A review of marine phylogeography in southern Africa

By P. Teske, S. Heyden, C. McQuaid, NP Barker. 2011

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The southern African marine realm is located at the transition zone between the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific biomes. Its biodiversity is particularly rich and comprises faunal and floral elements from the two major oceanic regions, as well as a large number of endemics. Within this realm, strikingly different biota occur in close geographic proximity to each other, and many of the species with distributions spanning two or more of the region’s marine biogeographic provinces are divided into evolutionary units that can often only be distinguished on the basis of genetic data. In this review, we describe the state of marine phylogeography in southern Africa, that is, the study of evolutionary relationships at the species level, or amongst closely related species, in relation to the region’s marine environment. We focus particularly on coastal phylogeography, where much progress has recently been made in identifying phylogeographic breaks and explaining how they originated and are maintained. We also highlight numerous shortcomings that should be addressed in the near future. These include: the limited data available for commercially important organisms, particularly offshore species; the paucity of oceanographic data for nearshore areas; a dearth of studies based on multilocus data; and the fact that studying the role of diversifying selection in speciation has been limited to physiological approaches to the exclusion of genetics. It is becoming apparent that the southern African marine realm is one of the world’s most interesting environments in which to study the evolutionary processes that shape not only regional, but also global patterns of marine biodiversity.

Subfields: Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography

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In Genetics

1. Marie Beger
2. L. van Herwerden
3. R. Toonen
4. G. Bernardi
5. S. Heyden
6. C. Fauvelot
7. Patricia L. M. Lee

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Marie Beger
2. L. van Herwerden
3. R. Toonen

In Oceanography

1. Marie Beger
2. L. van Herwerden
3. R. Toonen
4. G. Bernardi

Citations in the corpus

• The application of genetics to marine management and conservation: Examples from the Indo-Pacific (2014, background): “Uncovering cryptic species, either as sibling species or as species flocks, allows rare insights into the processes driving speciation in marine environments, especially where species co-occur without evidence of strong vicariant barriers (von der Heyden et al. 2011, Bowen et al. 2013).”
• The molecular biogeography of the Indo‐Pacific: Testing hypotheses with multispecies genetic patterns (2019, unknown): “…case studies have been conducted (Barber et al., 2011; Carpenter et al., 2011; Gaither & Rocha, 2013; Ilves, Huang, Wares, & Hickerson, 2010; Kelly & Palumbi, 2010; Liggins, Treml, Possingham, & Riginos, 2016; Marko et al., 2010; Teske, Von der Heyden, McQuaid, & Barker, 2011; Toonen et al., 2011;)”