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Oceanic islands are not sinks of biodiversity in spore-producing plants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 Nov 2011
Hutsemékers Virginie, Szövényi Péter, Shaw A Jonathan, González-Mancebo Juana-María, Muñoz Jesús, Vanderpoorten Alain
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Islands have traditionally been considered as migratory and evolutionary dead ends for two main reasons: island colonizers are typically assumed to lose their dispersal power, and continental back colonization has been regarded as unlikely because of niche preemption. The hypothesis that islands might actually represent dynamic refugia and migratory stepping stones for species that are effective dispersers, and...
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