Mapping landscape connectivity as a driver of species richness under tectonic and climatic forcing

Salles, Tristan; Rey, Patrice; Bertuzzo, Enrico

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-895-2019

Articles | Volume 7, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-895-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-895-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 4

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01 Oct 2019

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Mapping landscape connectivity as a driver of species richness under tectonic and climatic forcing

Tristan Salles, Patrice Rey, and Enrico Bertuzzo

Model code and software

bioLEC: A Python package to measure Landscape Elevational Connectivity (https://biolec.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) T. Salles and P. Rey https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01530

Badlands: A parallel basin and landscape dynamics model (https://badlands.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) T. Salles https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2016.08.005

Short summary

Mountainous landscapes have long been recognized as potential drivers for genetic drift, speciation, and ecological resilience. We present a novel approach that can be used to assess and quantify drivers of biodiversity, speciation, and endemism over geological time. Using coupled climate–landscape models, we show that biodiversity under tectonic and climatic forcing relates to landscape dynamics and that landscape complexity drives species richness through orogenic history.