Lucas M. V. Porto

This study quantifies how competition and temperature shaped speciation and extinction in Carnivora over 45 million years, showing competition's dual role and temperature's impact on extinction.

This study tests how interspecific competition affects diversification dynamics using spatial and eco-morphological overlap metrics in North American Canidae fossils.

The paper extends a speciation model to include extinct species in Canidae phylogeny, finding contrasting diversification patterns between extant and complete trees.

This study uses fossil records and a Bayesian framework to analyze how speciation and extinction rates in Felidae changed over 25 million years, linking these changes to body mass and carnassial teeth evolution.