Reconciling taxon senescence with the Red Queen’s hypothesis

Indrė Žliobaitė (), Mikael Fortelius and Nils C. Stenseth
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Indrė Žliobaitė: University of Helsinki
Mikael Fortelius: University of Helsinki
Nils C. Stenseth: Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), University of Oslo

Nature, 2017, vol. 552, issue 7683, 92-95

Abstract: Focusing attention on the expansion of taxa, rather than their survival, resolves the apparent contradiction between seemingly deterministic patterns of waxing and waning of taxa over time and the randomness of extinction implied by the Red Queen’s hypothesis.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/nature24656

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