Factors influencing the potential of rafting dispersal - analysis of patterns and causal mechanisms along the geographic range of intertidal species on the coast of Chile

• Main Author: López Arriagada, Boris Alejandro
• Other Authors: Thiel, Martin, UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DEL NORTE -SEDE COQUIMBO
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Ciencias Naturales; Ciencias de la Tierra y del Medio Ambiente; Ecología; Holdfast; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10533/228921

Several studies, using both molecular and ecological evidence, confirm that rafting contributes to population connectivity and range expansion of many species. However, there is also indication that the effectiveness of rafting transport of species to establish in new habitats is limited. This sugge...