Reconciling taxon senescence with the Red Queen’s hypothesis

Focusing attention on the expansion of taxa, rather than their survival, resolves the apparent contradiction between seemingly deterministic patterns of waxing and waning of taxa over time and the randomness of extinction implied by the Red Queen’s hypothesis. Predicting extinction at the tip of a h...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nature (London) 2017-12, Vol.552 (7683), p.92-95
Hauptverfasser:	Žliobaitė, Indrė, Fortelius, Mikael, Stenseth, Nils C.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	631/181/2468 631/181/414 Aging (Biology) Animals Aquatic Organisms - classification Biological Evolution Biological research Climate change Competitive Behavior Ecosystems Endangered & extinct species Environment Environmental changes Environmental effects Evolution Extinction Extinction, Biological Fossils Genera Hawaii Humanities and Social Sciences letter Macroevolution Mammals - classification Marine invertebrates Models, Biological multidisciplinary Paleobiology Phylogenetics Phylogeny Plants - classification Population Density Probability Random walk theory Randomness Science Senescence Species extinction Stochastic models Stochastic Processes Taxa Taxonomy (Biology)
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