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Process-explicit models reveal the structure and dynamics of biodiversity patterns.
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Simulating macroevolutionary trends and open-ended evolution with a novel mechanistic multi-level approach.PloS one · 2025Article
- Ecological dynamics of moa extinctions reveal convergent refugia that today harbour flightless birds.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- 52,000 years of woolly rhinoceros population dynamics reveal extinction mechanisms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Using ancient sedimentary DNA to forecast ecosystem trajectories under climate change.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Predicting the dispersal and invasion dynamics of ambrosia beetles through demographic reconstruction and process-explicit modeling.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Reconstructing colonization dynamics to establish how human activities transformed island biodiversity.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Climatic and soil characteristics account for the genetic structure of the invasive cactus mothPeerJ · 2024Article
- Millennial processes of population decline, range contraction and near extinction of the European bison.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Diversity across organisational scale emerges through dispersal ability and speciation dynamics in tropical fish.BMC biology · 2023Article
- Biophysical models accurately characterize the thermal energetics of a small invasive passerine bird.iScience · 2023Article
- Global determinants of insect mitochondrial genetic diversity.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
With ever-growing data availability and computational power at our disposal, we now have the capacity to use process-explicit models more widely to reveal the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms responsible for spatiotemporal patterns of biodiversity. Most research questions focused on the distribution of diversity cannot be answered experimentally, because many important environmental drivers and biological constraints operate at large spatiotemporal scales. However, we can encode proposed mechanisms into models, observe the patterns they produce in virtual environments, and validate these patterns against real-world data or theoretical expectations. This approach can advance understanding of generalizable mechanisms responsible for the distributions of organisms, communities, and ecosystems in space and time, advancing basic and applied science. We review recent developments in process-explicit models and how they have improved knowledge of the distribution and dynamics of life on Earth, enabling biodiversity to be better understood and managed through a deeper recognition of the processes that shape genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity.
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