Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208106, New Haven, Connecticut 06511.
Integr Comp Biol. 2003 Apr;43(2):261-70. doi: 10.1093/icb/43.2.261.
Cladistic biogeographic methods remain susceptible to the confounding effects of "pseudo-congruence" and "pseudo-incongruence" because they were not designed to incorporate information on the absolute timing of the diversification of lineages. Consequently, results from cladistic biogeographic studies are difficult to interpret and cannot be confidently attributed to any particular cause. We illustrate these points with concrete examples, paying special attention to recent work on the biogeography of the Northern Hemisphere, and outline ways in which topological and temporal information might be better integrated. The development of historical biogeography over the last few decades provides general insights into the nature of integration through the life of a discipline.
支序生物地理学方法仍然容易受到“伪一致性”和“伪不一致性”的干扰，因为它们的设计并没有纳入谱系多样化的绝对时间信息。因此，支序生物地理学研究的结果难以解释，也不能被自信地归因于任何特定的原因。我们用具体的例子来说明这些观点，特别关注最近关于北半球生物地理学的研究，并概述了如何更好地整合拓扑和时间信息。过去几十年历史生物地理学的发展为通过学科的发展了解整合的本质提供了一般的见解。
