Galápagos and cocos islands: Geographically close, botanically distant

International Journal of Plant Sciences

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 36-53

  Trusty, Jennifer L ^a,b,f   Tye, Alan ^c   Collins, Timothy M ^a   Michelangeli, Fabian A ^d   Madriz, Pablo ^e   Francisco Ortega, Javier ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN   (United States)

^c New York Botanical Garden ^*  (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATIC BOTANY   (United States)

^e Parque Nacional Isla del Coco   (Costa Rica)

^f Folius Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Ecological shifts; Island biology; Long distance dispersal; Phylogenetics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LIFE HISTORY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; VASCULAR PLANT; WIND VELOCITY;

COCOS ISLAND; COSTA RICA; ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

AVES; FILICOPHYTA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84855856987     PISSN: 10585893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/662657     Document Type: Article

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