Paleoenvironments shaped the exchange of terrestrial vertebrates across Wallace's Line

A Skeels, LM Boschman, IR McFadden, EM Joyce… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Faunal turnover in Indo-Australia across Wallace's Line is one of the most recognizable
patterns in biogeography and has catalyzed debate about the role of evolutionary and …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape dynamics and the Phanerozoic diversification of the biosphere

T Salles, L Husson, M Lorcery, B Hadler Boggiani - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The long-term diversification of the biosphere responds to changes in the physical
environment. Yet, over the continents, the nearly monotonic expansion of life started later in …

Dispersal–diversity feedbacks and their consequences for macroecological patterns

A Alzate, O Hagen - Philosophical Transactions B, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Dispersal is a key process in ecology and evolution. While the effects of dispersal on
diversity are broadly acknowledged, our understanding of the influence of diversity on …

pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions

M Leonardi, EY Hallett, R Beyer, M Krapp… - Ecography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The recent development of continuous paleoclimatic reconstructions covering hundreds of
thousands of years paved the way for a large number of studies from disciplines ranging …

Earth's interior dynamics drive marine fossil diversity cycles of tens of millions of years

S Boulila, SE Peters, RD Müller… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The fossil record reveals that biotic diversity has fluctuated quasi-cyclically through
geological time. However, the causal mechanisms of biotic diversity cycles remain …

The macro-eco-evolutionary interplay between dispersal, competition and landscape structure in generating biodiversity

O Hagen, DS Viana, T Wiegand… - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Theory links dispersal and diversity, predicting the highest diversity at intermediate dispersal
levels. However, the modulation of this relationship by macro-eco-evolutionary mechanisms …

Elevational Goldilocks zone underlies the exceptional diversity of a large lizard radiation (Liolaemus; Liolaemidae)

A Skeels, D Esquerré, D Lipsky, L Pellissier… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Mountains are among the most biodiverse regions on the planet, and how these landforms
shape diversification through the interaction of biological traits and geo-climatic dynamics is …

Unpacking underdetermination: Theoretical challenges in understanding macroecological and biogeographic patterns

JAF Diniz‐Filho, MTP Coelho… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Macroecology and biogeography have made significant strides in understanding the
patterns and processes underlying biodiversity, yet the problem of underdetermination (the …

PALEO‐PGEM‐Series: a spatial time series of the global climate over the last 5 million years (Plio‐Pleistocene)

E Barreto, PB Holden, NR Edwards… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation Climate change plays an important role in the generation and maintenance of
biodiversity by driving processes such as diversification and range shifts. As a result …

[HTML][HTML] Global determinants of insect mitochondrial genetic diversity

CM French, LD Bertola, AC Carnaval… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding global patterns of genetic diversity is essential for describing, monitoring,
and preserving life on Earth. To date, efforts to map macrogenetic patterns have been …