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Figure 4.37
(a-c) Maps of southern South America with distributions of hypothet-
ical species 34-41; (d) map of southern South America to represent the areas of
endemism obtained.
SanmartĂn, I. 2003. Dispersal vs. vicariance in the Mediterranean: Historical
biogeography of the Palearctic Pachydeminae (Coleoptera, Scara-
baeoidea).
Journal of Biogeography
30:1883-1897.
Swenson, U. and K. Bremer. 1996. Pacific biogeography of the Asteraceae
genus
Abrotanella
(Senecioneae, Blemnospermatinae).
Systematic
Botany
22:493-508.
2. Read the following article on the biogeography of the Amazonian rain forest.
What weaknesses can you identify in the arguments presented? What altern-
ative methods or additional data would you use?
Ron, S. R. 2000. Biogeographic area relationships of lowland Neotropical
rainforest based on raw distributions of vertebrate groups.
Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society
71:379-402.
3. List similarities and differences between the following pairs of concepts:
a. Area of distribution and individual track.
b. Area of endemism and generalized track.
c. Area of endemism and node.
4. Carefully read the following article:
Heads, M. J. 2004. What is a node?
Journal of Biogeography
31:1883-1891.
a. Identify and extract the main ideas.
b. Transform each main idea into a question.
5. Carefully read the following articles:
Brooks, D. R. and M. G. P. Van Veller. 2003. Critique of parsimony analysis
of endemicity as a method of historical biogeography.
Journal of Biogeo-
graphy
30:819-825.
Nihei, S. S. 2006. Misconceptions about parsimony analysis of endemicity.
Journal of Biogeography
33:2099-2106.
Santos, C. M. D. 2005. Parsimony analysis of endemicity: Time for an epi-
taph?
Journal of Biogeography
32:1284-1286.
a. Establish the arguments favoring PAE and those criticizing it.
b. What are your conclusions?