What is it about?
Life on land today is highly diverse. When did this high diversity happen, and what were the key drivers? Do we explain high modern biodiversity by internal, biological processes such as competition and predation, or by external drivers, such as cooling global climates and falling sea levels?
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The paper crosses discipline boundaries between biodiversity/ conservation science and palaeobiology. Much debate has focused on fine details, and debates over quality of the fossil record. However, life on land today is ten times more diverse than life in the sea: when and why did this happen? The paper outlines possible external drivers of rapid and substantial diversification in the past 100 million hyears.
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This page is a summary of: The origins of modern biodiversity on land, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2010, Royal Society Publishing,
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0269.
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