Oceanic islands are not sinks of biodiversity in spore-producing plants

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Hutsemékers, Virginie, Szövényi, Péter, Shaw, A. Jonathan, González-Mancebo, Juana-María, Muñoz, Jesús, Vanderpoorten, Alain
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: National Academy of Sciences 2011
• Subjects: Biological Sciences; Stepping Stones; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3223459; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22084108; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1109119108

Islands have traditionally been considered as migratory and evolutionary dead ends for two main reasons: island colonizers are typically assumed to lose their dispersal power, and continental back colonization has been regarded as unlikely because of niche preemption. The hypothesis that islands mig...