Review. Biogeography of the fauna of French Polynesia: Diversification within and between a series of hot spot archipelagos

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1508, 2008, Pages 3335-3346

  Gillespie, Rosemary G ^a   Claridge, Elin M ^a   Goodacre, Sara L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Austral Islands; Dispersal; Marquesas Islands; Society Islands; Tahiti

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ARCHIPELAGO; BEETLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; FLY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT;

AUSTRAL ISLANDS; FRENCH POLYNESIA; MARQUESAS ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; POLYNESIA; SOCIETY ISLANDS; TAHITI; WINDWARD ISLANDS [SOCIETY ISLANDS];

ARTHROPODA; AVES; CURCULIONIDAE; GASTROPODA; RHYNCOGONUS;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYNESIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLYNESIA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 51849131616     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0124     Document Type: Review

References (86)

1. Adamson, A. M. 1936 Marquesan insects: environment. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 139, 1-73.
2. Adamson, A. M. 1939 Review of the fauna of the Marquesas Islands and discussion of its origin. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 159, 1-93.
3. Arnedo, M. A. & Gillespie, R. G. 2006 Species diversification patterns in the Polynesian jumping spider genus Havaika Proszynski 2001 (Araneae, Salticidae). Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 41, 472-495. (doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.012)
4. Austin, C. C. 1999 Lizards took express train to Polynesia. Nature 397, 113-114. (doi:10.1038/16365)
5. Beadell, J. S. et al. 2006 Global phylogeographic limits of Hawaii's avian malaria. Proc. R. Soc. B 273, 2935-2944. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.3671)
6. Berland, L. 1942 Polynesian spiders. Occas. Pap. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 17, 1-24.
7. Bonneville, A., LeSuave, R., Audin, L., Clouard, V., Dosso, L., Gillot, P., Janney, P., Jordahl, K. & Maamaatuaiahutapu, K. 2002 Arago Seamount: the missing hotspot found in the Austral Islands. Geology 30, 1023-1026. (doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030〈1023:ASTMHF〉2.0.CO;2)
8. Burch, J. B. 2007 A new species of land snail (Stylommatophora, Partulidae) from Raiatea, French Polynesia, Oceania. Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan 740, 1-8.
9. Campbell, D. H. 1933 The flora of the Hawaiian Islands. Quart. Rev. Biol. 8, 164-184. (doi:10.1086/394432)
10. Cibois, A., Thibault, J.-C. & Pasquet, E. 2004 Biogeography of eastern Polynesian monarchs (Pomarea): an endemic genus close to extinction. Condor 106, 837-851. (doi:10.1650/7491)
11. Cibois, A., Thibault, J. C. & Pasquet, E. 2007 Uniform phenotype conceals double colonization by reed-warblers of a remote Pacific archipelago. J. Biogeogr. 34, 1150-1166. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01703.x)
12. Claridge, E. M. 2006 The Systematics and diversification of Rhyncogonus (Entiminae: Curculionidae: Coleoptera) in the central Pacific. PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley.
13. Claridge, E. M., Garb, J. E., Gillespie, R. G. & Percy, D. M. In press. Insects and spiders of the Austral Islands. In The terrestrial biodiversity of the Austral Islands (French Polynesia) (eds J.-Y. Meyer, P. Bouchet & A. Allison). Paris & Honolulu: Service des Publications du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.
14. Claridge, E. M., Gillespie, R. G. & Roderick, G. K. Submitted. Repeated radiation: diversification of South Pacific weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae: Rhyncogonus).
15. Clarke, J. F. G. 1971 The Lepidoptera of Rapa Island. Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 56, 1-282.
16. Clarke, B. & Murray, J. 1969 Ecological genetics and speciation in land snails of the genus Partula. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 1, 31-42. (doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1969.tb01810.x)
17. Clarke, B., Murray, J. & Johnson, M. S. 1984 The extinction of endemic species by a programme of biological control. Pac. Sci. 38, 97-104.
18. Clouard, V. & Bonneville, A. 2005 Ages of seamounts, islands, and plateaus on the Pacific plate. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 388, 71-90.
19. Coote, T. & Loève, E. 2003 From 61 species to five: endemic tree snails of the Society Islands fall prey to an ill-judged biological control programme. Oryx 37, 91-96. (doi:10.1017/S0030605303000176)
