Explaining genetic patterns in the Philippines: broad and fine scale perspectives

Abstract

Biodiversity is the outcome of a complex evolutionary history underpinned by a multitude of temporally and spatially variable processes. Which processes and how they influence the presentday distributions of biodiversity are questions not only central to evolutionary and ecological investigations but can also be critical to conservation management. Although elucidating the v Publications included in this thesis Matias, A.M. & Riginos, C. (2018) Revisiting the "Centre Hypotheses" of the Indo-West Pacific: Idiosyncratic genetic diversity of nine reef species offers weak support for the Coral Triangle as a centre of genetic biodiversity.