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Determining The Drivers Of Anti-Tropical Distributions Across The Fish Tree Of Life, William Benton Ludt
Determining The Drivers Of Anti-Tropical Distributions Across The Fish Tree Of Life, William Benton Ludt
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Anti-tropical distributions are those where populations of a single species, or multiple closely related taxa, are distributed outside of, and on opposing sides of, the tropics. These latitudinally disjunct distributions have been noted for over a century. Despite this long history of interest, little has been concluded regarding the actual mechanisms that drive this pattern, with several prominent hypotheses competing with one another in the literature. Here I review the proposed drivers of anti-tropicality, and subsequently test them using fishes with a variety of life history and taxonomic differences. This includes (1) a temperately restricted family with anti-tropical distributions – …