Dispersal ability of island endemic plants: What can we learn using multiple dispersal traits?

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 209, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 530-539

  Vazačová, Kristýna ^a,b   Münzbergová, Zuzana ^a,b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Dispersal mode; Long distance dispersal; Macaronesia; Terminal velocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924527279     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2014.05.001     Document Type: Article

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