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Understanding how ecology and evolution interact resulting in the accumulation of biodiversity is an emerging frontier of integrative research. The accumulation of biodiversity has two controls: origination and persistence of species. The main focus of the literature on the orig…

Ecological diversity in nature is tremendously complex. Evolutionary biologists and ecologists have sought to understand this complexity using foundational concepts like ecological niches, guilds, and adaptive zones. The merger of these concepts with stochastic models and phylog…