Origins of old lineages in New Caledonia: A geologically informed test of the island‐hopping hypothesis

• Published in: Journal of Biogeography
• Main Authors: Malem, Julien, Robillard, Tony, Cluzel, Dominique, Bellier, Loïc, Nattier, Romain, Grandcolas, Philippe, Legendre, Frédéric
• Other Authors: Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB ), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA), Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (UNC)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: relicts; paleoendemics; New Caledonia; paleogeography; historical biogeography; phylogenetic dating; insects; stepping stones; BioGeoBEARS; competing hypotheses; vanished islands; [SDV.BBM.BM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biochemistry; Molecular Biology/Molecular biology; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; New Zealand; Pacific; Stepping Stones; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-04362969; https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-04362969/document; https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-04362969/file/Malem-et-al_island-hopping_JoB_2023.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14673

International audience Although New Caledonia (NC) is now considered an oceanic island that emerged ca. 60 Ma, a few terrestrial clades are significantly older, raising the question of the origin of these groups. Classically, old lineages on more recent islands are hypothesized to originate through...