The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time
@article{Benton2009TheRQ, title={The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time}, author={M. Benton}, journal={Science}, year={2009}, volume={323}, pages={728 - 732} }
Evolution may be dominated by biotic factors, as in the Red Queen model, or abiotic factors, as in the Court Jester model, or a mixture of both. The two models appear to operate predominantly over different geographic and temporal scales: Competition, predation, and other biotic factors shape ecosystems locally and over short time spans, but extrinsic factors such as climate and oceanographic and tectonic events shape larger-scale patterns regionally and globally, and through thousands and… CONTINUE READING
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