The role of Quaternary environmental change in plant macroevolution: The exception or the rule?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1442, 2004, Pages 159-172

  Willis, Katherine J ^a   Niklas, Karl J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ice Ages; Isolation; Plant macroevolution; Quaternary; Refugia; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; ISOLATED POPULATION; PALEOBOTANY; QUATERNARY; REFUGIUM; RELICT COMMUNITY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 1242321537     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1387     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (79)

1. Bennett, K. D. 1990 Milankovitch cycles and their effects on species in ecological and evolutionary time. Palaeobiology 16, 11-21.
2. Bennett, K. D. 1997 Evolution and ecology: the pace of life, 1st edn. Cambridge University Press.
3. Bennett, K. D., Tzedakis, P. C. & Willis, K. J. 1991 Quaternary refugia of North European trees. J. Biogeogr. 18, 103-115.
4. 2 over phanerozoic time. Am. J. Sci. 291, 339-375.
5. 2 and climate. Rev. Mineralogy 31, 565-583.
6. Brett, C. E., Ivany, L. C. & Schopf, K. M. 1996 Coordinated stasis: an overview. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 127, 1-20.
7. Colinvaux, P. A., De Oliveira, P. E. & Bush, M. B. 2000 Amazonian and Neotropical plant communities on glacial time-scales: the failure of the aridity and refuge hypotheses. Quatern. Sci. Rev. 19, 141-169.
8. Comes, H. P. & Kadereit, J. W. 1998 The effect of Quaternary climatic changes on plant distribution and evolution. Trends Ecol. Evol. 3, 432-438.
9. Condie, K. C. & Sloan, R. E. 1998 Origin and evolution of Earth, 1st edn. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
10. Coxon, P. & Waldren, S. 1997 Flora and vegetation of the Quaternary temperate stages of NW Europe: evidence for large-scale range changes. In Past and future rapid environmental changes: the spatial and evolutionary responses of terrestrial biota (ed. B. E. Huntley, W. Cramer, A. V. Morgan, H. C. Prentice & J. R. M. Allen), pp. 103-117. Berlin: Springer.
11. Crowley, T. J. 1998 Significance of tectonic boundary conditions for paleoclimate simulations. In Tectonic boundary conditions for climate reconstructions (ed. T. J. Crowley & K. C. Burke), pp. 3-21. Oxford University Press.
12. Crowley, T. J. & North, G. R. 1991 Paleoclimatology. Oxford University Press.
13. Crowley, T. J., Mengel, J. G. & Short, D. A. 1987 Gondwanaland's seasonal cycle. Nature 329, 803-807.
14. Davis, M. B. 1983 Quaternary history of eastern North America and Europe. Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 70, 550-563.
15. Fischer, A. G. 1984 Biological innovations and the sedimentary record. In Patterns of change in Earth evolution (ed. H. Holland & A. F. Trendall), pp. 145-157. Berlin: Springer.
16. Follieri, M., Magri, D. & Sadori, L. 1998 250 000-year pollen record from Valle di Castiglione (Roma). Pollen et Spores 30, 329-356.
17. Frakes, L. A., Francis, J. E. & Syktus, J. I. 1992 Climate modes of the Phanerozoic: the history of the Earth's climate over the past 600 million years. Cambridge University Press.
18. Frogley, M. R., Tzedakis, P. C. & Heaton, T. H. E. 1999 Climatic variability in northwest Greece during the last interglacial. Science 285, 1886-1889.
19. Graham, A. 1999 Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic history of North America vegetation. Oxford University Press.
20. Hays, J. D., Imbrie, J. & Shackleton, N. J. 1976 Variations in the Earth's orbit: pacemaker of the ice ages. Science 194, 1121-1132.
21. Herbert, T. D. & D'Hondt, S. L. 1990 Precessional climate cyclicity in Late Cretaceous-Early Tertiary marine sediments: a high resolution chronometer of Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary events. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 99, 263-275.
22. Herbert, T. D. & Fischer, A. G. 1986 Milankovitch climatic origin of Mid-Cretaceous black shale rythms in central Italy. Nature 321, 739-743.
23. Hewitt, G. M. 2000 The genetic legacy of the Quaternary Ice Ages. Nature 405, 907-913.
24. Hewitt, G. M. 2004 Genetic consequences of climatic oscillations in the Quaternary. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 359, 183-195. (DOI 10.1098/rstb.2003. 1388.)
25. Hooghiemstra, H. 1995 Environmental and paleoclimatic evolution in Late Pliocene-Quaternary Colombia. In Paleoclimate and evolution, with emphasis on human origins (ed. E. S. Vrba, G. H. Denton & T. C. Partridge), pp. 249-261. Yale University Press.
