biogeography and line s : the malay archipelago and wallace’s line
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Biogeography and Line s : The Malay Archipelago and Wallace’s Line. South America and Africa, separated by Atlantic, do not differ so widely as Asia and Australia....... (Wallace, 1860). Biogeography and Boundary: Biogeographical region – Cox, 2001. floral. faunal. traditional. revised. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Biogeography and Lines: The Malay Archipelago and Wallace’s Line
South America and Africa, separated by Atlantic, do not differ so widely as Asia and Australia.......
(Wallace, 1860)
Biogeography and Boundary:Biogeographical region – Cox, 2001
traditional revised
floral
faunal
Kreft & Jetz, 2008
The Malay Archipelago
Too many lines.... – Simpson, 1977
Cenozoic reconstruction,
Lohman et al., 2011
Do all organisms obey Wallace’s Line?
Sea-horse (Hippocampus trimaculatus)Lourie & Vincent, 2004
LiverwortsAryanti & Gradstein, 2007
Cyrtandra (Gesneriaceae)Atkins et al., 2001
Malesia Phytogeographyvan Welzen et al., 2005, 2009
Malesia Phytogeographyvan Welzen et al., 2005, 2009
Will Wallace’s Line save Australia from avian influenza?McCallum et al., 2008
For discussion...
1. Lourie & Vincent, 2004 – Phylogeography of the sea-horse in Southeast-Asia, testing Indian/Pacific Ocean Basin vs. Wallace’s Line biogeographical hypotheses
For discussion...
2. Schulte et al., 2002 – Molecular phylogenetic evidence for ancient divergence of lizard taxa on either side of Wallace’s Line
For discussion...
3. Van Welzen et al., 2011 – Wallace’s Line and plant distribution: two or three phytogeographical areas and where to group Java? floristic approach using statistical methods to infer biogeographical boundaries in Malesia.