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Macroevolutionary perspectives to environmental change

Condamine, F. L., Rolland, J., Morlon, H.

Ecology Letters

2013

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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@article{condamine_macroevolutionary_2013,
Author = {Condamine, Fabien L. and Rolland, Jonathan and Morlon,
Hélène},
Title = {Macroevolutionary perspectives to environmental change},
Journal = {Ecology Letters},
Volume = {16 Suppl 1},
Pages = {72--85},
abstract = {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.},
doi = {10.1111/ele.12062},
issn = {1461-0248},
language = {eng},
month = may,
pmid = {23331627},
year = 2013
}

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