@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref20501,
author = {Dirk Bellstedt and Chlo? Galley and Michael David Pirie and Hans Peter Linder},
title = {The migration of the palaeotropical arid flora: Zygophylloideae as an example},
year = {2012},
keywords = {African Arid Corridor; ancestral area reconstruction; biogeography; dispersal; molecular dating; Zygophyllum},
doi = {10.1600/036364412X656608},
url = {http://},
pmid = {},
journal = {Systematic Botany },
volume = {37},
number = {4},
pages = {951--959},
abstract = {The rate and direction of biotic exchange between the Palaeotropical arid floras of Asia, Africa, and Australia is poorly understood because of a lack of phylogenetic hypotheses for relevant plant groups. Periodic aridification may have facilitated migrations of arid-adapted plants between southwestern Africa and the Horn of Africa as recently as the last glacial maximum, allowing further exchange with the arid floras of Asia. However, no conclusive evidence of the age and direction of such migrations have been documented. We use a molecular phylogeny of the Zygophylloideae to infer a biogeographic scenario for the arid Palaeotropics, using relaxed clock dating and likelihood and parsimony based ancestral area reconstruction methods. We infer up to five migrations across the African continent (in contrast to just one each to Australia and Asia from Africa). The three most recent were in the Pliocene/Pleistocene and from southern to northern Africa, while the oldest dates to the Oligocene to Miocene. For the recruitment of the arid Palaeotropical flora, the preponderance of migrations across the African continent points to a repeated pattern of dispersal mediated by periodically more contiguous habitat, the so called 'African arid corridor,' with rarer long distance dispersal events between other disjunct areas.}
}
Citation for Study 12452
Citation title:
"The migration of the palaeotropical arid flora: Zygophylloideae as an example".
Study name:
"The migration of the palaeotropical arid flora: Zygophylloideae as an example".
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Bellstedt D., Galley C., Pirie M.D., & Linder H.P. 2012. The migration of the palaeotropical arid flora: Zygophylloideae as an example. Systematic Botany , 37(4): 951-959.
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Bellstedt D.
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Galley C.
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Pirie M.D.
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Linder H.P.
Abstract
The rate and direction of biotic exchange between the Palaeotropical arid floras of Asia, Africa, and Australia is poorly understood because of a lack of phylogenetic hypotheses for relevant plant groups. Periodic aridification may have facilitated migrations of arid-adapted plants between southwestern Africa and the Horn of Africa as recently as the last glacial maximum, allowing further exchange with the arid floras of Asia. However, no conclusive evidence of the age and direction of such migrations have been documented. We use a molecular phylogeny of the Zygophylloideae to infer a biogeographic scenario for the arid Palaeotropics, using relaxed clock dating and likelihood and parsimony based ancestral area reconstruction methods. We infer up to five migrations across the African continent (in contrast to just one each to Australia and Asia from Africa). The three most recent were in the Pliocene/Pleistocene and from southern to northern Africa, while the oldest dates to the Oligocene to Miocene. For the recruitment of the arid Palaeotropical flora, the preponderance of migrations across the African continent points to a repeated pattern of dispersal mediated by periodically more contiguous habitat, the so called 'African arid corridor,' with rarer long distance dispersal events between other disjunct areas.
Keywords
African Arid Corridor; ancestral area reconstruction; biogeography; dispersal; molecular dating; Zygophyllum
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@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref20501,
author = {Dirk Bellstedt and Chlo? Galley and Michael David Pirie and Hans Peter Linder},
title = {The migration of the palaeotropical arid flora: Zygophylloideae as an example},
year = {2012},
keywords = {African Arid Corridor; ancestral area reconstruction; biogeography; dispersal; molecular dating; Zygophyllum},
doi = {10.1600/036364412X656608},
url = {http://},
pmid = {},
journal = {Systematic Botany },
volume = {37},
number = {4},
pages = {951--959},
abstract = {The rate and direction of biotic exchange between the Palaeotropical arid floras of Asia, Africa, and Australia is poorly understood because of a lack of phylogenetic hypotheses for relevant plant groups. Periodic aridification may have facilitated migrations of arid-adapted plants between southwestern Africa and the Horn of Africa as recently as the last glacial maximum, allowing further exchange with the arid floras of Asia. However, no conclusive evidence of the age and direction of such migrations have been documented. We use a molecular phylogeny of the Zygophylloideae to infer a biogeographic scenario for the arid Palaeotropics, using relaxed clock dating and likelihood and parsimony based ancestral area reconstruction methods. We infer up to five migrations across the African continent (in contrast to just one each to Australia and Asia from Africa). The three most recent were in the Pliocene/Pleistocene and from southern to northern Africa, while the oldest dates to the Oligocene to Miocene. For the recruitment of the arid Palaeotropical flora, the preponderance of migrations across the African continent points to a repeated pattern of dispersal mediated by periodically more contiguous habitat, the so called 'African arid corridor,' with rarer long distance dispersal events between other disjunct areas.}
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TY - JOUR
ID - 20501
AU - Bellstedt,Dirk
AU - Galley,Chlo?
AU - Pirie,Michael David
AU - Linder,Hans Peter
T1 - The migration of the palaeotropical arid flora: Zygophylloideae as an example
PY - 2012
KW - African Arid Corridor; ancestral area reconstruction; biogeography; dispersal; molecular dating; Zygophyllum
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1600/036364412X656608
N2 - The rate and direction of biotic exchange between the Palaeotropical arid floras of Asia, Africa, and Australia is poorly understood because of a lack of phylogenetic hypotheses for relevant plant groups. Periodic aridification may have facilitated migrations of arid-adapted plants between southwestern Africa and the Horn of Africa as recently as the last glacial maximum, allowing further exchange with the arid floras of Asia. However, no conclusive evidence of the age and direction of such migrations have been documented. We use a molecular phylogeny of the Zygophylloideae to infer a biogeographic scenario for the arid Palaeotropics, using relaxed clock dating and likelihood and parsimony based ancestral area reconstruction methods. We infer up to five migrations across the African continent (in contrast to just one each to Australia and Asia from Africa). The three most recent were in the Pliocene/Pleistocene and from southern to northern Africa, while the oldest dates to the Oligocene to Miocene. For the recruitment of the arid Palaeotropical flora, the preponderance of migrations across the African continent points to a repeated pattern of dispersal mediated by periodically more contiguous habitat, the so called 'African arid corridor,' with rarer long distance dispersal events between other disjunct areas.
L3 - 10.1600/036364412X656608
JF - Systematic Botany
VL - 37
IS - 4
SP - 951
EP - 959
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