Multi-scale interplays of biotic and abiotic drivers shape mammalian sub-continental diversity over millions of years.

ABSTRACT: The reconstruction of deep-time diversity trends is key to understanding current and future species richness. Studies that statistically evaluate potential factors affecting paleodiversity have focused on continental and global, clade-wide datasets, and thus we ignore how community species richness build-up to generate large-scale patterns over geological timescales. If community diversity is shaped by biotic interactions and continental and global diversities are governed by abiotic events, which are the modulators of diversity in subcontinental regions? To address this question, we model Iberian mammalian species richness over 13 million years (15 to 2 Ma) using exhaustive fossil evidence for subcontinental species' ecomorphology, environmental context, and biogeographic affinities, and

SUBMITTER: Cantalapiedra JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6128930 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature