wallace acknowledged
the interactions between ecological and evolutionary forces, as well as the roles of …

gen3sis: A gen eral e ngine for e co-e volutionary si mulation s of the processes that shape Earth's biodiversity

O Hagen, B Flück, F Fopp, JS Cabral, F Hartig… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Understanding the origins of biodiversity has been an aspiration since the days of early
naturalists. The immense complexity of ecological, evolutionary, and spatial processes …

Macroecology in the age of Big Data–Where to go from here?

RO Wüest, NE Zimmermann, D Zurell… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent years have seen an exponential increase in the amount of data available in all
sciences and application domains. Macroecology is part of this “Big Data” trend, with a …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping species diversification metrics in macroecology: prospects and challenges

JA Velasco, JN Pinto-Ledezma - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The intersection of macroecology and macroevolution is one of today's most active research
in biology. In the last decade, we have witnessed a steady increment of macroecological …

Propagule pressure and an invasion syndrome determine invasion success in a plant community model

D Vedder, L Leidinger… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The success of species invasions depends on multiple factors, including propagule
pressure, disturbance, productivity, and the traits of native and non‐native species. While the …

A unified model of species abundance, genetic diversity, and functional diversity reveals the mechanisms structuring ecological communities

I Overcast, M Ruffley, J Rosindell… - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity accumulates hierarchically by means of ecological and evolutionary processes
and feedbacks. Within ecological communities drift, dispersal, speciation, and selection …

Assessing predicted isolation effects from the general dynamic model of island biogeography with an eco‐evolutionary model for plants

JS Cabral, RJ Whittaker, K Wiegand… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aims The general dynamic model (GDM) of oceanic island biogeography predicts how
biogeographical rates, species richness and endemism vary with island age, area and …

Phenomenology and dynamics of competitive ecosystems beyond the niche-neutral regimes

N Leibovich, J Rothschild, S Goyal… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Structure, composition, and stability of ecological populations are shaped by the inter-and
intraspecies interactions within their communities. It remains to be fully understood how the …

Interactions between ecological, evolutionary and environmental processes unveil complex dynamics of insular plant diversity

JS Cabral, K Wiegand, H Kreft - Journal of Biogeography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Understanding how biodiversity emerges and how it varies in space and time requires
integration of the underlying processes that affect biodiversity at different levels of ecological …

The robustness of a simple dynamic model of island biodiversity to geological and sea‐level change

P Santos Neves, JW Lambert, L Valente… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Biodiversity on islands is influenced by geophysical processes and sea‐level
fluctuations. Oceanic islands (never connected to a landmass) are initially vacant with …