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Long distance dispersal of zooplankton endemic to isolated mountaintops--an example of an ecological process operating on an evolutionary time scale.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Vanschoenwinkel Bram, Mergeay Joachim, Pinceel Tom, Waterkeyn Aline, Vandewaerde Hanne, Seaman Maitland, Brendonck Luc
Abstract excerpt
Recent findings suggest a convergence of time scales between ecological and evolutionary processes which is usually explained in terms of rapid micro evolution resulting in evolution on ecological time scales. A similar convergence, however, can also emerge when slow ecological processes take place on evolutionary time scales. A good example of such a slow ecological process is the colonization of remote aquatic...
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