Elevational Goldilocks zone underlies the exceptional diversity of an Andean lizard radiation (Liolaemus; Liolaemidae)

Mountains are among the most biodiverse regions on the planet, and how these landforms shape diversification through the interaction of biological traits and geo-climatic dynamics is integral to understanding global biodiversity. In this study we investigate the dual roles of climate change and mountain uplift on the evolution of a hyper diverse radiation, Liolaemus lizards, with a spatially explicit model of diversification using a reconstruction of uplift and paleotemperature in central and southern South America. The diversification model captures a hotspot for Liolaemus around 40°S in lineages with low dispersal ability and narrow niche breadths. Under the model, speciation rates are highest in low latitudes (<35°S) and mid-elevations (~1000m), while extinction rates are highest at higher latitudes (>35°S) and higher elevations (>2000m). Temperature change through the Cenozoic explained variation in speciation and extinction rates through time and across different elevation..., We collated occurrence records for 7220 locations of 297 described and candidate species. These records were obtained from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), the scientific literature and museum records, and were carefully curated for errors, inaccuracies and taxonomic updates. We followed the taxonomy and distributions provided by Abdala et al. (2021) as a reference to clean the dataset. 
We simulated 500 clades under a range of model parameters using the Gen3sis engine. 
We provide raw occurence record data for Liolaemus (SI_data_1), the raw paleoenvironmental reconstructions of tempreature and elevation (SI_data_7, SI_data_8), as well as summary of simulated data (SI_data_2), summarised spatial patterns of emprical and simulated data across grid cells (SI_data_3) and elevational bands (SI_data_4, SI_data_5, SI_data_9), and summarised phylogenetic data (SI_data_6)., Scripts are for the R software
.csv and .nex files can be opened with text editors or R, This README.txt file was generated 07.03.2023 by Alexander Skeels

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title of Dataset: Data from: 'Elevational Goldilocks zone underlies the exceptional diversity of a large lizard radiation (Liolaemus; Liolaemidae)'
2. Author Information

Corresponding Investigator
Name: Dr Alexander Skeels
Institution: ETH Zürich, Zurich 8092, Switzerland / Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland
Email: [e-mail]

Co-investigator 2
Name: Dr. Damien Esquerre
Institution: Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia / University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2522, Australia

Co-investigator 2
Name: Daria Lipsky
Institution: ETH Zürich, Zurich 8092, Switzerland / Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf 8903, Switzerland

Co-investigator 3
Name: Dr Loic Pellissier
Institution: ETH...