Quoting IU News: "A new study co-authored by researchers at Indiana University sheds light on how the forces that shape mountain ranges also influence the evolution of species. In the study, “Direct effects of mountain uplift and topography on biodiversity,” published this month in Science, researchers have found that biodiversity increases as mountains rise, suggesting that geological processes play a direct role in the shaping of life on Earth.
The study was co-authored by Eyal Marder, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a former postdoctoral fellow at IU, Brian Yanites, Associate Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the Robert R. Shrock Professor of Surficial and Sedimentary Geology in the College of Arts and Sciences at IU Bloomington, along with Tara Smiley, an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University and a former IU Environmental Research Institute Research Fellow, and Katherine Kravitz, a recent postdoctoral research associate in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in the College at IU Bloomington. "
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