Cold war in the tropics
Christophe Vieira
Broschiertes Buch

Cold war in the tropics

Diversity, evolution, biogeography and ecology of a tropical brown algal genus

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This doctoral study sheds new taxonomic and ecological insights on a prominent brown marine algal group in tropical reefs. Using a DNA-based taxonomic approach Christophe Vieira reassessed the species diversity of the genus Lobophora in New Caledonia and globally. He disclosed a striking, hitherto unknown, global diversity; provided the first comprehensive tree of life for this group, and exposed the global geographical patterns of species diversity. Evolutionary analyses revealed that this group originated within the Central Indo-Pacific during the Upper Cretaceous, and diversified within the...