Echinoderm Biodiversity and Biogeography in Oceanic Islands: the Azores as a case study

• Main Author: Madeira, Patrícia Gomes Antunes
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Echinodermata; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Azores; NE Atlantic; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Naturais::Ciências Biológicas; Maria Island; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/41767

Oceanic Islands are natural laboratories for the study of the processes and patterns of dispersion, colonization and ultimately of the appearance of new species. In the Northeast Atlantic, the archipelago of the Azores meets all the requirements to be considered one of the most isolated oceanic isla...