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Bipolar distributions in vascular plants: A review.
American journal of botany - 1 Nov 2017
Villaverde Tamara, Escudero Marcial, Martín-Bravo Santiago, Jiménez-Mejías Pedro, Sanmartín Isabel, Vargas Pablo, Luceño Modesto
Abstract excerpt
Bipolar disjunct distributions are a fascinating biogeographic pattern exhibited by about 30 vascular plants, whose populations reach very high latitudes in the northern and southern hemispheres. In this review, we first propose a new framework for the definition of bipolar disjunctions and then reformulate a list of guiding principles to consider how to study bipolar species. Vicariance and convergent evolution...
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