Integrating geographic ranges across temporal scales
Geographic ranges are a fundamental unit of biogeography and macroecology. Increasingly, paleontologists and ecologists alike are reconstructing geographic ranges of species from fossils, in order to understand the long-term processes governing biogeographic and macroevolutionary patterns. As these...
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Cell Press
2022
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| author | Darroch, SAF Saupe, EE Casey, MM Jorge, MLSP |
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| description | Geographic ranges are a fundamental unit of biogeography and macroecology. Increasingly, paleontologists and ecologists alike are reconstructing geographic ranges of species from fossils, in order to understand the long-term processes governing biogeographic and macroevolutionary patterns. As these reconstructions have become increasingly common, uncertainty has arisen over the equivalency of paleo-ranges and modern ranges. Here, we argue geographic ranges are time-averaged at all temporal scales, and reflect the biotic and abiotic processes operating across the equivalent range of time and space scales. This conceptual framework integrates the study of geographic ranges reconstructed using modern and ancient data, and highlights the potential for ranges to illuminate processes responsible for diversity patterns over intervals spanning days to tens of millions of years of Earth history. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:487e8c17-8260-47c0-aef9-1084a55741332023-06-09T09:18:55ZIntegrating geographic ranges across temporal scalesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:487e8c17-8260-47c0-aef9-1084a5574133EnglishSymplectic ElementsCell Press2022Darroch, SAFSaupe, EECasey, MMJorge, MLSPGeographic ranges are a fundamental unit of biogeography and macroecology. Increasingly, paleontologists and ecologists alike are reconstructing geographic ranges of species from fossils, in order to understand the long-term processes governing biogeographic and macroevolutionary patterns. As these reconstructions have become increasingly common, uncertainty has arisen over the equivalency of paleo-ranges and modern ranges. Here, we argue geographic ranges are time-averaged at all temporal scales, and reflect the biotic and abiotic processes operating across the equivalent range of time and space scales. This conceptual framework integrates the study of geographic ranges reconstructed using modern and ancient data, and highlights the potential for ranges to illuminate processes responsible for diversity patterns over intervals spanning days to tens of millions of years of Earth history. |
| spellingShingle | Darroch, SAF Saupe, EE Casey, MM Jorge, MLSP Integrating geographic ranges across temporal scales |
| title | Integrating geographic ranges across temporal scales |
| title_full | Integrating geographic ranges across temporal scales |
| title_fullStr | Integrating geographic ranges across temporal scales |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integrating geographic ranges across temporal scales |
| title_short | Integrating geographic ranges across temporal scales |
| title_sort | integrating geographic ranges across temporal scales |
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