Exploring the macroevolutionary impact of ecosystem engineers using an individual-based eco-evolutionary simulation

Ecosystem engineers can radically reshape ecosystems by modulating the availability of resources to other organisms through modifying either physical or biological aspects of the environment. The introduction or removal of ecosystem engineers from otherwise stable ecosystems can impact the diversity of co-occurring species, such as driving local extinctions of native taxa. While these impacts are well established over ecological timescales for a wealth of taxa, the macroevolutionary implications of the onset of ecosystem engineering behaviours are less clear. Despite this uncertainty, ecosystem engineering has been implicated in several major transitions in Earth's history including the appearance of extensive bioturbation during the Cambrian substrate revolution and associated Ediacaran-Cambrian turnover and the Great Oxygenation Event. Whether ecosystem engineers are frequently associated with turnover and extinction in deep time is not known. Here we investigate this with an eco-evol..., , , # Data from: Exploring the macroevolutionary impact of ecosystem engineers using an individual-based eco-evolutionary simulation

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9zw3r22p7](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9zw3r22p7)

This folder contains the supplementary information for the paper *Exploring the macroevolutionary impact of ecosystem engineers using an individual-based eco-evolutionary simulation*

In the root directory, there is a bash script called Run_pipeline.sh - running this will extract the data to your machine, and then run the required R analyses before outputting the figures for you in the root directory. It may be necessary to provide these execute permissions (i.e. run chmod +x ./Run_pipeline.sh in the root directory).

## Subfolder \"Simulation\_data\"

Inside the subfolder \"Simulation_data\", there are five compressed folders: (1) Baseline_runs.zip, (2) EE_once_add_mask.zip, (3) EE_once_overwrite_mask.zip, (4) EE_persistent_add_mask.zip, and (5) EE_persistent_overwrite_mask.zip

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