Microrefugia and species persistence in the Galápagos highlands: A 26,000-year paleoecological perspective.

The Galápagos Islands are known to have experienced significant drought during the Quaternary. The loss of mesophytic upland habitats has been suggested to underlie the relatively lower endemism of upland compared with lowland plant assemblages. A fossil pollen record spanning the last 26,0...

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Main Authors: Aaron F Collins, Mark B Bush, Julian P Sachs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2013.00269/full