The Biogeography of Sulawesi Revisited: Is There Evidence for a Vicariant Origin of Taxa on Wallace's “Anomalous Island”?

Stelbrink, Björn; Albrecht, Christian; Hall, Robert; Rintelen, Thomas von

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“…As noted by Stelbrink et al (2012) for Sulawesi, during periods of low sea-level islands would have made a larger 'target' for dispersing taxa, making it more likely that sea-route colonisations would occur. Java emerged as an island in the late Pliocene and the earliest (Satir) fauna arrived sometime in the early Pleistocene, probably during periods of low sea level (van den Bergh et al, 2001).…”

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“…Sulawesi is east of Wallace's line, but appears to have been colonised multiple times by a wide range of taxa (Stelbrink et al, 2012). In terms of primates, seven species of Macaca are present (Abegg and Thierry, 2002), whose ancestor probably arrived from Borneo (Ziegler et al, 2007), in addition to a number of cryptic tarsier species (Shekelle et al, 2010).…”

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The origins and persistence of Homo floresiensis on Flores: biogeographical and ecological perspectives

Dennell

Louys

O’Regan

et al. 2014

Quaternary Science Reviews

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The finding of archaeological evidence predating 1 Ma and a small hominin species (Homo floresiensis) on Flores, Indonesia, has stimulated much research on its origins and ancestry. Here we take a different approach and examine two key questions -1) how did the ancestors of H. floresiensis reach Flores and 2) what are the prospects and difficulties of estimating the likelihood of hominin persistence for over 1 million years on a small island? With regard to the first question, on the basis of the biogeography we conclude that the mammalian, avian, and reptilian fauna on Flores arrived from a number of sources including Java, Sulawesi and Sahul. Many of the terrestrial taxa were able to float or swim (e.g. stegodons, giant tortoises and the Komodo dragon), while the rodents and hominins probably accidentally rafted from Sulawesi, following the prevailing currents.The precise route by which hominins arrived on Flores cannot at present be determined, although a route from South Asia through Indochina, Sulawesi and hence Flores is tentatively supported on the basis of zoogeography. With regards to the second question, we find the archaeological record equivocal. A basic energetics model shows that a greater number of small-bodied hominins could persist on Flores than larger-bodied hominins (whether H. floresiensis is a dwarfed species or a descendent of an early small-bodied ancestor is immaterial here), which may in part explain their apparent long-term success. Yet the frequent tsunamis and volcanic eruptions in the region would certainly have affected all the taxa on the island, and at least one turnover event is recorded, when Stegodon sondaari became extinct. The question of the likelihood of persistence may be unanswerable until we know much more about the biology of H. floresiensis. 2

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The origins and persistence of Homo floresiensis on Flores: biogeographical and ecological perspectives

Dennell

Louys

O’Regan

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“…More recently, it has been suggested that colonisations of Sulawesi started during the early Miocene, and that speciation events happened as early as 20 Mya (Stelbrink et al 2012). Patou et al (2008) proposed that the Hemigalinae diverged 15.4-8.4 Mya, which corresponds to the dates of origin of several Sulawesi taxa (Stelbrink et al 2012). These findings suggest that the Sulawesi palm civet diverged from the other species more than 10 Mya, which is supported by its high Cytb divergence (12.0-14.9%) from its relatives.…”

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“…Hall (2001) found evidence of a land bridge west of Sulawesi ca 20 million years ago (Mya), and suggested faunal exchanges between Sulawesi and the rest of Southeast Asia occurred ca 10 Mya. More recently, it has been suggested that colonisations of Sulawesi started during the early Miocene, and that speciation events happened as early as 20 Mya (Stelbrink et al 2012). Patou et al (2008) proposed that the Hemigalinae diverged 15.4-8.4 Mya, which corresponds to the dates of origin of several Sulawesi taxa (Stelbrink et al 2012).…”

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Molecular systematics and biogeography of the Hemigalinae civets (Mammalia, Carnivora)

