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The latitudinal biodiversity gradient through deep time
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Today, biodiversity decreases from equatorial to polar regions. This is a fundamental pattern governing the distribution of extant organisms, the understanding of which is critical to predicting climatically driven biodiversity loss. However, its causes remain unresolved. The fossil record offers a unique perspective on the evolution of this latitudinal biodiversity gradient (LBG), providing a dynamic system in which to explore spatiotemporal diversity fluctuations. Deep-time studies indicate that a tropical peak and poleward decline in species diversity has not been a persistent pattern throughout the Phanerozoic, but is restricted to intervals of the Palaeozoic and the past 30 million years. A tropical peak might characterise cold icehouse climatic regimes, whereas warmer greenhouse regimes display temperate diversity peaks or flattened gradients.
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- Authors
- Mannion, P. D., Upchurch, P., Benson, R. B. J., & Goswami, A.
- Venue
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-01
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 42-50
- ISSN
- 0169-5347 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1964974843
- Cited by
- 366
- References
- 87
- FWCI
- 2.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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