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

Rillo, Marina C.; Sugawara, Mauro Toshiro Caiuby; Cabella, Brenno; Jonkers, Lukas; Baranowski, Ulrike; Kučera, Michal; Ezard, Thomas H. G.

doi:10.1111/geb.13000

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“…The importance of diversity-dependence over most of the time and for both speciation and extinction rates is congruent with previous studies dealing with different animal and plant clades, time intervals and geographical regions [1,2,4,22,26,57–59]. These studies involve a number of invertebrate taxa, including marine gastropods [60].…”

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Drivers of diversification in freshwater gastropods vary over deep time

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Unravelling the drivers of species diversification through geological time is of crucial importance for our understanding of long-term evolutionary processes. Numerous studies have proposed different sets of biotic and abiotic controls of speciation and extinction rates, but typically they were inferred for a single, long geological time frame. However, whether the impact of biotic and abiotic controls on diversification changes over time is poorly understood. Here, we use a large fossil dataset, a multivariate birth–death model and a comprehensive set of biotic and abiotic predictors, including a new index to quantify tectonic complexity, to estimate the drivers of diversification for European freshwater gastropods over the past 100 Myr. The effects of these factors on origination and extinction are estimated across the entire time frame as well as within sequential time windows of 20 Myr each. Our results find support for temporal heterogeneity in the factors associated with changes in diversification rates. While the factors impacting speciation and extinction rates vary considerably over time, diversity-dependence and topography are consistently important. Our study highlights that a high level of heterogeneity in diversification rates is best captured by incorporating time-varying effects of biotic and abiotic factors.

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Drivers of diversification in freshwater gastropods vary over deep time

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“…Moreover, the complete species diversity of planktonic foraminifera has been described for the Plio-Pleistocene, with good agreement between morphological and molecular phylogenies (22,(25)(26)(27). Although some have speculated that foraminifera competitively exclude each other (24), recent work found that planktonic foraminifera species seldom restrict each other's distributions (28). Presumably, therefore, species occupy the full envelope of existing environmental conditions within their tolerance limits, and geographic distributions are determined almost entirely by physical ocean conditions.…”

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Thermal niches of planktonic foraminifera are static throughout glacial–interglacial climate change

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

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Abiotic niche lability reduces extinction risk by allowing species to adapt to changing environmental conditions in situ. In contrast, species with static niches must keep pace with the velocity of climate change as they track suitable habitat. The rate and frequency of niche lability have been studied on human timescales (months to decades) and geological timescales (millions of years), but lability on intermediate timescales (millennia) remains largely uninvestigated. Here, we quantified abiotic niche lability at 8-ka resolution across the last 700 ka of glacial–interglacial climate fluctuations, using the exceptionally well-known fossil record of planktonic foraminifera coupled with Atmosphere–Ocean Global Climate Model reconstructions of paleoclimate. We tracked foraminiferal niches through time along the univariate axis of mean annual temperature, measured both at the sea surface and at species’ depth habitats. Species’ temperature preferences were uncoupled from the global temperature regime, undermining a hypothesis of local adaptation to changing environmental conditions. Furthermore, intraspecific niches were equally similar through time, regardless of climate change magnitude on short timescales (8 ka) and across contrasts of glacial and interglacial extremes. Evolutionary trait models fitted to time series of occupied temperature values supported widespread niche stasis above randomly wandering or directional change. Ecotype explained little variation in species-level differences in niche lability after accounting for evolutionary relatedness. Together, these results suggest that warming and ocean acidification over the next hundreds to thousands of years could redistribute and reduce populations of foraminifera and other calcifying plankton, which are primary components of marine food webs and biogeochemical cycles.

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“…However, few of these studies were conducted in marine environments, and almost no work extended beyond 10 years and 1,000 km 2 [4,5]. In limited investigation of marine taxa at larger spatiotemporal scales, macroecologists and paleobiologists have observed little evidence of competitive exclusion [6][7][8][9]. Here, we quantified spatial trends in the rich and densely sampled fossil history of brachiopods and bivalves, while accounting for inconsistent sampling coverage through time using a new method of spatial standardization.…”

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