Recent immigrants from islands dominate two keystone forest herbivore assemblages in Australia
Successful upstream colonisation from islands to continents has now been documented in many taxa, however as yet there are no examples of upstream dispersal playing a dominant role in the assembly of regional biotas. Here we use supermatrix phylogenies for two groups of highly mobile volant keystone herbivores - nocturnal megabats and diurnal pigeons - to show that Australian rainforest…
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