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SUBMITTER: O'Dea A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6093879 | biostudies-other | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
O'Dea Aaron A De Gracia Brigida B Figuerola Blanca B Jagadeeshan Santosh S
Scientific reports 20180815 1
The breadth of habitat occupied by a species, and the rate at which a species can expand into new habitats has important ecological and evolutionary consequences. Here we explore when extant species of free-living cupuladriid bryozoans expanded into new benthic Caribbean habitats that emerged during the final stages of formation of the Isthmus of Panama. Habitat breadth was estimated using the abundances of over 90,000 colonies in ten cupuladriid species, along with the ecological and sedimentar ...[more]