Publication Date:
2017-10-11
Description:
Mass extinctions drove increased global faunal cosmopolitanism on the supercontinent Pangaea Nature Communications, Published online: 10 October 2017; doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00827-7 Mass extinctions are thought to produce ‘disaster faunas’, communities dominated by a small number of widespread species. Here, Button et al. develop a phylogenetic network approach to test this hypothesis and find that mass extinctions did increase faunal cosmopolitanism across Pangaea during the late Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic.
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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