Sea Level Rises Offer New Explanation For Puzzling Biological Divide Along Malay Peninsula
Sunday, March 8, 2009 - 22:21
in Earth & Climate
More than 58 rapid sea level rises in the last five million years could account for an apparently abrupt switch in the kinds in of mammals found along the Malay Peninsula in southeast Asia -- from mainland species to island species -- in the absence of any geographical barrier, ecologists say.