Increase in sea-level and shelf area positively influenced the development of Cenozoic biodiversity hotspots by modulating turnover rate in marine benthos
Marine biodiversity is unevenly distributed across the oceans, with exceptional concentrations of species richness confined to a few hotspots. Fossil and molecular evidence indicate that marine hotspots have shifted among ocean basins throughout the Cenozoic, but the mechanisms underlying their emergence and persistence have rarely been tested across multiple marine groups. Using standardized…
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