High-latitude ocean habitats are a crucible of fish body shape diversification
Michael D Burns,
Sarah T Friedman,
Katherine A Corn
et al.
Abstract:A decline in diversity from the equator to the poles is a common feature of Earth’s biodiversity. Here, we examine body shape diversity in marine fishes across latitudes and explore the role of time and evolutionary rate in explaining the diversity gradient. Marine fishes’ occupation of upper latitude environments has increased substantially over the last 80 million years. Fishes in the highest latitudes exhibit twice the rate of body shape evolution and one and a third times the disparity compared to equatori… Show more
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