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Paleo-Drainage Basin Connectivity Predicts Evolutionary Relationships across Three Southeast Asian Biodiversity Hotspots

Authors list: de Bruyn, M; Rüber, L; Nylinder, S; Stelbrink, B; Lovejoy, NR; Lavoue, S; Tan, HH; Nugroho, E; Wowor, D; Peter, KL; Azizah, MNS; von Rintelen, T; Hall, R; Carvalho, GR

Publication year: 2013

Pages: 398-410

Journal: Systematic Biology

Volume number: 62

Issue number: 3

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syt007

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Abstract:

Understanding factors driving diversity across biodiversity hotspots is critical for formulating conservation priorities in the face of ongoing and escalating environmental deterioration. While biodiversity hotspots encompass a small fraction of Earth's land surface, more than half the world's plants and two-thirds of terrestrial vertebrate species are endemic to these hotspots. Tropical Southeast (SE) Asia displays extraordinary species richness, encompassing four biodiversity hotspots, though disentangling multiple potential drivers of species richness is confounded by the region's dynamic geological and climatic history. Here, we use multilocus molecular genetic data from dense multispecies sampling of freshwater fishes across three biodiversity hotspots, to test the effect of Quaternary climate change and resulting drainage rearrangements on aquatic faunal diversification. While Cenozoic geological processes have clearly shaped evolutionary history in SE Asian halfbeak fishes, we show that paleo-drainage re-arrangements resulting from Quaternary climate change played a significant role in the spatiotemporal evolution of lowland aquatic taxa, and provide priorities for conservation efforts. [Freshwater; geology; halfbeak; island radiation; Miocene; Pleistocene; river; Southeast Asia.]

Citation Styles

Harvard Citation style: de Bruyn, M., Rüber, L., Nylinder, S., Stelbrink, B., Lovejoy, N., Lavoue, S., et al. (2013) Paleo-Drainage Basin Connectivity Predicts Evolutionary Relationships across Three Southeast Asian Biodiversity Hotspots, Systematic Biology, 62(3), pp. 398-410. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syt007

APA Citation style: de Bruyn, M., Rüber, L., Nylinder, S., Stelbrink, B., Lovejoy, N., Lavoue, S., Tan, H., Nugroho, E., Wowor, D., Peter, K., Azizah, M., von Rintelen, T., Hall, R., & Carvalho, G. (2013). Paleo-Drainage Basin Connectivity Predicts Evolutionary Relationships across Three Southeast Asian Biodiversity Hotspots. Systematic Biology. 62(3), 398-410. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syt007