Biotic interchange between the Indian subcontinent and mainland Asia through time
- Biotic interchange after the connection of previously independently evolving floras and faunas is thought to be one of the key factors that shaped global biodiversity as we see it today. However, it was not known how biotic interchange develops over longer time periods of several million years following the secondary contact of different biotas. Here we present a novel method to investigate the temporal dynamics of biotic interchange based on a phylogeographical meta-analysis by calculating the maximal number of observed dispersal events per million years given the temporal uncertainty of the underlying time-calibrated phylogenies. We show that biotic influx from mainland Asia onto the Indian subcontinent after Eocene continental collision was not a uniform process, but was subject to periods of acceleration, stagnancy and decrease. We discuss potential palaeoenvironmental causes for this fluctuation.
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| Author: | Sebastian Klaus, Robert J. Morley, Martin PlathORCiDGND, Ya-Ping Zhang, Jia-Tang Li |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-451091 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12132 |
| ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
| Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27373955 |
| Parent Title (English): | Nature Communications |
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group UK |
| Place of publication: | [London] |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2016 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2017/11/21 |
| Tag: | Biodiversity; Biogeography; Palaeontology |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Issue: | Art. 12132 |
| Page Number: | 6 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 6 |
| Note: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © The Author(s) 2016 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 425146235 |
| Institutes: | Biowissenschaften / Institut für Ökologie, Evolution und Diversität |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Open-Access-Publikationsfonds: | Biowissenschaften |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
