INFLUENCE OF LARVAL DISPERSAL AND GEOGRAPHIC-DISTRIBUTION ON SPECIES LONGEVITY IN NEOGASTROPODS
INFLUENCE OF LARVAL DISPERSAL AND GEOGRAPHIC-DISTRIBUTION ON SPECIES LONGEVITY IN NEOGASTROPODS
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DOI:
10.1017/s0094837300006758
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
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影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
HANSEN, TA
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作者:
HANSEN, TA
The Lower Tertiary Gulf Coast was subjected to repeated transgressive-regressive cycles of varying rate and extent which had a marked effect on species longevities. In some neogastropods dispersal and geographic distribution played important roles in species longevities. Species with planktonic larval stages that inhabited broad areas of the Gulf Coast could maintain their distributions even during regressive phases when delta building was strong. Wide distributions, free gene flow and resistance to isolation gave planktonic species an evolutionary stability that resulted in greater species longevity. Species with nonplanktonic development could attain wide geographic ranges when barriers were minimized, but they were unable to maintain their distributions in the face of regressive progradation. Their populations were isolated, and extinction and speciation accelerated, giving them lesser evolutionary longevity. Although planktonic volutids tend to be widespread, planktonic fasciolariids and mitrids were often restricted in distribution and therefore probably stenotopic. If dispersal and environmental tolerance are considered as separate forces, they seem to act in combination to produce very long, very short or intermediate species longevities.