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Patterns and Processes of Speciation in Ancient Lakes

Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Speciation in Ancient Lakes, Berlin, Germany, September 4-8, 2006

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Thomas Wilke

    1. Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

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  2. Risto Väinölä

    1. Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland

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  3. Frank Riedel

    1. Department of Earth Sciences, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  • Selection of reviews and original research papers on speciation in ancient lakes
  • Latest hypotheses and new perspectives on the evolution of biodiversity in these model systems
  • Deals with the East African Great Lakes, the Balkan lakes Ohrid and Prespa, and lakes on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

Part of the book series: Developments in Hydrobiology (DIHY, volume 205)

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-3
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  2. East African Great Lakes

    1. The Lake Tanganyika cichlid species assemblage: recent advances in molecular phylogenetics

      • Stephan Koblmüller, Kristina M. Sefc, Christian Sturmbauer
      Pages 5-20

    2. Variance in reproductive success and the opportunity for selection in a serially monogamous species: simulations of the mating system of Tropheus (Teleostei: Cichlidae)

      • Kristina M. Sefc
      Pages 21-35

    3. Assortative mating preferences between colour morphs of the endemic Lake Tanganyika cichlid genus Tropheus

      • Bernd Egger, Beate Obermüller, Eva Eigner, Christian Sturmbauer, Kristina M. Sefc
      Pages 37-48

    4. Variation of territory size and defense behavior in breeding pairs of the endemic Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish Variabilichromis moorii

      • Christian Sturmbauer, Christoph Hahn, Stephan Koblmüller, Lisbeth Postl, Danny Sinyinza, Kristina M. Sefc
      Pages 49-56

    5. Abundance, distribution, and territory areas of rock-dwelling Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish species

      • Christian Sturmbauer, Corinna Fuchs, Georg Harb, Elisabeth Damm, Nina Duftner, Michaela Maderbacher et al.
      Pages 57-68

    6. Subtle population structure and male-biased dispersal in two Copadichromis species (Teleostei, Cichlidae) from Lake Malawi, East Africa

      • Dieter Anseeuw, Gregory E. Maes, Paul Busselen, Dries Knapen, Jos Snoeks, Erik Verheyen
      Pages 69-79

    7. Ecological correlates of species differences in the Lake Tanganyika crab radiation

      • Saskia A. E. Marijnissen, Ellinor Michel, Marjolein Kamermans, Kim Olaya-Bosch, Moniek Kars, Daniel F. R. Cleary et al.
      Pages 81-94

    8. The Great Lakes in East Africa: biological conservation considerations for species flocks

      • Christian Sturmbauer
      Pages 95-101

  3. Balkan Lakes Ohrid and Prespa

    1. Ancient Lake Ohrid: biodiversity and evolution

      • Christian Albrecht, Thomas Wilke
      Pages 103-140

    2. The neglected side of speciation in ancient lakes: phylogeography of an inconspicuous mollusc taxon in lakes Ohrid and Prespa

      • Roland Schultheiß, Christian Albrecht, Ulrich Bößneck, Thomas Wilke
      Pages 141-156

    3. Concurrent evolution of ancient sister lakes and sister species: the freshwater gastropod genus Radix in lakes Ohrid and Prespa

      • Christian Albrecht, Christian Wolff, Peter Glöer, Thomas Wilke
      Pages 157-167

    4. Testing two contrasting evolutionary patterns in ancient lakes: species flock versus species scatter in valvatid gastropods of Lake Ohrid

      • Anne-Kathrin Hauswald, Christian Albrecht, Thomas Wilke
      Pages 169-179

  4. Sulawesi Lake Systems

    1. The species flocks of lacustrine gastropods: Tylomelania on Sulawesi as models in speciation and adaptive radiation

      • Matthias Glaubrecht, Thomas von Rintelen
      Pages 181-199

    2. Gene flow at the margin of Lake Matano’s adaptive sailfin silverside radiation: Telmatherinidae of River Petea in Sulawesi

      • Julia Schwarzer, Fabian Herder, Bernhard Misof, Renny K. Hadiaty, Ulrich K. Schliewen
      Pages 201-213

    3. Processes regulating the community composition and relative abundance of taxa in the diatom communities of the Malili Lakes, Sulawesi Island, Indonesia

      • Andrew J. Bramburger, Paul B. Hamilton, Peter E. Hehanussa, G. Douglas Haffner
      Pages 215-224

    4. The plankton community of Lake Matano: factors regulating plankton composition and relative abundance in an ancient, tropical lake of Indonesia

      • Elisabeth Sabo, Denis Roy, Paul B. Hamilton, Peter E. Hehanussa, Roger McNeely, G. Douglas Haffner
      Pages 225-235
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About this book

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 less attention. The exceptional biodiversity of the European sister lakes Ohrid and Prespa of the Balkans has long been known, but has largely been neglected in the 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.

This volume aims at deepening the awareness of the unusual biological diversity in ancient lakes in general, and of the role of these lakes as natural laboratories for the study of speciation and diversification in particular. It should stimulate further research that will lead to a better understanding of key evolutionary processes in these lakes, and to knowledge that might help in mitigating the deterioration of their diversity in the future.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

    Thomas Wilke

  • Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland

    Risto Väinölä

  • Department of Earth Sciences, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Frank Riedel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Patterns and Processes of Speciation in Ancient Lakes

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Speciation in Ancient Lakes, Berlin, Germany, September 4-8, 2006

  • Editors: Thomas Wilke, Risto Väinölä, Frank Riedel

  • Series Title: Developments in Hydrobiology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9582-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9581-8Published: 23 December 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8162-9Published: 25 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9582-5Published: 02 April 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 236

  • Additional Information: Reprinted from HYDROBIOLOGIA, 615, 2008

  • Topics: Biodiversity, Evolutionary Biology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology

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