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138: 101:, which produces fragmented populations, and when that fragmentation becomes so divergent that species movement between one suitable habitat to the next is disrupted, isolated population can be produced. Extinctions can cause disjunct distribution, especially in areas where only scattered areas are habitable by a species; for instance, island chains or specific elevations along a mountain range or areas along a coast or between bodies of water like streams, lakes and ponds. 81:, or other animals transporting an organism to a new location (plant seeds consumed by birds and animals can be moved to new locations during bird or animal migrations, and those seeds can be deposited in new locations in fecal matter). Other conditions that can produce disjunct distributions include: flooding, or changes in wind, stream, and current flows, plus others such as anthropogenic introduction of alien 31: 271:
It seems increasingly likely that much of Ireland's Lusitanian fauna is in reality an artefact of this era of human expansion in the early part of the Postglacial era. In other words, it seems likely that these species were introduced accidentally with trade items or goods brought by boat from
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Recently a better explanation of the occurrence of the Kerry slug and similar faunal elements in southwestern Ireland has been developed. This new theory is supported by two recent discoveries: the genetic similarity of much of
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is one that has two or more groups that are related but considerably separated from each other geographically. The causes are varied and might demonstrate either the expansion or contraction of a species' range.
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similarity in make-up between populations in western Ireland and in northern Spain. This would be explained by a human migration from Spain to Ireland in the late Paleolithic or early
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or other places in Europe. The genetic structure of the population further showed that the entire Irish population of the Eurasian pygmy shrew had originated from a single
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period. Although the theory is no longer accepted, the term Lusitanian is still used as a descriptive term for faunal elements such as the Kerry slug.
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The theory behind the name "Lusitanian" is now discredited; it posited that there was an ice-free land mass that served as a
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to that of northern Spain, and the genetic similarity of much of Ireland's human population to that of northern Spain.
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How did pygmy shrews colonize Ireland? Clues from a phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences
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Also called range fragmentation, disjunct distributions may be caused by changes in the environment, such as
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Masheretti S., Rogatcheva M. B., Gündüz I., Fredga K. & Searle J. B. 2003.
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Examples of animal species with a Lusitanian distribution are: the Kerry slug
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The birds of northern Melanesia : speciation, ecology & biogeography
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This kind of disjunct distribution of a species, such that it occurs in
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Ernst Mayr, Jared Diamond; Douglas Pratt, Color Plates by H. (2001),
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either accidentally or deliberately (agriculture and horticulture).
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There are many patterns of disjunct distributions at many scales:
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McEvoy B., Richards M., Forster P. & Bradley D. G. 2004.
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systems and Celtic origins on the Atlantic facade of Europe
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Large geographic separation between members of a taxon
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expanding its range into new areas, by such means as
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Hill E. W., Jobling M. A. & Bradley D. G. 2000.
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Mascheretti et al. (2003) examined the genotypes of
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Index

Disjunct population

Elona quimperiana
taxon
mountain building
continental drift
sea levels
organism
rafting
introduced species
habitat
fragmented
Irano-Turanian disjunction
Erica
Mediterranean-Hoggart disjunction
Olea

Geomalacus maculosus
Iberia
Ireland
Lusitania
Portugal
Geomalacus maculosus
Pyrenean
Semilimax pyrenaicus
heather
strawberry tree
refugium
Quaternary
glaciation

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