sWEEP - Unifying marine and terrestrial biodiversity at the interplay of macroecology, macrophysiology and macroevolution
First meeting: 21.-24.10.2014
PIs:
Miguel Ángel Olalla Tárraga;
Ignacio Morales Castilla
Working group postdoc:
Joanne Bennett
iDiv member:
Ingolf Kühn
Project summary:
Macroecology, Macroevolution and Macrophysiology have notably contributed to improve our understanding of how species are distributed on Earth, but the three disciplines have remained mostly disconnected from each other. Equally, large-scale biodiversity patterns in marine and terrestrial realms have been studied separately even though the underlying ecological processes might be coincident. It is the aim of sWEEP to synthesize data, disciplines and tools to explore how marine and terrestrial species distributions respond to macroevolutionary and macrophysiological determinants
Participants:
Adam Algar (University of Nottingham); Joanne Bennett (iDiv); Piero Calosi (University of Québec); Susana Clusella-Trullas (Stellenbosch University); Bradford Hawkins (University of California, Irvine); Sally Keith (University of Copenhagen); Ingolf Kühn (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ); Brezo Martínez (University Rey Juan Carlos); Ignacio Morales-Castilla (McGill University); Miguel Ángel Olalla-Tárraga (University Rey Juan Carlos); Carsten Rahbek (Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate); Laura Rodríguez (University Rey Juan Carlos); Alexander Singer (iDiv); Jennifer Sunday (University of British Columbia); Fabricio Villalobos (Universidade Federal de Goiás)
writing retreat: 11.-18.12.2017 in Madrid
Participants:
Joanne Bennett (iDiv), Ignacio Morales Castilla (Harvard University, USA), Miguel Ángel Olalla Tárraga (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), Jennifer Sunday (University of British Columbia, Canada) Piero Calosi – remote (Université du Québec à Rimouski, Canada), Miguel Araújo - part-time (National Museum of Natural Sciences, Spain), Brezo Martínez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain), Fabricio Villalobos (Instituto de Ecología AC (INECOL), México).
Publications:
Bennett J.M., Calosi P et al. (2018) GlobTherm, a global database on thermal tolerances for aquatic and terrestrial organisms. Nature - Scientific Data 5. See here
Sunday J., Bennett J.M. (2019) Thermal tolerance patterns across latitude and elevation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 374. See here
Bennett, J.M., Sunday, J., ...Olalla-Tárraga, M. (2021) The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth. Nat Commun 12, 1198. See here