Directional asymmetry of long-distance dispersal and colonization could mislead reconstructions of biogeography

Aim: Phylogenies are increasingly being used to attempt to answer biogeographical questions. However, a reliance on tree topology alone has emerged without consideration of earth processes or the biology of the organisms in question. Most ancestral-state

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cook, Lynette, Crisp, Michael
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2015
Subjects:
Keywords: biogeography
colonization
dispersal
maximum likelihood analysis
parsimony analysis
phylogenetics
speciation (biology)
Australasia
Australia
Eastern Hemisphere
New Zealand
World Ancestral areas
Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Directional dispersal
Maximum likelihood
Maximum parsimony
Southern hemisphere
Trait optimization
West-wind Drift
Antarctic
Antarc*
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1885/75739
Description
Summary:Aim: Phylogenies are increasingly being used to attempt to answer biogeographical questions. However, a reliance on tree topology alone has emerged without consideration of earth processes or the biology of the organisms in question. Most ancestral-state

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