Macroevolutionary and macroecological patterns of global biodiversity of vertebrates and plants
Prof Carsten Rahbek1 1Center for Macroecology, Evoolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Patterns of biodiversity result from a combination of historical (e.g., geology), evolutionary (e.g., speciation and extinction) and contemporary (e.g., climate, species interactions) processes – and not least movement of species and changes in their distributions in space and through time. Despite…