How do islands become green?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 518-526

  Heleno, Ruben H ^a   Vargas, Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anemochory; Azores; Endozoochory; Epizoochory; LDD; Oceanic islands; Plant colonizations; Seed dispersal syndromes; Thalassochory; Theory of island biogeography

Indexed keywords

ANEMOCHORY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COLONIZATION; FLORA; FLORISTICS; PLANT; PROPAGULE; SEED DISPERSAL;

AZORES; EUROPE; PORTUGAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84926173775     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12273     Document Type: Article

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