How did they get here? the biogeography of the marine molluscs of the Azores

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 295-307

  Ávila, Sérgio P ^a   Da Silva, Carlos Marques ^b   Schiebel, Ralf ^c   Cecca, Fabbrizzio ^d   Backeljau, Thierry ^e   De Frias Martins, António M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Azores; Mollusca; Palaeobiogeography; Pleistocene; Recent; Routes of dispersal

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; FOSSIL RECORD; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NEOGENE; OCEANIC CURRENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 70350216052     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssgfbull.180.4.295     Document Type: Article

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