Tests of hypotheses about the biogeographical consequences of long-distance dispersal
have long eluded biologists, largely because of the rarity and presumed unpredictability of …

Following several decades during which two dissimilar and incompatible models
(equilibrium and vicariance) dominated island biogeography, recent publications have …

Vicariance biogeography emerged several decades ago from the fusion of cladistics and
plate tectonics, and quickly came to dominate historical biogeography. The field has since …

Recent syntheses on the evolutionary causes of dispersal have focused on dispersal as a
direct adaptation, but many traits that influence dispersal have other functions, raising the …

Aim To discover and evaluate potential dispersal barriers across the Indo‐West Pacific
Ocean and to develop spatially explicit hypotheses regarding the location of barriers and …

Aim Twentieth century biogeographers developed intriguing hypotheses involving West
Wind Drift dispersal of Southern Hemisphere biota, but such models were largely …

In vicariance biogeography, the traditional focus on solely determining area relationships
can obscure biologically interesting complexity. Even in the case of neighboring sister areas …

Geographical distributions of terrestrial or freshwater taxa that are broken up by oceans can
be explained by either oceanic dispersal or vicariance in the form of fragmentation of a …

Species diversity gradients seen today are, to a large degree, a product of history. Spatially
nonrandom originations, extinctions, and changes in geographic distributions can create …

Recent years have witnessed growing appreciation for the ways in which human-mediated
species introductions have reshaped marine biogeography. Despite this we have yet to …