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Radiation of the Australian flora: what can comparisons of molecular phylogenies across multiple taxa tell us about the evolution of diversity in present-day communities?

  • M. CrispL. CookD. Steane
  • Environmental Science, Geography
    Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society…
  • 29 October 2004
TLDR
The Australian fossil record indicates depletion of the Australian aseasonal-wet biome from the Mid-Cenozoic, and there is need for rigorous molecular phylogenetic studies so that additional questions can be addressed, such as how interactions between biomes may have driven the speciation process during radiations.
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Biogeography of the Australian monsoon tropics

TLDR
The Australian monsoon is a component of a single global climate system, characterized by a dominant equator-spanning Hadley cell, and future palaeoecological and phylogenetic investigations will illuminate the evolution of the AMT biome.
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Phylogenetic endemism: a new approach for identifying geographical concentrations of evolutionary history

TLDR
A new, broadly applicable measure of the spatial restriction of phylogenetic diversity, termed phylogenetic endemism (PE), which builds on previous phylogenetic analyses ofendemism, but provides a more general solution for mapping endemist of lineages.
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Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale

TLDR
It is shown that biome stasis at speciation has outweighed biome shifts by more than 25:1, by inferring ancestral biomes for an ecologically diverse sample of more than 11,000 plant species from around the Southern Hemisphere.
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Decline of a biome: evolution, contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota

TLDR
The aims are to review and refine key hypotheses derived from palaeoclimatic data and the fossil record that are critical to understanding the evolution of the Australian mesic biota and examine predictions arising from these hypotheses using available molecular phylogenetic and phylogeographical data.
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Hypothesis testing in biogeography.

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Flammable biomes dominated by eucalypts originated at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary.

TLDR
It is predicted that epicormic resprouting could make eucalypt forests and woodlands an excellent long-term carbon bank for reducing atmospheric CO(2) compared with biomes with similar fire regimes in other continents.
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Cenozoic extinctions account for the low diversity of extant gymnosperms compared with angiosperms.

  • M. CrispL. Cook
  • Geography, Environmental Science
    The New phytologist
  • 1 December 2011
TLDR
Compared with angiosperms, living gymnosperm groups are not ancient, indicating that gymnosperms suffered major extinctions when climate changed in the Oligocene and Miocene and some probably survived after making adaptive shifts.
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A congruent molecular signature of vicariance across multiple plant lineages.

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Explosive Radiation or Cryptic Mass Extinction? Interpreting Signatures in Molecular Phylogenies

  • M. CrispL. Cook
  • Biology
    Evolution; international journal of organic…
  • 1 September 2009
TLDR
It is argued that an alternative process might explain apparently rapid radiations (“broom-and-handle” or “stemmy” patterns seen in many phytogenies) with no need to invoke dramatic increase in the rate of diversification.
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