Molecular Panbiogeography of the TropicsMolecular studies reveal highly ordered geographic patterns in plant and animal distributions. The tropics illustrate these patterns of community immobilism leading to allopatric differentiation, as well as other patterns of mobilism, range expansion, and overlap of taxa. Integrating Earth history and biogeography, Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics is an alternative view of distributional history in which groups are older than suggested by fossils and fossil-calibrated molecular clocks. The author discusses possible causes for the endemism of high-level taxa in tropical America and Madagascar, and overlapping clades in South America, Africa, and Asia. The book concludes with a critique of adaptation by selection, founded on biogeography and recent work in genetics. |
Contents
9780520271968_Ch01 | 1 |
9780520271968_Ch02 | 59 |
9780520271968_Ch03 | 101 |
9780520271968_Ch04 | 145 |
9780520271968_Ch05 | 203 |
9780520271968_Ch06 | 267 |
9780520271968_Ch07 | 313 |
9780520271968_Ch08 | 355 |
9780520271968_Ch09 | 407 |
9780520271968_Ch10 | 435 |
9780520271968_Gloss | 455 |
9780520271968_Bibilo | 459 |
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9780520271968_About | 563 |
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accreted adapiforms Africa allopatric Amazonia anthropoids Asia Asteraceae Atlantic atolls Australia basal clade basin biogeography biota birds Borneo Brazil break Caledonia calibration Cenozoic center of origin central Pacific clades colonization dates differentiation disjunctions distribution diversity Early Cretaceous east eastern ecological endemic Eocene evolution evolutionary example extant extinction fault forest fossil record fossil-calibrated genera genetic genome genus geographic geological Gondwana Guinea habitat haplorhines Hawaii Hawaiian Islands hotspot indicate Kauai Late Cretaceous lemurs lineages Madagascar main clades mainland mammals mangrove margin Maui Mayr modern molecular clock molecular phylogeny molecular studies morphological nodes Oahu occur Ocean omomyiforms overlap phase Philippines phylogenetic plants plate plateau platyrrhines plesiadapiforms populations primates progression rule range expansion region rifting Rutaceae Scandentia seamounts sequence sister group South America Southeast southern speciation species strepsirrhines strike-slip subduction suggested Sulawesi tarsiers taxa tectonic terranes tion uplift vicariance volcanism western widespread ancestor widespread clades