Decline of a biome: evolution, contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota
By M. Byrne, Dorothy Steane, L. Joseph, David K. Yeates, Gregory J. Jordan, D. Crayn, K. Aplin, D. Cantrill, L. Cook, M. Crisp and 7 more. 2011
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Aim The mesic biome, encompassing both rain forest and open sclerophyllous forests, is central to understanding the evolution of Australia’s terrestrial biota and has long been considered the ancestral biome of the continent. Our aims are to review and refine key hypotheses derived from palaeoclimatic data and the fossil record that are critical to understanding the evolution of the Australian mesic biota. We examine predictions arising from these hypotheses using available molecular phylogenetic and phylogeographical data. In doing so, we increase understanding of the mesic biota and highlight data deficiencies and fruitful areas for future research.
Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology
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Citations in the corpus
- Biome Shifts and Niche Evolution in Plants (2014, background): “A number of studies have analyzed sets of phylogenies for plants within a region [e.g., Byrne et al. (2008, 2011), Crisp et al. (2004), and Crisp & Cook (2013) for Australia; Ackerly (2004) for California chaparral; Olmstead (2012) for South America; Guerrero et al. (2013) for the Atacama desert;…”
- The Sahul–Sunda floristic exchange: dated molecular phylogenies document Cenozoic intercontinental dispersal dynamics (2015, background): “Recent studies have demonstrated the power of this approach for addressing, at least indirectly, the Sahul–Sunda exchange within a multilineage phylogenetic framework (Byrne et al., 2011; Sniderman & Jordan, 2011; Pillon, 2012; Richardson et al., 2012).”
- Continental‐scale spatial phylogenetics of Australian angiosperms provides insights into ecology, evolution and conservation (2016, background): “As the Journal of Biogeography 43, 2085–2098 ª 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2090 Southern Ocean opened after the Eocene, the rain forests contracted, while sclerophyllous and xeromorphic vegetation expanded (Kershaw et al., 1994; Hill et al., 1999; Hill, 2004; Macphail, 2007; Byrne et al., 2011).”