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Directional asymmetry of long-distance dispersal and colonization could mislead reconstructions of biogeography

Date

Authors

Cook, Lynette

Crisp, Michael

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Aim: Phylogenies are increasingly being used to attempt to answer biogeographical questions. However, a reliance on tree topology alone has emerged without consideration of earth processes or the biology of the organisms in question. Most ancestral-state

Keywords

Keywords: biogeography; colonization; dispersal; maximum likelihood analysis; parsimony analysis; phylogenetics; speciation (biology); Australasia; Australia; Eastern Hemisphere; New Zealand; World Ancestral areas; Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Australia; Directional dispersal; Maximum likelihood; Maximum parsimony; New Zealand; Southern hemisphere; Trait optimization; West-wind Drift

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/75739

Collections

Open Access Research

Source

Journal of Biogeography

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01261.x

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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