Not across the North Pole: Plant migration in the Arctic

• Published in: New Phytologist
• Main Author: Hoffmann, Matthias H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; North Pole; Stepping Stones; Climate change
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03924.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1469-8137.2011.03924.x; https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03924.x

Summary The vascular plant flora of 66 arctic islands was studied to determine whether the islands have been occupied by random long‐distance dispersal (LDD) or in a highly structured northward migration pattern via intervening islands as stepping‐stones. A maximum parsimonious migration model minim...