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Geography
Deep time, shifting continents
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Geological area cladogram
Africa
South America
Madagascar
India
Australia
New Guinea
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Recent time, shifting organisms
@andrewxhill
Sinking island, running to stay in the same place
Figure 22.16 The evolution of fruit fly (Drosophila) species on the Hawaiian archipelago
Hotspot
Properties of maps
Maps are predictable
Navigation is predictable
Every pixel counts
Ground truth
Relative and absolute navigation
Latitude 42.363921Longitude -71.087763
Sources of maps (other than Google)
OpenStreetMap
http://data.gbif.org
See http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1068301/gbif-public-library/
for uses
Lots of data, but some issues, such as sampling bias and errors
@andrewxhill
Transposed latitude and longitude
Boophis periegetes
Boophis periegetes
Things to do with maps
Timemaps
Bounding boxhttp://biostor.org/maps
Plotting things on maps: points
Plotting things on maps: polygons
Plotting things on maps: points and lines
@DavKidd
Geophylogenies
The End