Macroevolutionary consequences of profound climate change on niche evolution in marine molluscs over the past three million years

Saupe, Erin E.; Hendricks, Jonathan R.; Portell, Roger W.; Dowsett, Harry J.; Haywood, Alan M.; Hunter, Stephen J.; Lieberman, Bruce S.

doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.1995

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“…decreases in both mean SST [estimated mean Pliocene−Recent difference for California: 2.1°C; for Virginia: 2.9°C (18,20)] and diversities; regional extinctions have also been documented on both coasts, although their direct connection to climate change is debated and other factors may also have been involved (20,(23)(24)(25)29). Consistent with the previous work cited above (e.g., refs.…”

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“…By focusing on the Pliocene bivalves in the two bestsampled temperate regions along each coast [California and the Carolinas−Virginia region (hereafter termed Virginia), both at ∼32°N-40°N], living at a time when extratropical temperatures were warmer and latitudinal temperature gradients gentler than today (18)(19)(20), we can begin to tease apart the complex roles of regional extinction and range expansion in shaping present-day patterns of species richness (hereafter termed diversity). For comparison, we summarized modern diversity within the same latitudinal bins, rather than using the natural provincial boundaries, to assess local extinctions from Pliocene to Recent.…”

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Convergence, divergence, and parallelism in marine biodiversity trends: Integrating present-day and fossil data

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Paleontological data provide essential insights into the processes shaping the spatial distribution of present-day biodiversity. Here, we combine biogeographic data with the fossil record to investigate the roles of parallelism (similar diversities reached via changes from similar starting points), convergence (similar diversities reached from different starting points), and divergence in shaping the present-day latitudinal diversity gradients of marine bivalves along the two North American coasts. Although both faunas show the expected overall poleward decline in species richness, the trends differ between the coasts, and the discrepancies are not explained simply by present-day temperature differences. Instead, the fossil record indicates that both coasts have declined in overall diversity over the past 3 My, but the western Atlantic fauna suffered more severe Pliocene−Pleistocene extinction than did the eastern Pacific. Tropical western Atlantic diversity remains lower than the eastern Pacific, but warm temperate western Atlantic diversity recovered to exceed that of the temperate eastern Pacific, either through immigration or in situ origination. At the clade level, bivalve families shared by the two coasts followed a variety of paths toward today's diversities. The drivers of these lineage-level differences remain unclear, but species with broad geographic ranges during the Pliocene were more likely than geographically restricted species to persist in the temperate zone, suggesting that past differences in geographic range sizes among clades may underlie between-coast contrasts. More detailed comparative work on regional extinction intensities and selectivities, and subsequent recoveries (by in situ speciation or immigration), is needed to better understand present-day diversity patterns and model future changes.B iodiversity is spatially structured at many scales. Biogeographic realms and provinces, the partitioning of species among environments within biogeographic units, and genetic population structure within species are all manifestations of the ecological and evolutionary processes that generate and maintain diversity in terrestrial and marine systems. For most terrestrial and marine organisms, the first-order global diversity pattern is the latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG): the increase in the number of species and higher taxa from the poles to the tropics (1). This gradient, as seen today, has been shaped by a combination of origination, extinction, and past geographic shifts of taxa; all of these variables might differ among clades, functional groups, and land masses or ocean basins (2-7), even when the overall LDG is similar. Thus, a mechanistic understanding of the present-day LDG in general, and along specific equator−pole transects, for distinctive regional faunas, and for individual clades, cannot be divorced from its history.The need for historical data is underscored by the differences and similarities among related clades that broadly conform to the LDG. As in many evolutionary question...

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Convergence, divergence, and parallelism in marine biodiversity trends: Integrating present-day and fossil data

Huang

Roy

Valentine

et al. 2015

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Latitudinal ranges are closely linked to thermal tolerance ranges among extant aquatic ectotherms [51][52][53], and sea surface temperatures are the single most important determinant of biogeographic structure in the coastal oceans [54,55]. The thermal tolerance ranges of some extant marine invertebrate species have been conserved on million-year time scales [56], and many species shifted their ranges in response to Caenozoic and Quaternary climate changes [55,57,58].…”

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Biogeographic and bathymetric determinants of brachiopod extinction and survival during the Late Ordovician mass extinction

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The Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME) coincided with dramatic climate changes, but there are numerous ways in which these changes could have driven marine extinctions. We use a palaeobiogeographic database of rhynchonelliform brachiopods to examine the selectivity of Late Ordovician -Early Silurian genus extinctions and evaluate which extinction drivers are best supported by the data. The first (latest Katian) pulse of the LOME preferentially affected genera restricted to deeper waters or to relatively narrow (less than 358) palaeolatitudinal ranges. This pattern is only observed in the latest Katian, suggesting that it reflects drivers unique to this interval. Extinction of exclusively deeper-water genera implies that changes in water mass properties such as dissolved oxygen content played an important role. Extinction of genera with narrow latitudinal ranges suggests that interactions between shifting climate zones and palaeobiogeography may also have been important. We test the latter hypothesis by estimating whether each genus would have been able to track habitats within its thermal tolerance range during the greenhouse -icehouse climate transition. Models including these estimates are favoured over alternative models. We argue that the LOME, long regarded as non-selective, is highly selective along biogeographic and bathymetric axes that are not closely correlated with taxonomic identity.

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“…PRISM data have also been used to study diversity and ecological niche changes in planktic foraminifers, mollusks, and fish in the face of profound global warming (e.g., Yasuhara et al, 2012;Saupe et al, 2014;Jacobs, 2015).…”

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The PRISM4 (mid-Piacenzian) paleoenvironmental reconstruction

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Abstract. The mid-Piacenzian is known as a period of relative warmth when compared to the present day. A comprehensive understanding of conditions during the Piacenzian serves as both a conceptual model and a source for boundary conditions as well as means of verification of global climate model experiments. In this paper we present the PRISM4 reconstruction, a paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the mid-Piacenzian ( ∼ 3 Ma) containing data for paleogeography, land and sea ice, sea-surface temperature, vegetation, soils, and lakes. Our retrodicted paleogeography takes into account glacial isostatic adjustments and changes in dynamic topography. Soils and lakes, both significant as land surface features, are introduced to the PRISM reconstruction for the first time. Sea-surface temperature and vegetation reconstructions are unchanged but now have confidence assessments. The PRISM4 reconstruction is being used as boundary condition data for the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 2 (PlioMIP2) experiments.

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Macroevolutionary consequences of profound climate change on niche evolution in marine molluscs over the past three million years

Cited by 75 publications

References 92 publications

Convergence, divergence, and parallelism in marine biodiversity trends: Integrating present-day and fossil data

Convergence, divergence, and parallelism in marine biodiversity trends: Integrating present-day and fossil data

Biogeographic and bathymetric determinants of brachiopod extinction and survival during the Late Ordovician mass extinction

The PRISM4 (mid-Piacenzian) paleoenvironmental reconstruction

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