COINCIDENT BIOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS: INDO-WEST PACIFIC OCEAN
- PMID: 28565426
- DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1999.tb03769.x
COINCIDENT BIOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS: INDO-WEST PACIFIC OCEAN
Abstract
The majority of tropical marine families demonstrate their greatest concentration of species within the relatively small East Indies Triangle. In every direction, the species diversity decreases with distance from the East Indies. Other patterns suggest that the East Indies is where the average generic age is youngest, where some historical routes of dispersal originate, where the most apomorphic species occur, where genetic diversity is the greatest, and where extinctions are likely to originate. These coincident patterns provide support for the hypothesis that the East Indies has been operating as a center of evolutionary radiation. The driving force for this dynamic system is apparently the predominance of successful speciation involving relatively large populations with higher genetic diversity. This mechanism fits the centrifugal speciation model that was proposed more than 50 years ago.
Keywords: Biogeographic; East Indies; centrifugal speciation; evolutionary center; marine tropics.
© 1999 The Society for the Study of Evolution.
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