Burdekin Gap

The Burdekin Gap, named for the Burdekin River, is a biogeographical feature in Queensland, northeastern Australia, which separates populations of freshwater fishes and other water-dependent land animals, such as the delicate skink (Lampropholis delicata)[1] by a corridor of hot and dry habitat that acts as a barrier to genetic exchange. Birds, except those that are rainforest-dependent,[2] are more likely to intergrade across the Gap.

Notes
  1. Chapple, D. G.; Hoskin, C. J.; Chapple, S. N.; Thompson, M. B. (2011). "Phylogeographic divergence in the widespread delicate skink (Lampropholis delicata) corresponds to dry habitat barriers in eastern Australia". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11: 191. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-191. PMC 3141439. PMID 21726459.
  2. John C. Avise, Phylogeography: the history and formation of species, 2000, map, p.254.


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