Bouwe Rutger Reijenga

Sep 19, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Roger Close |Bouwe Rutger Reijenga

AbstractMass extinctions are rare but catastrophic events that profoundly disrupt biodiversity.

Sep 13, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Bouwe Rutger Reijenga |Roger Close

AbstractNegative scaling relationships between both speciation and extinction rates on the one hand, and the age or duration of organismal groups on the other, are pervasive and recovered in both molecular phylogenetic and fossil time series. The consistency between molecular and fossil data hints at a universal cause, and potentially to incongruence between micro- and macroevolution.

Aug 29, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Rampal Etienne |David Murrell |Alex Pigot |Bouwe Rutger Reijenga

AbstractEcological communities are assembled over time, suggesting a crucial role for evolutionary history in determining the diversity of species assemblages. Indeed, differences in the build-up of sympatric diversity across space, time and clades may reflect variation in the historical patterns of speciation and thus time available for colonisation.