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Taxonomy, biogeography and evolution of plants
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Biogeographic relationships between Macaronesia and the Americas

John R. Grehan
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Research Associate, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Email: calabar.john@gmail.com

Australian Systematic Botany 29(6) 447-472 https://doi.org/10.1071/SB16051
Submitted: 17 November 2016  Accepted: 2 March 2017   Published: 11 May 2017

Abstract

A vicariance model is presented for the origin of Macaronesian endemics and their allopatric American relatives. Trans-Atlantic relationships are identified for 21 taxa in which an endemic Macaronesian clade either has a sister group in the New World or is part of a larger monophyletic group that includes representatives in the New World. Historical implications of this pattern are discussed in relation to current tectonic and geological models for the Central Atlantic and the Macaronesian Islands. The proposed vicariance model identifies a local origin for the Macaronesian endemics from ancestral distributions that already encompassed ancestral Macaronesia and parts of the New and Old World before formation of the Atlantic. The present-day existence of Macaronesian endemics is attributed to sequential colonisation of newly formed islands within the Atlantic from Mesozoic time.

Additional keywords: allopatry, dispersal, divergence, differentiation, evolution, geology, panbiogeography, tectonics, island biogeography, oceanic island, vicariance.


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