Ecological controls of mammalian diversification vary with phylogenetic scale

Abstract

Diversity dynamics remain controversial. Here, we examine these dynamics, together with the ecological factors governing them, across mammalian clades of different ages and sizes, representing different phylogenetic scales.

Specifically, we investigate whether the dynamics are bounded or unbounded, biotically or abiotically regulated, stochastic or ecologically deterministic

Keywords

• Ecological
• controls
• mammalian
• diversification
• vary
• with
• phylogenetic
• scale