Document of bibliographic reference 281217

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Bibliographic resource

Type of document

Journal article

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AS

Title

Global cooling as a driver of diversification in a major marine clade

Abstract

Climate is a strong driver of global diversity and will become increasingly important as human influences drive temperature changes at unprecedented rates. Here we investigate diversification and speciation trends within a diverse group of aquatic crustaceans, the Anomura. We use a phylogenetic framework to demonstrate that speciation rate is correlated with global cooling across the entire tree, in contrast to previous studies. Additionally, we find that marine clades continue to show evidence of increased speciation rates with cooler global temperatures, while the single freshwater clade shows the opposite trend with speciation rates positively correlated to global warming. Our findings suggest that both global cooling and warming lead to diversification and that habitat plays a role in the responses of species to climate change. These results have important implications for our understanding of how extant biota respond to ongoing climate change and are of particular importance for conservation planning of marine ecosystems.

WebOfScience code

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000385574400001

Bibliographic citation

Davis, K.E.; Hill, J.; Astrop, T.I.; Wills, M.A. (2016). Global cooling as a driver of diversification in a major marine clade. Nature Comm. 7(13003): 8 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13003

Topic

Marine

Is peer reviewed

true

Access rights

open access

Is accessible for free

true