Biogeographical patterns of plants in the Neotropics - dispersal rather than plate tectonics is most explanatory

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 277-286

  Christenhusz, Maarten J M ^a,b   Chase, Mark W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b JODRELL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amaryllidaceae; Boreotropics hypothesis; Caricaceae; Crossosomatales; Huerteales; Islands; Long distance dispersal; Marattiaceae; Nicotiana; Orchidaceae; Petenaeaceae; Plate tectonics; Relictual distributions; Rhipsalis; Strelitziaceae; Vicariance

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTICS; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVERGREEN TREE; LEGUME; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PLATE TECTONICS; TROPICAL REGION; VICARIANCE;

AFRICA; ASIA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AMARYLLIDACEAE; BROMELIACEAE; CACTACEAE; CARICACEAE; CROSSOSOMATALES; EMBRYOPHYTA; FABACEAE; HUERTEALES; LAURACEAE; MARATTIACEAE; NICOTIANA; ORCHIDACEAE; RHIPSALIS; STRELITZIACEAE;

EID: 84871200449     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2012.01301.x     Document Type: Review

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