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New Guinea: A Correlation between Accreting Areas and Dispersing Sapindaceae
Author(s) -
Welzen Peter C.,
Turner Hubert,
Roos Marco C.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
cladistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.323
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1096-0031
pISSN - 0748-3007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2001.tb00120.x
Subject(s) - cladogram , cladistics , sapindaceae , terrane , taxon , biology , biogeography , sequence (biology) , accretion (finance) , new guinea , evolutionary biology , zoology , paleontology , phylogenetic tree , ecology , astrophysics , physics , genetics , ethnology , history , tectonics , gene
A correlation between accreting (hybridizing) areas and dispersing taxa (several genera of Southeast Asian/Australian Sapindaceae) is theoretically impossible in cladistic biogeography. However, in particular circumstances (primitive absence followed by colonization and speciation) cladistic methods can reconstruct (part of) the historical sequence of accretion. In this example, the phases in the accretion history of more than 30 terranes of the northern half of New Guinea correspond reasonably well with the generalized area cladogram of the Sapindaceae.