26. Huggett, R. J. 1997 Enviromental change: the evolving ecosphere, 1st edn. London: Routledge.
27. Huntley, B. E. & Birks, H. J. B. 1983 An atlas of past and present pollen maps for Europe 0-13 000 years ago. Cambridge University Press.
28. Imbrie, J. & Imbrie, K. P. 1979 Ice ages: solving the mystery. London: Macmillian.
29. Jackson, S. T. 2000 Out of the garden and into the cooler? A Quaternary perspective on deep-time paleoecology. In Phanerozoic terrestrial ecosystems, Paleontological Society papers, vol. 6 (ed. R. A. Gastaldo & W. A. DiMichele), pp. 287-308. Iowa: The Paleontological Society.
30. Jackson, S. T. & Overpeck, J. T. 2000 Responses of plant populations and communities to environmental changes of the late Quaternary. Paleobiology 26, 194-220.
31. Jackson, S. T. & Weng, C. 1999 Late Quaternary extinction of a tree species in eastern North America. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 96, 13 847-13 852.
32. Jackson, S. T., Overpeck, J. T., Webb III, T., Keattch, S. E. & Anderson, K. H. 1997 Mapped plant-macrofossil and pollen records of late Quaternary vegetation change in Eastern North America. Quatern. Sci. Rev. 16, 1-70.
33. Jackson, S. T., Webb, R. S., Andersen, K. H., Overpeck, J. T., Webb III, T., Williams, J. W. & Hansen, B. C. S. 2000 Vegetation and environment in eastern North America during the last glacial maximum. Quatern. Sci. Rev. 19, 489-508.
34. Jansen, E., Fronval, T., Rack, F. & Channell, J. E. T. 2000 Pliocene-Pleistocene ice rafting history and cyclicity in the Nordic Seas during the last 3.5 Myr. Paleoceanography 15, 709-721.
35. Kadereit, J. W., Griebeler, E. M. & Comes, H. P. 2004 Quaternary diversification in European alpine plants: pattern and process. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 359, 265-274. (DOI 10.1098/rstb.2003.1389.)
36. Lascoux, M., Palmé, A. E., Cheddadi, R. & Latta, R. G. 2004 Impact of the Ice Ages on the genetic structure of trees and shrubs. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 359, 197-207. (DOI 10.1098/rstb.2003.1390.)
37. Laskar, J., Joutel, F. & Boudin, F. 1993 Orbital, precessional and insolation quantities for the Earth from 20 Myr to 10 Myr. Astronomy and Astrophysics 270, 522-533.
38. Magri, D. 1989 Interpreting long-term exponential growth of plant populations in a 250 000-year pollen record from Valle di Castiglione (Roma). New Phytol. 112, 123-128.
39. Martin, R. E. 1998 One long experiment: scale and process in Earth history. New York: Columbia University Press.
40. Maslin, M. A., Haug, G. H., Sarnthein, M. & Tiedemann, R. 1996 The progressive intensification of northern hemisphere glaciation as seen from the North Pacific. Geol. Rundsch. 85, 452-465.
41. Miller, K. G., Fairbanks, R. G. & Mountain, G. S. 1987 Tertiary oxygen isotope synthesis, sea level history and continental margin erosion. Paleoceanography 2, 1-19.
42. Niklas, K. J. 1997 The evolutionary biology of plants. University of Chicago Press.
43. Niklas, K. J., Tiffney, B. H. & Knoll, A. H. 1983 Patterns in vascular land plant diversification. Nature 303, 614-616.
44. Okuda, M., Yasuda, Y. & Setoguchi, T. 2001 Middle to Late Pleistocene vegetation history and climatic changes at Lake Kopais, southeast Greece. Boreas 30, 73-82.
45. Peltier, W. R. 1994 Ice age paleotopography. Science 265, 195-201.
46. Petit, J. R. (and 18 others) 1999 Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420 000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica. Nature 399, 429-436.
47. Pollard, D. & Thompson, S. L. 1997 Climate and ice-sheet mass balance at the last glacial maximum from the Genesis v2 global climate model. Quatern. Sci. Rev. 16, 841-864.
48. Raven, P. H., Evert, R. F. & Eichhorn, S. E. 1992 Biology of plants, 5th edn. New York: Worth Publishers.
49. Reille, M. & de Beaulieu, J.-L. 1990 Pollen analysis of a long upper Plesitocene sequences in a Velay maar (Massif Central, France). Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 80, 35-48.
50. Reille, M. & de Beaulieu, J.-L. 1995 Long Pleistocene pollen records from the Praclaux Crater, south-central France. Quatern. Res. 44, 205-215.
51. Ruddiman, W. F. 2001 Earth's climate past and future. New York: Freeman.
52. Shackleton, N. J. & Opdyke, N. D. 1976 Oxygen-isotope and paleomagnetic stratigraphy of Pacific core V28-239 Late Pliocene to Latest Pleistocene. Geol. Soc. Am. Mem. 145, 449-464.
