Out of the Bassian province: historical biogeography of the Australasian platycercine parrots (Aves, Psittaciformes)

Schweizer, Manuel; Güntert, Marcel; Hertwig, Stefan

doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00561.x

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“…The mid-Miocene is denoted by a thin dotted line, with intraspecific divergences in mammals and birds shown by paler grey boxes. Taxa and references are as follows: 1 Tarsipes (Bininda-Emonds et al, 2007); 2 Purpureicephalus (Schweizer et al, 2011(Schweizer et al, , 2012; 3 Paroplocephalus (Sanders et al, 2008); 4 Elapognathus (Sanders et al, 2008); 5 Neelaps (calonotus) (Sanders et al, 2008); 6 Pletholax (Jennings et al, 2003); 7 Myobatrachus/Arenophryne Roberts & Maxson, 1989); 8 Metacrinia (Roberts & Maxson, 1989); 9 Metacrinia-Myobatrachus-Arenophryne (MMA) clade Roberts & Maxson, 1989); 10 Lepidogalaxias (Near et al, 2012); 11 Engaewa (Schultz et al, 2009); 12 Karripurcellia (Giribet et al, 2009(Giribet et al, , 2012; 13 Kumbadjena/Occiperipatoides (Murienne et al, 2013); 14 W.A. Onychophora clade (Murienne et al, 2013); 15 Petrogale lateralis (Potter et al, 2012); 16 Pseudomys shortridgei (Salinas et al, 2009); 17 Phascogale tapoatafa (Spencer et al, 2001); 18 Gymnorhina tibicen (Toon et al, 2007); 19 Anas gracilis/A.…”

Section: (A) Ancient Cladesmentioning

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Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south‐western Australian biodiversity hotspot

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The south-western land division of Western Australia (SWWA), bordering the temperate Southern and Indian Oceans, is the only global biodiversity hotspot recognised in Australia. Renowned for its extraordinary diversity of endemic plants, and for some of the largest and most botanically significant temperate heathlands and woodlands on Earth, SWWA has long fascinated biogeographers. Its flat, highly weathered topography and the apparent absence of major geographic factors usually implicated in biotic diversification have challenged attempts to explain patterns of biogeography and mechanisms of speciation in the region. Botanical studies have always been central to understanding the biodiversity values of SWWA, although surprisingly few quantitative botanical analyses have allowed for an understanding of historical biogeographic processes in both space and time. Faunistic studies, by contrast, have played little or no role in defining hotspot concepts, despite several decades of accumulating quantitative research on the phylogeny and phylogeography of multiple lineages. In this review we critically analyse datasets with explicit supporting phylogenetic data and estimates of the time since divergence for all available elements of the terrestrial fauna, and compare these datasets to those available for plants. In situ speciation has played more of a role in shaping the south-western Australian fauna than has long been supposed, and has occurred in numerous endemic lineages of freshwater fish, frogs, reptiles, snails and less-vagile arthropods. By contrast, relatively low levels of endemism are found in birds, mammals and highly dispersive insects, and in situ speciation has played a negligible role in generating local endemism in birds and mammals. Quantitative studies provide evidence for at least four mechanisms driving patterns of endemism in south-western Australian animals, including: (i) relictualism of ancient Gondwanan or Pangaean taxa in the High Rainfall Province; (ii) vicariant isolation of lineages west of the Nullarbor divide; (iii) in situ speciation; and (iv) recent population subdivision. From dated quantitative studies we derive four testable models of historical biogeography for animal taxa in SWWA, each explicit in providing a spatial, temporal and topological perspective on patterns of speciation or divergence. For each model we also propose candidate lineages that may be worthy of further study, given what we know of their taxonomy, distributions or relationships. These models formalise four of the strongest patterns seen in many animal taxa from SWWA, although other models are clearly required to explain particular, idiosyncratic patterns. Generating numerous new datasets for suites of co-occurring lineages in SWWA will help refine our understanding of the historical biogeography of the region, highlight gaps in our knowledge, and allow us to derive general postulates from quantitative (rather than qualitative) results. For animals, this process has now begun in earnest, as has the process of ta...

