Patterns and processes of speciation in ancient lakes: Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Speciation in Ancient Lakes, Berlin, Germany, September 4-8, 2006

Ancient lakes are exceptional freshwater environments that have continued to exist for hundreds of thousands of years. They have long been recognized as centres of biodiversity and hotspots of evolution. During recent decades, speciation in ancient lakes has emerged as an important and exciting topic in evolutionary biology. The contributions in this volume deal with patterns and processes of biological diversification in three prominent ancient lake systems. Of these, the famous East African Great Lakes already have a strong tradition of evolutionary studies, but the two other systems have so far received much lessattention. The exceptional biodiversity of the European sister lakes Ohrid and Prespa of the Balkans has long been known, but has largely been neglected inthe international literature until recently. The rich biota and problems of its evolution in the two central lake systems on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in turn, have only lately started to draw scientific attention. Selectionof reviews and original research papers on speciation in ancient lakes Latesthypotheses and new perspectives on the evolution of biodiversity in these model systems Deals with the East African Great Lakes, the Balkan lakes Ohrid andPrespa, and lakes on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9581-8
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 236
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés