READING ASSIGNMENTS
Biogeography, etc., Fall 2018
Assignments
here will be (mostly)
from the primary research literature; if that's a new undertaking for
you, take a look at these
notes for guidelines on how to approach these papers (and
avoid
panic). We will discuss each of these in class, and you're all
responsible for being ready to participate in that discussion. Here's
the general framework:
-
I will call
on a couple of you to give a brief summary of the primary
research question or hypothesis driving this work; the first
victim will give it their best shot; the second will have a chance to
elaborate on or add to the first statement.
-
I will call
on a couple of you, in similar format, to give a brief
summary of
the general logical approach (NOT a detailed, blow-by-blow, review of
methods).
-
Then, 'questions of
fact' opportunity: you're ALL responsible for asking questions about
particulars that weren't clear to you!
-
I'll call
on one or two of you to review researchers' findings (again, BRIEFLY),
and to
discuss authors' presentation of where things stand following their
study and what needs to be done next, what
new/next questions or hypotheses arise.
-
Finally, general
question/discussion – more 'conceptual' with focus on new hypotheses,
open questions, research possibilities, etc.. I will certainly call on
one or more of you here, too.
This all means,
of course, that
ALL of you must come to class prepared! After the first reading
(which will be only 'semi-random' in selection of victims), you're
all equally vulnerable. SO TAKE NOTES ALONG LINES OF THESE QUESTIONS,
and bring them with you.
FOR :
* Thursday, 13 Sept.: Lomolino,
M. V. 2005. Body size evolution in insular vertebrates: generality of
the island rule. Journal of Biogeography 32:1683–1699.
* Monday, 17 Sept: Naka,
L. N., and R. T. Brumfield. 2018. The dual role of Amazonian rivers in
the generation and maintenance of avian diversity. Science Advances
4:eaar8575.
AS AN EXERCISE,
for each reading, choose at least one of the papers cited (maybe
concerning some background point or claim you think particularly
important or interesting); track it down, see if it looks
like it was cited appropriately (i.e., does it actually support
citation in 'focal' article as implied?), see if anything else grabs
you... You don't need to read
it in detail to do this -- a scan with closer reading of relevant
passages/graphs....
POSSIBILITIES
- Itescu,
Y., R. Schwarz, C. M. Donihue, A. Slavenko, S. A. Roussos, K. Sagonas,
E. D. Valakos, J. Foufopoulos, P. Pafilis, and S. Meiri. 2018.
Inconsistent patterns of body size evolution in co-occurring island
reptiles. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27:538–550.
- Vavrek, M. J. 2016. The fragmentation of Pangaea and Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate biodiversity. Biology Letters 12.
- Pedersen, M. W., et al.. 2016. Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor. Nature 537:45–49.
- Heintzman,
P. D., et al.. 2016. Bison phylogeography constrains dispersal and
viability of the Ice Free Corridor in western Canada. Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences 113:8057–8063.
- Raghavan,
M., and many others. 2015. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and
recent population history of Native Americans. Science (New York, N.Y.)
349:aab3884.
- Christman
et al. 2015. Predicting the Occurrence of Cave-Inhabiting Fauna
Based on Features of the Earth Surface Environment. PLOS-One
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160408
- Ortiz-Barrientos et al. 2016. Recombination rate evolution and the origin of species. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
- Churchill
et al. 2014. Cope's rule and the evolution of body size in
Pinnipedimorpha (Mammalia: Carnivora). Evolution, DOI: 10.1111/evo.12560
- Llamas,
B. et al. 2016. Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution time
scale of the peopling of the Americas. Science Advances 2:e1501385
- Skoglund, P., et al. 2015. Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas. Nature 525:104–108.
- Amorim,
C. E. G., K. Nunes, D. Meyer, D. Comas, M. C. Bortolini, F. M. Salzano,
and T. Hünemeier. 2017. Genetic signature of natural selection in first
Americans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
114:2195–2199.
- Nielsen,
R., J. M. Akey, M. Jakobsson, J. K. Pritchard, S. Tishkoff, and E.
Willerslev. 2017. Tracing the peopling of the world through genomics.
Nature 541:302–310.
- Itescu,
Y., R. Schwarz, C. M. Donihue, A. Slavenko, S. A. Roussos, K. Sagonas,
E. D. Valakos, J. Foufopoulos, P. Pafilis, and S. Meiri. 2018.
Inconsistent patterns of body size evolution in co-occurring island
reptiles. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27:538–550.
- Csiki-Sava,
Z., E. Buffetaut, A. Ősi, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, and S. L. Brusatte.
2015. Island life in the Cretaceous - faunal composition, biogeography,
evolution, and extinction of land-living vertebrates on the Late
Cretaceous European archipelago. ZooKeys:1–161.
- van
der Geer, A. A. E., M. V. Lomolino, and G. A. Lyras. 2017. ‘Island
Life’ before man: biogeography of palaeo-insular mammals. Journal of
Biogeography 44:995–1006.
- Glassman,
S. I., K. C. Lubetkin, J. A. Chung, and T. D. Bruns. 2017. The theory
of island biogeography applies to ectomycorrhizal fungi in subalpine
tree “islands” at a fine scale. Ecosphere 8:e01677.
- Jean,
K., W. R. Burnside, L. Carlson, K. Smith, and J.-F. Guégan. 2016. An
equilibrium theory signature in the island biogeography of human
parasites and pathogens. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25:107–116.
- MacLeod,
A., A. Rodríguez, M. Vences, P. Orozco-terWengel, C. García, F.
Trillmich, G. Gentile, A. Caccone, G. Quezada, and S. Steinfartz. 2015.
Hybridization masks speciation in the evolutionary history of the
Galápagos marine iguana. Proc. R. Soc. B 282:20150425.
- Lamichhaney,
S., F. Han, M. T. Webster, L. Andersson, B. R. Grant, and P. R. Grant.
2018. Rapid hybrid speciation in Darwin’s finches. Science 359:224–228.
- Churchill
et al. 2014. Cope's rule and the evolution of body size in
Pinnipedimorpha (Mammalia: Carnivora). Evolution, DOI: 10.1111/evo.12560