TY  - JOUR
A1  - Klaus, Sebastian
A1  - Morley, Robert J.
A1  - Plath, Martin
A1  - Zhang, Ya-Ping
A1  - Li, Jia-Tang
T1  - Biotic interchange between the Indian subcontinent and mainland Asia through time
T2  - Nature Communications
N2  - 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.
KW  - Biodiversity
KW  - Biogeography
KW  - Palaeontology
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45109
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-451091
SN  - 2041-1723
N1  - 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
VL  - 7
IS  - Art. 12132
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
PB  - Nature Publishing Group UK
CY  - [London]
ER  -