Temperature-Dependent Enhanced Speciation in Ecosystems with Conserved Symmetries

Abstract

The impact of climate change on biodiversity needs to be understood from a multidisciplinary approach. Using an analytical framework, we investigate the species response to rising temperatures. Common traits and characteristics among species that allow classification at different taxonomic levels imply an underlying symmetry that gives rise to invariances behind the biodiversity observed in nature. Changing temperatures that go beyond a critical limit break this underlying symmetry which could lead to enhanced speciation.