Vicariance or long-distance dispersal: historical biogeography of the pantropical subfamily Chrysophylloideae (Sapotaceae)

0358587 - BÚ 2012 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Bartish, Igor - Antonelli, A. - Richardson, J. E. - Swenson, U.
Vicariance or long-distance dispersal: historical biogeography of the pantropical subfamily Chrysophylloideae (Sapotaceae).
Journal of Biogeography. Roč. 38, č. 1 (2011), s. 177-190. ISSN 0305-0270. E-ISSN 1365-2699
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60050516
Keywords : molecular dating * Neotropics * vicariance
Subject RIV: EF - Botanics
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The results of this paper indicate that the earliest diversification of Chrysophylloideae was in the Campanian of Africa. A narrow time interval for colonization from Africa to the Neotropics and Australasia indicates a relatively rapid radiation of this subfamily in the latest Cretaceous to the earliest Palaeocene. Long-distance dispersal between Australia and New Caledonia occurred at least four times, and between Africa and Madagascar on multiple occasions. Long-distance dispersal has been the dominant mechanism for range expansion in the subfamily Chrysophylloideae.
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