Pacific Plate Biogeography, with Special Reference to Shorefishes.

Heads, Michael; Springer, Victor G.

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“…This is an important point, as cladistic biogeography has generally used apriori areas as areas of endemism rather than analysing the areas themselves, although comparative analysis of areas and affinities in groups such as Abrotanella need not he based on geographic areas (cf. Heads, 1983Heads, , 1985. Swenson & Bremer (1 995) wrote that "Abrotanella shows several trans-Pacific distribution patterns".…”

Section: Area Anabsis and Areas Of Endemismmentioning

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Vicariance biogeography and terrane tectonics in the South Pacific: analysis of the genus Abrotanella (Compositae)

Heads

1999

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

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The species of Abmtunella (Compositae) form mats and cushions a few centimetres high and up to a metre or more in diameter. The flowers are less complex than those of most Compositae and lack a pappus, the usual means of dispersal in the family. There are 20 species, all restricted to mountains of Australasia and southern South America. The putative affinities of Abrotunellu involve several tribes of Compositae and the genus is not considered derived within the family. A comparative analysis of areas of endcmism in Abrotunellu shows clear patterns of vicariance and disjunction shared with many plants and animals, and longdistance dispersal is rejected as an explanation. Abrotanella and the three genera related to it are all restricted to lands bordering the Pacific. Areas previously accepted as areas of endemism, such as New Guinea, Tasmania, New Zealand and southern South America, arc shown to be polyphyletic complexes, rather than simple areas. Use of such areas in area cladoLgrams leads to the erroneous interpretation of taxa-area relations as incongruent. Distributions of the taxa in Abrotanella are correlated with tectonic features such as plate margins, transform faults and fracture zones, and processes such as continental rifting, terrane accretion, granite emplacement and orogeny. Abrotanellapatearoa sp. nov., a high-alpine cushion-plant, is described from mountains of eastern Central Otago: Rock and Pillar Range, Lammerlaw Range, Umbrella Mountains and Garvie Mountains. 0 I999 The 1.inneau Socicq of London ADDITIONAL KEY WORDS:-phylogeny ~ ecology . taxonomy ~ endcmism ~ alpine seed plants ~ New Guinea ~~ Tasmania ~ Chile ~ geolosgy ~ tectonics.

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Vicariance biogeography and terrane tectonics in the South Pacific: analysis of the genus Abrotanella (Compositae)

Heads

1999

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

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“…(Springer, 1982; Newman & Foster, 1983; Randall, 1995)’. (Planes & Fauvelot could also have mentioned terrestrial groups such as the landsnail Tornatellides cited by Heads, 1983.) Likewise, Newman (1986) noted that despite being ill‐equipped for long‐distance dispersal as larval forms, Hawaiian barnacles show affinities with south and east Pacific taxa.…”

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“…It contrasts with methods used in dispersal biogeography in which the focus is on the study group and its ecology, especially its means of dispersal (Wilson, 1991). Panbiogeographic methods have been used to analyse distributions of reef fishes and marine macroalgae in the Pacific (Heads, 1983; Chin, Brown & Heads, 1991), marine and terrestrial organisms in south‐east Asia (McManus, 1985), and marine triclad platyhelminths world‐wide (Sluys, 1989). Hajdu (1998) analysed sponge distributions in a paper titled ‘Toward a panbiogeography of the seas’, and in a recent volume dedicated to Croizat, Aguilar‐Aguilar & Contreras‐Medina (2001) gave a panbiogeographic analysis of the marine mammals of Mexico.…”

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Towards a panbiogeography of the seas

Heads

2005

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

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A contrast is drawn between the concept of speciation favoured in the Darwin-Wallace biogeographic paradigm (founder dispersal from a centre of origin) and in panbiogeography (vicariance or allopatry). Ordinary ecological dispersal is distinguished from founder dispersal. A survey of recent literature indicates that ideas on many aspects of marine biology are converging on a panbiogeographic view. Panbiogeographic conclusions supported in recent work include the following observations: fossils give minimum ages for groups and most taxa are considerably older than their earliest known fossil; Pacific/Atlantic divergence calibrations based on the rise of the Isthmus of Panama at 3 Ma are flawed; for these two reasons most molecular clock calibrations for marine groups are also flawed; the means of dispersal of taxa do not correlate with their actual distributions; populations of marine species may be closed systems because of self-recruitment; most marine taxa show at least some degree of vicariant differentiation and vicariance is surprisingly common among what were previously assumed to be uniform, widespread taxa; mangrove and seagrass biogeography and migration patterns in marine taxa are best explained by vicariance; the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean represent major biogeographic regions and diversity in the Indo-Australian Archipelago is related to Indian Ocean/Pacific Ocean vicariance; distribution in the Pacific is not the result of founder dispersal; distribution in the south-west Pacific is accounted for by accretion tectonics which bring about distribution by accumulation and juxtaposition of communities; tectonic uplift and subsidence can directly affect vertical distribution of marine communities; substantial parallels exist between the biogeography of terrestrial and marine taxa; biogeographically and geologically composite areas are tractable using panbiogeographic analysis; metapopulation models are more realistic than the mainland/island dispersal models used in the equilibrium theory of island biogeography; and regional biogeography is a major determinant of local community composition.

