ArticleNature communications2023
A latitudinal gradient of deep-sea invasions for marine fishes.
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- Adaptation, diversification and ecological opportunity in the extremophile radiation ofProceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- The many origins of extremophile fishes.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- High-latitude ocean habitats are a crucible of fish body shape diversification.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Phylogenetic structure of body shape in a diverse inland ichthyofauna.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Although the tropics harbor the greatest species richness globally, recent work has demonstrated that, for many taxa, speciation rates are faster at higher latitudes. Here, we explore lability in oceanic depth as a potential mechanism for this pattern in the most biodiverse vertebrates - fishes. We demonstrate that clades with the highest speciation rates also diversify more rapidly along the depth gradient, drawing a fundamental link between evolutionary and ecological processes on a global scale. Crucially, these same clades also inhabit higher latitudes, creating a prevailing latitudinal gradient of deep-sea invasions concentrated in poleward regions. We interpret these findings in the light of classic ecological theory, unifying the latitudinal variation of oceanic features and the physiological tolerances of the species living there. This work advances the understanding of how niche lability sculpts global patterns of species distributions and underscores the vulnerability of polar ecosystems to changing environmental conditions.
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