Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns

Abstract Combining palaeontological and neontological data offers a unique opportunity to investigate the relative roles of biotic and abiotic controls of species diversification, and the importance of origination versus extinction in driving evolutionary dynamics. Ferns comprise a major terrestrial...

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Autores principales: Samuli Lehtonen, Daniele Silvestro, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Christopher Scotese, Hanna Tuomisto, Michael Kessler, Carlos Peña, Niklas Wahlberg, Alexandre Antonelli
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:d34b5de7944a4e6fb90ff525e7f3a9c12021-12-02T15:06:19ZEnvironmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns10.1038/s41598-017-05263-72045-2322https://doaj.org/article/d34b5de7944a4e6fb90ff525e7f3a9c12017-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05263-7https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Combining palaeontological and neontological data offers a unique opportunity to investigate the relative roles of biotic and abiotic controls of species diversification, and the importance of origination versus extinction in driving evolutionary dynamics. Ferns comprise a major terrestrial plant radiation with an extensive evolutionary history providing a wealth of modern and fossil data for modelling environmental drivers of diversification. Here we develop a novel Bayesian model to simultaneously estimate correlations between diversification dynamics and multiple environmental trajectories. We estimate the impact of different factors on fern diversification over the past 400 million years by analysing a comprehensive dataset of fossil occurrences and complement these findings by analysing a large molecular phylogeny. We show that origination and extinction rates are governed by fundamentally different processes: originations depend on within-group diversity but are largely unaffected by environmental changes, whereas extinctions are strongly affected by external factors such as climate and geology. Our results indicate that the prime driver of fern diversity dynamics is environmentally driven extinction, with origination being an opportunistic response to diminishing ecospace occupancy.Samuli LehtonenDaniele SilvestroDirk Nikolaus KargerChristopher ScoteseHanna TuomistoMichael KesslerCarlos PeñaNiklas WahlbergAlexandre AntonelliNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2017)
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Samuli Lehtonen
Daniele Silvestro
Dirk Nikolaus Karger
Christopher Scotese
Hanna Tuomisto
Michael Kessler
Carlos Peña
Niklas Wahlberg
Alexandre Antonelli
Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns
description Abstract Combining palaeontological and neontological data offers a unique opportunity to investigate the relative roles of biotic and abiotic controls of species diversification, and the importance of origination versus extinction in driving evolutionary dynamics. Ferns comprise a major terrestrial plant radiation with an extensive evolutionary history providing a wealth of modern and fossil data for modelling environmental drivers of diversification. Here we develop a novel Bayesian model to simultaneously estimate correlations between diversification dynamics and multiple environmental trajectories. We estimate the impact of different factors on fern diversification over the past 400 million years by analysing a comprehensive dataset of fossil occurrences and complement these findings by analysing a large molecular phylogeny. We show that origination and extinction rates are governed by fundamentally different processes: originations depend on within-group diversity but are largely unaffected by environmental changes, whereas extinctions are strongly affected by external factors such as climate and geology. Our results indicate that the prime driver of fern diversity dynamics is environmentally driven extinction, with origination being an opportunistic response to diminishing ecospace occupancy.
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author Samuli Lehtonen
Daniele Silvestro
Dirk Nikolaus Karger
Christopher Scotese
Hanna Tuomisto
Michael Kessler
Carlos Peña
Niklas Wahlberg
Alexandre Antonelli
author_facet Samuli Lehtonen
Daniele Silvestro
Dirk Nikolaus Karger
Christopher Scotese
Hanna Tuomisto
Michael Kessler
Carlos Peña
Niklas Wahlberg
Alexandre Antonelli
author_sort Samuli Lehtonen
title Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns
title_short Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns
title_full Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns
title_fullStr Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns
title_full_unstemmed Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns
title_sort environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns
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