Colonization of the Galápagos Islands by plants with no specific syndromes for long-distance dispersal: A new perspective

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-43

  Vargas, Pablo ^a   Heleno, R ^b,c   Traveset, A ^c   Nogales, M ^d  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b Charles Darwin Foundation   (Ecuador)

^c INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; FRUIT; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; NATIVE SPECIES; OCEANIC CURRENT; PALEOBOTANY; PHYLOGENETICS; SEED DISPERSAL;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

ANIMALIA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84855531978     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06980.x     Document Type: Article

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