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SUBMITTER: Yasuhara M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7293716 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yasuhara Moriaki M Wei Chih-Lin CL Kucera Michal M Costello Mark J MJ Tittensor Derek P DP Kiessling Wolfgang W Bonebrake Timothy C TC Tabor Clay R CR Feng Ran R Baselga Andrés A Kretschmer Kerstin K Kusumoto Buntarou B Kubota Yasuhiro Y
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200526 23
A major research question concerning global pelagic biodiversity remains unanswered: when did the apparent tropical biodiversity depression (i.e., bimodality of latitudinal diversity gradient [LDG]) begin? The bimodal LDG may be a consequence of recent ocean warming or of deep-time evolutionary speciation and extinction processes. Using rich fossil datasets of planktonic foraminifers, we show here that a unimodal (or only weakly bimodal) diversity gradient, with a plateau in the tropics, occurre ...[more]