BioEnv seminar: "The role of interspecific competition and environmental change in driving phenotypic evolution in Carnivora"

Lucas M V Porto is postdoctoral researcher at University of São Paulo and scientific associate at the NHM London. Lucas is visiting Sören, and will present some recent work about how interspecific competition and environmental change have influenced diversification among Carnivora, see more below.

Short abstract
Understanding how interspecific competition and environmental change shape morphological evolution is a central challenge in evolutionary biology. Over the past four years, my colleagues and I have been developing approaches to quantify competition among Carnivora lineages and to assess how biotic interactions and environmental shifts may have influenced their diversification over the last 40 million years. In this talk, I will present our framework, share preliminary results, and discuss how these methods can reveal macroevolutionary signatures of competition and climate in shaping biodiversity.