Diversification in the Tropical Pacific: Comparisons Between Marine and Terrestrial Systems and the Importance of Founder Speciation

• Published in: Integrative and Comparative Biology
• Main Authors: Paulay, Gustav, Meyer, Chris
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2002
• Subjects: Integrative Approaches; Myriad Islands; Pacific; Single Island
• Online Access: http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/42/5/922; https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/42.5.922

Patterns of distribution and processes of differentiation have often been contrasted between terrestrial and marine biotas. The islands of Oceania offer an excellent setting to explore this contrast, because the geographic setting for terrestrial and shallow-water, benthic, marine organisms are the...