Long-distance plant dispersal to North Atlantic islands: colonization routes and founder effect.
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SUBMITTER: Alsos IG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4432000 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
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Long-distance plant dispersal to North Atlantic islands: colonization routes and founder effect.
Alsos Inger Greve IG Ehrich Dorothee D Eidesen Pernille Bronken PB Solstad Heidi H Westergaard Kristine Bakke KB Schönswetter Peter P Tribsch Andreas A Birkeland Siri S Elven Reidar R Brochmann Christian C
AoB PLANTS 20150415
Long-distance dispersal (LDD) processes influence the founder effect on islands. We use genetic data for 25 Atlantic species and similarities among regional floras to analyse colonization, and test whether the genetic founder effect on five islands is associated with dispersal distance, island size and species traits. Most species colonized postglacially via multiple dispersal events from several source regions situated 280 to >3000 km away, and often not from the closest ones. A strong founder ...[more]
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