New Zealand panbiogeography: Past, present, and future

Grehan, John R.

doi:10.1080/03014223.1989.10422920

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“…Panbiogeography, originally proposed by Croizat (1958, 1964) and subsequently developed by several authors (Craw, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1988a, b; Craw & Weston, 1984; Page, 1987; Craw & Page, 1988; Grehan, 1988, 1989; Morrone & Crisci, 1990, 1995; Morrone, 1992, 1993, 1996; Morrone & Lopretto, 1994; Craw et al ., 1999), is an approach that emphasizes the importance of the spatial or geographical dimension of biodiversity for an appropriate understanding of evolutionary patterns and processes. By searching for repetitive distributional patterns, a panbiogeographic analysis is intended to identify biogeographically homologous distributions, allowing the correlation of distributional patterns of unrelated taxa and leading to the recognition of ancestral biotic components.…”

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Halffter’s Mexican Transition Zone, beetle generalized tracks, and geographical homology

Morrone

Márquez

2001

Journal of Biogeography

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Aim Halffter’s Mexican Transition Zone is a complex area in which the Neotropical and Nearctic regions overlap. We test its existence and extension through a track analysis of beetle taxa, and discuss the implications of geographical homology. Location The area analysed corresponds to the Caribbean subregion, which occupies Mexico, Central America, north‐western South America, and the Western Indies. Methods The panbiogeographic or track analysis was based in the comparison of 134 individual tracks belonging to different beetle taxa (species and supraspecific groups). A Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity (PAE) was applied in order to classify the areas by their shared taxa according to the most parsimonious cladogram, and the nested sets of areas were represented as generalized tracks. Results Two generalized tracks resulted: (1) northern generalized track: comprising the Sierra Madre Occidental, Sierra Madre Oriental, Transmexican Volcanic Belt, Balsas Basin and Sierra Madre del Sur biogeographic provinces; and (2) southern generalized track: comprising the Chiapas, Mexican Gulf, Mexican Pacific Coast and western Panamanian Isthmus biogeographic provinces. Main conclusions The generalized tracks obtained correspond broadly to Halffter’s Nearctic and Mesoamerican patterns, respectively; however, in contrast to Halffter’s Mesoamerican pattern, the southern generalized track extends further north through the lowlands of the Pacific and Mexican Gulf coasts.

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Halffter’s Mexican Transition Zone, beetle generalized tracks, and geographical homology

Morrone

Márquez

2001

Journal of Biogeography

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“…Many biotic elements have arrived quite recently in New Zealand, having independently crossed ocean gaps (Jordan, 2001; McDowall, 2002, 2004; McGlone, 2005; Waters & Craw, 2006). McGlone (2006) explored the relationship between what taxa are recently‐to‐presently arriving in New Zealand and their ecologies and propagule sizes, mentioning plants with tiny spores (bryophytes and ferns) or tiny seeds (orchids), and wetland plants with hooked, barbed or sticky seeds, as particularly vagile, arriving in New Zealand continually and exhibiting low endemism, but this is contrary to the assertions of Croizat (1964) and Grehan (1989) that distributions do not correlate with dispersibility. McGlone observed that low familial/generic endemism of some groups in the flora indicates recent arrival.…”

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“…For others, the ultimate goal is understanding processes that are not necessarily revealed by analyses of areas of endemism. Grehan (1989, p. 519) thought that ‘vicariance biogeography… [has]… dominated the interface between systematics and biogeography in the United States and Great Britain’, but whether or not this was ever true is dubious. The global perspective is very different now, and botanists, especially, are pointing to the important role of dispersal (McGlone et al.…”

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Process and pattern in the biogeography of New Zealand – a global microcosm?

McDowall¹

2007

Journal of Biogeography

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Aim To describe New Zealand’s historical terrestrial biogeography and place this history in a wider Southern Hemisphere context. Location New Zealand. Methods The analysis is based primarily on literature on the distributions and relationships of New Zealand’s terrestrial flora and fauna. Results New Zealand is shown to have a biota that has broad relationships, primarily around the cool Southern Hemisphere, as well as with New Caledonia to the north. There are hints of ancient Gondwanan taxa, although the long‐argued predominance of taxa derived by vicariant processes, driven by plate tectonics and the fragmentation of Gondwana, is no longer accepted as a principal explanation of the biota’s origins and relationships. Main conclusions Most of the terrestrial New Zealand flora and fauna has clearly arrived in New Zealand much more recently than the postulated separation of New Zealand from Gondwana, dated at c. 80 Ma. There is a view that New Zealand may have disappeared completely beneath the sea in the early Cenozoic, and acceptance of this would mean derivation of the entire biota by transoceanic dispersal. However, there are elements in the biota that seem to have broad distributions that date back to Gondwanan times, and also some that are thought unlikely to have been able to disperse to New Zealand across ocean gaps, especially freshwater organisms. Very strong connections to the biota of Australia, rather than to South America, are inconsistent with the timing of New Zealand’s ancient and early separation from Gondwana and seem likely to have resulted from dispersal.

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“…Terrane tectonics (Craw, 1985;Cooper, 1989;Heads, 1989;Burrett et al, 1991) are often of special interest and have been used to explain lichen distributions of taxa in Anzia, Pannaria, and Xanthoparmelia in New Zealand (Heads, 1989), and of general bipolar distributions in lichens and a wide range of other biota between the southwest and northeast Pacific (Chin et al, 1991). Recent developments of panbiogeographic theory and methods are found in Craw (1988Craw ( , 1989, Grehan (1988Grehan ( , 1989Grehan ( , 1991, Henderson (1989), and Page (1989).…”

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Ascomycete Systematics

1994

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A series presenting the results of activities sponsored by the NA TO Science Committee, which aims at the dissemination of advanced scientific and technological knowledge, with a view to strengthening links between scientific communities.The series is published by an international board of publishers in conjunction with the Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication InformationOn file ISBN 978-1-4757-9292-8 ISBN 978-1-4757-9290-4 (eBook) All rights reservedNo part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher

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New Zealand panbiogeography: Past, present, and future

Cited by 17 publications

References 46 publications

Halffter’s Mexican Transition Zone, beetle generalized tracks, and geographical homology

Halffter’s Mexican Transition Zone, beetle generalized tracks, and geographical homology

Process and pattern in the biogeography of New Zealand – a global microcosm?

Ascomycete Systematics

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