Speciation and Diversity on Tropical Rocky Shores: A Global Phylogeny of Snails of the Genus Echinolittorina

Williams, Suzanne T.; Reid, David G.

doi:10.1554/03-565

Cited by 75 publications

(169 citation statements)

References 106 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

151

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Phylogeny-based analysis of diversifi cation provides some limited evidence for increasing speciation through time (e.g. Barraclough and Vogler 2002 ;Linder et al 2003 ;Turgeon et al 2005 ), but again, a scenario of rapid radiation followed by a decline in speciation rate over time appears to be more common (Harmon et al 2003 ;Shaw et al 2003 ;Kadereit et al 2004 ;Machordom and Macpherson 2004 ;Morrison et al 2004 ;Williams and Reid 2004 ;Xiang et al 2005 ;Kozak et al 2006 ;Weir 2006 ;Phillimore and Price 2008 ;Scantlebury 2013 ). This pattern could be linked to a density-dependent model of ecological opportunity and/or refl ect punctual mass extinctions (e.g.…”

Section: Speciation and Extinction As Two Natural Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconsidering the Loss of Evolutionary History: How Does Non-random Extinction Prune the Tree-of-Life?

Yessoufou

Davies

2016

Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Analysing extinction within a phylogenetic framework may seem counter-intuitive because extinction is a priori a non-heritable trait. However, extinction risk is correlated with other traits, such as body size, that show a strong phylogenetic signal. Further, there has been much effort in identifying key traits important for diversifi cation, and recent evidence has demonstrated that the processes of speciation and extinction may be inextricably linked. A phylogenetic approach also allows us to quantify the impact of extinction, for example, as the loss of branches from the tree-of-life. Early work suggested that extinctions might result in little loss of evolutionary history, but subsequent studies indicated that nonrandom extinctions might prune more of the evolutionary tree. Loss of phylogenetic diversity might have ecosystem consequences because functional differences between species tend to be correlated with the evolutionary distances between them. Here we explore how extinction prunes the tree-of-life. Our review indicates that the loss of evolutionary history under non-random extinction (the emerging pattern in extinction biology) might be less pronounced than some previous studies have suggested. However, the loss of functional diversity might still be large, depending on the evolutionary model of trait change. Under a punctuated model of evolution, in which trait differences accrue in bursts at speciation, the number of branches lost is more important than their summed lengths. We suggest that evolutionary models need to be incorporated more explicitly into measures of phylogenetic diversity if we are to use phylogeny as a proxy for functional diversity.

show abstract

Section: Speciation and Extinction As Two Natural Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconsidering the Loss of Evolutionary History: How Does Non-random Extinction Prune the Tree-of-Life?

Yessoufou

Davies

2016

Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…It is now clear that geographical speciation-including allopatric, parapatric and/or peripatric speciation-is common also in marine taxa (e.g. Mayr 1954;Palumbi 1994;Williams & Reid 2004;Dawson & Hamner 2005;Meyer et al 2005).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A biophysical perspective on dispersal and the geography of evolution in marine and terrestrial systems

Dawson

Hamner

2007

J. R. Soc. Interface.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The fluid mechanics of marine and terrestrial systems are surprisingly similar at many spatial and temporal scales. Not surprisingly, the dispersal of organisms that float, swim or fly is influenced by the fluid environments of air and seawater. Nonetheless, it has been argued repeatedly that the geography of evolution differs fundamentally between marine and terrestrial taxa. Might this view emanate from qualitative contrasts between the pelagic ocean and terrestrial land conflated by anthropocentric perception of within-and betweenrealm variation? We draw on recent advances in biogeography to identify two pairs of biophysically similar marine and terrestrial settings-(i) aerial and marine microplankton and (ii) true islands and brackish seawater lakes-which have similar geographies of evolution. Commonalities at these scales, the largest and smallest biogeographic scales, delimit the geographical extents that can possibly characterize evolution in the remaining majority of species. The geographies of evolution therefore differ statistically, not fundamentally, between marine and terrestrial systems. Comparing the geography of evolution in diverse non-microplanktonic and non-island species from a biophysical perspective is an essential next step for quantifying precisely how marine and terrestrial systems differ and is an important yet under-explored avenue of macroecology.

show abstract

“…Images courtesy of STRI database. † inadvertently excluded, but the other claimed errors concern marine sister (not strictly geminate) species that are not found on either side of the Isthmus, according to the original distribution maps (7,8), or derive from conflicting dates between Lessios* (4) and the original literature.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reply to Lessios and Marko et al.: Early and progressive migration across the Isthmus of Panama is robust to missing data and biases

Bacon

Silvestro

Jaramillo

et al. 2015

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Speciation and Diversity on Tropical Rocky Shores: A Global Phylogeny of Snails of the Genus Echinolittorina

Cited by 75 publications

References 106 publications

Reconsidering the Loss of Evolutionary History: How Does Non-random Extinction Prune the Tree-of-Life?

Reconsidering the Loss of Evolutionary History: How Does Non-random Extinction Prune the Tree-of-Life?

A biophysical perspective on dispersal and the geography of evolution in marine and terrestrial systems

Reply to Lessios and Marko et al.: Early and progressive migration across the Isthmus of Panama is robust to missing data and biases

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About