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Plate tectonics drive tropical reef biodiversity dynamics

Leprieur, Fabien ; Descombes, Patrice ; Gaboriau, Théo ; Cowman, Peter F. ; Parravicini, Valeriano ; Kulbicki, Michel ; Melián, Carlos J. ; Santana, Charles N. de ; Heine, Christian ; Mouillot, David ; Bellwood, David R. ; Pellissier, Loïc

In: Nature Communications, 2016, vol. 7, p. 11461

The Cretaceous breakup of Gondwana strongly modified the global distribution of shallow tropical seas reshaping the geographic configuration of marine basins. However, the links between tropical reef availability, plate tectonic processes and marine biodiversity distribution patterns are still unknown. Here, we show that a spatial diversification model constrained by absolute plate motions...