The highly significant correlation of spatial marine biodiversity (i.e. species richness) patterns simulated for 0 Ma with those from a previously-validated version of the SNCI 27 model, as well as with observations (foraminifera and fish) 24 , demonstrates that our macroecological model, forced with SSTs from the HadCM3 33 climate model, captures well present-day large-scale spatial biodiversity patterns, including the modern LBG (Fig. 1 ).
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