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Northern Hemisphere Plant Disjunctions: A Window on Tertiary Land Bridges and Climate Change?

Author(s) -

Richard I. Milne

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

annals of botany

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.567

H-Index - 176

eISSN - 1095-8290

pISSN - 0305-7364

DOI - 10.1093/aob/mcl148

Subject(s) - land bridge , biogeography , biological dispersal , vicariance , southern hemisphere , beringia , biology , paleontology , ecology , gondwana , phylogenetics , phylogeography , arctic , population , biochemistry , demography , structural basin , sociology , gene

This botanical briefing examines how molecular systematics has contributed to progress in understanding the history of Tertiary relict genera, i.e. those that that now occur disjunctly in parts of Eurasia and N America, and how progress in understanding Southern Hemisphere biogeography paradoxically makes unravelling Northern Hemisphere biogeography more complex.

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