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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Cradles of diversity are unlikely relics of regional climate stability |
Author: | Fordham, D.A. Brown, S.C. Wigley, T.M.L. Rahbek, C. |
Citation: | Current Biology, 2019; 29(10):R356-R357 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
ISSN: | 0960-9822 1879-0445 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Damien A. Fordham, Stuart C. Brown, Tom M.L. Wigley and Carsten Rahbek |
Abstract: | The stability of regional climates on millennial timescales is theorised to be a primary determinant of nearby diversification [1-5]. Using simulated patterns of past temperature change at monthly timescales [6], we show that the locations of climatically stable regions are likely to have varied considerably across and within millennia during glacial-interglacial cycles of the Late Quaternary. This result has important implications for the role of regional climate stability in theories of speciation, because long-term climate refugia are typically presumed to be 'cradles' of diversity (areas of high speciation) only if they remain stable across Milankovitch climate oscillations [1-5], which operate on multi-millennial time scales [7]. |
Keywords: | Biodiversity Climate Climate Change |
Rights: | © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.001 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP180102392 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT140101192 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP130103261 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.001 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Environment Institute publications |
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