ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021
When fossil clades 'compete': local dominance, global diversification dynamics and causation.
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- Global patterns are key to understanding macroevolution.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Ferns, marsupials, and Darwin's Wedge: Does competitive displacement really explain macroevolutionary patterns in ferns?American journal of botany · 2026Article
- Identifying biotic and abiotic roles in marine clade extinction.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Late Cretaceous ammonoids show that drivers of diversification are regionally heterogeneous.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Unveiling the underlying drivers of Phanerozoic marine diversification.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Ecological structure of diversity-dependent diversification in Phanerozoic marine bivalves.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Multiple evolutionary transitions of reproductive strategies in a phylum of aquatic colonial invertebrates.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- The end of the line: competitive exclusion and the extinction of historical entities.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Paleozoic origins of cheilostome bryozoans and their parental care inferred by a new genome-skimmed phylogeny.Science advances · 2022Article
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- When fossil clades 'compete': local dominance, global diversification dynamics and causation.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Biotic interactions and their consequences for macroevolution: learning from the fossil record and beyond.Paleobiology · 2008Article
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Abstract
Examining the supposition that local-scale competition drives macroevolutionary patterns has become a familiar goal in fossil biodiversity studies. However, it is an elusive goal, hampered by inadequate confirmation of ecological equivalence and interactive processes between clades, patchy sampling, few comparative analyses of local species assemblages over long geological intervals, and a dearth of appropriate statistical tools. We address these concerns by reevaluating one of the classic examples of clade displacement in the fossil record, in which cheilostome bryozoans surpass the once dominant cyclostomes. Here, we analyse a newly expanded and vetted compilation of 40 190 fossil species occurrences to estimate cheilostome and cyclostome patterns of species proportions within assemblages, global genus richness and genus origination and extinction rates while accounting for sampling. Comparison of time-series models using linear stochastic differential equations suggests that inter-clade genus origination and extinction rates are causally linked to each other in a complex feedback relationship rather than by simple correlations or unidirectional relationships, and that these rates are not causally linked to changing within-assemblage proportions of cheilostome versus cyclostome species.
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