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

• Main Authors: Hutsemékers, V, Szövényi, P, Shaw, A J, González-Mancebo, J-M, Muñoz, J, Vanderpoorten, A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: National Academy of Sciences 2011
• Subjects: Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies; 570 Life sciences; biology; 590 Animals (Zoology); Stepping Stones; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/60147/; https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/60147/1/Peter_Szoevenyi_.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-60147; 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...