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Was Jeju Island a glacial refugium for East Asian warm-temperate plants? Insights from the homosporous fern Selliguea hastata (Polypodiaceae).
American journal of botany - 1 Nov 2013
Chung Mi Yoon, Moon Myung-Ok, López-Pujol Jordi, Maki Masayuki, Yamashiro Tadashi, Yukawa Tomohisa, Sugiura Naoto, Lee Yung-I, Chung Myong Gi
Abstract excerpt
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: We posed two hypotheses for broad scenarios of postglacial recolonization of Korea by the warm-temperate vegetation: (1) that extant Korean populations are derived from a single refugium, or (2) that they are derived from multiple refugia. We chose a homosporous fern typical of East Asian warm-temperate vegetation, Selliguea hastata, to test which of the two scenarios is more likely and to...
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