NDLI: Plate tectonics drive tropical reef biodiversity dynamics

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Author	Leprieur, Fabien Descombes, Patrice Gaboriau, Théo Cowman, Peter F. Parravicini, Valeriano Michel, Kulbicki Melián, Carlos J. Santana, Charles N. De Heine, Christian Mouillot, David Bellwood, David R. Pellissier, Loïc
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	The Cretaceous breakup of Gondwana strongly modified the global distribution of shallow tropical seas reshaping the geographic configuration of marine basins. However, the links between tropical reef availability, plate tectonic processes and marine biodiversity distribution patterns are still unknown. Here, we show that a spatial diversification model constrained by absolute plate motions for the past 140 million years predicts the emergence and movement of diversity hotspots on tropical reefs. The spatial dynamics of tropical reefs explains marine fauna diversification in the Tethyan Ocean during the Cretaceous and early Cenozoic, and identifies an eastward movement of ancestral marine lineages towards the Indo-Australian Archipelago in the Miocene. A mechanistic model based only on habitat-driven diversification and dispersal yields realistic predictions of current biodiversity patterns for both corals and fishes. As in terrestrial systems, we demonstrate that plate tectonics played a major role in driving tropical marine shallow reef biodiversity dynamics.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11461
Starting Page	11461
File Format	PDF
ISSN	20411723
e-ISSN	20411723
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume Number	7
Language	English
Publisher	Nature Publishing Group
Publisher Date	2016-05-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Nature Publishing Group
Subject Keyword	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) Physics and Astronomy(all) Chemistry(all) Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Chemistry Physics and Astronomy Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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