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SUBMITTER: Ontiveros DE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10564867 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ontiveros Daniel Eliahou DE Beaugrand Gregory G Lefebvre Bertrand B Marcilly Chloe Markussen CM Servais Thomas T Pohl Alexandre A
Nature communications 20231010 1
Global cooling has been proposed as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, the largest radiation of Phanerozoic marine animal Life. Yet, mechanistic understanding of the underlying pathways is lacking and other possible causes are debated. Here we couple a global climate model with a macroecological model to reconstruct global biodiversity patterns during the Ordovician. In our simulations, an inverted latitudinal biodiversity gradient characterizes the late Cambrian and Earl ...[more]