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- Title
Distribution modelling and statistical phylogeography: an integrative framework for generating and testing alternative biogeographical hypotheses.
- Authors
Richards, Corinne L.; Carstens, Bryan C.; Lacey Knowles, L.
- Abstract
Statistical phylogeographic studies contribute to our understanding of the factors that influence population divergence and speciation, and that ultimately generate biogeographical patterns. The use of coalescent modelling for analyses of genetic data provides a framework for statistically testing alternative hypotheses about the timing and pattern of divergence. However, the extent to which such approaches contribute to our understanding of biogeography depends on how well the alternative hypotheses chosen capture relevant aspects of species histories. New modelling techniques, which explicitly incorporate spatio-geographic data external to the gene trees themselves, provide a means for generating realistic phylogeographic hypotheses, even for taxa without a detailed fossil record. Here we illustrate how two such techniques – species distribution modelling and its historical extension, palaeodistribution modelling – in conjunction with coalescent simulations can be used to generate and test alternative hypotheses. In doing so, we highlight a few key studies that have creatively integrated both historical geographic and genetic data and argue for the wider incorporation of such explicit integrations in biogeographical studies.
- Subjects
PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; CLIMATE &; biogeography; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; SPECIES distribution; BIOLOGICAL divergence; DISTRIBUTION modulo one; SPECIES; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory); MATHEMATICAL statistics; STATISTICAL significance
- Publication
Journal of Biogeography, 2007, Vol 34, Issue 11, p1833
- ISSN
0305-0270
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01814.x