La biogeografía de las islas: una visión global de los laboratorios de la naturaleza

Robert J Whittaker1,2, José María Fernández-Palacios3, Thomas J Matthews4,5

  • 1School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK. robert.whittaker@ouce.ox.ac.uk.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 2, 2017
PubMed
Resumen

La dinámica de las islas marinas avanza en la teoría biogeográfica, explicando la diversidad y la evolución. La comprensión de la geodinámica de las islas revela patrones en la distribución de especies, colonización y cambios de rasgos en los archipiélagos.

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