Incongruence in biogeographic pattern-based analyses: a case study from amazonian fishes

• Grant number: 16/07246-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: April 01, 2017
• End date: August 13, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Naercio Aquino Menezes
• Grantee: Fernando Cesar Paiva Dagosta
• Host Institution: Museu de Zoologia (MZ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The present project aims to detect the presence of incongruence and to investigate its influence in biogeographic analyses of amazonian fishes. Incongruence is the degree of disagreement between topologies resulting from different datasets. Its identification and treatment remain mostly controversial within the realm of systematics. In biogeography, discussions about incongruence between different datasets are extremely rare, even if its implications and consequences are equally or even more relevant. The main idea of cladistic biogeography is the search for historical congruence of biogeographical patterns involving different groups of organisms, without finding or trying to explain incongruence. Thus, the present project is pioneer in identifying incongruence based on comparison of different qualitative variables from the datasets (migratory fishes x non-migratory fishes, different taxonomic groups and different body size in lineages). The biogeographic analyses will be performed by using vicariant biogeographic methods (e.g., BPA) and detection of incongruence will be done using three different, but complementary, methods: incongruence length difference, partitioned bremer support e sensitivity analysis. Once identified, incongruence will be discussed in the light of its sources (incorrect area definition, restricted sample, temporal mixture, extinction, and sympatric speciation, cladogenetic failure after vicariant event, biotic dispersion, random dispersal and intrinsic biological characteristics of the lineages). The project will represent an unprecedented and pioneering formalization of the problem of incongruence in biogeographic analyzes, with the development of a comprehensive and coherent formulation about the theoretical and conceptual bases on the subject. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DAGOSTA, FERNANDO C. P.; DE PINNA, MARIO C. C.. A history of the biogeography of Amazonian fishes. Neotropical Ichthyology, v. 16, n. 3, 2018. (11/50282-7, 16/07246-3, 11/23419-1)

FERNANDO C. P. DAGOSTA; MÁRIO DE PINNA. Biogeography of Amazonian fishes: deconstructing river basins as biogeographic units. Neotropical Ichthyology, v. 15, n. 3, 2017-09-28. (16/07246-3, 11/23419-1)

CAMELIER, P.; DAGOSTA, F. C. P.; MARINHO, M. M. F.. New remarkable sexually dimorphic miniature species of Hyphessobrycon (Characiformes: Characidae) from the upper Rio Tapajos basin. Journal of Fish Biology, v. 92, n. 4, p. 1149-1162, APR 2018. (11/23419-1, 16/03966-1, 11/50282-7, 14/11911-7, 16/07246-3, 12/00840-6)

DE CARVALHO DEPRA, GABRIEL; AZEVEDO-SANTOS, VALTER M.; VITORINO JUNIOR, OSCAR BARROSO; PAIVA DAGOSTA, FERNANDO CESAR; FERREIRA MARINHO, MANOELA MARIA; BENINE, RICARDO C.. Moenkhausia goya (Characiformes: Characidae): a new species from the upper rio Tocantins basin, Central Brazil. Zootaxa, v. 4514, n. 1, p. 87-96, NOV 6 2018. (14/11911-7, 16/07246-3)

PASTANA, M. N. L.; DAGOSTA, F. C. P.; ESGUICERO, A. L. H.. A new sexually dichromatic miniature Hyphessobrycon (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae) from the Rio Formiga, upper Rio Juruena basin, Mato Grosso, Brazil, with a review of sexual dichromatism in Characiformes. Journal of Fish Biology, v. 91, n. 5, p. 1301-1318, NOV 2017. (12/22685-2, 13/26548-2, 16/07246-3, 11/23419-1)

DAGOSTA, FERNANDO C. P.; DE PINNA, MARIO; PERES, CARLOS A.; TAGLIACOLLO, VICTOR A.. Existing protected areas provide a poor safety-net for threatened Amazonian fish species. AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, v. 31, n. 5, p. 23-pg., 2020-09-15. (16/07246-3, 18/20806-3, 17/09321-5, 15/26804-4, 16/19075-9)

DAGOSTA, FERNANDO C. P.; DE PINNA, MARIO. THE FISHES OF THE AMAZON: DISTRIBUTION AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL PATTERNS, WITH A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF SPECIES. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, n. 431, p. 1-163, JUN 13 2019. (15/26804-4, 16/07246-3, 11/23419-1)

DAGOSTA, FERNANDO C. P.; DE PINNA, MARIO; PERES, CARLOS A.; TAGLIACOLLO, VICTOR A.. Existing protected areas provide a poor safety-net for threatened Amazonian fish species. AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, v. 31, n. 5, SI, p. 1167-1189, MAY 2021. (15/26804-4, 17/09321-5, 16/07246-3, 18/20806-3, 16/19075-9)

ZANATA, ANGELA M.; OHARA, WILLIAN M.; OYAKAWA, OSVALDO T.; DAGOSTA, FERNANDO C. P.. A new rheophilic South American darter (Crenuchidae:Characidium) from the rio Juruena basin, Brazil, with comments on morphological adaptations to life in fast-flowing waters. Journal of Fish Biology, v. 97, n. 5, p. 1343-1353, NOV 2020. (16/19075-9, 13/22473-8, 17/09321-5, 16/07246-3)

JEREP, FERNANDO C.; DAGOSTA, FERNANDO C. P.; OHARA, WILLIAN M.. A New Miniature Species of Serrapinnus (Characiformes: Characidae) from the Upper Rio Araguaia, Brazil. Copeia, v. 106, n. 1, p. 180-187, MAR 2018. (11/50282-7, 13/22473-8, 11/23419-1, 16/07246-3)

LATRUBESSE, EDGARDO M.; ARIMA, EUGENIO; FERREIRA, MANUEL E.; NOGUEIRA, SERGIO H.; WITTMANN, FLORIAN; DIAS, MURILO S.; DAGOSTA, FERNANDO C. P.; BAYER, MAXIMILIANO. Fostering water resource governance and conservation in the Brazilian Cerrado biome. CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, v. 1, n. 9, p. 8-pg., 2019-09-01. (11/23419-1, 16/07246-3)

DAGOSTA, FERNANDO C. P.; DE PINNA, MARIO. THE FISHES OF THE AMAZON: DISTRIBUTION AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL PATTERNS, WITH A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF SPECIES. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, v. N/A, n. 431, p. 163-pg., 2019-06-13. (11/23419-1, 16/07246-3, 15/26804-4)