Biogeographical history of northeastern Asiatic soricine shrews (insectivora, mammalia)：（生物地理学的历史亚洲东北部soricine鼩(食虫类,哺乳类)）.pdfVIP

Researches on Res. Popul. Ecol. 39(2), 1997,pp. 157-162. OLOGY paper I 9 1997bythe Societyof PopulationEcology Biogeographical History of Northeastern Asiatic Soricine Shrews (Insectivora, Mammalia) Satoshi OHDACttI1), Ryuichi MASUDA*, Hisashi ABE **2) and Nikolai E. DOKUCHAEVt Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University,Kita-ku, Sapporo 060, Japan *ChromosomeResearch Unit, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University,Kita-ku, Sapporo 060, Japan **Laboratory of Applied Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University,Kita-ku, Sapporo 060, Japan tlnstitute of Biological Problems of the North, 68510Magadan, Russia Abstract. A hypothetical biogeographical history of northeastern Asiatic soricine shrews in the late Quaternary was developed by integrating their present distributions, fossil records, a hypothetical phylogeny, and geological investigations. First, a biological area ctadogram of the northeastern Asiatic region was constructed by applying the vicariance hypothesis to the phylogeny of the caecu- tiens/shinto group, a monophyletic group proposed by Ohdachi et al. (1997). Comparing the biological area cladogram with a geological hypothesis by Ohshima (1990, 1991, 1992), we hypothesiz- ed a geographical history of northeastern Asia. Species were then located on the dendrogram of the geographical history, referring to the present distributions, fossil records, and phylogeny of shrews. According to our hypothesis, higher species diversity of the northern region of northeastern Asia (Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Eastern Sibe