Safeguarding imperiled biodiversity and evolutionary processes in the Wallacea center of endemism

MJ Struebig, SG Aninta, M Beger, A Bani, H Barus… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Wallacea—the meeting point between the Asian and Australian fauna—is one of the world's
largest centers of endemism. Twenty-three million years of complex geological history have …

Species delimitation, phylogenomics, and biogeography of Sulawesi flying lizards: a diversification history complicated by ancient hybridization, cryptic species, and …

JA Mcguire, X Huang, SB Reilly, DT Iskandar… - Systematic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The biota of Sulawesi is noted for its high degree of endemism and for its substantial levels
of in situ biological diversification. While the island's long period of isolation and dynamic …

Genomic analysis on pygmy hog reveals extensive interbreeding during wild boar expansion

L Liu, M Bosse, HJ Megens, LAF Frantz, YL Lee… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Wild boar (Sus scrofa) drastically colonized mainland Eurasia and North Africa, most likely
from East Asia during the Plio-Pleistocene (2–1Mya). In recent studies, based on genome …

[HTML][HTML] Plio-Pleistocene sedimentation and palaeogeographic reconstruction in the Poso Depression, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia: from a sea channel to a land …

AMS Nugraha, R Adhitama, AD Switzer… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Poso Depression provides a record of Plio-Pleistocene environments and
palaeogeography of Central Sulawesi. Outcrop-based sedimentological and provenance …

Floristics of forests across low nutrient soils in Sulawesi, Indonesia

LA Trethowan, WL Eiserhardt, D Girmansyah… - Biotropica, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The island of Sulawesi formed from the joining of proto‐islands roughly three million years
ago. Regions of zoological endemism, corresponding to the proto‐islands, have been …

Beetle evolution illuminates the geological history of the World's most diverse tropical archipelago

H Letsch, M Balke, D Kusy, DD McKenna… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The geologically‐complex Indo–Australian–Melanesian archipelago (IAMA) hosts
extraordinarily high levels of species richness and endemism and has long served as a …

Do Pleistocene rock paintings depict Sulawesi warty pigs (Sus celebensis) with a domestication character?

A Brumm, AA Oktaviana, B Burhan… - Archaeology in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Indonesian island of Sulawesi harbours numerous early rock paintings of the
endemic Sulawesi warty pig (Sus celebensis). Several S. celebensis images, including one …

[HTML][HTML] Elevational surveys of Sulawesi herpetofauna 1: Gunung Galang, Gunung Dako Nature Reserve

BR Karin, IW Krone, J Frederick, A Hamidy… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Abstract The Indonesian island of Sulawesi has a unique geology and geography, which
have produced an astoundingly diverse and endemic flora and fauna and a fascinating …

Taxonomy and diversity of living Australasian marsupials

AM Baker, MDB Eldridge, DO Fisher… - … and ecological approach, 2023 - Springer
The living Australasian marsupials are a highly diverse group, comprising four orders: the
Dasyuromorphia, Notoryctemorphia, Peramelemorphia, and Diprotodontia. Collectively …

Small, odd and old: The mysterious Tarsius pumilus is the most basal Sulawesi tarsier

L Hagemann, N Grow, YEMB Bohr… - Biology …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In this study, we present the first genetic evidence of the phylogenetic position of Tarsius
pumilus, the mountain tarsier of Sulawesi, Indonesia. This mysterious primate is the only …