Explosive avian radiations and multi-directional dispersal across Wallacea: Evidence from the Campephagidae and other Crown Corvida (Aves)

Jønsson, Knud A.; Irestedt, Martin; Fuchs, Jérôme; Ericson, Per G. P.; Christidis, Les; Bowie, Rauri C. K.; Norman, Janette A; Pasquet, Éric; Fjeldså, Jon

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.017

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“…(2) ancestral elements of some corvoid groups (Old World orioles, primarily New World vireos, African malaconotoids, Asian ioras, and drongos, shrikes and crows) dispersed out via southeast Asia to radiate in Afro-Asia and reach North America after the Australian craton drifted far enough north by the mid Tertiary for the Sulawesi ophiolites and adjacent Sunda and South Caroline island arcs to serve as stepping stones (Jønsson et al 2008;Hall 2009); (3) some, but not all, indigenous corvoid elements diverged in situ in Australia as they adapted to sclerophyllous habitats that developed and spread over that continent as it desiccated progressively from later Tertiary into Quaternary times (Byrne et al 2011); and (4) the great majority of these corvoid elements, together with other root songbird lineages and their supporting rainforest-inhabiting flora and fauna-the substance of the mid Tertiary Australian biome-took refuge in montane New Guinea as its massive rain-catching cordillera rose on the north rim of a drying Australia through the later Tertiary. This fauna and flora is the Tumbunan biota of Schodde & Calaby (1972) and Schodde (2006); it is perceived as substantively relictual, and includes such old avian elements as Alectura, Otidiphaps, Psittrichas and Cormobates.…”

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“…None of the families found there are "relictual", niche-restricted endemics that might signal an old centre of radiation. On the contrary, most are widespread elsewhere in Australasia and are dispersive, many of their species migratory or nomadic today, and many of their elements reaching the Indonesian archipelagos and Afro-Asia in the past (Jønsson et al 2008).…”

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Relicts from Tertiary Australasia: undescribed families and subfamilies of songbirds (Passeriformes) and their zoogeographic signal

Schodde

Christidis

2014

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A number of hitherto unrecognized, deeply divergent taxa of Australasian songbirds have been revealed by DNA sequence studies in the last decade. Differentiation among them is at levels equivalent to family and subfamily rank among songbirds generally. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to name and describe eleven of them formally under Articles 13.1, 13.2, 16.1 and 16.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature so that they are made available for use in zoology. The taxa are: families Oreoicidae, Eulacestomatidae, Rhagologidae, Ifritidae and Melampittidae, and subfamilies Pachycareinae, Oreoscopinae, Toxorhamphinae, Oedistomatinae, Peltopsinae and Lamproliinae. The families to which the subfamilies belong are documented. Morphological and behavioural traits of the new family-group taxa are discussed; reasons for taxonomic rankings are summarized; and grounds for the geographic origin of corvoid songbirds, to which all the new families belong, are briefly addressed. One new genus, Megalampitta in Melampittidae, is also described.

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Relicts from Tertiary Australasia: undescribed families and subfamilies of songbirds (Passeriformes) and their zoogeographic signal

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Christidis

2014

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“…We initially compiled a dataset including all core Corvoidean lineages dating back to the mid-Miocene or beyond for which at least one of the markers Myo2, ODC, RAG-1, RAG-2 or ND2 was available (e.g., refs. 10,17,18,[49][50][51][52][53][54]. A few additional sequences were generated specifically for this study.…”

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Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago

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Fabre

Ricklefs

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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A central paradigm in island biogeography has been the unidirectional "downstream" colonization of islands from continents (source to sink) based on the idea that less-diverse island communities are easier to invade than biologically more-diverse continental communities. Recently, several cases of "upstream" colonization (from islands to continents) have been documented, challenging the traditional view. However, all these cases have involved individual island species that have colonized mainland regions. Here, using molecular phylogenetic data, divergence time estimates, lineage diversity distributions, and ancestral area analyses, we reconstruct the spread of a species-rich (>700 species) passerine bird radiation (core Corvoidea) from its late Eocene/Oligocene origin in the emerging proto-Papuan archipelago north of Australia, including multiple colonizations from the archipelago to Southeast Asia. Thus, islands apparently provided the setting for the initiation of a major songbird radiation that subsequently invaded all other continents. Morphological and behavioral adaptations of the core Corvoidea as generalist feeders in open habitats, which facilitated dispersal and colonization, apparently evolved in the descendants of sedentary forest birds that invaded the proto-Papuan archipelago. The archipelago evidently provided islands of the right size, number, and proximity to continental areas to support the adaptation and diversification of vagile colonizers that went on to increase avian diversity on a global scale.Indo-Pacific | Passeriformes | community assembly | macroecology | range expansion

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“…Pachycephalidae (401,(431)(432)(433)(434)(435); Paradisaeidae (436)(437)(438)(439); Rhipiduridae (440,441); Vangidae (442)(443)(444)(445); Vireonidae (446)(447)(448)(449)(450)(451) …”

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An Update of Wallace’s Zoogeographic Regions of the World

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Lessard

Borregaard

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Modern attempts to produce biogeographic maps focus on the distribution of species, and the maps are typically drawn without phylogenetic considerations. Here, we generate a global map of zoogeographic regions by combining data on the distributions and phylogenetic relationships of 21,037 species of amphibians, birds, and mammals. We identify 20 distinct zoogeographic regions, which are grouped into 11 larger realms. We document the lack of support for several regions previously defined based on distributional data and show that spatial turnover in the phylogenetic composition of vertebrate assemblages is higher in the Southern than in the Northern Hemisphere. We further show that the integration of phylogenetic information provides valuable insight on historical relationships among regions, permitting the identification of evolutionarily unique regions of the world.

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Explosive avian radiations and multi-directional dispersal across Wallacea: Evidence from the Campephagidae and other Crown Corvida (Aves)

Cited by 68 publications

References 41 publications

Relicts from Tertiary Australasia: undescribed families and subfamilies of songbirds (Passeriformes) and their zoogeographic signal

Relicts from Tertiary Australasia: undescribed families and subfamilies of songbirds (Passeriformes) and their zoogeographic signal

Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago

An Update of Wallace’s Zoogeographic Regions of the World

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