53. Shackleton, N. J. & Pisias, N. G. 1985 Atmospheric carbon dioxide orbital forcing and climate. Geophys. Monogr. 32, 412-417.
54. Shackleton, N. J., Berger, R. & Peltier, W. R. 1990 An alternative calibration of the lower Plesitocene timescale based on ODP Site 677. Trans. R. Soc. Edin. Earth Sci. 81, 251-261.
55. Shackleton, N. J., Hall, M. A. & Pate, D. 1995 Pliocene stable isotope stratigraphy of site 846. In Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, vol. 138 (ed. N. G. Pisias, T. R. Janecek, A. Palmer-Julson & T. H. van Andel), pp. 337-355. College Station, TX: Ocean Drilling Program.
56. Stewart, J. R. 2003 Comment on 'buffered tree population changes in a Quaternary refugium: evolutionary implications'. Science 299, 825.
57. Stewart, J. R. & Lister, A. M. 2001 Cryptic northern refugia and the origins of the modern biota. Trends Ecol. Evol. 16, 608-613.
58. Tallis, J. H. 1991 Plant community history: long-term changes in plant distribution and diversity, 1st edn. London: Chapman & Hall.
59. Tzedakis, P. C. 1993 Long-term tree populations in northwest Greece through multiple Quaternary climatic cycles. Nature 364, 437-440.
60. Tzedakis, P. C. (and 10 others) 1997 Comparison of terrestrial and marine records of changing climate of the last 500 000 years. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 150, 171-176.
61. Tzedakis, P. C., Lawson, I. T., Frogley, M. R., Hewitt, G. M. & Preece, R. C. 2002 Buffered tree population changes in a Quaternary refugium; evolutionary implications. Science 297, 2044-2047.
62. Van der Hammen, T. 1983 Paleoecology of tropical South America. In Biological diversification in the tropics (ed. G. T. Prance), pp. 60-66. New York: Columbia University Press.
63. Van der Hammen, T., Wijmstra, T. A. & Zagwijn, W. H. 1971 The floral record of the Late Cenozoic of Europe. In The Late Cenozoic glacial ages (ed. K. K. Turekian), pp. 391-422. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
64. Vrba, E. S. 1985 Environment and evolution: alternative causes of the temporal distribution of evolutionary events. S. Afr. J. Sci. 81, 229-236.
65. Vrba, E. S. 1992 Mammals as a key to evolutionary theory. J. Mammal. 73, 1-28.
66. Vrba, E. S. 1993 Turnover-pulses, the Red Queen, and related topics. Am. J. Sci. 293A, 418-452.
67. Watts, W. A. 1980 The late Quaternary vegetation history of southeastern United States. A. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 11, 387-409.
68. Watts, W. A., Allen, J. R. M. & Huntley, B. 1996 Vegetation history and palaeoclimate of the last glacial period at Lago Grande di Monticchio, southern Italy. Quatern. Sci. Rev. 15, 133-153.
69. Whitehead, D. R. 1973 Late-Wisconsin vegetational changes in unglaciated eastern North America. Quatern. Res. 3, 621-631.
70. Willis, K. J. 1996 Where did all the flowers go? The fate of temperate European flora during glacial periods. Endeavour 20, 110-114.
71. Willis, K. J. & McElwain, J. C. 2002 The evolution of plants. Oxford University Press.
72. Willis, K. J. & Van Andel, T. 2004 Trees or no trees? The full-glacial environments of central and eastern Europe. (In preparation.)
73. Willis, K. J. & Whittaker, R. 2000 The refugal debate. Science 287, 1406-1407.
74. Willis, K. J., Kleczkowski, A. & Crowhurst, S. J. 1999a 124 000-year periodicity in terrestrial vegetation change during the late Pliocene epoch. Nature 397, 685-688.
75. Willis, K. J., Kleczkowski, A., Briggs, K. M. & Gilligan, C. A. 1999b The role of sub-Milankovitch climatic forcing in the initiation of the Northern Hemisphere glaciation. Science 285, 568-571.
76. Willis, K. J., Rudner, E. & Sumegi, P. 2000 The full-glacial forests of central and southeastern Europe. Quatern. Res. 53, 203-213.
77. Willis, K. J., Kleczkowski, A., New, M. & Whittaker, R. J. 2004 Combined water-energy model best explains temporal patterns in plant biodiversity. (In preparation.)
78. Wright Jr, H. E. 1981 Vegetation east of the Rocky Mountains 18 000 years ago. Quatern. Res. 14, 2-18.
79. Zachos, J. C., Pagani, M., Sloan, L., Thomas, E. & Billups, K. 2001 Trends, rhythms, and aberrations in global climate 65 Ma to present. Science 292, 686-693.