The role of immigrants in the assembly of the South American rainforest tree flora

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1450, 2004, Pages 1611-1622

  Pennington, R Toby ^a   Dick, Christopher W ^b  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon rainforests; Biotic interchange; Long distance dispersal; Molecular systematics

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GONDWANA; IMMIGRATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; RAINFOREST;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 8144227918     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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