Are there any trees in the Arctic? Reconstruction of evolutionary histories in a young biome

• Published in: Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Main Author: Carlsen, Tor
• Other Authors: Reidar Elven, Christian Brochmann
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: VDP::480; Arctic; Svalbard; Bering Strait; Mackenzie River; Canada; Greenland; Handle The; Arctic biodiversity; Cassiope tetragona; lena river; Mackenzie river; North Atlantic; Beringia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/33226; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-30103

Reconstructing molecular phylogenies and unraveling biogeographic histories of arctic plants are needed to obtain better insights into the processes of evolution, dispersal and colonization in this young biome. Studies of dispersal into, and speciation within, the Arctic are important to obtain bett...