title: Macroevolutionary perspectives to environmental change.
abstract: Predicting how biodiversity will be affected and will respond to human-induced environmental changes is one of the most critical challenges facing ecologists today. Here, we put current environmental changes and their effects on biodiversity in a macroevolutionary perspective. We build on research in palaeontology and recent developments in phylogenetic approaches to ask how macroevolution can help us understand how environmental changes have affected biodiversity in the past, and how they will affect biodiversity in the future. More and more paleontological and phylogenetic data are accumulated, and we argue that much of the potential these data have for understanding environmental changes remains to be explored.
authors: CNRS, UMR 7641 Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées (École Polytechnique), Route de Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau, France. fabien.condamine@gmail.com
authors: Fabien L
authors: FL
authors: Condamine
authors: Jonathan
authors: J
authors: Rolland
authors: Hélène
authors: H
authors: Morlon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D059001:Aquatic Organisms; D044822:Biodiversity; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002591:Cetacea; D017753:Ecosystem; D004777:Environment; D053476:Extinction, Biological; D005580:Fossils; D049810:Genetic Speciation; D010163:Paleontology; D010802:Phylogeny