20. Cowie, R. H. 1992 Evolution and extinction of Partulidae, endemic Pacific Island land snails. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 335, 167-191. (doi:10.1098/rstb.1992.0017)
21. Craig, D. A. 2003 Geomorphology, development of running water habitats, and evolution of black flies on Polynesian islands. BioScience 53, 1079-1093. (doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[1079:GDORWH]2.0.CO;2)
22. Craig, D. A., Currie, D. C. & Joy, D. A. 2001 Geographical history of the central-western Pacific black fly subgenus Inseliellum (Diptera: Simuliidae: Simulium) based on a reconstructed phylogeny of the species, hot spot archipelagoes and hydrogeological considerations. J. Biogeogr. 28, 1101-1127. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2001.00619.x)
23. Crampton, H. E. 1925 Studies on the variation, distribution and evolution of the genus Partula. The species of the Mariana Islands, Guam and Saipan. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. 228A, 1-116.
24. Crampton, H. E. 1932 Studies on the variation, distribution, and evolution of the genus Partula. The species inhabiting Moorea. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. 410, 1-335.
25. Cuenoud, P., Del Pero Martinez, M. A., Loizeau, P.-A., Spichiger, R., Andrews, S. & Manen, J.-F. 2000 Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Ilex L. (Aquifoliaceae). Ann. Bot. 85, 111-122. (doi:10.1006/anbo.1999.1003)
26. Darwin, C. 1859 The Origin of species by means of natural selection. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Classics.
27. Dickinson, W. R. 1998 Geomorphology and geodynamics of the Cook-Austral Island seamount chain in the South Pacific Ocean: implications for hotspots and plumes. Int. Geol. Rev. 40, 1039-1075.
28. Diment, J. A., Humphries, C. J., Newington, L. & Shaughnessy, E. 1984 Catalogue of the natural history drawings commissioned by Joseph Banks on the Endeavour voyage 1768-1771 held in the British Museum (Natural History). Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. 11, 1-183.
29. Eggens, F., Popp, M., Nepokroeff, M., Wagner, W. L. & Oxelman, B. 2007 The origin and number of introductions of the Hawaiian endemic Silene species (Caryophyllaceae). Am. J. Bot. 94, 210-218. (doi:10.3732/ajb.94.2.210)
30. Fisher, R. N. 1997 Dispersal and evolution of the Pacific basin gekkonid lizards Gehyra oceanica and Gehyra mutilata. Evolution 51, 906-921. (doi:10.2307/2411165)
31. Florence, J. 1993 La végétation de quelques îles de Polynésie française. In Atlas de la Polynésie Française (ed. ORSTOM), pp. 54-55. Paris, France: ORSTOM.
32. Ganders, F. R., Berbee, M. & Pirseyedi, M. 2000 ITS base sequence phylogeny in Bidens (Asteraceae): evidence for the continental relatives of Hawaiian and Marquesan Bidens. Syst. Bot. 25, 122-133. (doi:10.2307/2666678)
33. Garb, J. E. & Gillespie, R. G. 2006 Island hopping across the central Pacific: mitochondrial DNA detects sequential colonization of the Austral Islands by crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae). J. Biogeogr. 33, 201-220. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01398.x)
34. Gemmill, C. E. C., Allan, G. J., Wagner, W. L. & Zimmer, E. A. 2001 Evolution of insular Pacific Pittosporum (Pittosporaceae): origin of the Hawaiian radiation. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 22, 31-42. (doi:10.1006/mpev.2001.1019)
35. Gillespie, R. G. 2002 Colonization of remote oceanic islands of the Pacific: archipelagos as stepping stones? J. Biogeogr. 29, 655-662. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2002.00714.x)
36. Gillespie, R. G. 2003a Marquesan spiders of the genus Tetragnatha. J. Arachnol. 31, 62-77. (doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2003) 031[0062:MSOTGT]2.0.CO;2)
37. Gillespie, R. G. 2003b Spiders of the genus Tetragnatha in the Society Islands. J. Arachnol. 31, 157-172. (doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2003)031[0157:SOTGTA]2.0.CO;2)
38. Gillespie, R. G. & Roderick, G. K. 2002 Arthropods on islands: evolution and conservation. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 47, 595-632. (doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.47.091201.145244)
39. Gillespie, R. G., Claridge, E. M. & Roderick, G. K. 2008 Biodiversity dynamics in isolated island communities: interaction between natural and human-mediated processes. Mol. Ecol. 17, 45-57. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-294x.2007.03466.x)
40. Goodacre, S. L. 2002 Population structure, history and gene flow in a group of closely-related land snails: genetic variation in Partula from the Society Islands of the Pacific. Mol. Ecol. 11, 55-68. (doi:10.1046/j.0962-1083.2001.01422.x)
