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The enigmatic tropical alpine flora on the African sky islands is young, disturbed, and unsaturated.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 31 May 2022
Kandziora Martha, Gehrke Berit, Popp Magnus, Gizaw Abel, Brochmann Christian, Pirie Michael D
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Tropical alpine floras are renowned for high endemism, spectacular giant rosette plants testifying to convergent adaptation to harsh climates with nightly frosts, and recruitment dominated by long-distance dispersal from remote areas. In contrast to the larger, more recent (late Miocene onward) and contiguous expanses of tropical alpine habitat in South America, the tropical alpine flora in Africa is extremely...
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