Landscape dynamics and the Phanerozoic diversification of the biosphere.

ABSTRACT: The long-term diversification of the biosphere responds to changes in the physical environment. Yet, over the continents, the nearly monotonic expansion of life started later in the early part of the Phanerozoic eon¹ than the expansion in the marine realm, where instead the number of genera waxed and waned over time². A comprehensive evaluation of the changes in the geodynamic and climatic forcing fails to provide a unified theory for the long-term pattern of evolution of life on Earth. Here we couple climate and plate tectonics models to numerically reconstruct the evolution of the Earth's landscape over the entire Phanerozoic eon, which we then compare to palaeo-diversity datasets from marine animal and land plant genera. Our results indicate that biodiversity is st

SUBMITTER: Salles T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10700141 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature