Has Vicariance or Dispersal Been the Predominant Biogeographic Force in Madagascar? Only Time Will Tell

By A. Yoder, Michael D. Nowak. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology

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African spiny Solanum (subgenus Leptostemonum, Solanaceae): a thorny phylogenetic tangle (2013, background): “…the numerous angiosperm, invertebrate and vertebrate groups thought to have diversified in Madagascar following a dispersal event from Asia or other areas outside mainland Africa (Schatz, 1996; Plunkett, Lowry & Burke, 2001; Masters, de Wit & Asher, 2006; Yoder & Nowak, 2006; Buerki et al., 2013).”
A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography (2017, background): “Moreover, islands were viewed as refugial holdouts of persistence for a number of ancient forms (e.g. Yoder & Nowak, 2006; Vargas, 2007; Wood et al., 2015; Shaw & Gillespie, 2016), swept away by more recently evolved competitors from former mainland bastions.”
Grass diversification in Madagascar: In situ radiation of two large C3 shade clades and support for a Miocene to Pliocene origin of C4 grassy biomes (2018, background): “…bamboos in the Madagascar region since the Miocene may have been favoured by factors such as the expansion of the Sambirano rainforests in the north (Wells, 2003; Yoder & Nowak, 2006) and the volcanic origin of the Comoros and Mascarenes (Warren, Bermingham, Bowie, Prys-Jones, & Th ebaud, 2003).”
Vast underestimation of Madagascar's biodiversity evidenced by an integrative amphibian inventory (2009, background): “Its fauna and flora evolved largely in isolation (23), and many taxa are characterized by a high degree of microendemism within Madagascar (24–27).”
A framework for delineating biogeographical regions based on species distributions (2010, background): “A large number of Malagasy taxa show sister-group relationships to mainland African counterparts (Yoder & Nowak, 2006).”
The antiquity of Madagascar’s grasslands and the rise of C4 grassy biomes (2008, background): “Recent molecular studies point to dispersal, rather than vicariance, as the source of several distinctive elements of the fauna (Yoder & Nowak, 2006).”
Vicariance or long‐distance dispersal: historical biogeography of the pantropical subfamily Chrysophylloideae (Sapotaceae) (2011, background): “We can therefore deduce that Sapotaceae colonized Madagascar through at least three separate long-distance dispersal events: Capurodendron, Chrysophyllum and Sideroxylon, a result that supports the predominant biogeographical pattern found by Yoder & Nowak (2006).”
Bayesian estimation of the global biogeographical history of the Solanaceae (2017, background): “Worldwide distributions can be achieved through dispersal events, vicariance, or a combination of the two (Yoder & Nowak, 2006; Nauheimer et al., 2012).”
The introduced flora of Madagascar (2012, background): “3: 38-43 Rangan H, Carney J and Denham T (2012, in press) Environmental history of botanical exchanges in the Indian Ocean World.”
The role of molecular genetics in sculpting the future of integrative biogeography (2008, background): “…the history of life on Earth – even across those iconic taxa and biotas inhabiting Gondwanan land masses that have for several decades been considered exemplars of a vicariance-driven system (Sanmartín and Ronquist, 2004; De Queiroz, 2005; McGlone, 2005; Yoder and Nowak, 2006; Barker et al., 2007).”
Late Cretaceous bioconnections between Indo‐Madagascar and Antarctica: refutation of the Gunnerus Ridge causeway hypothesis (2011, background): “…Journal of Biogeography 38, 1855–1872 ª 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd the ‘standard’ geotectonic model, that is, a large expanse of ocean floor between Antarctica and Indo-Madagascar (e.g. Rage, 2003; Bossuyt et al., 2006; Noonan & Chippindale, 2006a,b; Yoder & Nowak, 2006; Prasad & Sahni, 2009).”
Gondwanan radiation of the Southern Hemisphere crayfishes (Decapoda: Parastacidae): evidence from fossils and molecules (2010, background): “…(400 km) has potentially allowed colonization, even in taxa thought to be poor transoceanic disperses (Yoder et al., 2003; Vences et al., 2004; Yoder & Nowak, 2006), evidence is mounting that transoceanic dispersal is also possible over much greater distances, e.g. Africa to Australia (Baum…”