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SUBMITTER: Hofmann R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6320541 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hofmann Richard R Tietje Melanie M Aberhan Martin M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20181217 1
Biotic interactions such as competition, predation, and niche construction are fundamental drivers of biodiversity at the local scale, yet their long-term effect during earth history remains controversial. To test their role and explore potential limits to biodiversity, we determine within-habitat (alpha), between-habitat (beta), and overall (gamma) diversity of benthic marine invertebrates for Phanerozoic geological formations. We show that an increase in gamma diversity is consistently generat ...[more]