Interactions within and between clades shaped the diversification of terrestrial carnivores

Pires, Mathias M.; Silvestro, Daniele; Quental, Tiago B.

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“…Many clades have been shown to display the negative DDD pattern (Etienne et al, ; Ezard, Aze, Pearson, & Purvis, ; Phillimore & Price, ; Pires, Silvestro, & Quental, ; Rabosky, ). Although most of these studies evoke interspecific competition to explain the observed macroevolutionary pattern, they do not explicitly test for it.…”

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On the mismatch in the strength of competition among fossil and modern species of planktonic Foraminifera

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Sugawara

Cabella

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Global Ecol Biogeogr

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Aim Many clades display the macroevolutionary pattern of a negative relationship between standing diversity and diversification rates. Competition among species has been proposed as the main mechanism that explains this pattern. However, we currently lack empirical insight into how the effects of individual‐level ecological interactions scale up to affect species diversification. Here, we investigate a clade that shows evidence for negative diversity‐dependent diversification in the fossil record and test whether the clade's modern communities show a corresponding signal of interspecific competition. Location World's oceans. Time period Holocene. Major taxa studied Planktonic Foraminifera (Rhizaria). Methods We explore spatial and temporal ecological patterns expected under interspecific competition. Firstly, we use a community phylogenetics approach to test for signs of local competitive exclusion among ecologically similar species (defined as closely related or of similar shell sizes) by combining species relative abundances in seafloor sediments. Secondly, we analyse whether population abundances of co‐occurring species covary negatively through time using sediment trap time‐series spanning 1–12 years. Results The great majority of the assemblages are indistinguishable from randomly assembled communities, showing no significant spatial co‐occurrence patterns regarding phylogeny or size similarity. Through time, most species pairs correlated positively, indicating synchronous rather than compensatory population dynamics. Main conclusions We found no detectable evidence for interspecific competition structuring extant planktonic Foraminifera communities. Species co‐occurrences and population dynamics are likely regulated by the abiotic environment and/or distantly related species, rather than intra‐clade density‐dependent processes. This interpretation contradicts the idea that competition drives the clade's macroevolutionary dynamics. One way to better integrate community ecology and macroevolution is to consider that diversification dynamics are influenced by groups that interact ecologically even when distantly related.

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On the mismatch in the strength of competition among fossil and modern species of planktonic Foraminifera

Rillo

Sugawara

Cabella

et al. 2019

Global Ecol Biogeogr

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“…In particular, the arrival and diversification of felids (cats and related species; Felidae) coincided with a decline in the diversification of canids in North America. Pires et al (2017) argue that this provides evidence for between-clade diversity dependence mainly affecting extinction regimes.…”

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“…Pires et al. () argue that this provides evidence for between‐clade diversity dependence mainly affecting extinction regimes.…”

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“…In this issue, Pires et al. () provide new evidence for both within‐ and between‐clade diversity dependence influencing macroevolutionary patterns of speciation and extinction of terrestrial mammalian carnivores in North America and Eurasia. Using the fossil record to independently assess respective diversification dynamics, the authors found that increases in diversity were associated with decreased speciation rates in Eurasia and increased extinction rates in North America.…”

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“…Pires et al. (), however, present an intriguing view of how the simultaneous processes of between‐ and within‐clade diversity dependence may guide the dynamics of species diversification across entire continents and adaptive zones. Further studies at large phylogenetic scales, such as in their paper, will continue to broaden and develop the theory of diversity dependence on macroevolutionary patterns.…”

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Variation in macroevolutionary dynamics among extant primates

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2022

American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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Objectives: This study examines how speciation and extinction rates vary across primates, with a focus on the recent macroevolutionary dynamics that have shaped extant primate biodiversity.Materials and methods: Lineage-specific macroevolutionary rates were estimated for each tip in a tree containing 307 species using a hidden-state likelihood model. Differences in tip rates among major clades were evaluated using phylogenetic ANOVA. Differences among diurnal, nocturnal, and cathemeral lineages were also evaluated, based on previous work indicating that activity pattern influences primate diversification.Results: Rate variation in extant primates is low within clades and high between clades. As in previous studies, cercopithecoids stand out in having high net diversification rates, driven by high speciation rates and very low extinction rates.Platyrrhines combine high speciation and high extinction rates, giving them high rates of lineage turnover. Strepsirrhines and tarsiids have low rates of speciation, extinction, turnover, and net diversification. Hominoids are intermediate between platyrrhines and the strepsirrhine-tarsiid group, and there is evidence for differentiation between hominids and hylobatids. Diurnal lineages have significantly higher speciation rates than nocturnal lineages. Conclusions: Recent anthropoid macroevolution has been characterized by marked variation in diversification dynamics among clades. Strepsirrhines and tarsiids are more uniform, despite divergent evolutionary and biogeographic histories. Higher speciation rates in diurnal lineages may be driven by greater ecological opportunity or reliance on visual signals for mate recognition. However, the differences among anthropoids indicate that factors other than activity pattern (e.g., clade competition, historical contingency) have had a more influential role in shaping recent primate diversification.

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Interactions within and between clades shaped the diversification of terrestrial carnivores

Cited by 43 publications

References 54 publications

On the mismatch in the strength of competition among fossil and modern species of planktonic Foraminifera

On the mismatch in the strength of competition among fossil and modern species of planktonic Foraminifera

Digest: Ecological opportunity, competition, and diversity dependence in macroevolution*

Variation in macroevolutionary dynamics among extant primates

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