ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019
Diversity partitioning in Phanerozoic benthic marine communities.
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- Impacts of spatial and environmental differentiation on early Palaeozoic marine biodiversity.Nature ecology & evolution · 2019Article
- Ecological continuity and transformation after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction in northeastern Panthalassa.Biology letters · 2019Article
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Abstract
Biotic interactions such as competition, predation, and niche construction are fundamental drivers of biodiversity at the local scale, yet their long-term effect during earth history remains controversial. To test their role and explore potential limits to biodiversity, we determine within-habitat (alpha), between-habitat (beta), and overall (gamma) diversity of benthic marine invertebrates for Phanerozoic geological formations. We show that an increase in gamma diversity is consistently generated by an increase in alpha diversity throughout the Phanerozoic. Beta diversity drives gamma diversity only at early stages of diversification but remains stationary once a certain gamma level is reached. This mode is prevalent during early- to mid-Paleozoic periods, whereas coupling of beta and gamma diversity becomes increasingly weak toward the recent. Generally, increases in overall biodiversity were accomplished by adding more species to local habitats, and apparently this process never reached saturation during the Phanerozoic. Our results provide general support for an ecological model in which diversification occurs in successive phases of progressing levels of biotic interactions.
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