Influence of historical changes in tropical reef habitat on the diversification of coral reef fishes.

ABSTRACT: Past environmental changes are expected to have profoundly impacted diversity dynamics through time. While some previous studies showed an association between past climate changes or tectonic events and important shifts in lineage diversification, it is only recently that past environmental changes have been explicitly integrated in diversification models to test their influence on diversification rates. Here, we used a global reconstruction of tropical reef habitat dynamics during the Cenozoic and phylogenetic diversification models to test the influence of (i) major geological events, (ii) reef habitat fragmentation and (iii) reef area on the diversification of 9 major clades of tropical reef fish (Acanthuridae, Balistoidea, Carangoidea, Chaetodontidae, Haemulinae, Holocentridae, Labrida

SUBMITTER: Leprieur F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8528860 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature