Species delimitation, phylogenomics, and biogeography of Sulawesi flying lizards: a diversification history complicated by ancient hybridization, cryptic species, and …

JA Mcguire, X Huang, SB Reilly, DT Iskandar… - Systematic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The biota of Sulawesi is noted for its high degree of endemism and for its substantial levels
of in situ biological diversification. While the island's long period of isolation and dynamic …

Genetic variation and relationships among Afrotropical species of Myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)

BD Patterson, PW Webala… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The genus Myotis is nearly cosmopolitan and the second-most speciose genus of mammals,
but its Afrotropical members are few and poorly known. We analyzed phylogenetic and …

Floristics of forests across low nutrient soils in Sulawesi, Indonesia

LA Trethowan, WL Eiserhardt, D Girmansyah… - Biotropica, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The island of Sulawesi formed from the joining of proto‐islands roughly three million years
ago. Regions of zoological endemism, corresponding to the proto‐islands, have been …

Environmental stress influences Malesian Lamiaceae distributions

LA Trethowan, C Arvidsson… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dual effects of spatial distance and environment shape archipelagic floras. In Malesia, there
are multiple environmental stressors associated with increasing uplands, drought, and metal …

Little genetic structure in a Bornean endemic small mammal across a steep ecological gradient

LD Parker, MTR Hawkins… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Janzen's influential “mountain passes are higher in the tropics” hypothesis predicts restricted
gene flow and genetic isolation among populations spanning elevational gradients in the …

Fourteen new, endemic species of shrew (genus Crocidura) from Sulawesi reveal a spectacular island radiation

JA Esselstyn, AS Achmadi, H Handika… - Bulletin of the American …, 2021 - BioOne
After nearly a decade of field inventories in which we preserved voucher specimens of the
small terrestrial mammals of Sulawesi, we combined qualitative and quantitative analyses of …

Climatic dissimilarity associated with phylogenetic breaks

L Cab-Sulub, ST Álvarez-Castañeda - Journal of Mammalogy, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Shared phylogenetic breaks often are associated with clear geographic barriers but some
common phylogeographic breaks may lack obvious underlying mechanisms. A phylogenetic …

Could the environment limit dispersal between Sunda and Sahul?

LA Trethowan - Journal of Vegetation Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dispersal limitation is cited as the driver of biogeography in archipelagic southeast Asia.
Could environmental filtering play an equally important role? From west to east across the …

Genetic isolation between conspecific populations and their relationship to climate heterogeneity

L Cab-Sulub, ST Álvarez-Castañeda - Acta Oecologica, 2022 - Elsevier
The distribution of populations across the geographic range of a species is the result of
historical processes. Differences in ecological niche can play a central role in the isolation …

A new climbing shrew from Sulawesi highlights the tangled taxonomy of an endemic radiation

JA Esselstyn, AS Achmadi, H Handika… - Journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We describe a new species of Crocidura (Soricidae) from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia,
documenting its novelty with both genetic and morphological characters. The new species is …