Early recognition by Ball and Hooker in 1878 of plant back‑colonization (boomerang) events from Macaronesia to Africa

Recent work in island biogeography has shown that back-colonization (‘boomerang’ events) from islands to continents have occurred more frequently than previously understoodWe report possibly the earliest inference of this pattern, by John Ball and Joseph Dalton Hooker in a book published in 1878....

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Main Authors: Fernandez-Palacios, JM, Whittaker, RJ
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: International Biogeography Society 2020