Are disjunct alpine and arctic-alpine animal and plant species in the Western Palearctic really relics of a cold past?

Relict Species: Phylogeography and Conservation Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 239-252

  Schmitt, Thomas ^a   Muster, Christoph ^b   Schönswetter, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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EID: 84920119064     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92160-8_13     Document Type: Chapter

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