Global cooling & the rise of modern grasslands: Revealing cause & effect of environmental change on insect diversification dynamics
K. E. Davis, A. T. Bakewell, J. Hill, H. Song, P. Mayhew
The paper models speciation rates in Orthoptera to show global cooling correlates with increased speciation and identifies C4 grassland rise as a mechanism linking climate change to insect diversification.
bioRxiv · Aug 16, 2018 · PreprintEcology