Reviewing the Great American Biotic Interchange: Climate change as a trigger for biodiversity dispersal

The Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI), during which an intense biodiversity interchange occurred between South and North America, strongly affected the biodiversity of the Americas. Despite its importance, there are still knowledge gaps regarding the factors triggering species dispersion, the taxonomic groups that first dispersed, the age at which dispersions began and intensified, and whether there was a main dispersal direction through the continent (from North to South America or vice versa). To fill these gaps, we conducted a scientific literature review of GABI, searching for studies with information regarding dispersal age, taxonomic groups (invertebrates, amphibians, non-avian reptiles, birds, mammals, and plants), dispersion direction (toward South or North America), and the type of data used as the source of evidence (fossil, molecular, or living species). We also investigate the effect of the climatic dynamic on the biodiversity dispersal through the relationships betwe..., , # Data from: Reviewing the Great American Biotic Interchange: Climate change as a trigger for biodiversity dispersal

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.qv9s4mwt6](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qv9s4mwt6)

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Dataset Title

Reviewing the Great American Biotic Interchange: climate change as a trigger for biodiversity dispersal

Date of Article submission 2025

Contributors

Roniel Freitas-Oliveira - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil;

Matheus S. Lima-Ribeiro - National Institute for Science and Technology (INCT) in Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil;

Victor H. Mendoza-Rodriguez - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, GO, Brazil;

Levi Carina Terribile - Laboratório de Macroecologia, Universidade Federal de Jataí, UFJ, Jataí, GO, ...,