Faunal and Floral Migration and Evolution in SE Asia-Australasia

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CRC Press, 2001 M06 1 - 482 páginas
This multidisciplinary book focuses on the relationships and interactions between palaeobiogeography, biogeography, dispersal, vicariance, migrations and evolution of organisms in the SE Asia-Australasian region. The book investigates biogeographic links between SE Asia and Australasia which go back more than 500 million years. It also focuses on the links between geological evolution and biological migrations and evolution in the region. It was in the SE Asian region that Alfred Russell Wallace established his biogeographic line, now known as Wallace's Line, which was the beginning of biogeography. Wallace also independently developed his theory of evolution based on his work in this area.;The book brings together, for the first time, geologists, palaeontologists, zoologists, botanists, entomologists, evolutionary biologists and archaeologists, in the one volume, to relate the region's geological past to its present biological peculiarities. The book is organized into six sections. Section 1 Paleobiogeographic Background provides overviews of the geological and tectonic evolution of SE Asia-Australasia, and changing patterns of land and sea for the last 540 million years. Section 2 Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Geology and Biogeography discusses Palaeozoic and Mesozoic biogeography of conodonts, brachiopods, plants, dinosaurs and radiolarians and the recognition of ancient biogeographic boundaries or Wallace Lines in the region. Section 3 Wallace's Line focuses on the biogeographic boundary established by Wallace, including the history of its establishment, its significance to biogeography in general and its applicability in the context of modern biogeography.;Section 4 Plant biogeography and evolution includes discussion on primitive angiosperms, the diaspora of the southern rushes, and environmental, climatic and evolutionary implications of plants and palynomorphs in the region. The biogeography and migration of insects, butterflies, birds, rodents and other non-primate mammals is discussed in section 5, Non Primates. The final section 6 Primates focuses on the biogeographic radiation, migration and evolution of primates and includes papers on the occurrence and migration of early hominids and the requirements for human colonization of Australia.

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Preface
9
changing patterns
35
Cambrian to Permian conodont biogeography in East AsiaAustralasia
59
Palaeobiogeography of Australasian
73
A biogeographic comparison of the dinosaurs and associated vertebrate
97
A reanalysis of Wallaces bird collections
113
Faunal exchange between Asia and Australia in the Tertiary as evidenced
133
Why does the distribution of the Honeyeaters Meliphagidae conform
147
Vegetation and climate in lowland Southeast Asia at the Last Glacial
227
Evolutionary history of Alectryon in Australia
243
Australasian distributions in Trichoptera Insecta a frequent pattern
255
faunistic patterns and explanatory hypotheses
269
Dispersal versus vicariance artifice rather than contest
311
where did they come from and when and what
333
Borneo as a biogeographic barrier to AsianAustralasian migration
365
Early hominid occupation of Flores East Indonesia and its wider
387

the distribution of staghorn corals
171
Why are there so many Primitive Angiosperms in the Rain Forests
185
evidence for palaeo
201
The requirements for human colonisation of Australia
399
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