The scramble for Africa: Pan-temperate elements on the African high mountains

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1667, 2009, Pages 2657-2665

  Gehrke, Berit ^a,b   Linder, H Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Afroalpine; Biogeography; Colonization; Dispersal; Island floras; Test of monophyly

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISPERSAL; EVOLUTION; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MOUNTAIN REGION; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

AFRICA; ALCHEMILLA; ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BOOTSTRAPPING; CYPERACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTION; FLORA; HIGH MOUNTAIN; HOLARCTIC; LAND BIOME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANUNCULACEAE;

ALCHEMILLA; CAREX; RANUNCULUS;

EID: 67650465986     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0334     Document Type: Article

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