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

Lucas M V Porto är postdoc från University of São Paulo med koppling till Natural History museum i London. Han berättar om hur konkurrens och förändringar i omgivningen har påverkat artbildning bland rovdjuren (Carnivora), se mer nedan. Lucas är på tillfälligt besök hos Sören under veckan. 

Kort sammanfattning
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.