Estimating Diversity Through Time using Molecular Phylogenies: Old and Species-Poor Frog Families are the Remnants of a Diverse Past
O. Billaud, D. Moen, T. Parsons, H. Morlon
This paper develops a probabilistic method to estimate species diversity over time from phylogenetic data and applies it to frogs, finding that an ancient group declined in diversity due to reduced speciation.
bioRxiv · Mar 24, 2019Evolutionary Biology