Area Cladistics

Center of origin Panbiogeography Phylogenetic biogeography Ancestral areas Cladistic biogeography... 

Recently, these techniques have been put together as area cladistics (Ebach and Humphries, 2002), which embodies the rationale of cladistic bit eography. Allopatry is the underlying theory of cladistic biogeography, congruence is the consequence, the relationships of areas equate to gec aphical proximity if one accepts that nested sets equate to areas, and sampling of different data sets gives consistent results. Anomalies due to a variety of historical... 

The use of fossil data and molecular clocks in systematics highlights the necessity to introduce the concept of time-slicing into comparative biogeography. Methods available for incorporating temporal information such as Parsimony Analysis of Endemicity (PAE), area cladistics, and Temporally Partitioned Component Analysis (TPCA), are discussed and compared to a synchronic approach. An analysis of these methods demonstrates the necessity for a synchronic approach and dispels the erroneous division between palaeo and neo biogeography. 

Page, R.D.M. (1994). Maps between trees and cladistic analysis of historical associations among genes, organisms, and areas. Systematic Biol. 43, 58—77. 

Cladistic systematics has appeared in at least two recent historical arenas numerical taxonomy and paleontology. Within each area of contention, cladistics achieved a reform — but to a degree only. Its success has been evident for a generation. 

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Bremer, K., Ancestral areas a cladistic reinterpretation of the center of origin concept, Syst. Biol., 41, 436-445, 1992. 

Enghoff, H., Historical biogeography of the holarctic area relationships, and dispersal of marine mammals, Cladistics, 11, 223-263, 1995(1996). 

Morrone, J.J. and Carpenter, J.M., In search of a method for cladistic biogeography an empirical comparison of component analysis. Brooks parsimony analysis, and three-area statements, Cladistics, 10, 99-153, 1994(1995). 

Page, R.D.M., Quantitative cladistic biogeography constructing and comparing area cladograms, Syst. ZooL, 37, 254-270, 1988(1989). 

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