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“…It occurs in what Vander Kloet (1996) called two 'disparate' island groups, but the Hawaiian and SE Polynesian islands are probably not really disparate -that is, 'essentially different, … incommensurable, without comparison or relation, … so unlike that there is no basis for their comparison' (Oxford English Dictionary). In a brief panbiogeographic analysis (Heads 1983) Hawaii and Marquesas were shown to be connected by a standard track. Sleumer (1941) related V. sect.…”

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Ericaceae in Malesia: vicariance biogeography, terrane tectonics and ecology

Heads¹

2003

Telopea

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Heads, Michael (Science Faculty, University of Goroka, PO Box 1078, Goroka, Papua New Guinea. Current address: Biology Department, University of the South Pacific, P.O. Box 1168 2003. Ericaceae in Malesia: vicariance biogeography, terrane tectonics and ecology. Telopea 10(1): 311-449. The Ericaceae are cosmopolitan but the main clades have well-marked centres of diversity and endemism in different parts of the world. Erica and its relatives, the heaths, are mainly in South Africa, while their sister group, Rhododendron and relatives, has centres of diversity in N Burma/SW China and New Guinea, giving an Indian Ocean affinity. The Vaccinioideae are largely Pacific-based, and epacrids are mainly in Australasia. The different centres, and trans-Indian, trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic Ocean disjunctions all indicate origin by vicariance. The different main massings are reflected in the different distributions of the subfamilies within Malesia. With respect to plant architecture, in Rhododendron inflorescence bracts and leaves are very different. Erica and relatives with the 'ericoid' habit have similar leaves and bracts, and the individual plants may be homologous with inflorescences of Rhododendron. Furthermore, in the ericoids the 'inflorescence-plant' has also been largely sterilised, leaving shoots with mainly just bracts, and flowers restricted to distal parts of the shoot. The epacrids are also 'inflorescence-plants' with foliage comprised of 'bracts', but their sister group, the Vaccinioideae, have dimorphic foliage (leaves and bracts). In Malesian Ericaceae, the four large genera and the family as a whole have most species in the 1500-2000 m altitudinal belt, lower than is often thought and within the range of sweet potato cultivation. The same belt is also most diverse for ferns, birds-of-paradise and bowerbirds. Distribution maps of Malesian Ericaceae are presented, with related species indicated. Concentric patterns of distribution are frequent and could be attributable to evolution around shrinking seas. In New Guinea the main axial range is a composite structure, with the southern part formed by the old Australian craton and the northern and eastern parts formed from 32 tectonostratigraphic terranes or microplates. These formed independently and then docked with each other and the craton. The tectonic boundary between the craton and the accreted terranes is also an important biogeographic boundary. Many taxa have distributions linking different accreted terranes but are not on the craton. Movement and integration of island arcs and more substantial terranes has led to complex patterns of disjunction throughout Malesia, but there is an underlying parallel-arc structure, seen clearly in New Guinea. The tectonic provinces in Borneo are also reflected in the two main biogeographic tracks: Kuching--Kinabalu and Kutei Mts./Mt. Kemul-Kinabalu, the Lupar River boundary and the Meratus Mts. centre. The islands of the Riouw Pocket (Corner 1978a) are notably surrounded by many groups which are absent th...

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Pacific Plate Biogeography, with Special Reference to Shorefishes.

Cited by 8 publications

References 61 publications

Vicariance biogeography and terrane tectonics in the South Pacific: analysis of the genus Abrotanella (Compositae)

Vicariance biogeography and terrane tectonics in the South Pacific: analysis of the genus Abrotanella (Compositae)

Towards a panbiogeography of the seas

Ericaceae in Malesia: vicariance biogeography, terrane tectonics and ecology

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