Pacific Plate biogeography, with special reference to shorefishes

Springer, Victor G.

doi:10.5479/si.00810282.367

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“…The influence of history on the distribution of marine organisms has long been recognized [11,34,35,58]. However, attempts to identify the effect of history on present-day coral biogeography have been hindered by the use of species richness rather than composition as the principal response variable [14].…”

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“…However, despite the plethora of hypothesized explanations, the underlying mechanisms driving these patterns are elusive [4,5]. The species (and genus) richness of reef-building corals in the Indo-Pacific exhibits a peak in biodiversity in the Indo-Australian Archipelago (IAA), with a gradual decline in richness with increasing distance from the IAA hotspot, particularly in the highly depauperate eastern Pacific and at higher sub-tropical latitudes [6][7][8][9][10][11]. Multiple explanations have been proposed for this pattern, including hypotheses pertaining to ambient energy, habitat availability, dispersal limitation, geometric constraints and evolutionary time [7,8,[12][13][14].…”

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Faunal breaks and species composition of Indo-Pacific corals: the role of plate tectonics, environment and habitat distribution

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Species richness gradients are ubiquitous in nature, but the mechanisms that generate and maintain these patterns at macroecological scales remain unresolved. We use a new approach that focuses on overlapping geographical ranges of species to reveal that Indo-Pacific corals are assembled within 11 distinct faunal provinces. Province limits are characterized by co-occurrence of multiple species range boundaries. Unexpectedly, these faunal breaks are poorly predicted by contemporary environmental conditions and the present-day distribution of habitat. Instead, faunal breaks show striking concordance with geological features (tectonic plates and mantle plume tracks). The depth range over which a species occurs, its larval development rate and genus age are important determinants of the likelihood that species will straddle faunal breaks. Our findings indicate that historical processes, habitat heterogeneity and species colonization ability account for more of the present-day biogeographical patterns of corals than explanations based on the contemporary distribution of reefs or environmental conditions.

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Faunal breaks and species composition of Indo-Pacific corals: the role of plate tectonics, environment and habitat distribution

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“…El presente trabajo ha intentado lograr una nueva visión en el análisis de las relaciones ictiogeográficas del archipiélago de Juan Fernández, teniendo en consideración que estas islas pueden ser lugar de respuesta a complejos problemas ictiogeográficos del Pacífico Sur (Mead, 1970;Springer, 1982). Pero, a diferencia de trabajos anteriores, este ha considerado primordialmente aquellas especies que han sido capturadas en el litoral mismo de las islas.…”

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Los peces litorales del archipiélago de Juan Fernández (Chile): endemismo y relaciones ictiogeográficas

2000

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Recibido: 29 diciembre 1998; versión corregida: 4 junio 1999; aceptado: 10 septiembre 1999 RESUMEN. A la luz del conocimiento actual de la composición ictiofaunística del archipiélago de Juan Fernández, se relacionaron aquellas especies de hábitos netamente litorales (inter y submareales), para analizar cuáles de ellas son endémicas del archipiélago y cuáles están representadas en otras regiones. Las especies endémicas alcanzan 25,5%, aquellas representadas hacia el occidente el 19,6%, las representadas hacia el oriente 15,6%, las consideradas transpacíficas 9,8% y las comunes con el cercano archipiélago de Islas Desventuradas, 29,4%. Se reconoce que hay un vínculo ligeramente mayor con áreas polinésicas y el Pacífico Occidental, que con las costas sudamericanas propiamente tales. Esto da lugar a pensar en un respaldo a la idea que la región zoogeográfica del Pacífico Indico-Occidental, al menos en cuanto a peces, podría propagarse hasta estas islas oceánicas.Palabras claves: ictiogeografía, archipiélago de Juan Fernández, océano Pacífico, Chile. The littoral fishes of the Juan Fernandez archipelago (Chile): endemism and ichthyogeographical relationshipsABSTRACT. According to current knowledge on ichthyofaunistic composition of Juan Fernandez archipelago, those species typically littoral (inter and subtidal) were selected to analize which of them are endemic and which ones are represented in other regions. Endemic species correspond to 25.5%; those represented westward are 19.6% and the eastward ones are 15.6%. Transpacific species represent 9.8% of the total, whereas 29.4% of the species are in common with Desventuradas islands. A slightly higher link with Polynesian and West Pacific areas is recognised, if compared with the proper Southamerican coastlines. This supports to give background to the idea that the Indo-West Pacific zoogeographic region, at least in relation to fishes, can be extended to this oceanic islands.

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“…There are obvious, strong contrasts in the species richness and taxonomic structure of fish assemblages on coral reefs and temperate rocky shores. There also is a general concordance in geographic gradients of species richness among fishes, corals and other coral reef biota, including latitudinal and longitudinal declines in diversity away from an Indo-Philippine ''center'' in the Indo-Pacific (e.g., Springer 1982;Myers 1991a;Veron 1995). This combination of factors has led to a commonly held assumption: the development and maintenance of diversity among coral reef fish assemblages has depended on the diversity of resources produced on those reefs, and those assemblages have major, distinctive taxonomic and ecological characteristics.…”

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Do coral-reef fish faunas have a distinctive taxonomic structure?

Robertson¹

1998

Coral Reefs

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Do the highly diverse fish faunas that associate with coral reefs have distinguishing taxonomic and ecological characteristics, as proposed by Choat and Bellwood (1991) and Bellwood (1996)? Does a 50 my old (Eocene) fossil fish fauna from Italy represent a coral-reef fish assemblage that provides unique information about the evolution of such assemblages, as claimed by Bellwood (1996)?I compared the structure of the reef fish faunas of adjacent tropical regions rich and poor in coral reefs, in both America and Polynesia, and found that they exhibit no substantive differences in relative species richness among families of typical ''coral-reef'' fishes. While coral-rich regions have larger reef fish faunas, a variety of factors probably contribute to such differences. Thus coral-reef fish faunas may lack a distinctive taxonomic structure. A similar comparative approach would be useful for assessing whether assemblages of fishes on coral reefs have distinctive ecological characteristics.Based on patterns of habitat use by modern tropical shorefishes, the Italian Eocene fauna includes few definite reef fishes, and may well consist primarily of nonreef fishes preserved in a non-reef habitat. Until we know more about the environment in which those fossils were preserved, that fauna can contribute little to understanding how coral reef fish assemblages have evolved.

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Pacific Plate biogeography, with special reference to shorefishes

Cited by 239 publications

References 11 publications

Faunal breaks and species composition of Indo-Pacific corals: the role of plate tectonics, environment and habitat distribution

Faunal breaks and species composition of Indo-Pacific corals: the role of plate tectonics, environment and habitat distribution

Los peces litorales del archipiélago de Juan Fernández (Chile): endemismo y relaciones ictiogeográficas

Do coral-reef fish faunas have a distinctive taxonomic structure?

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