Plant phylogeography in Southern South America

• Main Author: Martinez Araneda, Camila
• Other Authors: Hollingsworth, Peter, Ennos, Richard, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), Darwin Trust of Edinburgh
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2011
• Subjects: phylogeography; Patagonia; population isolation; biodiversity; Big Mountain; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5041

This thesis is a phylogeographic investigation into plant species from Patagonia, and aims to infer their past distributions from the study of genealogical lineages. These species have gone through several events such as glacial periods, volcanism and topographical change which are expected to contr...