Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Ezard TH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4999050 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ezard Thomas H G TH Purvis Andy A
Ecology letters 20160609 8
Co-dependent geological and climatic changes obscure how species interact in deep time. The interplay between these environmental factors makes it hard to discern whether ecological competition exerts an upper limit on species richness. Here, using the exceptional fossil record of Cenozoic Era macroperforate planktonic foraminifera, we assess the evidence for alternative modes of macroevolutionary competition. Our models support an environmentally dependent macroevolutionary form of contest comp ...[more]