Floating islands: A mode of long-distance dispersal for small and medium-sized terrestrial vertebrates

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 4, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 201-216

  Houle, Alain ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Floating island model; Long distance dispersal; Mammals; Monkeys; Rafting; Reptiles; Transoceanic migration; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001224478     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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