{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Onstein RE"],"funding":["Carlsbergfondet","Swiss National Science Foundation","Villum Fonden","Agence Nationale de la Recherche","Dutch Research Council (NWO)","Universiteit van Amsterdam","W. Garfield Weston Foundation"],"pagination":["20180882"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6015859"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["285(1880)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Past global change may have forced animal-dispersed plants with megafaunal fruits to adapt or go extinct, but these processes have remained unexplored at broad spatio-temporal scales. Here, we combine phylogenetic, distributional and fruit size data for more than 2500 palm (Arecaceae) species in a time-slice diversification analysis to quantify how extinction and adaptation have changed over deep time. Our results indicate that extinction rates of palms with megafaunal fruits have increased in the New World since the onset of the Quaternary (2.6 million years ago). In contrast, Old World palms show a Quaternary increase in transition rates towards evolving small fruits from megafaunal fruits. We suggest that Quaternary climate oscillations and concurrent habitat fragmentation and defaunati"],"journal":["Proceedings. Biological sciences"],"pubmed_title":["To adapt or go extinct? The fate of megafaunal palm fruits under past global change."],"pmcid":["PMC6015859"],"funding_grant_id":["00016549","starting grant","ANR-15- CE02-0002-01","161991","824.15.007","CF16-0005","16549","P2ZHP3_161991"],"pubmed_authors":["Svenning JC","Herrera-Alsina L","Onstein RE","Faurby S","Couvreur TLP","Kissling WD","Baker WJ"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"To adapt or go extinct? The fate of megafaunal palm fruits under past global change.","description":"Past global change may have forced animal-dispersed plants with megafaunal fruits to adapt or go extinct, but these processes have remained unexplored at broad spatio-temporal scales. Here, we combine phylogenetic, distributional and fruit size data for more than 2500 palm (Arecaceae) species in a time-slice diversification analysis to quantify how extinction and adaptation have changed over deep time. Our results indicate that extinction rates of palms with megafaunal fruits have increased in the New World since the onset of the Quaternary (2.6 million years ago). In contrast, Old World palms show a Quaternary increase in transition rates towards evolving small fruits from megafaunal fruits. We suggest that Quaternary climate oscillations and concurrent habitat fragmentation and defaunati","dates":{"release":"2018-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2018 Jun","modification":"2025-04-04T19:33:15.17Z","creation":"2019-03-26T23:47:55Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC6015859","cross_references":{"pubmed":["29899077"],"doi":["10.1098/rspb.2018.0882"]}}