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  • Macroevolutionary Studies

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  • Species interactions are fundamentally linked to evolutionary processes.
  • Studying ecological and evolutionary dynamics concurrently over long timescales presents significant challenges.

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  • To review the importance of integrating ecological and evolutionary dynamics in macroevolutionary and community coexistence research.
  • To highlight new research directions for studying eco-evolutionary dynamics.

Main Methods:

  • Review of current challenges and opportunities in eco-evolutionary research.
  • Discussion of integrating ecological data with phylogenetic trees.

Main Results:

  • The interplay of ecology and evolution is central to understanding macroevolution and community coexistence.
  • New research avenues can foster greater consideration of ecological and evolutionary dynamics along phylogenetic branches.

Conclusions:

  • Ignoring eco-evolutionary dynamics in community and phylogenetic studies is not advisable.
  • Further integration of phylogenies and ecological data is needed to study eco-evolutionary dynamics across time and space.