Faunal and Floral Migration and Evolution in SE Asia-Australasia

By I. Metcalfe, Jeremy Smith, M. Morwood, I. Davidson. 2001

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This multidisciplinary book focuses on the relationships and interactions between palaeobiogeography, biogeography, dispersal, vicariance, migrations and evolution of organisms in the SE Asia-Australasian region. The book investigates biogeographic links between SE Asia and Australasia which go back more than 500 million years. It also focuses on the links between geological evolution and biological migrations and evolution in the region. It was in the SE Asian region that Alfred Russell Wallace established his biogeographic line, now known as Wallace's Line, which was the beginning of biogeography. Wallace also independently developed his theory of evolution based on his work in this area. The book brings together, for the first time, geologists, palaeontologists, zoologists, botanists, entomologists, evolutionary biologists and archaeologists, in the one volume, to relate the region's geological past to its present biological peculiarities. The book is organized into six sections. Section 1 Paleobiogeographic Background provides overviews of the geological and tectonic evolution of SE Asia-Australasia, and changing patterns of land and sea for the last 540 million years. Section 2 Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Geology and Biogeography discusses Palaeozoic and Mesozoic biogeography of conodonts, brachiopods, plants, dinosaurs and radiolarians and the recognition of ancient biogeographic boundaries or Wallace Lines in the region. Section 3 Wallace's Line focuses on the biogeographic boundary established by Wallace, including the history of its establishment, its significance to biogeography in general and its applicability in the context of modern biogeography. Section 4 Plant biogeography and evolution includes discussion on primitive angiosperms, the diaspora of the southern rushes, and environmental, climatic and evolutionary implications of plants and palynomorphs in the region. The biogeography and migration of insects, butterflies, birds, rodents and other non-primate mammals is discussed in section 5, Non Primates. The final section 6 Primates focuses on the biogeographic radiation, migration and evolution of primates and includes papers on the occurrence and migration of early hominids and the requirements for human colonization of Australia.

Subfields: Paleontology

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Mammals of south‐east Asian islands and their Late Pleistocene environments (2003, result): “…is, however, not supported by all, and data by Geyh et al. (1979), Emmel & Curray (1982), Pope (1984), Page et al. (1999), Anshari et al. (2000), Kershaw et al. (2001) and Taylor et al. (2001) indicated that during the LGM, forests not unlike those found in the area today persisted in much of…”
Biogeography and conservation in Southeast Asia: how 2.7 million years of repeated environmental fluctuations affect today’s patterns and the future of the remaining refugial-phase biodiversity (2010, background): “The earlier geological history of the region, including the assembly of the [20 Gondwanan terranes by continental drift, are described elsewhere (Hutchison 1989; Hall 2001, 2002; Metcalfe et al. 2001; Metcalfe 2009).”
Biogeographical modules and island roles: a comparison of Wallacea and the West Indies (2012, background): “The biogeography of various taxa has been widely studied in both Wallacea (de Boer & Duffels, 1996; de Jong, 1998; Metcalfe et al., 2001; Jønsson et al., 2008, 2010; Carstensen & Olesen, 2009; Michaux, 2010) and the West Indies (Bond, 1948; Hedges, 1996; Trejo-Torres & Ackerman, 2001; VázquezMiranda”
Neogene marine transgressions, palaeogeography and biogeographic transitions on the Thai–Malay Peninsula (2003, background): “The eastern boundary of Sundaland has been the focus of much research since he drew his famous line between Borneo and Sulawesi, between the Sundaic subregion of the Oriental zoogeographical region and the Australian zoogeographical region (Whitmore, 1981, 1987; Hall & Holloway, 1998; Metcalfe et al”
Phylogeography of the Southeast Asian stone oaks (Lithocarpus) (2003, background): “General geological and biogeographical evidence across much of the distributional range of the genus is summarized elsewhere (Whitmore, 1987; Hall & Holloway, 1998; Ridder-Numan, 1998; Metcalfe et al., 2001).”
The Indochinese–Sundaic faunal transition at the Isthmus of Kra: an analysis of resident forest bird species distributions (2003, background): “Although considerable research has focused on Wallace’s line and the eastern limits of this biota (Whitmore, 1981, 1987; Metcalfe et al., 2001), little attention has been paid to the Indochinese–Sundaland transition, which Wallace placed in the Tenasserim region of the northern Thai–Malay peninsula.”
The Indochinese–Sundaic zoogeographic transition: a description and analysis of terrestrial mammal species distributions (2009, background): “Although the eastern regional biogeographical transition has been the subject of numerous studies (Whitmore, 1981, 1987; Hall & Holloway, 1998; Metcalfe et al., 2001; Heaney, 2004), the north-western transition between the Sundaic and the continental Indochinese subregions has been largely ignored.”
Assembly and division of the South and South-East Asian flora in relation to tectonics and climate change (2018, background): “The only Eocene dispersal into India based on pollen is of Calamoidae, which appears in the Paleocene of Sarawak, but is not recorded until the middle Eocene in India (Gupta et al. 2003, Misra & Kapoor 1994, Ramanujam et al. 1997).”