2013
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2182
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Climate, not Aboriginal landscape burning, controlled the historical demography and distribution of fire-sensitive conifer populations across Australia

Abstract: Climate and fire are the key environmental factors that shape the distribution and demography of plant populations in Australia. Because of limited palaeoecological records in this arid continent, however, it is unclear as to which factor impacted vegetation more strongly, and what were the roles of fire regime changes owing to human activity and megafaunal extinction (since ca 50 kya). To address these questions, we analysed historical genetic, demographic and distributional changes in a widespread conifer sp… Show more

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“…Woinarski et al 2007). However, more recent modelling of potential distributions during the LGM suggests localized persistence of some monsoonal taxa , and greater stability than for related species from the adjacent arid zone (Sakaguchi et al 2013; but see Kearns et al 2014).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Woinarski et al 2007). However, more recent modelling of potential distributions during the LGM suggests localized persistence of some monsoonal taxa , and greater stability than for related species from the adjacent arid zone (Sakaguchi et al 2013; but see Kearns et al 2014).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…), and greater stability than for related species from the adjacent arid zone (Sakaguchi et al . ; but see Kearns et al . ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The genus Callitris is a widespread, evergreen and taxonomically complex drought‐tolerant group of species (Piggins & Bruhl ; Sakaguchi et al . ) in the family Curpressaceae. There are around 13 species endemic to Australia (Farjon ), and an additional species restricted to New Caledonia.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is possible that the species was more widespread prior to human colonisation, but was subsequently eliminated from all but the remote valleys in the infertile south of the island. This biogeographic hypothesis could be tested by undertaking genetic analyses of the populations, as has been done for the Callitris glaucophylla complex across Australia (Sakaguchi et al, 2013).…”
Section: Distributionmentioning
confidence: 99%