The palaeogeography of Sundaland and Wallacea since the Late Jurassic

Abstract

The continental core of Southeast (SE)

Taxonomic implications of geographical variation in Rhinolophus affinis (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) in mainland Southeast Asia

“…The separation was partially supported by morphology, with specimens from clade III (southern Vietnam) relatively smaller in many characters ( Figure 15, Table 3 clade II (Figure 7). This linkage may be attributable to the Pleistocene climate during glacial periods, when the sea level dropped around 100 m below present levels, exposing vast areas of shallow seabeds on the Sunda shelf (Voris 2000;Woodruff 2003;Hall 2013) which formed migration ways between the two subregions (Tougard 2001). For instance, the peninsula-restricted rhinolophid, R. stheno, was recorded as having an isolated population in central Vietnam (Bach Ma National Park) yet shares similar morphological characters with the peninsula population (Soisook et al 2008).…”

Assessment of continuous gas resources in the Khorat Plateau Province, Thailand and Laos, 2016

“…1). The Khorat Plateau Province is part of Sundaland, a geologically complex continental area that consists of several terranes that originated from the northern margin of the supercontinent Gondwana and accreted to Eurasia from the late Paleozoic through the Mesozoic (Barber and others, 2011;Metcalfe, 2011;Morley, 2012;Hall, 2013;Morley and others, 2013). Progressive accretion of several Gondwanan blocks resulted in a mosaic of terranes, suture zones, accretionary wedges, and arc rocks that record a complex geologic history that may have affected the development and preservation of viable petroleum systems.…”

Front Matter

“…In many tropical zooplankton groups, such molecular efforts still need to start and often simply lack a firm taxonomical basis or training, a situation which can hopefully be improved in the future. Together with a future increase in our understanding of biodiversity and the arrival of new methods, the geological reviews of the region since the early eras (Hall, 2013;Morley and Morley, 2013), up to the Quaternary (Morley, 2013) that are presented in this volume can help us to interpret biogeographical patterns in the region and to recognise areas of endemism and relictual freshwater habitats in a historical framework. Indeed, as most of the major biodiversity and conservation studies in SE Asia are based on vertebrates and plants (Sodhi et al, 2004(Sodhi et al, , 2010Turner et al, 2001) rather than aquatic invertebrates, most invertebrate freshwater groups yet need to enter the wider N o n c o m m e r c i a l u s e o n l y discourse.…”

“…Highly unusual for a limnological issue, the special issue starts off with geological papers written by top experts on the region (Hall, 2013;Morley, 2013;Morley and Morley, 2013), providing a historical framework for biogeography, thorough enough for geologists, yet not too technical for biologists to read, and containing decades of insights and work. The issue further contains a significant number of taxonomical works, describing taxa that are new to science, mainly zooplankton.…”

“…An overview of the geological history of Sundaland and Wallacea since the Late Jurassic by Robert Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) (Hall, 2013) …”