41. Goodacre, S. L. & Wade, C. M. 2001 Molecular evolutionary relationships between partulid land snails of the Pacific. Proc. R. Soc. B 268, 1-7. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2000.1322)
42. Grandgirard, J., Hoddle, M. S., Roderick, G. K., Petit, J. N., Percy, D., Putoa, R., Garnier, C. & Davies, N. 2006 Invasion of French Polynesia by the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca coagulata (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae): a new threat to the South Pacific. Pac. Sci. 60, 429-438. (doi:10.1353/psc.2006.0028)
43. Gregory, H. E. 1928 Types of Pacific islands. Proc. Third Pan-Pac. Sci. Congr. 2, 1662.
44. Guillaumin, A. 1928 Les regions floristiques du Pacifique d'apres leur endemisme et la repartition de quelques plantes phanerogames. Proc. Third Pan-Pac. Sci. Congr. 1, 920-928.
45. Guillou, H., Maury, R. C., Blais, S., Cotten, J., Legendre, C., Guille, G. & Caroff, M. 2005 Age progression along the Society hotspot chain (French Polynesia) based on new unspiked K-Ar ages. Bull. Soc. Geol. Fr. 176, 135-150. (doi:10.2113/176.2.135)
46. Hurles, M. E., Matisoo-Smith, E., Gray, R. D. & Penny, D. 2003 Untangling Oceanic settlement: the edge of the knowable. Trends Ecol. Evol. 18, 531-540. (doi:10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00245-3)
47. Ibrahim, K. M., Nichols, R. A. & Hewitt, G. M. 1996 Spatial patterns of genetic variation generated by different forms of dispersal during range expansion. Heredity 77, 282-291. (doi:10.1038/hdy.1996.142)
48. Johnson, M. S., Murray, J. & Clarke, B. C. 1986 An electrophoretic analysis of phylogeny and evolutionary rates in the genus Partula from the Society Islands. Proc. R. Soc. B 227, 161-177. (doi:10.1098/rspb.1986.0017)
49. Johnson, M. S., Murray, J. & Clarke, B. 1993 The ecological genetics and adaptive radiation of Partula on Moorea. Oxford Surv. Evol. Biol. 9, 167-238.
50. Johnson, M. S., Murray, J. & Clarke, B. 2000 Parallel evolution in Marquesan partulid land snails. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 69, 577-598. (doi:10.1006/bijl.1999.0386)
51. Jokiel, P. L. & Cox, E. F. 2003 Drift pumice at Christmas Island and Hawaii: evidence of oceanic dispersal patterns. Mar. Geol. 202, 121-133. (doi:10.1016/S0025-3227(03)00288-3)
52. Joy, D. A. & Conn, J. E. 2001 Molecular and morphological phylogenetic analysis of an insular radiation in Pacific black flies (Simulium). Syst. Biol. 50, 18-38. (doi:10.1080/ 106351501750107431)
53. Joy, D. A., Craig, D. A. & Conn, J. E. 2007 Genetic variation tracks ecological segregation in Pacific Island black flies. Heredity 99, 452-459. (doi:10.1038/sj.hdy.6801023)
54. Keating, B. 1987 Summary of radiometric ages from the Pacific. Intergovernmental Oceanogr. Commiss. Tech. Ser., UNESCO 32, 1-67.
55. Larson, G. et al. 2007 Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into Neolithic expansion in island Southeast Asia and Oceania. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 104, 4834-4839. (doi:10.1073/pnas. 0607753104)
56. Lee, T., Burch, J. B., Coote, T., Fontaine, B., Gargominy, O., Pearce-Kelly, P. & Ó Foighil, D. 2007a Prehistoric inter-archipelago trading of Polynesian tree snails leaves a conservation legacy. Proc. R. Soc. B 274, 2907-2914. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2007. 1009)
57. Lee, T., Burch, J. B., Jung, Y., Coote, T., Pearce-Kelly, P. & Ó Foighil, D. 2007b Tahitian tree snail mitochondrial clades survived recent mass extirpation. Curr. Biol. 17, R502-R503. (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.05.006)
58. Matisoo-Smith, E. & Robins, J. H. 2004 Origins and dispersals of Pacific peoples: evidence from mtDNA phylogenies of the Pacific rat. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 101, 9167-9172. (doi:10.1073/pnas.0403120101)
59. Melton, T., Peterson, R., Redd, A. J., Saha, N., Sofro, A. S., Martinson, J. & Stoneking, M. 1995 Polynesian genetic affinities with Southeast Asian populations as identified by mtDNA analysis. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 57, 403-414.
60. Meyer, J.-Y. 2004 Threat of invasive alien plants to native flora and forest vegetation of eastern Polynesia. Pac. Sci. 58, 357-375. (doi:10.1353/psc.2004.0032)
61. Meyrick, E. 1935a Pyrales and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Islands. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 114, 333-355.
62. Meyrick, E. 1935b Pyrales and Microlepidoptera of the Society Islands. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. Bull. 113, 109-110.
