Global cooling as a driver of diversification in a major marine clade

In many groups of organisms, speciation rates are higher when global temperatures are warmer. Here, Davis et al. find that marine crustaceans in the Anomura clade have higher speciation rates during cooler periods, whereas their freshwater relatives have the more typical relationship of higher speci...

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Main Authors: Katie E. Davis, Jon Hill, Tim I. Astrop, Matthew A. Wills
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2016-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13003