Biogeography: Where do we go from here?

	Biogeography: Where do we go from here?
	Wen, Jun 1; Ree, Richard H.2; Ickert-Bond, Stefanie M.3,4; Nie, Zelong 5; Funk, Vicki 1
	2013-10-01
发表期刊	TAXON
卷号	62 期号:5 页码:912-927
摘要	Biogeography is a multidisciplinary science concerned with how and why organisms are distributed as they are on Earth. It links fields such as systematics, ecology, paleontology, and climatology, and occupies a central position in evolutionary biology, being fundamental to the study of processes such as speciation and adaptive radiation. Here we provide a brief overview of some particularly dynamic areas of inquiry and offer some perspectives on future directions for the field. We hope that some historical debates, such as those over the importance of dispersal, or the validity of molecular dating, are finally being put to rest. Over the last decade, biogeography has become increasingly integrative, and has benefited from advances in statistical methods for inferring geographic range dynamics in a phylogenetic context, molecular estimation of lineage divergence times, and modeling lineage birth and death. These are enabling greater insights into patterns of organismal diversification in time and space. In the next decade, analytical challenges are emerging on several fronts. For example, phylogenies are increasing in size and taxonomic breadth and new sequencing technologies enabling phylogenetic and phylogeographic datasets are increasingly genomic in depth. In addition, geographic occurrence data are accumulating in online repositories, yet tools for data mining and synthetic analysis are lacking for comparative multi-lineage studies. Biogeography is thus entering an era characterized by phylogenomic datasets, increasingly comprehensive sampling of clades, and interdisciplinary synthesis. We anticipate continued progress in our understanding of biodiversity patterns at regional and global scales, but this will likely require greater collaboration with specialists in bioinformatics and computational science. Finally, it is clear that biogeography has an increasingly important role to play in the discovery and conservation of biodiversity. Lessons learned from biogeographic studies of islands are being applied to better understand extinction dynamics as continental ecosystems become more fragmented, and phylogeography and ecological niche modeling offer innovative paths toward the discovery of previously unknown species distributions and priority areas for conservation. The future of biogeography is bright and filled with exciting challenges and opportunities.
关键词	Biogeography Biogeography Data Portal Historical Biogeography Parametric Models Phylogenomics Phylogeography
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000335124400005
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/19224
专题	中国科学院东亚植物多样性与生物地理学重点实验室
作者单位	1.Smithsonian Inst, Natl Museum Nat Hist, Dept Bot, Washington, DC 20013 USA 2.Field Museum Nat Hist, Dept Bot, Chicago, IL 60605 USA 3.Univ Alaska Fairbanks, UA Museum North Herbarium, Fairbanks, AK 99775 USA 4.Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Dept Biol & Wildlife, Fairbanks, AK 99775 USA 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Bot, Key Lab Biodivers & Biogeog, Kunming 650204, Yunnan, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wen, Jun,Ree, Richard H.,Ickert-Bond, Stefanie M.,et al. Biogeography: Where do we go from here?[J]. TAXON,2013,62(5):912-927.
APA	Wen, Jun,Ree, Richard H.,Ickert-Bond, Stefanie M.,Nie, Zelong,&Funk, Vicki.(2013).Biogeography: Where do we go from here?.TAXON,62(5),912-927.
MLA	Wen, Jun,et al."Biogeography: Where do we go from here?".TAXON 62.5(2013):912-927.

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