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Interplay between changing climate and species' ecology drives macroevolutionary dynamics

Ezard, Thomas H. G., Aze, Tracy, Pearson, Paul Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4628-9818 and Purvis, Andy 2011. Interplay between changing climate and species' ecology drives macroevolutionary dynamics. Science 332 (6027) , pp. 349-351. 10.1126/science.1203060

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Abstract

Ecological change provokes speciation and extinction, but our knowledge of the interplay among the biotic and abiotic drivers of macroevolution remains limited. Using the unparalleled fossil record of Cenozoic macroperforate planktonic foraminifera, we demonstrate that macroevolutionary dynamics depend on the interaction between species’ ecology and the changing climate. This interplay drives diversification but differs between speciation probability and extinction risk: Speciation was more strongly shaped by diversity dependence than by climate change, whereas the reverse was true for extinction. Crucially, no single ecology was optimal in all environments, and species with distinct ecologies had significantly different probabilities of speciation and extinction. The ensuing macroevolutionary dynamics depend fundamentally on the ecological structure of species’ assemblages.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Subjects: Q Science > QE Geology
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
ISSN: 0036-8075
Funders: NERC
Last Modified: 18 Oct 2022 12:29
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/10042

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