Veron

Bonillo²,

Hassanin

et al. 2017

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D N A L i b r a r y o f L i f e , r e s e a r c h a r t i c l eurn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EB6AF6D6-36E7-4677-87E8-D72C42A273AF Abstract. Due to the difficulty in obtaining samples, the systematics of the Hemigalinae civets has not been fully resolved. The aim of this study was to clarify the relationships of the species and the intraspecific diversity within this subfamily, and to explore the environmental factors that might have affected its evolution. Using two mitochondrial and two nuclear markers, we confirmed that the Hemigalinae comprises Owston's civet, the otter civet, Hose's civet and the banded civet, but also the Sulawesi palm civet (formerly included in the Paradoxurinae). Our study showed that the banded and Owston's civets are sister species, and suggested that Hose's civet is sister to these two. Within the banded civet, we observed a high divergence between individuals from the Mentawai Islands and those from Sumatra and Borneo (while the latter two were not strongly divergent), likely due to the deep sea channel between the Mentawai Islands and Sumatra. Unexpectedly, the Sumatran and Peninsular Malaysian individuals were not closely related, despite the fact that these two regions have repeatedly been connected during the last glaciations. No high polymorphism was found within Owston's civet, although three groups were obtained: southern China, northern Vietnam and central Vietnam, which might be related to Pleistocene climatic fluctuations.

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“…The answer is 'You wouldn't. ' Similarly, the fact that primates have not been able to colonise Australasia from Sulawesi should not come as a huge surprise given that (1) Sulawesi has not always been so close to Australasian land (Stelbrink et al 2012), and (2) the primates (macaques and tarsiers) of the island might have arrived there only within the past 3 million years (Ziegler et al 2007;Driller et al 2015, their fig. 1e).…”

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Jurassic primates, immobile ducks and other oddities: a reply to Heads’ review of The Monkey’s Voyage

Queiroz

2016

Aust. Systematic Bot.

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Abstract. In The Monkey's Voyage, I focused on the issue of disjunct distributions, and, in particular, on the burgeoning support from molecular-dating studies for long-distance dispersal over vicariance as the most reasonable explanation for many (but by no means all) distributions broken up by oceans. Michael Heads' assessment of the book is founded on his long-standing belief, following Croizat, that long-distance dispersal is an insignificant process and, therefore, that disjunctions are virtually always attributable to vicariance. In holding to these notions, Heads offered a series of unsound arguments. In particular, to preserve an 'all-vicariance' perspective, he presented a distorted view of the nature of long-distance dispersal, misrepresented current applications of fossil calibrations in molecular-dating studies, ignored methodological biases in such studies that often favour vicariance hypotheses, repeatedly invoked irrelevant geological reconstructions, and, most strikingly, showed a cavalier approach to evolutionary timelines by pushing the origins of many groups back to unreasonably ancient ages. The result was a succession of implausible histories for particular taxa and areas, including the notions that the Hawaiian biota is almost entirely derived from ancient (often Mesozoic) central Pacific metapopulations, that the disjunctions of extremely mobile organisms such as ducks rarely, if ever, result from long-distance dispersal, and that primates were widespread 120 million years before their first appearance in the fossil record. In contrast to Heads' perspective, a central message of The Monkey's Voyage is that explanations for disjunct distributions should be evaluated on the basis of diverse kinds of evidence, without strong a priori assumptions about the relative likelihoods of long-distance dispersal and vicariance.

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The Biogeography of Sulawesi Revisited: Is There Evidence for a Vicariant Origin of Taxa on Wallace's “Anomalous Island”?

Abstract: Sulawesi, the largest island in the Indonesian biodiversity hotspot region Wallacea, hosts a diverse endemic fauna whose origin has been debated for more than 150 years. We use a comparative approach based on dated phylogenies and geological constraints to

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The origins and persistence of Homo floresiensis on Flores: biogeographical and ecological perspectives

The origins and persistence of Homo floresiensis on Flores: biogeographical and ecological perspectives

Molecular systematics and biogeography of the Hemigalinae civets (Mammalia, Carnivora)

Jurassic primates, immobile ducks and other oddities: a reply to Heads’ review of The Monkey’s Voyage

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