Plant colonization across the Galápagos Islands: Success of the sea dispersal syndrome

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 349-358

  Vargas, Pablo ^a   Nogales, Manuel ^b   Jaramillo, Patricia ^c   Olesen, Jens M ^d   Traveset, Anna ^e   Heleno, Ruben ^e,f  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c Charles Darwin Foundation   (Ecuador)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anemochory; Endozoochory; Epizoochory; Hydrochory; Island biogeography; Plant dispersal syndromes; Seed dispersal; Unspecialized diaspores

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; DIASPORE; DISPERSAL; ENDEMIC SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ZOOCHORY;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

ANIMALIA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84894487083     PISSN: 00244074     EISSN: 10958339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/boj.12142     Document Type: Article

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