Journal
ECOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 16, Issue -, Pages 72-85Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12062
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Biodiversity; birthdeath models; diversification rates; extinction; fossils; global change; mass extinctions; paleoenvironment; speciation
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- CNRS
- ANR
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Predicting how biodiversity will be affected and will respond to human-induced environmental changes is one of the most critical challenges facing ecologists today. Here, we put current environmental changes and their effects on biodiversity in a macroevolutionary perspective. We build on research in palaeontology and recent developments in phylogenetic approaches to ask how macroevolution can help us understand how environmental changes have affected biodiversity in the past, and how they will affect biodiversity in the future. More and more paleontological and phylogenetic data are accumulated, and we argue that much of the potential these data have for understanding environmental changes remains to be explored.
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