ArticleNature ecology & evolution2024
Ecological niche conservatism spurs diversification in response to climate change.
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- Landscape-explicit phylogeography illuminates the ecographic radiation of early archosauromorph reptiles.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- Future climate change and the distributional shift of the common vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The adaptability of grassland soil microbiomes to resource and stress shifts is mainly accomplished by niche conservatism under nitrogen deposition.ISME communications · 2025Article
- The interplay between climatic niche evolution, polyploidy and reproductive traits explains plant speciation in the Mediterranean Basin: a case study inFrontiers in plant science · 2024Article
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Abstract
Lengthy debate has surrounded the theoretical and empirical science of whether climatic niche evolution is related to increased or decreased rates of biological diversification. Because species can persist for thousands to millions of years, these questions cross broad scales of time and space. Thus, short-term experiments may not provide comprehensive understanding of the system, leading to the emergence of contrasting opinions: niche evolution may increase diversity by allowing species to explore and colonize new geographic areas across which they could speciate; or, niche conservatism might augment biodiversity by supporting isolation of populations that may then undergo allopatric speciation. Here, we use a simulation approach to test how biological diversification responds to different rates and modes of niche evolution. We find that niche conservatism promotes biological diversification, whereas labile niches-whether adapting to the conditions available or changing randomly-generally led to slower diversification rates. These novel results provide a framework for understanding how Earth-life interactions produced such a diverse biota.
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