| palaeoclimatic changes explain anatolian mountain frog evolution: a test for alternating vicariance and dispersal events. | holarctic biodiversity has been influenced by climatic fluctuations since the pliocene. asia minor was one of the major corridors for postglacial invasions in the palearctic. today this area is characterized by an extraordinarily rich fauna with close affiliation to european, asian and indo-african biota. however, exact scenarios of range expansion and contraction are lacking. using a phylogeographical approach we (i). identify monophyletic lineages among anatolian mountain frogs and (ii). deriv ... | 2003 | 12492887 |