HOW DID LIFE BECOME SO DIVERSE? THE DYNAMICS OF DIVERSIFICATION ACCORDING TO THE FOSSIL RECORD AND MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS

By Michael Benton, Brent C. Emerson. 2007

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Subfields: Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology

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SCALE AND HIERARCHY IN MACROEVOLUTION (2007, background): “…dynamics of species in meta-communities, where multiple habitat patches are linked by dispersal so that, for example, species that occur together fail to interact in a continuous or consistent fashion (McPeek 2007; see Benton and Emerson 2007 for a different, and more extrapolationist, viewpoint).”
Competition in slow motion: the unusual case of benthic marine communities in the wake of the end‐Permian mass extinction (2015, background): “…such a saturation limit, outcompeting of existing species may be the prevalent effect of competition that damps further diversification, whether in geographically limited areas such as islands (MacArthur and Wilson 1967) or globally (Darwin 1859; Sepkoski 1984; but see Benton and Emerson 2007).”
Estimating the effects of sampling biases on pterosaur diversity patterns: implications for hypotheses of bird/pterosaur competitive replacement (2009, background): “With regard to the common-cause hypothesis, Benton and Emerson (2007) suggested that high marine diversity might correspond to high sea levels (and an increased number of marine sedimentary formations), whereas low diversity would correspond to low sea levels; they also suggested that the opposite…”
Uncovering the diversification history of marine tetrapods: ecology influences the effect of geological sampling biases (2011, background): “The most commonly cited mechanism is sea-level, which drives continental flooding and has been proposed for both the marine (e.g. Sepkoski 1976; Peters 2005, 2006a) and terrestrial (Benton & Emerson 2007; Benton 2009) settings.”
The Generification of the Fossil Record (2014, background): “Species are more restricted environmentally, spatially, and temporally than higher taxa; therefore, specieslevel data are ‘‘very dependent on the efforts of individual paleontologists’’ (Benton and Emerson 2007: p. 29).”
Three Continents Claiming an Archipelago: The Evolution of Aegean's Herpetofaunal Diversity (2010, background): “Diversity increases in a positive feedback loop [49,50].”
Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life (2011, background): “The generality and macroevolutionary significance of these patterns should be further explored, especially in light of the recognized need for more realistic models to describe diversification at deep phylogenetic levels (37).”
The origin and maintenance of montane diversity: integrating evolutionary and ecological processes (2014, methodology): “Such a pattern characterizes local assemblages of hylid frogs and plethodontid salamanders (Kozak and Wiens 2012), but is not consistent across many groups as indicated by the fossil record (Benton and Emerson 2007).”
Phylogenetic scale in ecology and evolution (2016, background): “…seemingly contradictory dynamics (e.g., expansion, saturation and decline) might be detected across different segments of the same phylogenetic tree (Figure 1c; Benton & Emerson, 2007; Hedges et al., 2015; Jablonski, 2007; Jetz et al., 2012; Machac, Graham, & Storch, 2018; Morlon et al., 2011).”