LIVING ON THE EDGE: TIMING OF RAND FLORA DISJUNCTIONS CONGRUENT WITH ONGOING ARIDIFICATION IN AFRICA

LIVING ON THE EDGE: TIMING OF RAND FLORA DISJUNCTIONS CONGRUENT WITH ONGOING ARIDIFICATION IN AFRICA

The Rand Flora is a well-known floristic pattern in which unrelated plant lineages show similar disjunct distributions in the continental margins of Africa and adjacent islands —Macaronesia-northwest Africa, Horn of Africa-Southern Arabia, Eastern Africa, and Southern Africa. These lineages are now...

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Main Authors: Lisa ePokorny, Ricarda eRiina, Mario eMairal, Andrea S. Meseguer, Victoria eCulshaw, Jon eCendoya, Miguel eSerrano, Rodrigo eCarbajal, Santiago eOrtiz, Myriam eHeuertz, Isabel eSanmartin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
Subjects:
Africa
Climate Change
historical biogeography
diversification rates
vicariance
long-distance dispersal
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2015.00154/full

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