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The phylogeographic history of a range disjunction in eastern North America: the role of post-glacial expansion into newly suitable habitat.
American journal of botany - 1 Jun 2021
Mohn Rebekah A, Oleas Nora H, Smith Adam B, Swift Joel F, Yatskievych George A, Edwards Christine E
Abstract excerpt
PREMISE: A disjunct distribution, where a species' geographic range is discontinuous, can occur through vicariance or long-distance dispersal. Approximately 75 North American plant species exhibit a ~650 km disjunction between the Ozark and Appalachian regions. This disjunction is attributed to biogeographic forces including: (1) Eocene-Oligocene vicariance by the formation of the Mississippi embayment; (2)...
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