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Long-distance dispersal to oceanic islands: success of plants with multiple diaspore specializations.
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- Phylogenetic and phylogeographic evidence for the colonization success of the diplochorousEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Polyploidy on islands - concerted evolution and gene loss amid chromosomal stasis.Annals of botany · 2023Article
- Divergence With Gene Flow and Contrasting Population Size Blur the Species Boundary inFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Polyploidy on Islands: Its Emergence and Importance for Diversification.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- The long journey of Orthotrichum shevockii (Orthotrichaceae, Bryopsida): From California to Macaronesia.PloS one · 2019Article
- Whole angiosperms Wolffia columbiana disperse by gut passage through wildfowl in South America.Biology letters · 2018Article
- Why do different oceanic archipelagos harbour contrasting levels of species diversity? The macaronesian endemic genus Pericallis (Asteraceae) provides insight into explaining the 'Azores diversity Enigma'.BMC evolutionary biology · 2016Article
- Introduction to the Special Issue: Advances in island plant biology since Sherwin Carlquist's Island Biology.AoB PLANTS · 2015Article
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Abstract
A great number of scientific papers claim that angiosperm diversification is manifested by an ample differentiation of diaspore traits favouring long-distance seed dispersal. Oceanic islands offer an ideal framework to test whether the acquisition of multiple sets of diaspore traits (syndromes) by a single species results in a wider geographic distribution. To this end, we performed floristic and syndrome analyses and found that diplochorous species (two syndromes) are overrepresented in the recipient flora of the Azores in contrast to that of mainland Europe, but not to mainland Portugal. An additional analysis of inter-island colonization showed a general trend of a higher number of islands colonized by species with a single syndrome (monochorous) and two syndromes than species with no syndrome (unspecialized). Nevertheless, statistical significance for differences in colonization is meagre in some cases, partially due to the low proportion of diplochorous species in Europe (244 of ∼10 000 species), mainland Portugal (89 of 2294 species), and the Azores (9 of 148 species), Canaries (17 of 387 lowland species) and Galápagos (18 of 313 lowland species). Contrary to expectations, this first study shows only a very marginal advantage for long-distance dispersal of species bearing multiple syndromes.
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