Abstract

ARBELAEZ-CORTES, ENRIQUE. Comparative Phylogeography: Concepts, Methods and General Patterns in Neotropical Birds. Acta biol.Colomb. [online]. 2012, vol.17, n.1, pp.19-38. ISSN 0120-548X.

Understanding the patterns and processes involved in intraspecific lineages diversification in time and space is the aim of phylogeography. The comparison of those phylogeographic patterns among co-distributed species shows insights of a community history. Here I review the concepts and methodologies of comparative phylogeography, an active research field that has heterogeneous analytical methods. In order to present a framework for phylogeography in the Neotropics, I comment the general phylogeographic patterns of the birds from this region. This review is based on more than 100 studies conducted during the last 25 years and indicate that despite different co-distributed species seem to share some points in their phylogeographic pattern they have idiosyncratic aspects, indicating an unique history for each one.

Keywords : Birds; communities; Neotropics; phylogeography.

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