Biogeographical evolution of the Malay Archipelago
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Biogeographical evolution of the Malay Archipelago
（Oxford monographs on biogeography, no. 4）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1987
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Based on papers presented at a sympoisum at the Third International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology held at Brighton, UK, in July 1985
Maps on lining papers
Bibliography: p. 132-145
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
During the 1980s there were significant advances in our understanding of the biogeographical history of the region between Asia and Australia. The Malay peninsula arose by mid-Tertiary collision of Gondwana and Laurasia, but evidence from the ranges of many organisms suggests that there were earlier north-south contacts. Recently discovered fragments of Gondwana embedded in South-East Asia, which have drifted north of the Australian margin, could have provided island stepping stones. Angiosperms may have evolved and diversified on such an archipelago. Present ranges reflect past climates, and periodic drier episodes have now been found back into the Tertiary period, including in Malaya. Here, twelve specialists describe both these views and the remaining problems in biogeographical reconstruction, in a collection based on a symposium from the Third International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology.
Table of Contents
- T C Whitmore: Introduction
- M G Audley-Charles: Dispersal of Gondwanaland
- Armen Takhtajan: Flowering plant origin and dispersal: the cradle of the angiosperms revisited
- Elizabeth M Truswell, A Peter Kershaw, & Ian R Sluiter: The Australian south-east Asian connection: evidence from the palaeobotanical record
- R J Morley & J R Flenley: Late Cainozoic vegetational and environmental changes in the Malay archipelago
- J Dransfield: Bicentric distribution in Malesia as exemplified by palms
- Guy G Musser: The mammals of Sulawesi
- M M J van Balfooy: A plant geographical analysis of Sulawesi
- J D Holloway: Lepidoptera patterns involving Sulawesi: what do they indicate of past geography?
- W George: Complex origins.
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