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Section: (A) Ancient Cladesmentioning

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Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south‐western Australian biodiversity hotspot

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“…and Psittaculini has been defined (Winkler et al, 2015), however similar studies, also indicate a closer relationship of Platycercini to a monophyletic assemblage of Melopsittacus, Loriinae, and Cyclopsittacini, rather than with Psittaculini (Joseph et al, 2011;Schweizer, Güntert, & Hertwig, 2013).…”

Section: Australian Speciesmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Psittaculini species are also found in the Australian region. Biogeographic data and molecular clock estimates (Schweizer et al, 2013(Schweizer et al, , 2011, indicate that the ancestors of Indo-Malayan Psittaculini parrots (Psittacula, Tanygnathus, Prioniturus, Psittinus, Loriculus), colonized Indo Malaysia from Australia during Oligocene Miocene times, after the Australian continent approached Asia from the south (Hall, 2002).…”

Section: Psittaculini Tribe Indo-malayan and Australian Speciesmentioning

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“…Molecular genetic studies consider Loriinae species relative to Melopsittacus undulatus (Joseph et al, 2012;Schweizer et al, 2013;Wright et al, 2008). Relationships among Melopsittacus (Platycercini), Loriinae, Cyclopsittacini, Micropsittini, Agapornis and Loriculus (Psittaculini), have also been proposed based on morphological (Mayr, 2008), and biochemical (Christidis, Schodde, Shaw, & Maynes, 1991) evidences.…”

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“…The common ancestor of these biogeographically separated lineages lived in the Antarctica, and accordingly to the molecular clock estimates was separated from the Australian parrot lineages at about 40 MY, which corresponds to the time the two continents finally separated. (Ali & Aitchison, 2008;Kundu et al, 2012;Li & Powell, 2001;Schweizer et al, 2013Schweizer et al, , 2010Schweizer et al, , 2011. Ulterior phylogenetic separation and independent colonization of the Neotropics and Africa by parrots living in the Antarctica, began in the early Oligocene (35 MYA) (Schweizer et al, 2010(Schweizer et al, , 2011Tavares et al, 2006), as a result of climate change towards cooler conditions.…”

Section: African Species Tribe Psittacinimentioning

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With colourful plumage, charismatic character and vocal learning abilities, parrots are one of the most striking and recognizable bird groups. Their attractiveness has drawn human attention for centuries, and members of the Psittaciformes order were, also, among the first avian species to be subject to cytogenetic studies which have contributed to understand their taxonomic and evolutionary relationships.We present here the karyological results collected by the study of thirteen parrot species new to karyology. These results are additionally supported by G banded preparations obtained in five species.The order Psittaciformes is an interesting example of a, typically, non migratory avian lineage with Gondwanaland origin, whose evolutionary radiation has been shaped by the Cenozoic geographic and climatic events that affected the land masses derived from the Gondwanaland continental split.We discuss the results of our studies, in conjunction with the previously compiled Psittaciformes cytogenetic data to delineate a picture of the chromosomal evolution of the order, concurrently with the biogeographic history of the lands in the southern Hemisphere.Considering the available data on parrot cytogenetics, a "standard parrot karyotype pattern" is proposed for evolutionary comparisons.Several biogeographic, and phylogenetically related "karyogram patterns" are also identified, and mechanisms of chromosome rearrangement that associate this patterns among them, and with the standard parrot karyotype pattern are proposed. These schemes on parrot chromosomal variation are discussed in relation to the general avian chromosome evolutionary theses proposed by cytogenetic and molecular genomic researchers.

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Parallel adaptations to nectarivory in parrots, key innovations and the diversification of theLoriinae

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Specialization to nectarivory is associated with radiations within different bird groups, including parrots. One of them, the Australasian lories, were shown to be unexpectedly species rich. Their shift to nectarivory may have created an ecological opportunity promoting species proliferation. Several morphological specializations of the feeding tract to nectarivory have been described for parrots. However, they have never been assessed in a quantitative framework considering phylogenetic nonindependence. Using a phylogenetic comparative approach with broad taxon sampling and 15 continuous characters of the digestive tract, we demonstrate that nectarivorous parrots differ in several traits from the remaining parrots. These trait-changes indicate phenotype–environment correlations and parallel evolution, and may reflect adaptations to feed effectively on nectar. Moreover, the diet shift was associated with significant trait shifts at the base of the radiation of the lories, as shown by an alternative statistical approach. Their diet shift might be considered as an evolutionary key innovation which promoted significant non-adaptive lineage diversification through allopatric partitioning of the same new niche. The lack of increased rates of cladogenesis in other nectarivorous parrots indicates that evolutionary innovations need not be associated one-to-one with diversification events.

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Out of the Bassian province: historical biogeography of the Australasian platycercine parrots (Aves, Psittaciformes)

Cited by 22 publications

References 73 publications

Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south‐western Australian biodiversity hotspot

Biogeography and speciation of terrestrial fauna in the south‐western Australian biodiversity hotspot

Chromosomal Evolution in Psittaciformes. Revisited

Parallel adaptations to nectarivory in parrots, key innovations and the diversification of theLoriinae

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