Title |
Regional Environmental Breadth Predicts Geographic Range and Longevity in Fossil Marine Genera
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, May 2011
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0018946 |
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Authors |
Noel A. Heim, Shanan E. Peters |
Abstract |
Geographic range is a good indicator of extinction susceptibility in fossil marine species and higher taxa. The widely-recognized positive correlation between geographic range and taxonomic duration is typically attributed to either accumulating geographic range with age or an extinction buffering effect, whereby cosmopolitan taxa persist longer because they are reintroduced by dispersal from remote source populations after local extinction. The former hypothesis predicts that all taxa within a region should have equal probabilities of extinction regardless of global distributions while the latter predicts that cosmopolitan genera will have greater survivorship within a region than endemics within the same region. Here we test the assumption that all taxa within a region have equal likelihoods of extinction. |
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