63. Miller, S. E. 1996 Biogeography of Pacific insects and other terrestrial invertebrates: a status report. In The origin and evolution of Pacific Island biotas, New Guinea to Eastern Polynesia: patterns and processes (eds J. A. Keast & S. E. Miller), pp. 463-475. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: SPB Academic Publishing.
64. Mitchell, A. D. & Heenan, P. B. 2002 Sophora sect. Edwardsia (Fabaceae): further evidence from nrDNA sequence data of a recent and rapid radiation around the Southern Oceans. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 140, 435-441. (doi:10.1046/j.1095-8339.2002.00101.x)
65. Munschy, M., Antoine, C., Guille, G. & Guillou, H. 1998 La croûte océanique et les points chauds de la Polynésie Française (océan Pacifique central). Géol. Fr. 3, 5-13.
66. Murray, J. & Clarke, B. 1984 Movement and gene flow in Partula taeniata. Malacologia 25, 343-348.
67. Nunn, P. D. 1994 Oceanic islands. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
68. Paulay, G. 1985 Adaptive radiation on an isolated oceanic island: the Cryptorhynchinae (Curculionidae) of Rapa revisited. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 26, 95-187. (doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1985.tb01554.x)
69. Paupy, C., Vazeille-Falcoz, M., Mousson, L., Rodhain, F. & Failloux, A. B. 2000 Aedes aegypti in Tahiti and Moorea (French Polynesia): isoenzyme differentiation in the mosquito population according to human population density. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 62, 217-224.
70. Petit, J. N., Hoddle, M. S., Grandgirard, J., Roderick, G. K. & Davies, N. In press. Invasion dynamics of the glassy-winged sharpshooter Homalodisca vitripennis (Germar) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in French Polynesia. Biol. Inv.
71. Pilsbry, H. E. 1900 The genesis of mid Pacific faunas. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 52, 568-581.
72. Platnick, N. I. 2008 In The world spider catalog, version 8.5 (eds P. Merrett & H. D. Cameron). New York, NY: American Museum of Natural History.
73. Reverdin, G., Frankignoul, C. & Kestenare, E. 1994 Seasonal variability in the surface currents of the equatorial Pacific. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans 99, 20 323-20 344. (doi:10.1029/94JC01477)
74. Simon, E. 1900 Arachnida. In Fauna Hawaiiensis, vol. 2 (ed. D. Sharp), pp. 443-519. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
75. Smith, P. T. 2005 Mitochondrial DNA variation among populations of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca coagulata. J. Insect Sci. 5, 41.
76. Solem, A. 1982 Endodontoid land snails from Pacific islands (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Sigmurethra). Part II. Families Punctidae and Charopidae, zoogeography. Chicago, IL: Field Museum of Natural History.
77. Solem, A. 1984 A world model of land snail diversity and abundance. In World-wide snails: biogeographical studies on non-marine Mollusca (eds A. Solem & A. C. van Bruggen), pp. 6-22. Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill/W. Backhuys.
78. Spiess, F. N. 2007 Pacific Ocean. In Microsoft Encarta online encyclopedia. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation. See http://www.msnencarta. com/encyclopedia_761564220/Pacific_Ocean.html.
79. Steadman, D. W. & Rolett, B. 1996 A chronostratigraphic analysis of landbird extinction on Tahuata, Marquesas Islands. J. Archaeol. Sci. 23, 81-94. (doi:10.1006/jasc.1996.0007)
80. Su, B. et al. 2000 Polynesian origins: insights from the Y-chromosome. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 97, 8225-8228.
81. Van Dyke, E. C. 1937 Rhyncogonus of the Mangarevan expedition. Occas. Pap. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 13, 89-129.
82. Wagner, W. L. & Funk, V. A. (eds) 1995 Hawaiian biogeography. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
83. Whitehead, P. J. P. 1969 Zoological specimens from Captain Cook's voyages. J. Soc. Bibliogr. Nat. Hist. 5, 161-201.
84. Wright, S. D., Yong, C. G., Dawson, J. W., Whittaker, D. J. & Gardner, R. C. 2000 Riding the ice age El Nino? Pacific biogeography and evolution of Metrosideros subg. Metrosideros (Myrtaceae) inferred from nuclear ribosomal DNA. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 97, 4118-4123. (doi:10.1073/pnas.050351197)
85. Wright, S. D., Yong, C. G., Wichman, S. R., Dawson, J. W. & Gardner, R. C. 2001 Stepping stones to Hawaii: a transequatorial dispersal pathway for Metrosideros (Myrtaceae) inferred from nrDNA (ITS+ETS). J. Biogeogr. 28, 769-774. (doi:10.1046/j.1365-2699.2001.00605.x)
86. Zimmerman, E. C. 1948 Insects of Hawaii. Introduction, vol. 1. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press.