Evolution 2015 (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

1. Generating new models for detecting phylogenetic
signals of endemism and dispersal: effects of
Pangaean breakup and avian flight on Mesozoic
dinosaurs
@soul_sci
Laura C. Soul
@GraemeTLloyd
Graeme T. Lloyd

2. Acknowledgements
David W. Bapst
@dwbapst
Katie E. Davis
@drkatiedavis
Matt Friedman
@Friedman_Lab

3. Prompt

4. What use are dinosaurs?
Prompt

5. Prompt

6. Prompt

7. Palaeobiogeography

8. Palaeobiogeography

9. Palaeobiogeography

10. Palaeobiogeography

11. Discrete area approaches
BioGeoBEARS

12. Continuous approach

13. Continuous approach

14. Continuous approach

15. Continuous approach

16. Hypotheses

17. Hypotheses

18. Hypotheses

19. Data: phylogeny

20. 1000 Taxa > +
Data: phylogeny

21. Data: temporospatial

22. Results

23. Results

24. Results

25. That’s all well and good in practice…

26. Does simulated data match empirical?
That’s all well and good in practice…

27. Does simulated data match empirical?
(Secondary) Test discrete methods
That’s all well and good in practice…

28. Challenges

29. Challenges

30. Challenges

31. Everything is easier with circles!

32. Everything is easier with circles!
x
r

33. Everything is easier with circles!
x
x = 2r(1 – squishiness)

34. Model inputs: continents

35. Model inputs: continents

36. Model inputs: continents

37. Model inputs: continents

38. Model inputs: continents
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39. Model inputs: continents
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40. Model inputs: continents
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41. Model inputs: organisms

42. Model inputs: organisms

43. Model inputs: organisms

44. Model inputs: organisms

45. Model inputs: organisms

46. github.com/laurasoul/dispeRse
Code

47. Simulation run

48. Simulation run
“Pangaea”

49. Simulation run
“Pangaea”
Clade start point

50. Simulation run

51. Simulation results

52. Simulation results
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53. Simulation results
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54. Extending the model

55. Extending the model
Land Shelf

56. Extending the model
Land Shelf

57. Extending the model
Land Shelf

58. Extending the model
Land Shelf

59. Extending the model

60. Extending the model

61. Extending the model

62. Extending the model

63. Conclusions

64. Conclusions
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65. Conclusions
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66. Conclusions
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67. Conclusions
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