Pleistocene colonization of afro-alpine 'sky islands' by the arctic-alpine Arabis alpina

• Published in: Heredity
• Main Authors: Assefa, A., Ehrich, D., Taberlet, P., Nemomissa, S., Brochmann, C.
• Other Authors: Department of Biology, Addis Ababa University (AAU), National Centre for Biosystematics (NCB), University of Oslo (UiO), Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2007
• Subjects: afro-alpine; phylogeography; East Africa; cpDNA; Arabis alpina; pleistocene; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity; [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology; environment; Arctic; Muleta
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halsde-00276507; https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.hdy.6800974

Times Cited: 0 International audience The afro-alpine region comprises the high mountains of Ethiopia and tropical East Africa, which represent biological 'sky islands' with high level of endemism. However, some primarily arctic-alpine plants also occur in the afro-alpine mountains. It has...