A deep time perspective on climate and ecology
This talk will integrate fossil and modern data to disentangle some of the long-term ecological and evolutionary responses of species to climate change. Erin Saupe will discuss some recent research that examines potential climate mechanisms responsible for the latitudinal diversity gradient; the role of geography in regulating extinction magnitude during climate change; the degree to which climate has shifted the geographic distributions of entire groups over time. These studies provide a bottom-up perspective on the generation and maintenance of biodiversity under climate change and enhance our understanding of the interaction of species’ intrinsic macroecological characteristics with a dynamic extrinsic climate.
Time 18:00 GMT
