Island biogeography revisited: museomics reveals affinities of shelf island birds determined by bathymetry and paleo-rivers, not by distance to mainland

• Main Authors: Kritika M. Garg, Balaji Chattopadhyay, Emilie Cros, Suzanne Tomassi, Suzan Benedick, David P. Edwards, Frank E. Rheindt
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2022
• Subjects: QH1-(199.5) General Including nature conservation, geographical distribution
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34136/1/Island%20biogeography%20revisited%2C%20Museomics%20reveals%20affinities%20of%20shelf%20island%20birds%20determined%20by%20bathymetry%20and%20paleo-rivers%2C%20not%20by%20distance%20to%20mainland.ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34136/2/Island%20biogeography%20revisited%2C%20museomics%20reveals%20affinities%20of%20shelf%20island%20birds%20determined%20by%20bathymetry%20and%20paleo-rivers%2C%20not%20by%20distance%20to%20mainland.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34136/; https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39/1/msab340/6454101; https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msab340
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Island biogeography is one of the most powerful subdisciplines of ecology: its mathematical predictions that island size and distance to mainland determine diversity have withstood the test of time. A key question is whether these predictions follow at a population-genomic level. Using rigorous anci...