Vicariant Patterns and Historical Explanation in Biogeography

Rosen, Donn Eric

doi:10.2307/2412970

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“…Cladistic vicariance biogeography (Rosen 1978;Platnick and Nelson 1978;Nelson and Platnick 1981;Wiley 1988) was born from the fusion of cladistics and Croizat's concept of vicariance (Fig. 1c).…”

Section: Vicariance and Cladistic Biogeographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Historical Biogeography: Evolution in Time and Space

Sanmartín

2012

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Biogeography is the discipline of biology that studies the present and past distribution patterns of biological diversity and their underlying environmental and historical causes. For most of its history, biogeography has been divided into proponents of vicariance explanations, who defend that distribution patterns can mainly be explained by geological, tectonic-isolating events; and dispersalists, who argue that current distribution patterns are largely the result of recent migration events. This paper provides an overview of the evolution of the discipline from methods focused on finding general patterns of distribution (cladistic biogeography), to those that integrate biogeographic processes (event-based biogeography), to modern probabilistic approaches (parametric biogeography). The latter allows incorporating into biogeographic inference estimates of the divergence time between lineages (usually based on DNA sequences) and external sources of evidence, such as information on past climate and geography, the organism fossil record, or its ecological tolerance. This has revolutionized the discipline, allowing it to escape the dispersal versus vicariance dilemma and to address a wider range of evolutionary questions, including the role of ecological and historical factors in the construction of biomes or the existence of contrasting patterns of range evolution in animals and plants.

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Section: Vicariance and Cladistic Biogeographymentioning

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Historical Biogeography: Evolution in Time and Space

Sanmartín

2012

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“…At a larger scale still, organisms can track geological history such that sequences of geological events (e.g. continental break-up) are directly reflected in the phylogenies of those organisms 15 .…”

Section: Types Of Historical Associationmentioning

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“…Hence, reconciled trees have been employed in two different ways: to document the history of an associate where both the host and associate relationships are presumed to be known, and to infer host relationships based on the associate phylogeny. The inference of species trees from gene trees is the paradigm instance of the latter, but there is a long history of parasitologists attempting to infer host phylogeny from parasite phylogeny 23 , and cladistic biogeographers aim to infer geological history from organismal phylogeny 15 .…”

Section: Reconstructing the History Of An Associationmentioning

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Trees within trees: phylogeny and historical associations

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“…Here, we present a phylogeographical interpretation of L. longipalpis based on molecular phylogenetic analysis using mtDNA and available theories on the historical physical geography of Central and South America (Haffer, 1969;Howe, 1974;Keigwin, 1978;Haffer, 1981;Rod, 1981;Sykes et al, 1982;Stehli and Webb, 1985;Hoorn, 1994;Hoorn et al, 1995). Our interpretation of these data is based on historical vicariance biogeography and dispersal and refuge theories (Croizat, 1978;Rosen, 1976Rosen, , 1978Nelson, 1976;Berminghan et al, 1992;Higgs, 1994;Joseph et al, 1995;Lundberg et al, 1998). This analysis provides a coherent explanation of historical factors responsible for the genetic structure of extant populations.…”

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confidence: 96%