In numerous earlier reconstructions of the fish-to-tetrapod transition, it has been suggested that this macroevolutionary process took place over a time period of ca. 16 to 20 my in the vegetated margins or surrounding seasonal 'flooded forest' environments of rivers, and, hence, in freshwater ecosystems (Romer 1941; Jarvik 1980; Schmalhausen 1968; Clack 2002).
An incapability to diversify may occur at different levels of evolution, and can be found at the macroevolutionary level with taxa that require very long refractory periods or with random massive extinctions of taxa, as well as at the microevolutionary or gene level, where the elements unable to diversify are individuals from a population or genetic variants from a cell, embryo or individual.
The million-year wait for macroevolutionary bursts.
A macroevolutionary perspective on species range limits.
Fraass, A. J., Kelly, D. C. & Peters, S. E. Macroevolutionary history of the planktic foraminifera.
Morlon, H. et al. RPANDA: an R package for macroevolutionary analyses on phylogenetic trees.
We analysed global rates of speciation and extinction in a macroevolutionary framework using BAMM20.
Condamine, F. L., Rolland, J. & Morlon, H. Macroevolutionary perspectives to environmental change.
Macroevolutionary patterns in the diversification of parrots: Effects of climate change, geological events and key innovations.
Kemp, T. S. The origin of higher taxa: macroevolutionary processes, and the case of the mammals.
