Working Group
We propose to convene a Working Group, Developing an Integrative Algorithmic Method for Historical Biogeography. Our goal is to create an integrative search algorithm to reconstruct historical geographic patterns that are evidenced in the relationships of extant and extinct species. The resulting algorithm(s) and their implementation will contend with events that are hypothesized to affect whole biotas, such as the cleavage of areas (vicariance), area-fusions/reticulations, but also the recognition and evaluation of idiosyncratic events including long-distance dispersal, failure to differentiate, sympatric speciation and extinction. These event-based estimates also will incorporate estimates of the ages of taxic divergences, geological/ecological vicariance events, and other phenomena of Earth History, all with appropriate sensitivity to the degree of underlying corroboration that may or may not exist for the relevant input data.
Developing an integrative algorithmic method for historical biogeography
| PI(s): | Mark Siddall Joel Cracraft (American Museum of Natural History) |
| Start Date: | 1-Sep-2006 |
| End Date: | 31-Aug-2008 |
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We propose to convene a Working Group, Developing an Integrative Algorithmic Method for Historical Biogeography. Our goal is to create an integrative search algorithm to reconstruct historical geographic patterns that are evidenced in the relationships of extant and extinct species. The resulting algorithm(s) and their implementation will contend with events that are hypothesized to affect whole biotas, such as the cleavage of areas (vicariance), area-fusions/reticulations, but also the recognition and evaluation of idiosyncratic events including long-distance dispersal, failure to differentiate, sympatric speciation and extinction. These event-based estimates also will incorporate estimates of the ages of taxic divergences, geological/ecological vicariance events, and other phenomena of Earth History, all with appropriate sensitivity to the degree of underlying corroboration that may or may not exist for the relevant input data.
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Publications- Prospects and challenges for parametric models in historical biogeographical inference Ree, R.H., and I. Sanmartin (2009). Guest Editorial: Prospects and challenges for parametric models in historical biogeographical inference. Journal of Biogeography 36(7): 1211-1220.
- Inferring dispersal: a Bayesian approach to phylogeny-based island biogeography, with special reference to the Canary Islands Sanmartin, I., P. van der Mark, and F. Ronquist (2008). Inferring dispersal: a Bayesian approach to phylogeny-based island biogeography, with special reference to the Canary Islands. Journal of Biogeography 35: 428-449.
- Accounting for Phylogenetic Uncertainty in Biogeography: A Bayesian Approach to Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis of the Thrushes (Aves: Turdus) Nylander, J.A.A., U. Olsson, P. Alstr�m, and I. Sanmartin (2008). Accounting for phylogenetic uncertainty in biogeography: A bayesian approach to dispersal-vicariance analysis of the thrushes (Aves: turdus). Systematic Biology 57: 257-268.
- Tracing the impact of the Andean uplift on Neotropical plant evolution: evidence from the coffee family Antonelli, A., J. A. A. Nylander, C. Persson, and I. Sanmartin (2009). Tracing the impact of the Andean uplift on Neotropical plant evolution: evidence from the coffee family. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(24): 9749-9754.
