Bracing for another decade of deception: the promise of Secondary Brooks Parsimony Analysis

Siddall, Mark E.

doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2004.00045.x

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“…2002; Brooks et al . 2004; Siddall 2004; Stevens 2004; Siddall 2005). We selected three of the most commonly used software packages, treemap 1.0 (Page 1995), treemap 2.02β (Charleston & Page 2002), and parafit (Legendre et al .…”

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Host‐specificity and coevolution among pollinating and nonpollinating New World fig wasps

2007

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Figs {Ficus spp., Moraceae) and their pollinating wasps (Hymenoptera, Agaonidae, Chalcidoidea) constitute a classic example of an obligate plant-pollinator mutualism, and have become an ideal system for addressing questions on coevolution, speciation, and the maintenance of mutualisms. In addition to pollinating wasps, figs host several types of nonpollinating, parasitic wasps from a diverse array of Chalcid subfamilies with varied natural histories and ecological strategies (e.g. competitors, gallers, and parasitoids). Our findings further challenge the classical notion of strict-sense coevolution between figs and their associated wasps, and mirror conclusions from detailed molecular studies of other mutualisms that have revealed common patterns of diffuse coevolution and asymmetric specialization among the participants.

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Host‐specificity and coevolution among pollinating and nonpollinating New World fig wasps

2007

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“…This is evident, for instance, in some applications of Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity (PAE), Brooks Parsimony Analysis (BPA), and phylogeography. The problems begin with the conceptual framework: these methods quite often conduce to naïve and limited interpretations of the phenomena under study, in opposition to a truly Croizatian approach (for comments and criticisms on these subjects, see Brooks and van Veller 2003;Siddall and Perkins 2003;Siddall 2004Siddall , 2005Santos 2005Santos , 2007Santos and Amorim 2007;Garzón-Orduña et al 2008). Here we claim for biogeographical studies that seek robust hypotheses with ongoing higher support.…”

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On Reciprocal Illumination and Consilience in Biogeography

Santos

Capellari

2009

Evol Biol

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Biogeography deals with the combined analysis of the spatial and temporal components of the evolutionary process. To this purpose, biogeographical analysis should consider two extra steps: a reciprocal illumination step, and a consilience step. Even if the traditional challenges of biogeography were successfully handled, the obtained hypothesis is not necessarily meaningful in biogeographical terms--it needs continuous test in the light of external hypotheses. For this reason, a concept analogous to Hennig's reciprocal illumination is valuable, as well as a sort of biogeographical consilience in Whewell's sense. Firstly, through the search for different classes of evidence, information useful to improve the hypothesis can be accessed via reciprocal illumination. Following, a more general hypothesis would arise through a consilience process, when the hypothesis explains phenomena not contemplated during its construction, as the distribution of other taxa or the existence (or absence) of fossils. This procedure aims to evaluate the robustness of biogeographical hypotheses as scientific theories. Such theories are reliable descriptions of how life changes its form both in space and time, putting historical biogeography close to Croizat's statement of evolution as a three dimensional phenomenon.

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“…Analytical approaches in, for example, biogeography are equally applicable to data from marine and terrestrial systems (e.g. Marshall & Liebherr 2000;Santini & Winterbottom 2002;Wojcicki & Brooks 2005; but see Siddall 2005), and the coupled biophysical models increasingly employed to study dispersal of marine larvae (e.g. Cowen et al 2000Cowen et al , 2006Galindo et al 2006) can be expected to promote similar approaches to studying aerial dispersal (e.g.…”

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A biophysical perspective on dispersal and the geography of evolution in marine and terrestrial systems

Dawson

Hamner

2007

J. R. Soc. Interface.

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The fluid mechanics of marine and terrestrial systems are surprisingly similar at many spatial and temporal scales. Not surprisingly, the dispersal of organisms that float, swim or fly is influenced by the fluid environments of air and seawater. Nonetheless, it has been argued repeatedly that the geography of evolution differs fundamentally between marine and terrestrial taxa. Might this view emanate from qualitative contrasts between the pelagic ocean and terrestrial land conflated by anthropocentric perception of within-and betweenrealm variation? We draw on recent advances in biogeography to identify two pairs of biophysically similar marine and terrestrial settings-(i) aerial and marine microplankton and (ii) true islands and brackish seawater lakes-which have similar geographies of evolution. Commonalities at these scales, the largest and smallest biogeographic scales, delimit the geographical extents that can possibly characterize evolution in the remaining majority of species. The geographies of evolution therefore differ statistically, not fundamentally, between marine and terrestrial systems. Comparing the geography of evolution in diverse non-microplanktonic and non-island species from a biophysical perspective is an essential next step for quantifying precisely how marine and terrestrial systems differ and is an important yet under-explored avenue of macroecology.

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Bracing for another decade of deception: the promise of Secondary Brooks Parsimony Analysis

Cited by 14 publications

References 33 publications

Host‐specificity and coevolution among pollinating and nonpollinating New World fig wasps

Host‐specificity and coevolution among pollinating and nonpollinating New World fig wasps

On Reciprocal Illumination and Consilience in Biogeography

A biophysical perspective on dispersal and the geography of evolution in marine and terrestrial systems

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