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T1 Towards a glacial-sensitive model of island biogeography
A1 Fernández-Palacios, José María
A1 Rijsdijk, Kenneth F.
A1 Norder, Sietze J.
A1 Otto, Rüdiger
A1 Nascimento Reyes, Lea de
A1 Fernández-Lugo, Silvia
A1 Tjørve, Even
A1 Whittaker, Robert J.
K1 Climate change
K1 Extinction
K1 Immigration
K1 Island biogeography
K1 Island theory
K1 Oceanic islands
K1 Pleistocene
K1 Sea level fluctuations
K1 Species richness
AB Although the role that Pleistocene glacial cycles have played in shaping the present biota of oceanic islands world-wide has long been recognized, their geographical, biogeographical and ecological implications have not yet been fully incorporated within existing biogeographical models. Here we summarize the different types of impacts that glacial cycles may have had on oceanic islands, including cyclic changes in climate, shifts in marine currents and wind regimes and, especially, cycles of sea level change. The latter have affected geographical parameters such asisland area, isolation and elevation. They have also influenced the configurations of archipelagos via island fusion and fission, and cycles of seamount emergence and submergence. We hypothesize that these sea level cycles have had significant impacts on the biogeographical processes shaping oceanic island biotas, influencing the rates and patterns of immigration and extinction and hence species richness. Here we provide a first step toward the development of a glacial-sensitive model of island biogeography, representing the tentative temporal evolution of those biogeographical parameters during the last glacial cycle. From this reasoning we attempt to derive predictions regarding the imprint of sea level cycles on genetic, demographic or biogeographical patterns within remote island biotas.
PB Wiley
SN 1466-822X
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/16760
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/16760
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 26-dic-2024