Academic Journal

Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Validating marine Devonian biogeography: a study in bioregionalization
المؤلفون: Dowding, Elizabeth M., Ebach, Malte C., Mavrodiev, Evgeny V.
المساهمون: Sevastopulo, George, Norges Forskningsråd
المصدر: Palaeontology ; volume 65, issue 1 ; ISSN 0031-0239 1475-4983
بيانات النشر: Wiley
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Wiley Online Library (Open Access Articles via Crossref)
الوصف: The Devonian record presents an opportunity to test and validate an existing marine bioregionalization. This study is the first to use comparative biogeography and phylogenetic data to test Devonian bioregionalization. Proposed in the 1960s, the Old World, Eastern Americas and Malvinokaffric realms have been the functional standard for marine Devonian biogeography. Data from 32 published phylogenies of Devonian marine taxa, and a database of c . 800 occurrences were analysed using phylogenetic software to test for area monophyly. The taxic occurrences in our database were then tested against total fauna Devonian occurrences in the Paleobiology Database ( https://paleobiodb.org ) to identify differences in sampling. Results indicate that the current Devonian bioregionalization is not representative of natural areas and requires revision. The results highlight areas that are most robust from which the study makes recommendations to improve the process and diagnosis of Devonian biogeographical areas. We found that legacy issues within palaeontology are evident within the results and their interpretation. The validation of bioregionalization and process is critical to the advancement of biogeography and palaeontology. The sensitivity of bioregionalization shows biotic and geographical relationships, how life and earth evolved together, and how geographical bias is evident in scientific process.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12578
الاتاحة: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala.12578
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/pala.12578
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/pala.12578
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.E002DDD
قاعدة البيانات: BASE